Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-05-04
THE AGRICULTURAL BUREAU.
A Matter IN Which Every Farmer
and Land Owner In Tennessee
is Interested.
Information Wanted as 70 tho Actual
Agricultural rendition and Unde-
We oped Resources OF the Nc ,te.

Agricultural q oDdttion and Undo.
We oped Resources Of the Stite.
To the organized Agricultural Societies a nd
Farmers Club In the state Of Tennessee
BY recent act Of the Legislature
it il made the duty of the Bureau O!
Agriculture to collect all attaipable
information as to the actual agricultur.
al condition and undeveloped resources
of the State. Very naturally the Blu.
reau turns to the various Agricultural
Associations and Farmers Clubs fol
assistance and cooperation. In this
as in the general work of developing
a better system of, agriculture, these
Associations are the natural allies OF
the Bureau, and upon their effic ency
and zeal nesssarily depends in q large
measure its success and future useful.
ness.
Heretofore, it is tr &c, the various
Agricultural Asso, iations in the State
have been occupied almost exclusive
ly with getting up and carrying on those
delightful reunions known as Fairs
and have made Lut little, if any, effort
to collect information as to the condi.
tions of the various counties and sec.
tions. OF themselves these annua
Fairs are invaluable and deserve to bt
encouraged and kept up, but Fairs ar,
but holdidays; days ofrelaxation. They
should be but the celebration by tht
farmers of the close of the years Ia
bors--apd an exposition of the fruit,
Of the lessons learned, or the progress.
made during the year. The variou'
Associations and Clubs of count,
should be the teachers Of these lessons
and the leaders in this progress. 1t i,
not all Of their work to furnish sue
eessiul Fairs. They may do, ant
ought to do, much more every day use
ful work which but make the Fairs al
the better and render it all the easie
to get them up. For a part of thu
work the State Bureau of Agricultur,
was created, and confidently asks tht
cordial cooperation of every Agricul
tural and Mechanical Association, So
ciety or Farmers Club in the State
There is plenty of work for all and
fitting place for all.
No systematic effort has yet beer
made to discover what the resources O
Tennessee are or where they are loca
ted. Much less of effort has beer
made to develop them, or make then
known to the world. This lack o
trustworthy information is no. comm
ed to the vast mineral resources tha
are known to lie concealed within tn
bowels Of the earth, but extends to tn
every day occupation of the farm an
the workshop. Not the best nforme,
citizen III the State can tell with any
thing Ike accuracy, either what i
grown Or manufactured in the State
what it is worth, or where it is sold
In short trustworthy statistics Of C.
and all Of the great industries of h
State are wholly wanting. They ar
yet to be collected.
And yet, though no accurate surve
has been made and no estimate can b
formed Of the precise Oh hlracter, or ex
act amount Of the miner wealth 0
the State, it is well known that natur
has apreld with bount full hand coal
iron, copper, lead, zinc, and gold fror
the mountains of the East to the gres
river Of the West and, though It M
not be known how many acres are de
voted each year to any given crop, o
what is the average yeild or acre, il i
a matter of official record that TGnnes
see during thirty years has occuple,
the foremost rank among the agr cul
tural States; so too, VIII lie no well or
dered system Of observations has pre-
served the variations of temperature
il is notorious fact that With
the borders of no State in th
| Union is there to be found a NOR
healthtul, llie-preserving climate, non
wherein good health is go univers3'
none wherein malarial, miasmlt;c an
organ c diseases are so rare. On th
other hand it is fact to BE- seen ant
known by every traveller hurried alOD
by the railways that the mineral wealtI
of the State has scare y been tapped
while the agricultural practices of tn
State give only the lowest possible yiel
from the land.
These facts render it all the NOR
important that the work Of collcctin
the statistics of the State, wealth an
industry be undertaken at once An
in proportion as the importance Of III
work is magnitied, so is mngn fed tn
Ioldim VIII ch the Bureau has upon.th
various County and District Associa
atoms and good citizens generally 70
hearty cooperation and Jealous hell
In uuderta king the work the Burea
of Agriculture il fully apprised of il
great magnitu and the very man
and serious obstacles TO be overcome
nevertheless, moved by lively appre
citation OF the immense value and i'm
portapce Of the resources and relyin
con6dentially on the generous AID {
its public spirited co-lahorers, tn
f work is begun 10 the strong and cheer
full hope that il may be so done as {
yield good fruit TO the entire State.
| PGgh lps there is not a county in n
State that does not possess fcatur,
that would oifsrattrlctive indu emcn
to some Persons seeking new homes {
, new investment of capital; certain
there 10 not a tIrm in the State where
improvements are Got nsedc !, to wh ID
improved culture would not add mu
-, in value. These valusb'e foatur
may con-ist ia peculiarly fertilO roll
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