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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
TENNESSEE FARMERS AND PROHIBITION. 
About 20 years ago our Legislature 
passed what is known as the Four Mile 
law, prohibiting the sale of intoxicants 
within four miles of any schoolhouse, 
outside of incorporated towns. The 
country soon took advantage of this 
and was soon rid of all the cross-roads 
grogshops. This law was amended 
from time to time, first including towns 
of 2,000 population and under and fin¬ 
ally up to cities of 150,000, which in¬ 
cluded all within the State. Under this 
law there remained only three cities 
within the State that permitted the sale 
of liquor. These were Nashville, Chat¬ 
tanooga and Memphis. The whiskey 
power had such a hold on these places 
that no election had ever been ordered, 
the friends of prohibition well knowing 
that it was useless when no one would 
be allowed to vote only those inside the 
corporate limits, and that every means 
known to the saloon power would he 
used to buy and debauch the ballot. 
They determined last year to make the 
issue one of State-wide or statutory 
prohibition, and after one of the most 
bitter campaigns ever known in the 
State, Senator Carmack, who was the 
candidate of the prohibition wing of 
the Democratic party, was defeated bji 
a small majority, and this by the most 
brazen and shameful frauds in these 
large cities. The country went almost 
solidly for the State-wide candidate.' 
Knowing that the whiskey ring won 
by the most glaring frauds and misrep¬ 
resentations, the temperance people de¬ 
termined to capture the Legislature, the 
members of which were elected some 
months later, and in this they were 
successful, getting a safe majority in 
both houses. Again the country people 
showed themselves on the side of mo¬ 
rality and good government, and these 
cities elected solid delegations of whis¬ 
key men. When the Legislature con¬ 
vened two bills were introduced, one 
prohibiting the sale of intoxicating li¬ 
quors within the State, the other prohib¬ 
iting the manufacture. Every obstacle 
known to the unscrupulous politician 
was thrown in the way, and every 
means known to the corrupt whiskey 
lobbyist was resorted to to defeat these 
measures. When passed, the Governor 
vetoed them and did everything in his 
power to defeat them, but they were 
passed over his veto and then followed 
such a scene as was never before wit¬ 
nessed in the Tennessee legislative halls. 
The great crowd in the galleries, com¬ 
posed largely of women—members of 
the W. C. T. U.—burst forth singing 
“Praise God from Whom all Blessings 
Flow,” and thus Tennessee became a 
prohibition State. 
Now as to the question, does prohibi¬ 
tion prohibit?—I answer it does. The 
saloons were driven from our town, 
Shelbyville, which has a population of 
about 5,000, seven years ago. I per¬ 
sonally know men who were habitual 
drunkards when our town had saloons, 
who are sober men now, and heads of 
families who formerly spent a good part 
of their wages for whiskey, now spend 
it for the comforts of life and in this 
way legitimate trade of all kinds has 
increased, the town has taken on new 
life, rents are higher and property has 
increased in value. There is not a va¬ 
cant house in the town, and its growth 
has been greater the past two years 
than in any ten while it had saloons. 
It is a rare thing to see a drunken man 
now, while formerly it was an every¬ 
day occurrence. If prohibition does not 
prohibit or lessen the amount of li¬ 
quor consumed, why do the distillers 
and brewers fight it so bitterly? All 
laws are violated more or less, but you 
may set it down that not a town in this 
State would think of voting the saloons 
back. ROBT. GALLAGHER. 
R. N.-Y.—Mr. Gallagher describes 
himself as “a plain farmer who lives 
on his farm and farms it.” He says 
that in order to prevent future legis¬ 
latures from repealing these laws the 
people demanded and obtained a man¬ 
datory primary election law, under 
which it will be impossible for the poli¬ 
ticians to pack the Legislature. 
Orchard Questions. 
N. O. G-, Cincinnati, O .—In 150 acres of 
orchard, containing 42 trees to the acre, 
how many men and teams would be re¬ 
quired to cultivate and spray properly? For 
orchard cultivation, which is the better 
tool, an Acme or a Cutaway harrow? 
Imagine the orchard located on a hill slop¬ 
ing to the north and east, and cultivated 
and fertilized: how soon after planting 
trees could fruit lx: expected? 
Ans. —Probably the Rome Beauty will 
be as good money maker as any at pres¬ 
ent, but in so large an orchard I would 
want more than one variety, so part of 
them could be picked before some other 
variety was ripe enough. If there were 
partly Grimes and Jonathan to ripen 
first, then Rome Beauty and followed 
by Rail’s Janet, it would be a surer 
proposition. I am not situated for cul¬ 
tivation, and can only guess at it, but 
I should judge it would require from six 
to ten teams to perform the work of 
cultivating and spraying an orchard of 
150 acres when it comes into bearing, 
and about 15 to 20 men a good part of 
the time. As to implements, it is likely 
one should have several kinds of tools, 
and no one may be just the thing for 
some particular field at all times. By 
having the Acme, the Cutaway and a 
spring-tooth or others one can use the 
tool that works best on that soil at that 
time. Trees well cultivated and fer¬ 
tilized will not bear as young as when 
mulchqd, but on thin land one can ex¬ 
pect to pick some fruit at four to six 
years old from the varieties named, but 
at seven or eight he may pick quite a lot. 
u. t. cox. 
Alfalfa After Crimson Clover. 
IF. E. C.j Ringoes, N. J .—I have a piece 
of ground which was sod a year ago, 
plowed and planted to corn last Summer, 
and Crimson clover sown at last cultiva¬ 
tion is now a good stand. Would this be a 
good place for Alfalfa? Should the Alfalfa 
be planted alone or with a grain crop? 
When would he the host time to plant it? 
The soil is a loose well-drained grit which 
produces good corn. 
Ans. —That kind of soil is naturally 
good for Alfalfa. Do you intend to 
cut the Crimson clover for hay? If 
so we should cut about Decoration Day. 
Then plow the stubble and sow Japan¬ 
ese millet. Plow this under about the 
middle of July and scatter lime on the 
furrows,^harrowing it in. Get the soil 
in fine condition and sow the Alfalfa 
seed early in August, just before a 
sbower, if possible. Use 20 pounds of 
seed per acre and do not sow grain 
with it. The object in sowing the mil¬ 
let is to fill the soil with vegetable mat¬ 
ter before seeding to Alfalfa. 
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where no manure or cover crop is ploughed in, is 1000 POUNDS. 
This gives only one pound of fertilizer to each ton of soil, or 
of a pound of fertilizer to each POUND of soil. 
Yet this infinitesimal amount, which one can not see, combined 
with the “natural yield of the land” has been known to produce 
under favorable weather conditions, over 400 bushels potatoes, 100 
bushels shelled corn, or 30 tons ensilage per acre; to produce profit 
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