Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-06-04
a General Field DRy-A Flood of RcsOiu
tons and Spicy Speeches.
SECOND DAY-MoRNING SESSION.

1t being necessary for Judge Swan to be
absent at the time appointed for him to
address the convention it was ordered that
the time be changed to suit his convent
ence.
The Business Committee asked more
time, together with leave to amend their
report. Granted.
Mr.. Rodgers of Loudon obtained per-
mission to add few remarks on
the question of the best grass for
pasturage. He was decidedly of
the opinion that the day of red clover was
passed. 1t is no longer the best grass for
our farmers. Orchard grass is much bet
ter. 1t is also better than timothy. 1t is
one of the most nutritive grasses grown
and peculiarly adapted to the making of
butter and cheese. 1t is also better than
blue grass. 1t will grow where the blue
grass will not. This orchard grass will
grow anywhere.
Secretary Charlton thought it mistake
to ignore clover. 1t is one of our best fer
tilizers. The dairy. business is not to be
the business of East Tennessee.
Mr.. Rhea, of Sullivan, was in favor of q
mixture of the grasses. He didn't depend
upon the orchard grass alone for hay. The
great difficulty is we do not put enough
seed on the ground. East Tennessee is a
grass-growing country if we only give it
fair chance. He preferred the blue grass
to any other.
The President announced the time up.
He invited the members of the convention
to visit his farm west of town and see his
blue grass.
DIR. Daniel Lea was by vote invited to
resume the thread of his discourse of last
night. He produced an ear of corn and
illustrate the productiveness of the farm.
The ear in question had 600 grains all
raised from one seed. Ten dollars an acre
may be added to the value of our lands
by proper cultivation. We must put back
into the ground what is taken out of it.
We must not confine ourself to any single
one of the grasses. DR.. LEAFS remarks
were extended to some length and closed
amid rounds of applause.
The Committee to whom the question of
the best kind of cattle for specific uses.was
referred reported as the substance of the
deliberations of the convention, the fol-
lowing for action:
ReSotred, That it is the sense of this conven-
ton that the common or scrub stock of cattle is
inferior to the improved breeds for any of the
uses for which they are bred, and that we re-
commend that the thorough breds be intro
ced and that the common stock be improved by
jndicious breeding with the improved stock,
always having reference TO the uses for which
they are designed. Q. b. LORD,
Chair. Com
The report was adopted.
The Business Committee made the fol-
lowing addition to their former report
That they respectfully recommend that
one hour from 10 A. NJ. to II o'clock this
morning be set apart for the introduction
of original resolutions and oral discussions.
Hon. Jas. p. Swami then addressed the
convention on the mode and profits of
stall feeding cattle. The address was writ
ten and elaborated with great care, show
ing the best manner of feeding, &c,
LETTER FROM A GENERAL.
1t was announced that u letter was pres
| ent in the hands of Prof. Nicholson from
! Gen. VIM. II. Jackson, President of the
Agricultural Bureau of the State, where
upon it was voted that the letter be read.
! The writer expressed his regrets that it
| was not in his power to be present The
! duty of farmers at the present time was
! treated at length and the necessity of or
ganization urged. The principles of the
new secret cOciety Of farmers We're also
! fully explained and endorsed.
The time for resolutions and oral discus
| sion having arrived, resolution was pre-
scented by Secretary Charlton, inviting the
! farmers of Tennessee to hold State Con-
ventiOn about the 18th of September, and
! that the matter be put before the farmers
through the Rural Sun and Agricultural
! Bureau.
Squire Tunnel, of Knox, wanted other
papers to publish the call and not exclude
all for the benefit of one.
Mr.. Perez Dickinson, of Knox, in few
remarks strongly opposed the idea of a
secret Farmers Society. His remark were
received with warm applause.
Secretary Charlton then urged strongly
| the necessity of a State Convention and
deprecated any thing like sectional feeling.
Col. Doughty, of Anderson, was in
favor of the convention, but not of any
secret farmers societies.
1t was explained that the resolutions in
favor of a convention had no reference to
the secret society.
The question was then put and the reso-
luton adopted.
! EASTERN DIVISION AND OTHER FAIRS
ENDORSED.
Mr.. Rodgers, of Loudou, offered the fol-
| lowing:
RcSOired, By the TURNER'S Of East Ten
! ncSSCc IN COnucHtiOn assembled, That re-
| cognizing the advantages to accrue to the
| farmers from we'll managed fairs, we
recommend the farmers of East Tennnes-
see, to cooperate with and aid the officers
| of the Eastern Division Fair at Knoxville,
and the several county fairs in East Ten
nessee, in making the exhibition this fall
a success and that we pledge them our sup
port and sympathy.
President Temple didn't think the Eas t
Tennessee Fair should be endorsed until
the officers showed some sympathy wit b
this convention. They had not been pres
ent and had not shown il any sympath y.
| Mr.. Kicks said he was one of the Dire c.
| tors of that Fair had been present yeste r.
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