Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-11-22
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE,
Answers 10 correspondents.

| We have received the following letter
| from Sprucevalc, Ohio:
| SPRUCEVALE, I
COLUMBIANA Co, OHIO.
! MESSRS. FDITORS-How is East Tennes-
see for wooden factories for doing custom
work, such as carding, spinning, weaving,
! cloth dressing, &C.? ] am wooden man
ufacturer by trade, and have some ma
| chinery for that purpose, and would like
| to get good site for starting a small buSl-
ness of that scrt. Yours respectfully,
WIN. HUDLESTON.
We have recently discussed this question
of wOoI-growing in two numbers of our
Facts About East Tennessee" which we
have sent to Mr.. Hudlcston. We are can
did in our opinion when we say that no
point in the South presents Il more favOra-
BILE location for such an enterprise rs our
correspondent speaks of, than East Tennes-
see. There are not half dozen establish
ments in this portion of the State for weav-
ing WOODEN cloth, and we hazard nothing
when we say there are hundreds of locali-
ties where such an establishment would be
well patronized. Mr.. Hudeston's idea
of starting small business of that sort''
is the correct one and such an enterprise
started in that way would, in our opinion,
under proper management, grow into a
large mandatory in few years.
Another correspondent, \. y. Blumcr,
Louisiana, Mo-, sends us the following
NESsRs. EDITORS In your Facts
about East Tennessee" which | always
hnk iO.., frarit
do rel there, including few varities of
grape vines therein mentioned. You also
state, in one of your early numbers, that
vegetation begins in March, and the late
frOSts take place there in April. | have
been informed that these frOsts sometimes
happen even in May. Since you have
given the degrees of both heat and cold
governing the season there, would you not
have the kindness to give, if within the
scope of your observations, the degrees of
such late or spring frOsts If you do so
you will enable your readers toiudge wheth-
er those frosts are likely to kill, embryo
or undeveloped fruitof the carly varieties of
grapes, goOseberries, etc. Your readers,
especially those who contemplate moving
thither for raising fruits would, also, like
to hear of which varieties of summer, fall
and winter apples succeed there mostly.
\ frost in May is a very rare occurrence,
not happening Oftener that once in ten
years. 1t is very unusual for us to have a
frost injurious to vegetation after the mid
die of April. In the yallies fruit is fire.
quently frozen, especially apples and peach
es, but there are localities where fruit RCrCr
misses. We have in our mind farm in
Knox county, which we have known for
twenty years, and we have no recollection
of single season in which peaches were
not produced on that farm, and generally
i'll profuse quantities. On the Cumber-
land table lands fruit never, or at least
very seldom misses.
With reference to the varieties of fruit
which succeed best here, we can scarcely
say. Our observation is that there is
larger quantity of winter fruit than any
other variety, though we are not prepared
to say that the earlier varieties do not
thrive equally as well. 1t is proper for us
to say, that so little attention has been
paid to raising fruit, 10y our native popula-
ton, that the capacity of the country for
success in that business has not been fully
tested. \ few gentlemen from the North
and East have embarked in the business
since the war; and we have to meet with
single one of them who does feel sanguine
of success