Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-11-11
TENNESSEE.

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TENNESSEE.
Great State and ITS Prospects for
the Future. M
Nashville Banner.
Living as do Fennesseans, in the
Eden of America, blessed by
climate inferior to none on the
globe, and possessing land whose
stores of riches are incalculable,
We are apt - forget that gratitude
due to the Allwise Creator for the
blessings bestowed upon US
CLIMATE.
The climate Is temperate, inter-
spersed with sufficiency of cold
weather to inyigorate the physique
of both man and beast, though not
enough to be a very heavy tax in
fuel and heavy clothing upon the
one, nor long months of housing and
feeding of the other.
WATER.
Water in abundance, and of the
purest, wholesomest kind, is found
in every section of the State, while
the multitudinods rivers, creeks,
brooks and lakes scattered over the
entire territory, furnish an almost
natural system of irrigation, (the
greatest boom in agriculture).
Many of these streams are naviga-
BILE, and all of them filed with a
great variety of fine food fish as are
found anywhere upon the CONT
nent.
SOIL AND CROPS.
The soil varies in quality and
character according to locality,
though in no instance is it not capa-
BILE of most profitable cultivation.
Corn, wheat, oats, barley and rye,
grow here splendidly, In certain
sections. Cotton is paying crop.
POTATOES.
Potatoes, both sweet and Irish,
flourish to perfection. In no part of
the United States is there such an
opening for profit, as the culture OF
Irish potatoes. Two crops can be
raised successfully each year, upon
the same land, and by thorough
cultivating and manuring, the
second crop can be made as prolific
in yield, and of far greater CONNER
cial value than the first, because
these tubers keep perfectly during
the winter, and furnish seed for the
spring planting. Experiments
made in one or more of the northern
States, on southern potatoes as seed,
have resulted so favorably, that ere
long the demand for that purpose
among the northern farmers will be
SO great as to require a very large
additional acreage to be planted
down here to meet it.
VEGETABLES.
Immediately around Nashville,
Memphis and Knoxville, by utiliZ-
ing the numerous mass of stable
manure, easily and cheaply procur-
ed in the city as fertilizers, land
would yield crops of the finest va
rieties of vegetables Including as
paragus) in the world, and by the
aid of hOt-beds can be forced ahead
of northern products at least six
weeks. This Industry can be car
ried to an unlimited extent, and
will pay large profits, particularly,
if the railroad officials give favora-
BILE rates, or was there another line
of rail built to break down the exis-
ting monopoly.
SMALL FRUITS.
Small fruit, such as strawberries,
raspberries and cherries, and mel
Ons produce immense crops, which
find ready sale at high prices in
Cincinnati, Louisville and Chicago.
The dashing, raving streams which
find their source up among the
cloud covered mountains are over
flowing with grain producing ele-
ments, enabling the hardy shep-
herds to reap from their store
houses, ample supplies for them
selves and families. These then are
the sheep-raising spots for stOckmen
to secure hundreds OF thousands of
acres of these land are to-day grOan-
ing under the burden of spontane-
Dusty grown crops, enough to fatten,
and produce wool on millions OF
sheep.
Less mountainous regions (Of
which there are many are better
adapted for raising horses and cat
tie. 1t is on these that the wonder
full bluegrass luXuriateS in all its
pomp and beauty, as if aware of its
importance to the animal kingdom.
Thoroughbred horses, Jerseys and
short-horns, here revel like PAM
pered lords and ladies in their pal
aces in Europe.
THOROUGHBRED STOCK
Tennessee has always ranked
foremost among the breeders of
race horses, and now she can boast
of having been the birthplace of the
most remarkable animal of the CEN
fury. "Luke Blackburn" started
in twenty-four races, twenty-five
of which he won, and would have
scored the others, but in one he tell
down, and in the other he was out
of condition. This unparalleled
record was made by the time he
had reached his three-year-old form,
besides winning for his fortunate
owners $4,000 in purses and stake
money. Kennesaw, Greenland,
Lord Murphy, GlideIia, BOotjack,
Bye-and-Bye, George Kinney,
Ben Hill, Dan X, Baton |
Rouge, Bonnie Wood, and score |
or more of other flyers, might be |
which first saw the !
light in this State. --a=---a.sa-.s------.-
SHORT-HORNS.
Among the earliest importers of |
English and Scotch cattle fn Annor-