The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-09-01
ANDHARES-
DEMA1T COUHT-
TTES TN CON-
TRAST.
Close Of Col. Il. n. P0lk's
Essay.

Essay.
Here my essay ends. But, gentle
men Of the convention and farmers o
West Tennessee, in closing, permit m:
a few minutes for drawing q contras
between Madison and Hardeman coun
ties at the expiration Of % years from
! the present time. The first under th(
r,cuI Grating eEects of fdiversiiied farm
ing in a judicious system of rotation
combined H-ith deYoting n reasonable
portion Of the soil to the production OF
grass and cattle. Under such rccuper-
ative farming, Madison county, IL the
year 1901, would be so changed that
one Of your good citizens who had de-
parted this life in 1881, could he be
called up from the tomb at the cxpi-
ration Of that time, would not recog-
nize his own county. He would think
that he had walked up in paradise. and
songs of rejoicing would burst for h
from his gladdened heart. ''Des
golden slippers Pm bound to wear, and
hold dis CHEEKY fort" He would be
hold each acres bowed down with
crops five times as great rs the scanty
productions Of 1881, and would see
swelling barns burst with grand har-
vests. Your fat mules and horses,
which in 1881 could scarcely hump
along at a snaiIs pace with turning
plow running one and a half inches
deep, now requiring streng bits and
broad leather reins to keep them from
running away with plow or wagon.
Your mich COWS, which in 81 had well
nigh turned all the milk of human
kindness in the bosoms of your excel
lent wives iato the gall Of bitterness
by being compelled tostug with might
and main at the lanky duds of the old
bag Of bones which had almost to be
propped against the fence whilst the
wrlnging and twisting operation was
going on to extract the possible hall
pint Of blue milk which the perjshine
calf is dying just to smell Of I can
see the poor, dumb creature Gncapa
ble of announcing her misery } as she
c:ecps up to the milk pen in the pinch
ing Geld, whilst shivering and covered
with icicles, { because everlasting cot
ton has permitted of no time for build
ing a COW shed,) looking appealingly
for few nubbins of half matured corn
which she never sees (for cotton ha:
prevented it also, while she derom:
the quart Of dry cotton seed she get:
once a week, just to make the butter
if any should be made taste and looE
like worked up putty. And now the
vision changes. After the expiration
OF 20 years under recuperative farming
the multiplied posterity of this pool
old COW shake their fat sides as they
return home from luxuriant pastures
straddling wide over distended duders
with bushels Of rich milk, giving Wis
ions of gilt-edge butter, hot buckwhea
cakes, and long swee:ening ad libisum
Behold how fat hogs grunt content
ment as they lazily move along, accu-
mulating much grease for the frying
of crullers and oily doughnuts Wher
winter comes on, The Iordly chantl-
cleer, with his dozen wives, strut:
proudly around in the fullness of hi
connubial joy when his eye rests upor
the well filed craws Of his Mormon
family, or on their nests, wei filleJ
with white, suggestive han fruit; fol
he well remembers hearing it said tha
his great grand father had often re
counted how, IN 1881, his great grand
} mothers (long since dead from nervou!
, prostration) had to scratch over the al
ready closely searched ground 50 Of
ten that their legs all became equity
and that they scarcely vitality enough
to lay once a week, and were too pun,
to rejoice over the exploit in good
healthy, hilarious cackle. / viii no
further describe the wonderful chang
in the material condition of the peopI
of Madison, brought about in twent
years, by their departure from the oil
Roman mode Of farming TO the whole
E some practice of intelligent, divers
!. fed farming, under progressive, praC
teal agriculture. You wisely deter
+. mined, away back in 1881, to SET GU
I Of the slough of despond, and now o
/ feel as happy rs big sunhowers in YOU
7 prosperity, and in the self approval c
I your. good sense and genuine wis
" dom.
e Bat how fares It in 1901 with you
sister county of Hardeman, who pc
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