Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-02-10
Hooded StOck-NO. 3.

In my last article, lnslsCeu LndI Jul
farmers should quit, absolutely and
entirely, the practice OF exhausIinis
our fields, and consequently the wealth
of the country, by sending off South or
East our surplus corn, hay and oats ; ana
insisted that these things should be con-
verted into sheep, hogs, mules, horses, cat
tie. butter and cheese. In this way there
can be returned to our fields in the form
| of manure what is taken from them III the
crops. By no other system can our nelds
| be kept up. Any other leads to deteriora,
ton, exhaustion and poverty. Look at
our worn fields, red with exhaustion, ana
| deeply cut with gullies, and you behold
| the result Where are the grain and grass
producing qualities, that once distinguish
ed these red hills, and reiOiced the heart OF
| the early settler? Part of them, by shall
low cultivation has been washed down III
to the streams, and is gone forever, and
part has been carried, i'll the form OF nay,
| corn and oats, to the Southern markets.
How long, oh how long before our FARMERS
will learn wisdom
Rut few people on this continent are
blessed with higher natural advantages
than we have. Ours is emphatlcally
grass region, or probably more correctly,
q han reqi0n. We challange the world to
beat us in clover; timothy and red
top do well. Orchard grass makes
| fine pasture anu uOco MOlA' ~ OA"S
} grass will grow wherever there Is rich SOIL
and little shade, and especially on the
north side of our hills. 1t requires rich
soil-indeed everything valuable does
and it should be sOwn after thorough prep
aration of the soil, just as other grasses
are sown. No halfway, slip-shod WORK
o will do for blue grass, any more than to-
clover or timothy. 1t may be, and indeed
t is probable, that orchard grass is the grea
grass for pasture for our region.
. Be that as it may, it is certain that al
orr hills, as we'll as our valleys and bot
toms. when manured, will produce splen
did crops of hay. With the most misera
lille preparation, as a rule, of our meade VS.
thousands of bales of hay are sent toSouth
. ern markets. With good farming, TIL
amount of surplus hay produced Nigh
be augmented five times over.
Now, look at our position. we are
grass or hay region. We are on the ger
l. borders of the cotton region, where ha
cannot be produced with much success
We hold the key to this vast region.
must hereafter, as heretofore, receive II
"a supplies of beef, pork, mutton, butte
mules and horses from us, an
OF from the region north of us. We al
the nearest, and therefore can reac
the market first, and the cheapes
And here our farmers can find mark
AOA
= Feeding and fattening cattle pays IN
double sense. By it you get market Il
YOUR hay, corn and straw at home. BY
You double the value of the flesh alread
ON your steer, by making it fat and tel
der, and you also add much to the Q
flesh. There is your direct profit. I'll
indirect comes in the form of a large SUI
- Div of manure, which is gold to the got
farmer, and which will make the wol
fields rejoice with plentiful crops for ne
years feeding. Some Pennsylvania
ed came into our county few months sin
and purchased land. The first thing tn
did was to erect stalls and sheds, and f
the stalls with stock for fattening. Th
n had to purchase steers, corn, hay al
" straw for this purpose but they were n
deferred. They have sold part of thu
steers and made money on them. b
while they make fair profit directly, thu
great profit, land this was their obje'
consists in huge pile of manure rea
for the fields. Those men will coin &c
e. and have herds of fine cattle, and W
grow rich, while their neighbors will 10
on with amazement. Welcome, WELDON
We noble pioneers Would that we cot
Al count them by hundreds and by tho
sands