Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-01
NOTES FROM CAMPBELL COUNTY.


few words through your valuable col
umns will be nothing amiss. Can
didates are extremely plenty owing to
the shortness Of the oat crop. Wheat
CROPS are better this year than they
have been for many years. Corn Is
very samll but has good color. Oats
will not be exceeding half a crop.
Everybody is laboring to obtain the
Knoxville CHRONICLE, AS the great
canvass -of 1874 will soon be in full
blast. The people speak in the highest
terms Of the CHRONICLE. The Civil
Rights Bill is the topic of the day.
Every body, white aud black, heartily
endorse Senator Brownlow's views. |
am sure do. w. II. HEATHERLY.
Craig's Ford, June 81, 1874.
THE WHEAT CRoP-BoTH SIDES OF
THE QUESTION.
STRAWBERRY PLAINS, June 81, IA.
EDITORS CHRoNICL: / notice i'm
your paper of this morning a call for n
Joint Convention of Farmers, Millers,
and Grain dealers to meet at Knox
Vile, Saturday, July 4th, to take into
consideration the probable quantity
and quality of our wheat crop, as well
as to bring buyer and seller into q
closer union in order that all may I'M
derstand the situation.
This meeting IL called for wise
purpose and should be largely attend
ed by all, for not only the farmers are
interested in procuring good price
| for our wheat, but the prosperity of
East Tennessee generally, depends
upon 1t. 1t is indeed our gold and we
are all depending upon it to keep the
wheels Of trade running for another
year.
The fact is we have all gone wild
about the wheat crop. each farmer
striving to make his appear n little
larger and better than his neighbours
and know of not few cases where
II will take Il great portion of the straw
as well as all the. grain to make the
estimated number of bushels, and also
that scarcely any of our farmers will
have more than half the amount they
first expected.
We must cool down little and tax,
a practical. common sense view of tn,
situation If we would have an eye t
our own true interest.
We have been counting the chickens
, before they hatch, and now hatchinl
time is about here, and you will fin,
they won't pan out, according to GU
count when the hatcher, or thresher
} comes round. To see the wheat run
ming from the machine into the mea
sure enables you to make a pretty fai
, estimate of your crop, but to count tn
! tallies, of late years, after all you
! wheat is threshed, is about the onl
, safe method.
: Now. few of my neighbors, wit
: long faces, have already counted tn
TALES this season, and / am sorry
e say that about one half the tallit
were wanting to represent the numbt
d of bushels they first expected to OF
r tain.
Col. w. II. Turley, of Mcmillan
e Station, believing his crop to be yer
: fine, estimated it to be not less than 81
o hundred bushels, but after the thresf
ing was completed he counted the Ia
n lies and found he had only about tw
i hundred and eighty bushels a fallin
e of of more than one-half. Williar
S Bearden, of the same place, aud Ma
4 William Moulden, Of Strawberr
e Plains, have met with like results, an
"A so far as l have been able to Learn
all who have threshed hav
t met with similar disappointment
Now, all who know anything abou
crops at all, agree that the oat Gro
r has now proved almost an entire fai
ure-made so by dry weather and ru'
while the corn crop, owing to tn
wet winter and spring, was plante
II very late, and is now small and ger
orally unpromsing. The old corn
pretted well all exhausted, and il
plain that our wheat will be the mai
prospect for money in East Tennessee
q during the coming year, and whicl
as we have shown above, will not |
y more than one half the amount fir
+ expected.
f: Estimates being formed from exal
J. gerated reports, which led all to beliey
# the crop TO be Unprecedented, cause
n most dealers to staud aloOf from I'll
r. market, while those in the market al
Ia offering much less for wheat than IA
d mers can afford to take.
9 In view of all the facts before us, W
i would earnestly advise farmers to hol
o off for better market, and not Sc
h their wheat ut such ruinOus rates, fC
+ such course would not only be suic
# dial 10 their their own interest, bu
: would undoubtedly cripple the bus
n ness interest of our common country
Il from which we would not recover i
the next twelve months.
d In conclusion we would say, don
4 be in a hurry; keep cool, and max
n haste slowly.
f ana respectfully yours,
n GNoRTs.
= EAST TENNESSEE ITEMS.