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Nashville, Tennessee, one of the most eminent agriculturists 

 and stock raisers of Tennessee. For this happy change 

 of life, habits, and taste, he is indebted to the Lost Cause, 

 to his connection with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 

 to his marriage, and his consequent intimate association 

 with his father-in-law, one of the most extensive and suc 

 cessful farmers of Tennessee. 



THE WARRIOR AS A FARMER. 



This rare opportunity General Jackson fully improved, 

 and this improvement, with his enthusiasm in all enterprises 

 inaugurated for the advancement of agriculture, and the 

 elevation of the farmer to his proper position, has been so 

 appreciated that he now fills the offices of President of the 

 National Agricultural Congress, President of the Farmers 

 Association of Tennessee, President of the Bureau of Agricul 

 ture of the State, and President of the Executive Board of 

 the &quot;Rural Sun Publishing Company/ a weekly journal 

 devoted to Southern agriculture. He is also Master of 

 the Heart of Oak Grange of Patrons of Husbandry at Nash 

 ville, Tennessee. 



Since the close of the war, General Jackson has been one 

 of the foremost men in the South in all that tends to ele 

 vate the profession, and to unite the North and South as 

 one fraternity, in order that the delvers of the soil might 

 realize their full importance as a great factor in the scale of 

 national power. 



The connection of this gentleman with the Farmers 

 Movement is already a matter of history. It is due to him 

 here, however, to say that, at the meeting of the National 

 Agricultural Congress, at St. Louis, in 1872, he was ten 

 dered the presidency of the National Agricultural Congress, 



