I have been treated great by the Vietnamese. They sure appreciate what the Americans are doing for them. There have been a good many forest fires to be seen in different directions from Crossville during the past week. These fires are set designedly because it is thought the grass will come a little bit earlier in the spring. Such wanton destruction of timber ought to be stopped.
Fires burn up all the loose acorns left on the ground, the only feed left in the woods for hogs.
Many of our people make a business of raising hogs, and the hogs remain fat and in salable condition all winter if the mast is not destroyed. Parties guilty of firing the woods should be punished. He is the son of Mrs. John Bledsoe. The young man has returned from a sojourn of eight years in China as an attachee of the American Consular Service. For years past he has tried the mountain side for potatoes with very good success according to the seasons, but this year he is trying lower land.