The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-03-01


ID VI Walters and II Z Blankinship.
G.. W. Harrison and NJ X Reager.
T J Phelan and Susan f Eldridge.
S j Hackney and Martha j Harrison.
Isaac Balentine and Francis Ashley.
w ID Balentine and Mary London.
r n Cobb and Mollie Atchison.
] L Owens and Lucy Griffin.
w L Reeves and Anna Rankin.
Editor Exchange:
For the past month we have had
fine weather for work on
the farm. Since the bad weather
broke up the farmers have been very
busy with their work repairing fences
and getting ready for another crop.
Quite number are building barns
for tobacco crop, thinking it will be
Il more remunerative crop than king
cotton. Most of the farmers will be-
gin the next crop with still more earn.
cstness than ever, being determined,
with favorable season, to get cut of
debt and once more be independent.
Then they will be able to turn their
attention to the improvement of their
farms, enriching their land, erecting
more and better buildings. So with
another good crop or two our farms
will present quite an improved ap-
pearance. Milan is surrounded by Il
goodly number of wide awake farmers
who mean business, though a per-
son visiting Milan and spending an
hour on the horse swapping ground,
near the PeahOdy-sOme Saturday
might be inclined to think differently.
But | am informed that most of them
are from Il distance up in the hills. -
Wheat is looking well, though some
few failed to getastand. Some clover
and grass is being planted, but the
bulk of the crop will consist, as here
tofore, of corn and cotton, mostly the
latter.
The hog cholera Is raging in some
neighborhoods. Farmers should re-
member that an ounce of preventa-
tive is worth pound of cure. Soft
soap, coal oil or turpentine mixed
with slops are said to be sure preven-
tatiyes. 1t Is useless to doctor hogs
after they have taken the cholera.
NJ.
DYER STATION, Feb. "a, 1877.
Editor Erchange:
The Spring-likc weather of the
past fortnight has called our farming
out from its winter moor
ings, out into the sea of practi-
cal demonstration, as it regards
for crops, &c. Wheat
is now promising, and we antic-
ipate an abundant yield. A con-
siderable amount of land has been
sown in oats. Diversity of opinions
exist in reference to the corn and cot
ton crop of the present year, which
shall have the advantage in acreage
price, prestige, &c. Our grain deal>
ers say plant corn-must have corn.
Our ginntrs say that cotton is
King" and that Eve must not 90 be-
hind the returning boards" So you
see our condition is not wanting in a
precedent, and therefore a committee
of s to 7 must adjudicate for us. No
difference what the decision may be,
with Il plenty rain, thunder and light
ming, and no little deception on the
part of cotton men. All will have a
l"ant'm su6ica of HAYES. Thun-
der and lightning is said to purify the
atmosphere and all may expect better
times when the storm abaUes. We
want peace and prosperity. God
grant the twain may he enjoyed by
the American people to the latest gen
Grafton.
Mr. F. NJ. Snoddy has moved his
stock of dry goods to Eaton, where he
proposes TO make his motto "quick
sales and small profits"
Mr. ]. NJ. Hutcherson, having sold
his interest in the Steam Gin and
saw Mill to Mr. Harris of Newbern,
Dyer county, is not engaged in the
erection of a new Gin and Saw Mill.
The whistle of the steam pipes will
soon be heard in four different direc-
lions by'our citizens. Truly our town
is thriving, Notwithstanding the hard
ness of the times.
A Mr. Stewart, shot, and fatally
young Fox on the 18th
nst.. two miles east of Rutherford
Station. Stewart is young man of
teady, christian habits, of peaceful
temper. The verdict Of the people is