The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-06-14
THE FUTURE OF TENNESSEE.
It's Climate, Soil, Products, Stock,
Minerals, Timber and Manu-
features.
Nashville Banner.

IN Gde capJlOn OF GnlS dTGlcIe
embraced a subject so stupendOui
in magnitude that even the mos
enthusiastic imaginations may feast
and yet not exhaust the posibilitie:
of it.
CLIMATE.
To begin with, climate is unequal
in any portion of the great Ameri
can continent. This assertion is
based upon a most elaborate statis-
tical, tabulated statement emana-
ting from the signal bureau
(brsnch) established in this city,
under the able superintendency of
Sergt Jesunofsky. This statement
SLOWS great variation of tempera-
ture, and often sudden changes in
the thermo and barometrical condi-
tions of the atmosphere, yet these
violent fluctuations are always
within the purely temperate range,
and are perfectly harmless to man,
beast or vegetation. No more need
be said therefore on the score Of the
climate.
SOIL.
OF this essential to agricultural
industries there is an endless vari-
ETY.. The western borders Of the
state are washed by the Missis-
sippi, and consist of that rich allu-
vial character which render them
inexhaustable in producing cotton
and corn. Throughout the middle
area, the beautiful rolling country
is profuseiy watered by countless
streams varying in magnitude from
the diminutive brook to the broad
rivers. Along the margins of these
streams every character of cereal
grows to perfection, while their
neighboring elevations and plateaus
teen with the rich natural clements
for growing fruits and root crops of
all kinds in their greatest perfec-
ton; and when weary from con
stantly being drawn upon to their
utmost, clover will not only yield
harvests unprecedented in quantity
and quality, but will restore the
generous soil to its primitive pro
ductiveness. The eastern division
being more mountainous and rug
ged is less attractive to the agricul-
turist, though its valleys produce
yields OF grain, and in
the mountains, fruits unsurpassed
IN excellence anywhere,
PRODUCTS.
These comprise almost every
plant useful to mans economy, cot
ton in the west, corn, wheat, oats,
barley and rye in the middle and
eastern divisions, while fruits are at
home and produced in paying guam
titles are all over the state.
STOCK.
Having mentioned the climate, soil
and products, it is perhaps proper,
in connection with the latter, to in
clude stock. The two natural agen-
cies which conduce to making this
the most perfectly adapted region to
stock raising are (bOth indigo
nous) the blue-g and limestone.
No where on the globe dose blue
grass grow more luxuriant than in
Middle and East Tennessee, and
being impregnated with its full
quota of lime, furnishes both the
most palatable and nutritious Of
animal food, at the same time pro
ducing in the stock q superior
amount of bone.
Among the grandest performers
Al Of fn dow
from Tennessee
The produce of Bonnie Scotland,
Great Tom, Glengary,
Jno. Morgan and Jack
Malone have made reputation for
the state which naturally eXcites
the envy of the breeders Of the
world.
Jerseys, Shorthorns, Devons, Aver
shires and Holsteins improve when
brought here, the climate and grass
es are exactly suited to their per
feet being, and nowhere on the
globe can better evidences be given
for that assertion than in the herds
of Mai. Campbell Brown, Matt,
Gardner, Mr.. Wheeler, Ed. Hicks,
Mark Cockrill, and the scores of
other farmers who already have or
who are forming herds Of either or
all of the above notorious breeds Of
cattle.
Sheep are in their glory in the
state. The mountain regions are
yet to be utilized by cultivating
this valuable industry, though when
they are, a new era of surprising
wealth will dawn upon the land.
As far back as 1851 Mark Cockrill
clipped from his flock feeces of
wool which took the premium at
the original worlds fair in London,
Notwithstanding the sheep raisers
from the entire world competed in
the contest.
Mules raised in this state com
mand higher prices than those from
other sections, first. because of
their superior size and beauty of
form, and secondly, from their non
susceptibility to disease, when trans
ported further south. AS for poul-
try, the possibilities of that industry
are inestimable; already Nashville
ranks third in importance among
the egg markets of the land, and
but few farmers send to market
other than the surplus supply from
their ordinary cared-for barn-yard.
MINERALS.
So much has already been writ
ten about the vast areas of untold
mineral deposits in the state that
we merely mention them in corrobo-
ration of published facts What
will be their output when sufficient
capital comes to develop the beds
and build more railroads to carry
away the products is question too
problematical to speculate upon.
TIMBER.
The timber of Tennessee is as
valuable almost as her minerals, and
has the advantage over them,
in their inexpensive realiza-
tion into money. The forests of the
northwestern and eastern states are
fast disappearing, and their hard
wood timber has nearly all been
cut; therefore the enormous quanti-
ties of walnut, cherry, ash poplar,
hickory, butternGt, oak and cedar
now standing in every section of the
state is needed in commerce and will
command a ready sale at remunera-