Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-23
Roy in the Country.
POWELL's STATION, May l!

ana DAY. S0me farmers nave YER
fine fields of wheat, others have no
and never will have until they
charge their methods of wheat cul
ture. 4 great deal of clover ha:
been sown this year, but we neeC
more. am sorry that our people
can not understand that we have
the "boss" country on the earth. We
have forests that take up all the
impurities of the atmosphere on the
breezes that blow over, our gravelly
hills have an exhilerating influence
which makes US feel strong and
brave and independent We have
no stagnant ponds. We have clear
springs bursting from our hills, and
also bright and babbling brooks
winding through our valleys. We
never have grasshoppers, or drouth,
or any of the calamities incident to
the West. We never have yellow
fever, or cholera, or small -pox, or
chills and fever. We have no
h-quakes, or tornadoes or de-
vastating storms. We have no
cattle plague. We have no lawless
bands to murder, steal and make US
afraid. We have no Indians to
/ trouble Us. We sometimes fail in
our fruit crops, but when one crop
fails we are sure to have others that
do not.
We have-well, a good many
things We should be proud of and
a good many things that are not so
desirable. [ beg much pardon in
advance for mentioning few of
them, and desire to state that l am
sorry we are so badly off: We have
Out they are real good people, a
good many folks who are not trying
to develop the country. They
would perhaps do better if they
could, or thought they could. Some
few "a very few are farmers, or
think they are. They don't mend |
old fences, and they don't cut down
briars and sprouts; gullies wash |
deeper, yearly, in their fields; they
work, or think they work, six
months and play six months. They |
play, l mean they stand at depots,
stores, shops, and talk about poll
tics, religion and farming. They |
fish a good deal. They pull
down gaps in fences and ride
through farms netting birds when
the birds they catch won't pay the
interest on the damage. They hunt
crows, foxes and cut down ten dol
lar trees for ten cent varmints, even
if the tree mashes down four rods
Of fencing. They let the manure
go to waste, while they haul stove
wood to town, making about so
cents a load clear money, or think
they do. Now these people are the
best men in the world as far as they
90. They are kind and honest, and
patriotic, but they have a notion
that if they keep meat and bread
laid up for the winter that they are
acting their part.
This country was once new and
rich and would support its inhabi-
tants with but little work, but it is 1
older now and not so rich and we
have more people and we must
change this slack old way, or we
will have to rent land in Kentucky,
n order to have room to build poor
houses on in a few years, for I'll :
declare we haven't enough territory :
Of our own to accommodate them.
Again, see what a muddle our wives
and sisters and cousins and aunts
IRE in over the butter question. =
Can we hope that our female friends
IAN make sweet butter when we do
lot provide clover pastures for the ,
,oEs2 The sweetest woman on :
.arth, even though her lips were
ed as the rose and her cheeks as 5
he rainbow, could never make I
weet butter from "a COW t,
assured on sourwood buds, :
ogNfennel and rag-weeds. Then D
he men won't arrange the
mix houses with any degree of <
omfort, and what monster among
S would be so cruel as to expect q st
ady to wade in a shiny, damp and
spring house to work .
With the milk, and when she had 5
ucceeded in getting a churning :,
eady, and also in getting a bad b
old, to make excellent butter. And So
he worst feature is in the style of g
burning we dO-up-and-down, up
midtown, until our elbows almost to
reak, then our backs yield. We W
ct desperate and try to churn sito
ng down, but the milk sloshes out
n US and we stand and squire and
ope it will " come" bye and bye.
ONE of our good wives do make
pod butter, but others do not, for
icy can't under the circumstances,
nd hence this crusade.
Some strange things happen &C.
lsionally. In Anderson County re-
,ntly the child of Mrs. John Peak
ed and was buried. Mrs. Peak
as also on her death~bed, land when A.
e child had been in the ground Ar