Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-07
LETTER FROM ASHLAND.

EDITORS CHRoNICLE:-After long
silence, win you give me space in your
columns? Everybody has something
to say about crops, and as 1 am not
disposed to be SUI generis, by your per-
mission, I'll speak my piece. To be-
gin; we have larger crops, and better
crops, and greater variety than we
ever had, and everybody and his wife
and all the children have done more
and better work than ever before, and
as natural result we have the finest
prospect for bountiful supply that
has ever been seen since Adam and
Eve first went to house keeping. Not
withstanding this, for the last three
weeks rain! rain! rainl has been
the daily order from the weather clerk,
and consequently the farmers could
not do much farm work, yet we will
have an abundance and to spare.
Though the excessive rains have in
jured the wheat and oat crop very
materially and doubtless have short
ened the corn crop to some extent.
The tobacco crop, though by far the
largest ever planted in Chatham coun-
ty, will, ], fear, owing to the abundance
of rain, very little, if any, exceed a fair
average crop. A great deal of it has
"Frenched," and none of it seems to
grow as it should. And then again,
the Cumberland has been putting On
airs, making winter river of itself
here in midsummer, backing up the
creeks and OVERLOOKING some of the
finest farming land we have, in many
instances killing the corn. And then,
as if to cap the climax. most terrific
tornado passed over a portion of our
county last Sunday night, unroofng
houses, uprooting trees and laying the
corn, in many places, perfectly Hat on
the ground.
You were blowing last week over a
fifteen inch Trophy Tomato" I don't
think that was any big thing for re-
gular market gardener, Who makes
such things speciality. raised one
l2l inches round, weighing over a
pound and didn't blow bit, and mine
was raised on land that had never been
used as a garden before this year.
Mine was of the General Grant"
variety, and in order to be true to name
it must of necessity have been little
bloated and was about as large one
way as the other, and Notwithstanding
the name, it is the finest tomato ever
saw, the Trophy not excepted. l have
both kinds growing, as well as the
Canada Victor" but the Grant" is
the ne ptus ultra of tomatoes. Not
long since you had something to say
about somebody's timothy being FIVE
feet high. l measured three heads,
grown by my neighbor, Tom Hale,
that measured, respectively III, 10l
and 81 inches, and he brought in four
or five other stalks, all from the same
bunch with the first three, that were
from FIVE to eight inches long, but l
thought they were too short to measure.
l could tell you something about the
kind and size of the Irish potatoes we
raise up here, and the length of our
pumpkin vines, and about one special
bean vine that have growing in my
garden, but fear you can't stand it all
at once. Perhaps S. NJ. ID. can tell
you something about my bean vine.
have it from good authority that Capt
J. j. Lenox has corn Is feet high and
as to sweet taters, if coming events
cast their shadows before" and the
vine is any index to the product, we
will have no place to store what we
will make. We have no Horn snakes
up here, but we have some huge rat.
tiers, and some of those horns" that
sometimes produce all sorts of snakes.
l guess Billie Dortch" is the name
of the Sunday School teacher. whose
name is spelt out by the initial letters
Of your Scriptural enigma. Full solu
ton too long for this already Ions
drawn out scroll. What has got to be
the matter that the CHRONICLE doe.
not putin appearance now until Tues.
day. Every Saturday We feel disap
pointed because we don't see her jolly
old face, and then we count the day
until Tuesday, and think how long i
will be.
Yours truly, 40
! sA@ ANON.
Ashland City, July q, 20.