Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1877-08-09

The Fruit MISUNDERSTANDING Sugges
ttOns 10 Farmers.

! lions 40 Farmers.
PowELL's STATION, Aug. 8, 1877.
TO the Editors Of the Chronicle:
Here it is again. A good lady in
Chattanooga sends word that she
doubts that big peach orchard story in
my last letter. I acknowledge the
"corn" in one instance. Where ]
spoke of the size of Mr.. Browns
peaches the article read eight inches
/ in diameter" when it should have
been circumference" o, no, my
! good Chattanooga friend, that story
was quite reliable. If the simple
statement that we have fine fruit in
| East Tennessee amazes down-cOuntry
folks, let 'em come up. had the plea
sure to-day to visit the fruit fields
of Jno. Weiland, five miles from town.
He has nearly fifty acres in fruit, in
| Guiding grapes, peaches apples and
pears, of which about twenty acres are
! now in bearing. 1t is really charming
to visit and walk among his bending
! fruit trees. They stand quite close aid
the limbs bend over anu interlace, so
that the entire orchard is dense sea
of mingling trees. The fruit is ripen-
ing fast now, and with the myriad of
red cheeks upturned to the sun, no
prettier sight was ever seen. Mr.. WIS
peaches embrace fOrty-ive varieties.
His earliest fruit ripens about the 10th
OF June, while the latest cannot be
gathered until after one frost comes.
Several hundred young pear trees are
just coming in to bearing this year.
Pbe frqit is as large as my Chattanooga
friends, fist, TO use azcommOn express
sion. We have never seen sweet pears
in this country before, that look like
this fruit. Mr.. Weiland says his
pears are sweet and luscious when ripe.
His vineyard embraces about two
acres and the vines seem in good con-
ditiCn. The grapes are just now ripen-
ing, and the vines being loaded, pre-
sent fine appearance. Mr.. Weiland
has a nursery in connection with his
orchard. He also carries on farming
and this year raised over five hundred
bushels of wheat. He came to this
State from OHIO since the war,
and by the manner of his liv-
ing, Is highly respected by all
classes OF our citizens. Far more val
liable is such a man than all the gilt
edged politicians who ever crossed the
Mason and Dixon line. Our country
needs TO be made to resOuud with the
song of Industry and blossom and bear
fruit and grain. Would to God we
could never again hear the phrase
1.-THE South" only where used by
teachers in the study of geography.
Ii any aspiring young man in East
Tennessee is preparing a scrap-bOOk, !
for use Ia a future cam paign of pOliti-
cal harangue, let him ride out and go
over the farm of Mr.. Weiland, now, |
while it grOans with its abundant |
yield of delicious fruit and grain, |
and then, like man, let him throw |
his political notes down among the |
peach Feelings and stones to the
hogs and swear allegiance to q nObler
cause. Surely no subject demanded
the elOquence of our speakers more
than this one of political economy.
1t is not demanded that all men raise
fruit and grain, but it is demanded
that our people have more enterprise.
Too many lOafers' clubs flourish at
our railroad stations, public stores,
etc. Too many plows and grubbing
hoes rust in the agricultural stores,
aud too many briars and sassafras
bushes grow where peach trees and
grain fields should bloom. Too many
farmers nave no system of economic
ing time. Too many of them work
with poor tools. Too many waste the
that should be saved.
Roy.