Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09
FRoMPOwELL's STATION.
Great Fruit Crop. a rich Manure
Yard school Prospects.
PowELL's STATION, Sept. %, "a.

yard. school Prospects.
PowELLs STATION, Sept. ID, "a.
EDITORS CHRoNICLE We have
just had fine rain, which has put the
ground in excellent blowing order and
we expect to see a great deal Of plow-
ing for wheat now. Many pillow was
waiting for this rain. We predict Il
heavy wheat sowing for this fall. Our
farmers are now finding outthat wheat
growing makes them more money
than any other grain crop, and they
also find that they can increase the
grain by blowing the ground deep,
cultivating it well before sowing, aud
then sowing with drill.
Never before were our people so ca
ger to save all their fruit crop. They
are drying, canning, preserving and
preparing it in every way to save it.
Last years failure in the fruit line
taught them valuable lesson, and II
large majority of them will this year
prepare twoyear's supply. This view
is verified by the fact that we are now
unable to get tin fruit cans in Knox
ville the demand has been 50 great for
them lately.
An interesting religious revival is
in progress at Mount Harmony church,
near Heiskells Station, under the care
of Rev. Bradford Demarcus, but we
have no account of the exact number
of conversions. There is also a pro-
tracted meeting going ON at Adair's
Creek church, in Grassy Valley, Revs
Hamsted and Jaueway officiating.
There has been near twenty mOurners,
and six converts.
Three or four Beaver Creek Valley
Sabbath schools are to enjoy Il picnic
ut Careyville on The 18th of September.
They get the round trip on the KuoX-
vile and Ohio railroad for twenty-five
cents a head.
The new school house mt Powel's
Station will be finished in time for
school to commence between the 18th Of
September and October the 1st. The
services Of Prof. Perkins, of Washing
ton county. have been engaged, so |
am informed, and an able assistant
will be employed Students from a
distance can get boarding at $500 per
week.
NJ. Stoltzios, our Pennsylvania
neighbor, who bought land near the
station some years ago and has since
been setting all of us such nice eX-
ample of good farming, explained to
me lately how he can make a hundred
four horse loads of manure in year
from four horses and few cattle. Said
he, II keep my horses in separate
stable, and every night | put Il fork
full of straw under each one of them.
Every two weeks this straw is taken
from the stables and scattered on the
manure yard. During the winter
treat my cows the same way. While
fattening my pork put straw in the
pen as often as they tramp it under
their feet and cover it with filth, NV
experience is that a manure yard
should be level, or fullest in the mid
die. Some men use pits, or hollow
places, so that water will stand on the
manure, but my manure would never
rot so well in pit with water on it
as when put on yard where the
water would drain off. l cut my corn
down and feed the fodder to my cattle
on the manure yard. A sprinkle of
lime over the manure helps it to rot. /
have just finished burning 900 or
1000 bushels of lime to put on
my land, and have some for my man
ure. This year l put siXtyfour-horse
loads of manure on ten acres for
wheat
We need more such men as Mr.. S,
in our country. / don't mean that he
alone understands how to farm, be-
cause l can count dozen native farm
ers in our valley who are model men
on the farm, real workers, and make
money, but still they all lack that in
dustrious habit of making manure
and improving the soil.
The free schools have generally com
menced but not very full for the be-
ginning, owing to the fact that the
fruit crop is yet in hands.
Valley Grove ia laboring under the
influence of dreadful neighborhooC
war. | am told they have had {
cross-fre skirmish among the neigh
bors so long the church and Sabbath
school have been almost torn up
many members of the church are leaV'
ing and the common school is all tn,
time i'm trouble and doing not mucl
good These people are injuriDg them
elves, Roy,