Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-07-03
FACTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE.
Answers To Correspondents.
NO. LXNVII,


curing about matters that are of general
interest, we therefore publish the letters
and answers. The first is as follows:
CRYSTAL p. o., TANIA Co., Iowa,
May %, 1872.
EDITORS CHRONICLE: Your favor is re-
ceived and contents noted, and am well
pleased. Enclosed find subscription for
six months for your paper, which you will
send to the above address.
AS l have concluded to move South, to
your part of Tennessee, you will oblige me
very much if you will answer me the fol-
lowing questions, as it will save me, per-
haps, a trip to your State before | move,
and extra expense:
What is the price of q good span of horses
or mules? OF good set of harness?
What month do you sow winter wheat
Could i rent a house to live i'm if ] should
move before buying, and what is rent
When is the best time to buy land, spring
or fall? And what are wagons selling for?
If you can answer these questions you will
oblige me very much.
| have shown circular and specimen
copies of your paper to my neighbors and
they are well pleased with description of
country, price of land and climate, and are
just as anxious to 60 South rs / am, and
will If they can sell out, for it is too cold
here in the winter. Please answer and
oblige yours truly, GEO. NJ. FRANK.
In reply to his first qaestion we have to
say that the price of horses, of course, va
ries very much. \ span of good draft
horses in good condition for farm work
ought to be bought in East Tennessee
about three hundred dollars. In some
counties man with cash could buy at a
lower price. We are convenient here to
the Southern market and stock generally
commands fair prices. Good mules COM
mand about the same price as horses. A
set of good harness for general farm work
is worth about twenty-five dollars.
Winter wheat is sown in this
country from the last of September
until the middle of November. The
most of our farmers get their wheat
in before the middle of October, and that
seems to be the best time.
Our correspondent will have no trouble
in finding home to rent at fair rates.
Houses in towns or city rent from ten to
forty dollars per month. Houses in the
country generally rent with farm and OF
shares of the crop raised
The fall is generally the best time foI
buying land. The purchaser can then
Judge of the quality Of the land, for the
crops are still on it. Most of our farmers
make their years arrangements in the fall
Land is generally rented .at that season
Farmers are generally more in the spirit
for trading in the fall than in the spring
and as a general rule, we think the former
the better time for purchasers. Our falls
are pleasaDter than our early springs The
roads are better, more of the land can be
inspected and the general condition of the
land be better determined
DELAWARE, o., June IA, 1872.
EDIT0RS CHRONICLE: Enclosed YOU
will find one dollar for the KNoXvIfdE
WEEKLY CHRONICLE. ! would like to
know the average of crops generally the
plentifulness of the fruit crop, such as an.
pies, peaches and cherries, us n general
thing and also the different kinds of game
such rs bear, deer, fox, rabbit, turkey,
pheasant quail and fishes.
Yours respectfully, H. G. HUDSON,
Delaware, Ohio.
A full answer to this letter would take
much time and space and repeat facts fire.
-quentiy given heretofore.
Our wheat crop this season has been an
unusually good one. We have reported
some fields as yielding thirty-two bushels
to the acre. We have reports of many
farms giving twenty and twenty-five bush.
els TO the acre. Taking the upland and
bottom, the poor land and the rich land
and poor farmers and good farmers all
around, the average will be about twelve
bushels With good farming our East
Tennessee land ought to do much
better. We believe that with the
encouragement the yield Of this year will
give our farmers and with the general i'm.
provement in farming now taking place
we shall hereafter have better crops.
We have an abundance of fruit, and our
yield is almost always certain. The fruit
is not generally of the finer varieties, for
our people have not given rs much atten-
ton to cultiyating it as they ought.
We have an abundance of game of the
first kind named, in the mountains, and
.ot the smaller game everywhere in the
section.
THE COMING YlNrAGE.-Recent inves-
legations, says the San Francisco AHa