Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-04
Bric-a,Brao ON Farming.

Mr.. EDITOR: The majority of our
farms are too large. One hundred
voices cry cut "shucks, we know
that" well, dog gene it, wait till
1 get thro'."
l say our farms are too large, taking
iLto consideration the working force
accessible and the capital available.
This, every one knows, is sequence
OF emanci patton.
The farms, being too large, attenu-
ate labor and expenditure until it
amounts to nothing. Nothing has
amused and indignized me more than
the criticism of passing observers ~
upon our country. The terms shift
/ leasnees, Ignorance, and baTbarism
| have been ruDg in grating changes
until | have been mad enough to
| throw the cat cut of the window; and
! here let me say that although | have
embarked in the field of criticising
Tennesse the substantial old home
spun kind hearted farmer, TO the
manor born, will find no one reader
TO resent the shallow, yet caustic, re-
marks made about our ways by the
passing stranger.
Our farms are too large. Well, sell
off! That is not easily done. Many
sales could be made were it not for
over-eagerness on the one side and
super grasp on the other. A man
comes TO this country to buy land.
Dismissiug, for the present, our travel |
Ing facilities, out side the main-tTunk |
railroad lines, he meets; firsi, man too |
eager. Any trader knows that the |
eager seller is the most unsatisfactory |
customer in creation. Having dis |
posed of his excitable friend, he strikes
the man who talks about our mineral |
wealth; our inexhaustable coal and |
iron deposits; our water courses and |
water power; our glorious climate;
and, after having reduced the pur-
chaser to despair with marbles, Cum
berland table land and zinc, knocks
him senseless with a wad composed
of Stafford, KillebreW and Wilder.
Mr.. Editor, don't laugh at me; am 1
not telling facts?
= cousin german to the over aggre-
cation of land is the rental system.
ln this conn ctiOn / will only treat
rental custom as existing in my neigh
OOrhOOd.
Every fall the land holder subjects
his land. The land-holder furnishes a
house and buildings, and 2 garden spot,
gay Of an acre, with minor privileges.
Hne renter cIltivates the land and
gives one third That third is no spe-
-iGl amount, but a third of the crop
gathered OF wheat and corn, outside of
such Casualties as rOasLlng-ears, &c. |
Further, the renter does some i'm prov
ng in the way of fencing, G. e., but gen.
sT&liy before he leaves reduces the
hing TO Statu quo. l haven't word ,
o say against The renter, yet where
5ou put TWO men i antagOnsm, as in
and owner and land renter, some
hing must crack or split.
Our fields are two irregular in bOun- :
larry. A field, whether tillable or fal- !
ow, is factor in farm &c ,nomy l
lsed To think big fields the thing until
found cattle emulating the girl who s
canned the forest for a straight stick
IN my experience small fields and !
Re quent change are the best for cattle. =
Sheep need large range; confined TO 8
he best pasture, the flock Will de-
.line; take foot oil or something else.
Horses and mules reduce the problem
o suffering Of stock or ruination of
'asture. Hogs are good at sub soil !"
ng, being anywhere bat in the right 4
lace, and INDUCING in sublime in y
Inference to brute amenities. won't y
isCusS geese, a l love the ladies, big, y
title, fat or angular.
Fencing should be run with a view
D water in each lot; but the great
4ult with our fencing is, that because
It's worm fence il should be put up z
INFLOW. Even a worm fence can be I
uilt 10 please the eye; and what is u u
,orth doing at all is worth doing y
yell. :,
In my next shall try 10 locate" - -
BRIC-A-B RAC. "