The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-11-12
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One day last week we accepted a seat
in his buggy and accompanied Mai A
FL. Gregg, of the agricultural implements
store of Gregg & Co., of this place, in a
drive through the fields he is cultivating
adjacent this town. AS is known to many
of our home readers he has leased for a
term of years the farm just south and
east of Morristown, formerly owned by
the late ID. Morris, now the property Of
Mr.. Temp. Harris, of cambridge. One
object in the leasing and cultivation of
this farm was to demonstrate to the
farmers of this section that improved
agricultural labor saving machinery can
be used profitably in East Tennessee.
The brain work and energy, the labor
and expense that Maj. G. has been at in
the preparation Of the ground for seed
ing purposes has simply been immense.
A cemetery of stumps and innumerable
wagon loads of stones and the debris and
accumulatiOns of years had to be remov-
ed Places that had for years been un-
cultivated and abandoned as worthless
have been cleared of trees, sprouts,
stumps, stones and briar patches and
materialiZed with the cultivated places,
until now every portion of the dairy
farm presents most. pleasing, healthy
and successful appearance, covered as il
is with the finest and most encouraging
crop of wheat and grass to be found any
where. Maj. Gregg had all these lands
broken up with his sulky plOws. The
day we made the visit eleven two horse
teams were engaged in blowing, seeding
and narrowing the eastern fields. II
was an animating, delightfully."- encour-
aging and hopeful scene. Under his
supervision the lands are plOwed about
ten inches deep, then returning it, mix
ing the subsoil or clay we'll with the
surface soil, leaving the land thoroughly
pulverized. He then puts in his wheat
with his late improved combined drill,
sewing the wheat and the grass seed and
the fertilizer all at the same time, doing
the work of three men with one, and
that one having nothing to do but sit on
his comfortable spring seat and guide |
the horses. On the dairy farm he used I
as subsoil 81 or So worth of fertilizer |
per acre. On the fields east of town he |
is using a mixture of well rotted stable |
manure and ashes. This year Maj. q. (
put in wheat and grasses about 100 acres /
and about 100 acres in other small grain |
and grasses The kind of labor and in
terest he is taking in developing a diff
ferent sort of agricultural progress in
our section cannot fail to be beneficial
and instructive to our people, and il i'm
itated by others, as we trust ii will be,
is emiHently calculated TO build up the
waste places of East Tennessee and
cause many of her now abandoned red
old hills to blossom like the rose BE
is surrounded by men who are classed as
good farmers-such as DIR. Robertson,
Col. j. M. Bewley, Maj. Tom Cain, Maj.
Folsom and @. @. Johnson-and his OPP
srations and successes are all closely
and noted. BY them he IS pro-
nounced first class, scientific and prac-
Iical farmer, and is doing much TO for
ward and improve agricultural products
n East Tennessee, not the least Of which I
Is the Introduction of his sulky plows,
reapers, drills, rakes and other
abor neutrality-suspicious. implements OF
which he is the manufacturer and agent.