Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-11-22


from Sprucevale, Ohio:
.. SPRUCEvALE,
CoLUMBIANA Co., OHIO.
MEssRs. EDIToRs-How is East Tennes-
see for wooden factories for doing custom
work, such as carding, spinning, weaving,
cloth dressing, &C.? am woolen man
ufacturer by trade, and have some ma
chinery for that purpose, and would like
TO get good site for starting a small busi-
ness of that sort. Yours respectfully,
VIM. HUDLEsToN.
We have recently discussed this question
of wool-growing in two numbers of our
" Facts About East Tennessee" which we
have sent to Mr.. Hudleston. We are can
did in our opinion when we say that no
point in the South presents more favora-
BILE location for such an enterprise as 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 Il small business of that sortn
is the correct one and such an enterprise
under proper management, grow into a
large manufactory in few years.
Another correspondent, A. A. Blumer,
Louisiana, Mo-, sends us the following
NEssRs. EDITORS In your "Facts
about East Tennessee which | always
peruse, you said that all varieties of fruit
do UeU there, including a few varities of
grape vines therein mentioned. You also
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vegetation begins in March, and the late
frosts take place there in April. l 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 I? If you do so
you will enable your readers toiudge wheth-
er those frosts are likely to KILL embryo
or undeveloped fruito of the early 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.
A frost in May is q 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 vallies fruit is fire.
quently frozen, especially apples and peach
es, but there are localities where fruit neUer
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
in 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 a
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, by our native popula-
ton, that the capacity of the country for
success in that business has not been fully
tested. a few gentlemen from the North
and East have embarked in the business
since the war, and we have to meet with a
single one of them who does feel sanguine
of success.