Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-05-08

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The change from snow-banks in Michi.
gan 10 farmers blowing and planting in
Kentucky and Tennessee can be made In
less il,ae twehly honr. Here In Houston
county, Tenn, most OF the blowing has
been done, considerable corn IL in the
ground and spring hss fairly opened On
this "a day April, Il Ia as warm here as
any day 10 May 10 Michigan. The winter
hA been a severe one here, AZ we'll as at
the North, and the opening Of spring ia the
latest for many years. .... .....f
C+ rpooRFss IN THE SOUTH.
II IL wonderful how the South is pick.
ing up. The boom was slow 10 coming
but IL has spreAd all o'er the South. and il
visli,ls 10 every route Of rayel. Farmers
se clearing, refencins and putting up new
buildings, villages are spreading out, and
towns spd cities are pushing enterprises
involving large snms and rushing All
binds Of Business. Every dsy-And they
cheerfully admit 1.-THE sons Of the South
are becominT more and more imbned with
Yankee push aud rush. and every day
that same enterprise is showing beneficial
resalta
We 10 Michigan boast Of our fright
smart" vmsil towns, but Kentucky and
Tennessee may do the same. Here In this
town ofErin. Wondering 200 population,
and having BIG hotel, = ibe Court.house
and plenty ofstores, one ooald not have
found i've houses seven years ago. Ten
years ago IL was a county made up Of hills,
thiekels, forest and svale', with only a
few farms worth working. A decade has
worked such changes az would hot be cred.
tied II told % = section in the North.
The border Southron has healed the
wounds Of war, forgotten that he once
owned slAves. ceased to repine over his
Losses. and il pushing ahead with a snap
to his eye that means business. Late falls,
short winters and early springs are an of.
o., in Tennessee, when wheat fails TO yield
more than fifteen bushels to the acre. The
average in West Tennessee is not over
twenty, but is a good tobacco country.
aud oats. corn. barley and other cereals do
finely.
10 Georgia and Virginia the farmers are
crazy about fertilizers, and the wisesi
among them admit that they are ptimnlat.
ing their lands 10 oyereKertion. In West
err Tennessee gnano Il scarcely known,
and farmers seem to he dead set against
even the use Of compost. What email farm
srs around Detroit pay fifty cents a load
for they were tumbling into the river at
Nashville the other day to get rid Of. One
may ride for miles and fail 10 see a single
field which has been enriched with materi-
Alsciose Al hand and without cost Il does
not seem 10 be from lsIiness or shiflless-
ness, but farmers explain that they haven't
been in the habit OF 40 doing. The lands
which now grow fifteen bushels Of wheat
10 the acre only want to fall into the hands
Of our Northern farmers TO yield thirty.
A Northern farmer who wants good, till
able lands at fair value, good wster and
ready markets should not overlook Ten
nesaes n he turns his face Southwark. The
winters are far milder than ours and the
complaining season Is over before we have
shut our coal stoves or taken of our over
coats. There are many Northern men
down here, some farming, others in busi-
ness or railroading, and they all speak
highly Of the climate and OF the people
around them. NJ. QUAD.
Erin, Tenn, April, 1883.