Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-27
To Knox County Farmers.

What class of you farmers i'll Knox
county live in the log houses of your
fathers, with the same style of surround
ings, plant the same fields with corn that
your fathers did, and because they did
raise no larger crops than they did have
no better stock than they had, and in
whose hands farms are ever year deterio-
rating? Let me, bred a farmer and choos-
ing 1t above every other occupation,
more laborious one, plainly, but kindly
ask you, are you educated, reading, think
ing men, whose few well-worn books and
agricultural papers show that you have
spent many an evening and leisure hour
IN seeking after knowledge, knowledge
OF your own occupation, knowledge of
the condition and principles of the growth
OF grasses and plants, the constituent ele-
ments of grains and soils, and the adapta-
ton of each to the other? Are you rails
ing your stock and cultivating your soil
scientifically? Can you decide on scientific
principles what part of your farm can be
most profiitably devoted to the grow
ing of wheat, what part will pro-
duce the largest crop of corn, what
of roots, what Of grasses ? Can you tell
what, as to soil and location, should be de-
voted to orcharding? If you wish to re-
cuperate wrsted soil, do you know how
to do it with the least expense and labor?
Do you know why one field requires veg
etable mold and another some other fertil-
izer? Do your wife and daughters know
the scientific principles of heat, light, air
and water, and their applications in house
hold matters? Do they know the prop
critics of the starch, sugar, vegetable acids,
&C., that they use daily in cooking? Do
they understand the composition of veg
etable foods, the constituents of meat, the
production and composition of milk, the
scientific principles and changes in MAX
ing butter, cheese and bread, the proper
ties and action of yeast, &C.. Would not
such knowledge make you and your fami-
ly happier and wiser? With such knowl
edge would not your work and theirs lose
something OF its drudgery and acquire
more of the dignity of an intellectual call
ing To successful and happy labor in
farming and housekeeping, scientific
knowledge is absolutely needful, and
much of this knowledge you can get at
small cost without resort to the schools.
Youman's Hand Book of Household
Science will furnish your wife and daugh-
tiers complete information in their depart
ment, and for two or three dollars you can
obtain excellent and safe works on stock
raising and farming Much of the soil of
Knox county is susceptible of high state
of cultivation and of the production of the
most abundant crops. A large proportion
of the inhabitants of this county will fol-
low agricultural pursuits, and their chill
dren after them will gain their sustenance
by the same kingly calling. This large
and growing city of Knoxville, with her
numerous produce merchants, furnish you
ready and cash market for all your pro-
ducts. Then, good farmers of Knox, be-
stir yourselves form neighbOrhood farm
ers' clubs, seek information, improve your
farms and stock and let us make Knox the
banner agricultural and educational coun-
ty of East Tennessee.
2. S.-Do not forget your schools and
the education of your children.
BUTLER.