Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-08-04
FROM MONROE COUNTY.
Bntter Facts About East Tennessee.
MADIsoNvILLE, MONROE Co.,
July %. 1875.

MADIsoNvILLE, MONROE Co.,
July %, 1876.
To the Editors Of the Chronicle:
There are but few counties in the
State, and but few in any of the South
ern States, where butter can be more
successfully and economically made
than this. The grasses that are in
| digenous to the county possess an
amount of nutriment for cattle and
sheep l have never seen equalled. The
blue grass grows successfully and lux
uriently, provided Stacked lime is
used as fertilizer in proper quanti-
ty. Red-top, timothy and clover grow
as well in this section as in any other,
| if not pastured. Orchard grass (the
proper pasture grass) y of luxuriant
and strong growth, and furnishes the
cheapest and most nutritious food for
stock that can be grown. German
millet and Hungarian grass grow sue
cessfuly, and are in full perfection in
sixty days and make akind and profita
BILE fodder for cows, as well as stock
generally. Thee means of supply for
milk cows, together with the great
number of springs and living streams
upon almost every field in the county,
make a strong starting point for sue
cessfull butter making.
The rich hill sides furnish good rich
| grasses for dry stock and Sheppard
then you have 100000 acres of north
ern slope of the Smoky mountains,
which furnish the finest, most nutri-
tious grasses and pea vines, which give
a summer and winter supply. This
range of mountains is meJamorphic
and conglomerated, and contains all
the family of States-with a large
breadth of quartz formations, carry
ing gold aud many of the precious
stones-ditfering very essentially from
the Cumberland range, in as much as
tue grass grows to nearly double the
height, more nutritious, and large
proportion is green and nutrative du-
ring the winter months. Our people
have lost sight of this valuable means
of wealth. Our production in butter in
1870, was only $50 pounds from 25 to
80 cows. Now in the same year in the
county of St. Lawrence, New York
lone OF its poorest counties), with ST.
293 milch cows. the production was
eight million four hundred and nine
teen thousand six hundred and nine
tytive pounds of gilt edge butter. The
counties of Duchess and Delaware,
where the Goshen butter is 'made,
Delaware county, produced 6,135, 7l5
pounds of gilt edge butter, from 40, 699
mich cows. Let an East Tennesseean
go to these counties and he would not
S1Cdp eUen. | saw to-day in the store
of one of our enterprising merchants q
lot of butter put down in May, such as
he took in from his customers. 1t was
as sweet and fresh as the day 1t was
made. This butter was handled by O
master. He is West Virginian, and
he believes there is mo eXcellency
without great labor.n He is working
stock, and that is what sbutter wants
Such men will succeed in
bringing up the trade from
the white liver clabber mixture
colored with the yolk of eggs, to the
class of butter made by Tom -
Crutchfield, of Hamilton, worth AZ
cents, when the consumption butter is
worth % cents.
The holding of so large lot of but
| ter in our town shows that we require
better churns, better cows and more O.
them, and then to raise roots. The
root crop, to dairy man, is worth
more than corn.
1.-THE working men of Iowa and Wis
consin will come here they can ge
rich by raising white beans and but
ter-making, and they can get tina
which money will not buy-health
East Tennessee is the finest climate
on this Continent. We invite the maj
; from the cold, bleak plains of the Yves
to come, and he answers not. Is h.
afraid? We are the cleverest peopl
on earth, but most abused They d.
not know US. They are unfortunate
9 1t is pity they do not know us;
so they would never leave us. Blu
there is luck in leisure, and am foe
enough TO believe there is silver lin
= ing to the cloud that has been hangin
: over US.
East Tennessee will be known, an
4 such a good time they will have /
gathering in the proceeds of well-di
; rected industry in butter-makinl
i The Changers are not asleep, but wi
e show that the strength of good oil
: Monroe county is not dead, but stun
u bereth. Yours,
o MONROE.