Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-04-21

TEAAESSSF As ! we5i. tsfsoTis5 CecATsfs
Svaae tire sii.cs one 81 the Filters o li's paaeF
rsceiFed q letter from a grnsler;an residing ri
Dutrhess ocnnisg New York. Masking inquiries
aboet tie piice OF L.nsia Tennessee saiisbe for
sheen pa-,urage. The gentleman who wrote us
the letpr referred TO stated that wool growing vas
the Iacst profitable business in which the farmers
Of Dn.chesssoeuiy were engaged, with 'be exeep-
ton, rtrlnp=, q supplying he New York city mar
ket with butter and nli'S and that It was nus
proiistle on land worth from $50 10 SOD per sore
He bsd seen m account OF sales of Tennessee
,n,urt,;n land in New Yor5, at from TO 20 cents
rcr acre. lie inoHited 81 Us i these mountain
lands would make sheep pastures, and, # not, the
value Of lands adspied to this purpose. He added
that fsoH the imperfect Information in his posses
sion, he thought that Tennessee was the para
disc of wool growers"
DisliSing, 10 this matter, TO rely upon our own
judgment, We handed the letter in question 10 our
friend, Dr. L. II. GORDON, OF Smith county, a first
rate practical farmer, aud acquainted with TIE value
Of mountain land, and asked of him the favor of
Communication for cur paper, which should not
only be reply TO the letter Of correspondent,
but enable us TO furnish the same information TO
our readers IN other States Or GoRpoS has COM
Piled with our request and sent US the letter which
we publish below. The information contained In
il ia 80 full as to require no comments from US
# confirms the opinion we have often expressed,
that the mountainous portions of Tennessee may
be rendered the most profitable of any section
We can raise finer wool on those lands than can be
raised any where else in The I nion; and we can do
this at less cost than any where else, because the
lands are cheap, and sheep subsist spon them the
year round without shelter, and without requiring
to be fed IN the winter to any considerable ex-
| tent.
| Nh. f. C. EAsTMAS--Dear Sir:-Tn reply to
| the letter handed me by you, from gentleman in
Dutchess county, New York, asking information as
to the adsptabity of the mountainous portion of
| Tennessee for growing fine wool, I make the fol.
| lowing remarks
| As regards the price of such lands as would suit
for making valuable pastures, your correspondent,
| Mr. BocKEE, is in error. He refers to sale of a
tract of 5000 acres in DeKalb county at cents
per sere am not apprised of any land in this
State capable Of producing good blue grass OF clio.
/ yer which can be had so low. There are spurs OF
! the Cumberland range OF mountains in many To-
| calities well adapted to pastursge and sheep hus-
bandry varying from 81 to $40 per acre. Ifyou
wish to make pasture of blue grass, timothy, or
clover, you must select limestone lend The cheap
up and fat lands of the mountains are poor and de-
fcient in lime, and therefore not capable of max
| ing good pastures. The Gnly grass they produce
to any advantage is herds grass (ofteR called red
top and even this they produce scsntiy But
there are many localities of said mountains among
the spurs where lime is abundant, though the land
is steep. capable of producing blue grass equal to
the best lands in Kentucky. The price varies with
the variations OF the surface. Trscts may be had
level enough for tillsge, containing from one to
three hundred acres in a body, for 81 to SIS per
acre. where any amount Of steep lands lie adjacent,
worth from 80 cents to SO per acre, sll well wstered
with durable springs. The country is healthy, and
will doubtless, long, prove to be one ofthe best
wool growing regions in the Union.
Small focks Of sheep have been kept 10 those
billy sections for the lsst thirty years at least and
they have ever been remarkably healthy and pros-
porous. .
As to the adaptation OF tennessee to the growth
of fine wool. need but refer your correspondent
TO the fact, that MARI; R. CooKRrLL, near Nashville,
obtained the highest prize for fine wool, both at
the Worlds Fair, in London, and in New York
Mr. CooERiLLs farm is of precisely the same quality
OF land as most of tke spurs OF the Cumberland
Mountain; that is, it "a rich Limestone land. and
though not Steep Ike most of the mountain spurs,
yet it is sufficiently uneven to suit wei for sheep
There is no doubt but that as fine wool can be
grown in the spurs OF the Cumberland Mouutains
as on Mr. CoczRiLLs farm, or in any part Of the
world, and that any judicious farmer may do very
profitable business there. Your correspondent
states that the business pays in New York on lands
worth $50 to SEQ per acre. No doubt as good or
better lands may be had in Tennessee at an aver
age OF 50 TO S. per acre, and that too, in mider
climate already demonstrated to be capable CT grow
ing the finest wool ia the world Sheep DO well
there witho9t any housing or shetering q, all dur
ing the winter one farrner in FIVE hundred ever
thinks OF sheltering his sheep. But whoever un-
dertskea to keep sheep on 8 large scale must pro-
vide them with plenty Of grass. lie mus. study
the nature Of blne grass, timothy, and clover IF
he understands these well and acts up TO bis knowl-
edge, there is no Doubt OF bis doing very profit
able business in any lime stone region of the noun,
taius T. II. GoRpos.
Sugar Tree Farm, Smith CO.. April lG, 1855.
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