Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-03-16
TO our Furmine Correspondents.

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One of our farming friends, deeply
impressed with our luminous notes
on tobacco, in late issue, desires
our views on wheat, as he still has
the last years crop on hand. We
would hesitate to proffer our advice
were it not that local editors are
presumed to know everything, and
it would never do for us to destroy
our prestige by confession of ig-
norance. There are some of our
farming subscribers, who have been
heard to say, that, having spent
their lives in the field, directing the
diversified agriculture of our
country, having lived between the
plow handles in heat and cold,
sat up with tobacco fires all night
to work without sleep the succeed
ing day, perspired through a ten
weeks harvest and threshing, and
being blessed with ordinary farming
horse-sense-why, they say they
ought to know as much about the
making and selling of crops as any
little whipper-snapper of local ed
itor!
Well. they can have it their own
way! We don't care two cents AS
long as they pay, as heretofore, two
dollars in advance for the CHRONI-
Gle, it would be clearly and morally
wrong for us to quarrel with them.
We would merely remark, that, if
instead of getting after us with
sharp stick, they would get after the
cookie in their wheat fields with a
number of sharp tobacco sticks
sharpened at one end, to save stOop-
ing, it would pay better than
puncturing local editors. We hope
this has already been done, but it is
not yet too late; and it would be
such fun for the young ladies
of the household. We are open to |
an invitation to assist in forming
the line of attack; and can furnish
severable eligible young gentlemen
armed with spuds as volunteers
upon short notice.
When you take sample of wheat
to a miller he has usually so many |
remarks to make about cookie and
cheat that it is every way desirable
to deprive him of his trading voca-
bulary. Clean out the wheat and
you clean out the pestiferous miller
and his agents.
But we have forgotten our CORE
spondent with his unsold wheat, land
he is entitled to a separate article,
for he evidently thinks us prophet,
as all local editors are well known
to be. Now as to wheat unsold: If
there should be general war in
Europe wheat will lumber. In that
case your pockets will be full of
rocks provided heating and weevil,
and shrinkage, and ratage and
stealage is not too many for you. If
you look around you at home and
abroad, and find but small acreage
sown, and the crop backward and
thin from alternate freezing and
thawing, and then think of your
old crop safely housed away, you
will feel virtuous and happy. Then
again if your outlook finds these
reversed, your feelings
and reflections may be reversed;
but you will still have them, and
your wheat also. Your financial
may not be equal to those
exceptionally fortunate individuals
who have two crops of tobacco ON
hand, but it will be very near it.
But then we will suppose that you
have a late frost to fall back upon,
and the probable ravages of the fly;
4 wet harvest, or a wet time for
or war, why then you
might yet get, for your crop, as
much as if you had sold it directly
from the separator. We regret that
our prophetic powers fail US just
here; but take the question in its
worst aspects. Suppose that you
won't sell, that you can't sell. A
farmer has always hogs and cattle,
and If you will boil your spoiled
wheat they will eat some of it.
We grant it won't do to "crowd
EN-" on it, but, if you will be careful
to feed them nothing else, they will
to worry some of it down
every day. We have seen it tried.
A Russian soldier or pheasant will
endure mild form of starvation
before he will eat wheat bread, but
during this war he was occasionally
to eat it for week at a