Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-09-13

crop III montgomery county. In
much for Montgomery county.
Stewart county reports the Gro
not an average in quantity, but
full average or more in quality. Th
crop is put at 70.
In Benton county only a fourt
of crop was planted. The qualit
of that raised viii be very fine an
heavy.
In Henry, Obion, Dyer and othe
counties in West Tennessee, excep
Gibson, the crop is put down at 90
quality good. Gibson reports 7s
Some of the first planting OF tn
present crop has been housed an,
cured, lighter in color but heavie
in body than the crop of 1878.
The rains of Sept. / and 2 wer
very heavy and were disastrous t
the tobacco planted in basins. Mucl
of it was completely covered by
water, which, receding, left de
posit of mud on the leaves whicl
will reduce the quality to very ordi
nary lugs. AS to the extent of this
damage | am not informed.
The worms and suckers every
where have been kept in subsection
| fOreshadOwing soundneSs of leaf anC
richness should the weather prove
propitious during the month of Sep
tember.
By careful attention to housing
and curing, / see no reason why the
present crop may not prove a prof
liable one to the planter. But the
heavy rains will make the leaf very
sappy and it viii be difficult, with
out the utmost care, to secure the
cGlors now most sought after by the
tobacco trade.
CORN.
In East Tennessee the corn crop
will be short in many counties, not
going over two-thirds of crop, and
in few not over half a crop, while
Greene, Hancock, Roane and Scott
counties report a full average, and
Claiborne fifteen per cent. above an
average. In Middle Tennessee
twelve counties report from three
fourthS to four-fifths of an average,
eight counties a full average, and
three counties, Hickman, Overton
and Warren, report respectively 125,
l05 and 10 as indicating the pres
ent prospect.
But one single county in West
Tennessee, McNairy, reports less
than an average; nine counties a
full average, and seven counties
from five to twenty-five per cent.
above an average, Dyer county
taking the lead in the production of
this king of cereals. Many of my
correspondents claim that no such
corn crops for excellence and abund-
ance and teeming luxuriance have
ever been grown in that division of
the State. The storms on the 1st
and I'd of September Frustrated
whole fields, and the probability is
that large amount will be seriously
damaged by rot.
HOGS.
Hogs are in sufficient abundance
to more than supply our population
with meat. Little effort is making,
however, to produce large supply
Of pork, the prices being so low as
not to justify the feeding of corn.
Very little hog cholera is reported,
and hogs are healthy and in good
IMMIGRATION.
Never since the establishment of
his office has there been so much |
enquiry from abroad for infOrma-
ion pertaining to our resources. |
Large tracts of wild land are in |
growing demand. Notwithstanding
he presence of yellow fever in |
Memphis, immigration is turning
With an ever increasing current to |
,ur borders. Judging from the
of persons from the North
With whom | have ConYersed, and |
he number of letters l have re-
,eived daily, | am of opinion that
within the next six months we shall
laVe an accession to our population
# many thousands of active, ener-
,etic and hard-wOrking people, who
will utilize what now contributes
to the wealth of the indi-
yidual or to the prosperity of the
commonwealth.
II will be well for those counties
lesifing immigrants to offer at once
ONE extraordinary inducements to
ecure a start. Nothing so much
ttracts an immigrant as another
well contented in his
lew home. / would advise that
Ocai organizations be formed In
very county, and someland secured
0 be sold at a small price, requiring
he immigrant to pay one-third
ash, giving him four or five years
within which to pay the remainder,
he implements put on the land
mply securing this. The land
hould be surveyed and divided up
nto tracts Of 80 and 100 acres. 1t
hould be borne in mind that it is
ot the wealthy, usually, who emil
rate, but those who find that the
ver-increaSing wants of their faml-
les in thickly settled districts tax
DO severely their incomes, and
ompel them to seek new homes
yhere each member may find the
leans of employment and subsist-
nee. Such population as this has
made the great West the center of
Opulation and production.
Tennessee has millions of acres of
md naturally far more fertile than
he soils in the New England States,
,hieh by the patient toll of industry
an be made productive, and supply
ornament sources of revenue to the
tate, This should be occupied by I
population who know how to ,
lrm without manure, and who are
Ontent at first with small but sure {
aims, The successful colonization
f many of the Western States
here the climate is vigorous, and ]
xpensive methods of irrigation
ave to be resoFted to in growing all
rops, makes 1t certain that the un-
lands of Tennessee would
rove a boon to the emigrant class.
Great surprise is sometimes man.
iested by our people that immi-
rants should select the poorer soils
the State for occupation. This
lrprise should vanish at once
yhen we reflect that this soil which I
re llt'poor" is to him fertile. 1t (
a rare thing in many portions of /
he older Northern Atlantic States
lr farmer to rely alone upon the !
atural fertility of the soil to pro-
uce any crop. In fact, his hardest
nd most constant toll is to increase
is manure heap, and this is pur-
led so diligently that every pOr-
ION of the land which he cultivates
eceives liberal applications of ma
ure, either homemade or artificial,
he land, to him, is but d sponge to