smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

any other preparation Of the soil except
narrowing, could not then have been made
to believe that tho same land when cleared
and we'll titled would soon begin to fail to
produce wheat under continuous cropping
by the same cereal. But soon found that
tie Germans from Pennsylvania, true to their
instincts and former experience, sowed the
seed of red clover with their wheat, that the
clover crop might replace the nitrogen in
the soil which the wheat crop would destroy.
] have seen clover plowed into a wheat fall
low when 1t was 30 high that the pillow could
hardly turn it under. Had this system Of
farming been supplemented by the addition
Of ground bones or superphosphate to the
wheat crop, it might to this day have been
kept up to at least twenty bushels to the
acre. In Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois,
&C., it is alike deterioratiug, aud but for the
successful wheat growing on the new lands
and virgin soil Of Minnesota, the deteriora.
tion in the wheat crop would be so great that
our export Of the cereal to Europe would at
this time be reduced az least to the moiety.
England has doubled her wheat crop since
the abrogation Of her corn laws, enacted for
the protection Of the farmer against the inn
portation Of foreign grain. Her farmers
now, instead Of depending on protection,
have to depend on their own industry and
superior farm management, and the result is
that their farms produce double the meat,
grain, aud other vegetable products that
they did under the protection Of the emascu-
latiug corn laws, and the enormous increase
OF her manufacturing population under the
influence Of free trade and a sound currency,
has kept up the price of every agricultural
production. The farms of England now
carry double the farm stock, make twice as
much manure, and grow twice as many bushels
Of grain to the acre as they ever did under
corn law protection. The English farmer
now buys mutton sheep and young, thrifty
bovines to keep through the winter and turn
his straw into manure, supplemented with
roots which he grows, and the fax seed or
cotton seed cake and Indian meal he imports
from the United States, thus increasing the
fertility Of his soil at our expense. Al
though twice as much wheat is grown to the
acre in England as in this country, it is said
that the English farmer never boasts Of his
wheat crop, but always Of the quantity Of
uleat ue 10 cuaUieu u lnaho anu SeI lTOlll MS
farm. But we have at this time few farm.
ers in western New York, who have Of late
materially Increased their wheat crops by
the most pains-taking tillage, early sowing,
thorough manuring, and draining in their
wheat falows. | know Of several farmers
who have the past untoward season grown
thirty bushels of wheat to the acre. One of
them, who for many years has only grown
three and four acres OF wheat, is so much
encouraged that he is now preparing thirty
acre falow, which he will sow early with
wheat, carefully drilling in superphosphate
and compost Of hen-dung with the seed, to
give it an carly start and enable the young
plants to resist that heavng out by frost,
which SO often destroys the young aud weak
rooted plants.--N. Y. World.
Year: 1874

By the grange well always stand,
Doing all tho good We can,
While We work with heart and strength and MIND


and hand
We are certain that we'rO right.
We are working with our might
And will soon sweep all oppression FROM our land


CHoRUs.


IIark bark bark sound is rising,
Every grange will rally at the call;


And our country soon shall DO


From the power OF evil free,
While expressions throne will totter 10 It's fall.
We are working with our might,
To remove withering blight
From this blessed land our fathers loved so woli.
We will conquer never fear
Every heart IS full of cheer,
For in blessed peace and unity we dwell.
Chorus-lIark bark hark etc.
We have worked in sun and rain,
LabOred hard for others, gain,
In the bygono years now numbered with tho past
But the coming years will show
That the seed we farmers SOW,
Shall not fill anothers eofrors at tho last.
Chorus-IIark bark hark etc.
So with heart and purpose firm,
We are planting now germ
That will ever grow and blossom in our cause
We are working for our state,
For our country. good and great
We are working for our people and just laws.
ChOrus-IIark bark bark etc.
Year: 1874

Observing farmers have seen the effects of
deep planting in wheat fields, where the
mass Of roots FIRST thrown out at the grain,
several inches below the surface, is suppressed
ed by another mass much nearer the surface
A writer in the Pharmaceutical Journal
gives some other examples Of more striking
character. Snowdrop bulbs were planted
twelve inches beneath the surface. Sew
eral Of them succeeded in sending up leaves
to the surface, and produced flowers. When
the foliage began tc decay, they were taken
up, when the old bulbs a foot down were
found to have decayed and persisted, and
new ones formed four inches beneath the
surface Of the soil. On another occasion
some tulip roots had been left nearly uncov-
cred, or almost on the top Of the earth.
After years growth. these we're found to
be only a skin or shell, but tap-root had
struck down and formed healthy bulbs four
or Ave inches below. Thus roots instruct US
how they want to be planted.-COnntry Gen.
Uemdn
Year: 1874

and the adjacent ground flooded. As soon
as the pond is made, thousand or two Of
young fry may be purchased in November
or December, and patience for two or three
years will accomplish all the rest. The
great danger is overstocking, but with pond
Of an acre, TO which few farmers boys
have access once week, there will be little
danger of crowding the fish. The next dan
ger to be avoided is overlooking. If the
pond isistocked with minnows or other small
fish, and few roots Of lilies, caltheas, or
the common water-Aag, be planted on the
borders or shallow places, and some water
cress seed be sown in the places where cur
rents exist, large growth Of aquatic insects
and animalcul@ will take place sufficient to
support a large number Of fish.


Bass and perch will flourish under less
favorable circumstances than trout. They
will not object to muddy bottom, nor to
water whose temperature for a part Of the
year may rise above 60 o nor TO water
without any current passing through it for
some time. Temporary streams may be
damned for these fish. or ponds in which
there is only spring water enough to supply
the evaporation will meet their needs. A
considerable supply Of food may be gathered
from the offal Of the farm for these fish, and
in short time insects and worms will accu-
mulate in the pond, which will furnish food
The necessary skill and labor is so small,
and the pleasure and profit SO great, from
the culture Of fish, that it is only necessary
to point out how it may be readily UNDER
taken to induce many farmers to experiment.
IL is needlul to follow natures ways as near
as possible to insure success, and it is not
the least part of the profit that fish-pond
upon farm will furnish constant reser-
voir for stock water in seasons when water
is scarce. We don't advise any farmer to
undertake the production of fish in any pond
Of less area than half an acre. 1t would be
better that he should have one or two acres.
La the small, narrow, successive ponds de-
scribed in books and in papers by profession
al fish cultursts, the fish must depend alto
gether upon regular and constant feeding.
The time and care needed for this would be
altogether out of the question upon farm.
Besides, in these small ponds, the fish will
deyour each other unless the large ones are
separated from the small ones and even then
some will devour the others. In large
pond this difficulty does not occur to any ex.
tent. But in those cases where rocky gul.
ly with a rapid fall could be damned so as
to make series ofsmaller ponds of less than
half an acre each, if these are made to COM
municate by means of short falls the fish can
pass from one to another with facility, and


will thrive as well as in one large pond.
Year: 1874

Some farmers make it a practice to keep
their poultry in their orchards from early in
the spring until cold weather sets 10; aud
they find that it pays them for so doing A
picket fence should be built around the or
chard, high enough to prevent their flying
over, with suitable house or shed in one
corner of the yard to shelter them at night,
Thus situated the poultry will thrive and
prosper keeping themselves in good eondi-
ton, and the increase in eggs will be greatly
augmented, and their usefulness aud value
enhanced to their owners at least, on ac.
count of tho thousand myriads Of insects
and worms which they naturally destroy,
and which will more than repay the cost and
labor of building the fence. BY keeping
them enclosed in this manner, a large NUN.
Der of tolws may be retained in an orchard ;
and the continual scratching which is done
by them will prove advantageous both to the
soil and trees themselves.
Year: 1874

A writer in Montreal gave the following
concerning the operation Of butter factories
in Canada: The great success which has


attended the cheese factory system in Canada,
in securing uniform and high standard Of
manufacture in this article-so high, indeed,
that last season Canadian cheese took a bet
ter place than American in the British
market-hRs led to strong feelings in favor
ing members of the provision trade in this
city. There is no doubt that Canadian but
ter is susceptible of great improvement, and
before it can become a very profitable busi-
ness to the farmer must be Ofmuch better and
more regulated quality. The make Of last
season was pretty good, but that Of the pre-
yious year was so poor that a large por-
tiOn Of it was sold at grease prices, from
Year: 1874

If they have borne two full crops, plow
them under. We do not believe that it will
pay to raise OVer two crops Of Strawberries
from one planting, and many Of our best
small fruit growers only take one full crop,
knowing that they will diminish in size aud
yield thereafter but if we'll manured when
planted, and kept clean at all times, the
second one may pay.


Let US examine the plants in strawberry
plantation at this season Of the year, when a
large crop of strawberries has just been
gathered. If the plants have been kept in
stOols--the runners all removed-those stems
which have borne fruit are exhausted, and
die, and so do the roots employed in feeding
them; but from near the crowns Of those
roots new roots have started, which either
Year: 1874

The specific manure for wheat is nitrogen.
No other cereal crop requires 80 much nitro
gen in the soil. As on anal ysis, but little of
the compounds Of nitrogen are found in
wheat, it is supposed that its resOlvent effect
on the plant food in the soil is required by
the growing crop. Joseph Harris has it
that wheat is greater destroyer Of nitro.
gen than any other cereal crop. Corn and
potatoes require potash, phosphates, aud
other mineral plant food, but no wheat crop
can be perfected unless the soil is rich in the
compound OF nitrogen.


When first came in sight Of CaYuga
Lake and saw the extra tall wheat growing
up among POnderOuS girdlcd oaks, without
Year: 1874

/ asked 4 druggist what particular ar
ticle or line of goods he sold the most
of? He replied without hesitation,
"Compounds for improving the COM
plexion."


The number of these preparations is
surprising; they must be generally
ployed. | have noticed that while nine
girls out of ten have a singularly
smooth and perfect skin upon the face,
the doctor is consulted with reference to
roughness and eruptions on other parts of
their persons. Girls are not generally
as healthy as boys, but the skin of their
faces seems much smoother and finer
than that of boys. This difference, it is
fair to presume, comes from the bottles
and boxes found at the apothecaries'. l
have read, and you have all read, of the
analysis which careful chemists have
made Of O great number of these prep
arations, and in this way we have
learned that they are poisonous. Ar
senic is a very common ingredient. Not
one of them, the analysis of which /
have examined, is fit to rub upon the
human skin. We all rejoice that the
hair preparations so generally employed
TO color the hair a few years since have
gone out of fashion They poisoned us,
doing a great deal of harm to the brain





and nervous system. These prepara-
tions were generally less poisonous than
the complexion fluids are, but were
taken into the system in the-same way,
by absorption through the skin. The
impression is gaining ground among
medical men that certain class of ner-
vous affections, so common among our
girls, originate in the fluids and powders
which they employ to improve the COM
plexion.


What gain it would be every way il
they would keep their faces clear and
bright by frequent bathing, exercise,
sunshine and pure air As things now
go, they are not what they seemi but if
they would depend upon natural meth
ods, they would not only secure bright,
beautiful face, but they would be bright
and happy from top to toe, all the way
through, and not simply on small por-
tion Of the surface.
Year: 1874

The climate in Santa Cruz county
must be peculiar. There is one woman
there who is the mother of twenty chill
dren and none of them twins; and another
who has raised a family Of twenty-one.
Year: 1874

IT is stated that to retain a physician
in the Berryessa Valley the residents are
compelled to pay a fixed salary, for cases
of sickness are so very rare that the in
come from his practice would not support
a doctor.
Year: 1874

SINCE il has been asserted that bad leg
islation is responsible for the raise in tax
alton this year. Dolly Warden organs
have discovered that their party formed
no part Of the last Legislature.
Year: 1874

CHICAGO, July 1S.-At a meeting of
the common council yesterday after
noon resolutions were adopted instruct
ing the board of public works to take
immediate steps toward furnishing a
more abundant supply of water in those
portions Of the city where it is insuffi-
cient in time of fire. The board was di-
rected to have all wooden buildings, of
whatever kind, removed from within
the city. IL was expressed as the sense
Of the council that a corps of sappers
and miners should be formed and added
to the present organization. Their duty
should be to aid in quelling confagra-
tons by the removal or destruction of
such buildings as the fre-marshal may
deem necessary. The Chicago board of
underwriters also held a meeting, at
which resolutions were adopted intimat-
ing the belief that their principals will
entirely withdraw the protection of the
insurance companies represented by
them, unless the fire department lie
speedily Snd radically reorganiZed by a
change of officers; by the addition of
new and more powerful steamers; by
the construction of fiFe-walls, or the
demolition OF dangerous and inflamma-
BILE buildings, and by rigid enforce
ment of the present building laws.
Year: 1874




CoLLIERvILLE, Tenn, July l1.-COl-
lierville and the surrounding country, as
far as can be heard frOm, has been
blessed with abundant rains and the
crops are success. The people are now
in a condition to leave their farms and
devote their undivided time and labors
to the election Of our ticket. Indeed, we
now feel that the ticket will be easily
carried, but no exertion will be wanting
in these parts to give it entire success.
But there is some trouble in the minds
of the people about the congressional
canvass. Who can beat Barbour Lewis?
is the all absorbing topic. 1t is thought
by some that the residence Of the Demo
cratic candidate will have a good deal
to do with the election; that perhaps
the candidate should come from the
eastern part of the district, and upon
this ground many citizens here favor
the nomination of Colonel Marshal I.
Polk, of Hardeman county. II is said
that Polk has an unexeeptionabler record,
and perhaps all the requisites both for
the office and canvass, and it is certain
that no man could rally a stronger sup
port in Hardeman and Fayette counties
that Colonel Polk. The Radicals hold
meeting here to-day to elect delegates
to this county convention.
Year: 1874

WE HAVE received from the HistOri-
cal society Of Tennessee s circular set
ting forthits objects and purposes, which
we shall have pleasure in laying before
the readers Of the APPEAL in next Sum-
days issue. It is q full and cOmprehen-
sive document, which none to whom it
shall come who love Tennessee can dis
regard. Time waits fer no man. Hence
the necessity for work in The living pres
ent. We must collect the individual
histories of the men who were the piO-
oneers OF Tennessee, and must preserve
the local incidents that are essential TO
the completion OF the volume Of the an
nails Of the State. Almost every man
can contribute something; at least every
family can increase our stock of knOwl-
edge, or, at the farthest, every district
can add chapter OF interest and bearing
directly upon the history of State that,
in commercial and manufacturing, as
well as agricultural prOsperity,i is destined
to take its plsoeamOng the first and best
in the Union. Let US all do our duty in
the compilation Of the history of Ten
1,azsea
Year: 1874

From an Occasional Correspondent


TUsCUBIBIA, ALA, July 16.-An en-


thusiastic railroad meeting was held


here to-day, and it was attended by the


most solid, substantial and enterprising


men of the town. There was but one
sentiment and feeling, and that was to


vote thirty thousand dollars to build a


railroad toward the coal and iron regions.


Tuscumbis enjoys advantages that no


other town enjoys. She is within one


mile of the Tennessee river, that will
soon be made nAvigabie during the whole
year; she is nearer the coal and iron than
any other town on the Memphis and
Charleston road, not being distant more
than from twenty to forty miles of an
abundance of each, and she is in the
center of one of the finest valleys of
land in the south. 1t is all mistake to
say that these people have noenterprise.
They recently subscribed fifteen thou.
sand dollars to build an institution of
learning, that will be an honor to this
State, and she will vote thirty thousand,
dollars to build a railroad to the coal
regions. almost if not quite unani-
mOusly. When this is done, it must
and will secure to her the workshops OF
the Memphis and Charleston and Of all
other roads centering here. Here will
be cotton factories, furnaces and rolling
mills, and these people appreciate that
fact. The taxable property of Tuscum-
bia is now two hundred and thirty thou
sand dollars, and it will be when this
road is built near a million. Thus is the
first feasible project that has been pre-
sented to these people, and they seize it
with energy and determination equal to
that manifested by any town any
where. Your correspondent was right


when he said these people were equal in
morals, intelligence and social standing
to the people anywhere, but he was very
much in error when he compared them
to the denizens Of Sleepy Hollow. He
perhaps did not know what a spirit of
enterprise they Would exhibit when any
project was presented to them.
1t is our interest and should be our pleas
ure to cultivate intimate social and busi-
ness relations with the people of this
valley, for it is one of the most delightful
portions Of the south, and will, think,
IL their plans succeed, be one of the rich
est. They are very much in need of
rain, but more in need Of good cultiva-
ton. Deep ploughing in the fall,
greater diversity OF productions, more
clover ana gram AIu less COlLOD, Will
make this valley the garden of the
south. The Democracy of this State are
upon thorough organIza-
ton in all elections-county judicial and
State. So should we act in Tennessee.
Whenever there is more than one DEM
ocrat running for judge, there should be
a convention. BY all means, we should
not let a Radical be elected in the Carroll,
Henry and Weakly district. The civil
rights bill will be the issuein Alabama, IS
Year: 1874

From the New York Herald we learn
that the Republican congressional eau
Gus has issued an address to the party,
which lie intended to be the basis upon
which that party is to be united and the
congressional battle is to be fought. It
contains the essence Of q thousand cam.
paign speeches. The remarkable fea-
lures are the absence Of all eulOgy or
even reference to President Grant, and
the admission that upon the currency
question the party is divided. The trans
portstiOn question is treated in the most
conservative manner, which it was
deemed wise to do, since the feeling
about railroad regulation runs high in
Wisconsin and the west. This mani
festo, which will be sent to all local Re
publican journals in the Union, with a
request to be copied, constitutes the in
itiative Of the campaign and the COM
mon rallying point. 1t is the first issued
since 1856, when the Republicans waged
war on President johnson and his fol-
lowers. One paragraph Of it is worth
quoting for the information Of Demo-
crats, and especially Conservatives,
hereabouts. 1t is this, addressed to the
people:


You are about to select representatives
10 a new congress. We earnestly en-
treat YOU to send the truest and ablest
Republicans you have; but We entreat
YOU TO send Republicans and not Demo-
crsts. You viii send one or the other.
No matter what the individual may call
himself OF what disguise he may wear,
he will be a Republican or Democrat.
There is at present no room for any
other style in our politics. II you do
not mean to retrace the past you will Sc
lect Republicans and not Democrats.
III YOU mean to 90 forward in the future
you viii select Republicans and not
Democrats.


The gist Of this is the steady reitera-
ton Of the existence OF but two parties
the Democratic and the Republican
and that candidates for congressional
honors must either be Of one or the
other. Conservatives or Democrats in
elined to support the Radical civil
rights ticket in Shelby county, will
l,issse make a note OF this.
Year: 1874

for organization and success. Never has


there been greater need for solid, COM


pact effort, for prompt, energetic action.


This is the only way by which success


can be attained The tenth ward Of this
city and the Bartlett district are doing
good work. Let every ward and civil dis
trict initiate their example, and victory
Is assured. If the Radicals triumph, the
people Of Shelby viii reap bitter fruits.
They will be oppressed with taxes and
the thousand methods Of robbery insti-
tuted wherever Radicslism rules.
If the white people will turn out all is
well. This is the work in hand. The
white voters must be brought to the
polls. The negroes will be on hand to
man. The whites have more at stake
than the negro, and they viii certainly
give one day to an election which in.
wolves taxation, mixed schools and all
that white men hold dear.
Year: 1874

We publish in another column very


important and interesting letter from


the pen OF John c. Burch, comptroiler
OF the S tate. Owing to the late hour at
which this letter was received last night,
we have not time TO make any elaborate
comments this morning. The PROPOSE
ton is one that deeply concerns the peo-
ple Of Tennessee, and viii no doubt at
tract much attention and excite general
comment. A tsx-ridden people are
anxious TO discover some means by
which TO escape the burdens that op-
press them. We trust the suggestions
Of Colonel Burch will lead to an investi-
CATION which will result in solving the
DrObIem.
Year: 1874

cakes, confections and ices-alI the most
inviting and delightful wines from the
vintage of Rocky Hill, in which to drink
health, prosperity, long life and "many
happy returns of the day." Numerous
guests continued 10 arrive during the
afternoon, but among all the number
present on the occasion only two Of them
witnessed the marriage ceremony fifty
years ago, these were the sisters of Mrs.
Saunders-Mrs. Harris, Of Huntsville,
and Mrs. Foster, Of Florence. About
five o'clock we bade adieu to kind
friends and took our departure from the
stately and hOspitable abode which had
been the scene of so much pleasure and
and thus ended for us our
first experience Of 'golden wedding"