Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-22
NASHVILLE.
Visit of an Appeal Correspondent 60 a
Model Farm near Spring Hill,
Maury COuBIy-What he Saw
Reflections.
From an Occasional Correspondent of the

From an Occasional Correspondent OF the
Appeal
NASHVILLE, September 10 Il visited
To day the stock farm of Major Campbell
Brown, who lives near Spring Hill.on the edge
OF Maury county very close 10 Williamson. 1t
consists of two Thousand acres one Thousand
ive hundred OF which is hill land, al only
five hundred acrts arabic land. OF this five
hundred scrt S, only three hundred is in culti-
vatlon. Major Brown believes strongly In the
extensive" system OF farming, ana intends
concent, ating all his labor on two hundred
and ifiy acres, until he makes IL Lich ss il
can be made. When that is done he will try
more. Clover peas always sown among his
corn, Snd plowed UNDER, barnyard manure
and deep D.ow1ng are the means relied
upon, and the end ain ed at is an average pro-
ductiOn of twenty-five bushels Of wheat, fifty
of corn and 70 ty of barley ID the acre
These figures he considers not eXtrayag-
ant, al Il thinks they promise a fair profit.
There are twenty or thirty head of we'll
bred tro.ters on tue place. ALI the fashion,
able families have representatives. The main
object OF the proprietor IS he tells us, has
been 10 b. eed col of same size color and style,
so tnat II they failed TO make trotters, they
siill sold for harness or farm purposes. The
) earrings and Two year rOlds aIe accordingly
unusually stout, good-lO0king and we'll
grown, so that they are sure 10 command lair
prices when thrown upon the market. HIS
hill land is sown in the various grssscs, but
mostly blue-g! ass, so 9s 10 furnish good pc
ture for sheep and cattle. The p1de of the
place is the herd OF Jersey CATTLE some thirty
nve head, of excel ent quality, uniform in
style ana appearance, and IN these Major
Brown takes great delight. As he has been
breeding Jerseys only five or six years, most
OF the older animals are selections from other
herds. But the two handsomest heifers on the
place-at lea4t, SO Lney struck us-are OF his
own breeding, hoXaua econd and her daugh-
ter Pixie. his cattle represent some of the
most noted herds of the east, descended from
many famous cows. Prominent among them
is daughter of Mr.. Saarpless's celebrated
RoSa-a beautiful silver-gray yearling by Pi-
lot, jr. A herd Of seven head, selt cted for ex-
hibitiou at the fairs this fall, with his young
bull TOD-Sawyer al the head, will be hard to
beat he has sold this summer about seven
hundred and fifty dollars worth of butter and
cream in Nashville since the first of
May, milking twelve JERSEYS and eight grades
or natives. Three eShropshiredown sheep, two
ewes and a lamb, struck us very 1avorably.
This new breed has dark faces and legs like
the Sout5dJwns, with larger bodies and
heavier feecei The ewes sheared nine and
nine and a quarter pounds last spring, while
Southdowns gave hve to I'VE and half
pounds. About forty head of thoroughbred
Southdowns and four hundred and fifty
grades constitute the present flock. The
lambs find ready sale to butchers and breed.
Intention OF Major Brown to increase his
flock to fifteen hundred or two thousand head,
driving them for summer pasture to the bar
rens" OF Hickman or Lewis counties, and
wintering them at home. He informs us that
the late Mark Cockrlll, the pioneer sheep
grower OF the south, used to drive his mertnos
forty and fifty miles every summer, 10 Craze
them in Hickman county, and thought the
" barrens ,. remarks bly, well adapted 10 that
purpose. Tn0 mouse IN Wn1cn MAJOR Brown
resides is situated on beautiful eminence,
commanding magnificent view of the splen-
did country around Spring Hill, village dis
tsnt about half mile, which Is In full view.
The Louisville, Nashville and Great Southern
railroad, from Nashville 10 Montgomery,
Alabama, runs through the place, and within
one hundred and fifty yards OF the house,
which is q very cOmmOdious and Ia aIteful
farm building showing in ell Its arrange
mems as much elegant simplicity as
can be found anywhgTe. Major Brown is
a most kind and friendly nelshbor, Going
good t. ell around him, and is exceedingly
popular among those VINO know him best.
Though young in year,, he has the wisdom
and practical judgment Of man more ad-
yanced in life. His land was SeESed before
the railroad was built, in 1851. at thirteen dol
lars an acre. He now gives 1t for aSsC 3sment
at thirty dollerS per acte. He will be the
nominee OF the DemC cratic partv for fioater
representative from Maui and Williamson,
and Will unqu ytionably be elected. He is rs
unpTeteDdil in his manners aud in his ad-
dress p he is cultivate and intelligent, and
realizes the de cription given In the following
extract, tfken from an yricultuIal addre.
not ~ long since delivered: "The occupa-
tion of an educat d, intelligent and practical
farmer, whose home is the abode of comfort,
and who so improves his land eS to make it
yield mora from year to year, js inferior TO no
other indignity and Importance. Such man
Il one OF the worlds benefactOrs."