The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-03-02
Agricultural Department.
A Home In Tennessee.

North asking information in ref
erence TO the price of lands, the
termsI on which farms are rented.
the number of bushels of grain
raised to the acre. the prospect
for fruit &C., &c.a These men
want to come to Tennessee
TO live is the inference we draw
from their letters, and the first
thing we wish TO say TO any and
AL such, is that you come here
and look at our country for your
selves, takingn no One'ssaylso as a
basis ofaction. All we will ask is
that parties wishing to immigFate
to our State will first come here
and take time to consider-Our adj
vantages and suit themselves as
10 location before bringint their
families and goods. When this
plan is followed out We invariably
eRe successful and satisfied fami-
lies, bIt on the other hand if a
man comes here bulAehedwith a
faWily, obliged to stay at a hotel
or rent any place hescan, he will
be sure to get in a greathurry TO
have a home, and from this cause
alone men soften buy and get
what they soon find out to be any
thing but good bargains, all be,
: cause Of using too htAe- time to
post themselves before apurchas-
ing. We have good. land and poor
land, that is badly worn but
capable of being brought back to
fertilitysby jndiciouso usage. and
land tiiat never can be any,
thing; and between these ex-
tremes it takes time for one to
settle and be safei6f satisfaction.
The price per acre varies from
four to twenty-five dollars. There
are a great many farms of fair
quality and capable of beingmade
as good as any that can be bought
at prices varying from eight to
fifteen dollars, an acre. The build
.jDgs are generally only ~passable,
but lumber is cheap and additions
and repairs donot cost very much
Farms range in size from forty to
two hundred acres. Water is
plenty-nearly all farms have
living, running water on them.
Rent of land is based on about
the same terms it is a'the north
VIC believe-depending on what
is furnished by each party &C.
The average yield per acre of the
various grains is low, and to one
used to seeing farming carried on
as it is at the north, the only Won
der is that it is not lower 1t
sounds very strange to a northern
farmer to hears'ofs faking from
land continuous crops Of wheat
and corn from twenty-five forty
years and never putting anything
back by way of manure, .crops-df|
grass turned in, or anything of the
kind. We assert with no fear of
successful contradiction that with
the same usage that is given the
land of Michigan, Of Ohio, and Of
the great agricultural belt Fof the
north, our land here viii produce
many bushels per acre of
wheat, corn, oats de-, asanortherl
land, and farmers here haven't
the cold, frozen weather to- con
tend with. Gun great lack is the
know-how and the real, manly
energy to carry out our knowl;
edge when we get it. If there is
man at the north or any where
else, who is so badly 5inctured
with laziness land cohceit as-te
think he can come South and get
his living without mdch'work, we
to say to him that he better
stay where he is, for, in the first
it takes an extra amepnt of
industry to do we'll here, and in
the next place we have already
far more than we need ofsuch ,ex-
periments both native and for
aign. Buff a man has energyis
willing to ply his muscle and
brains to his work, (and he must (,
have a good supply of the latter
he can double his money faster /,
here than any where else we cam
idly believe. We say this with
reference only to agricultural !
4ursuits. The professions are ftiIf
unless it be good teachers. Law !
Iers and Doctors Sc, arc as many !,
rs desirable and more growing, /
As to fraif we are not Just as we'll
,osted nsS we Ashould cbc. 4 EnteI'