The morning news., 1888-11-26

loss by death and other casualties coming
upon the valuable horse, while the great
public shares in the many advantages that
accrue after Gen. Harding and Bonnie
Scotland are dead, but not forgotten.
The brothers Cockril and their associates
imported from Canada bovine of the male
sex, not over six months old, for which they
paid 81 900 in gold. To common farmer
this looks like paying dear for tin whistle.
But truthful history atfirms that the invest
ment has proved both wise and profitable,
while living and ever expanding blood by in
heritance pushes inferior stock back farther
into the tracks left by the wild, retreating
buffalo.
One farmer in Maury county, Maj. G.
Brown, sold his crop Of young colts last
summer at auction, thirty-four in number.
They brought over Sl2, ,000-over an average
of 1850 head.
ask the reader to consider how small
piece of ground well manured, yields grass
and oats enough to keep n mare and her
foal year. and note the increase from this
small labor and small quantity of
grass and grain. Is not this the
way Including Mr.. Browns fine dairy
of pure blood Jerseys to make farming land
valuables
If this Tennessee farmer were capitalist
with $4,000 inves. ed in United States
bonds at per cent, his income theretrom
would be the same as that derived from a
part of his farm. 1t is true the farmer has
money invested in breeding stock, but If
wisely planted in organic seif-mulSiplying
life, the harvest is reasonably sure, and the
crop magnificent.
In walking over part of Belle Meade
with Gen. Harding fifteen years ago, view
ing stock, crops and land, the owner, born
on the farm in log house still preserved,
said to the writer that his landed property
| could not be sold for more than $50 an
acre. | told him, as farms sold in New
| York, the whole estate, 5000 acres, was
worth 800 per acre.
Such vitality as he had ia the hereditary
blood of Bonnie Sc ,tland was an invisible
power of great potency to increase the
value of farms and all farming land.
have fruit from Harding's brain to be used
| hereafter.
Within decade, Belle Meade was nearly
doubled in area and quadrupled in value
per acre. 1t has improved equine vitality
and led hundreds, if not thousands Of pro
gres i've farmers, to join in the great work
of agricultural development.
Ia 1923 there was much rejoicing that a
plain farmer of Tennessee was elected
chief magistrate of a nation OF farmers.
The writer's father, New York farmer,
put sixty tons of good meadow hay in one
stack that year calling it his Jackson stack
The hay was mainly consumed by brood
mares and growing mules. At that time
slavery existed in the British West Indies
and mules were raised III Now York ano
| New England for that market.
The island of Cuba has 1900 miles ot
ocean front, and almost unlimited agricul
tural resources. A swift steamer, acting a.
ferry between the island and the peninsula
of Florida, would join the two CONNER
cially and socially, if not politically. OLD
fogies have emancipated about all thu
negroes out of Africa; now let them eman
cipate all the white people in Cuba and Ire
land from the curse of unjust taxes and thu
cruelty of unchristian land rent.