Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-13

The market reports will show you what
it will cost you to buy years provision
You can buy your corn, generally, on the
farm you rent, in the crib you will feed
from. Your wood will cost you the labor
of cutting and hauling to the door. Your
garden, your Irish potato patch, your
sweet potato patch, your tobacco patch
are all rent free. Think Of that, you who
are paying four to six dollars per cord for
wood, or nine'to fifteen dollars per ton for
coal; you who rent gardens nearly twice
as large as a Dutch bed blanket, paying
therefor a sum which, in ten years, would
cover it over with greenbacks.
The houses on rented lands are not
palaces. They commonly consist of a house
and kitchen, but little money judiciously
applied will make them comfortable. You
will not need to fortify against three days
snow storms. Come here in September.
You can see by the standing crops where
the good land is. Make your contracts,
and commence sowing wheat On or be-
fore the 1st of January you will get full
possession. .t-e.
The whole thing is very simple. Get off
the cars at any station. Take the main
road, and ask whoever you meet where you
can find good lands to rent. He will tell
YOU of two or three farms. See the owners.
They will invite you to dinner, to supper,
and to lodge with them. With the neces.
sary funds in your pocket, you can COM
mence sowing wheat with your own team
in ten days after leaving home.
III. +. G.
EAToN'S Y ROADS, L. TENN.
A northern man passing through Ea t
Tennessee lately writes to the RuraL San
of our lands as follows:
The higher lands are usually entirely diff
ferent from those that are lower. They are
for the most part covered with a mixed
growth of pitch-pine, oak of several kinds,
and occasionally hickory. L saw very lit
tie tim Der OH the lower lands, as they have
been cleared" and are nearly all in cult
walton. The stones on most of the hills
are very irregular in size and shape, and
are what call grey flint.
1.-THE stones are rich limestone and
abound almost everywhere. By little
trouble they can be made to enrich the soil
and make the poorest of it good.-EDs
CHRONICLE.
In some places the soil, stones, and in
fact the entire earth, SO far as could see,
was dark mahogany color. L was told
that the stones on such lands, newly clear
ed, We're very numeroua, but that they
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kept the ground loose and strong for
number of years. On some old fields now
as destitute of visible stones as possible, L
was told that when first cleared these
stones were so large and numerous that
they very much interfered with cultiya-
ton. Many large hills, or rather ranges of
low ridges, have this peculiar formation to
their SUBMITS. The natural drainage in
all this region is excellent, and 1 feel sure
that with a wise system of rotation and re-
newal of these lands would amply repay
the owners for any labor bestowed upon
them. / was told that some of these field
had been cultivated every year for more
than half century, and the greater part
of the time in corn, and that too without
any fertilizer. Still the corn looks vigor-
GUS and strong. Such remarkable natural
fertility muct certainly be very rare.
may add here, that in various places in
East Tennessee saw large tracts of this
Kind of land.