Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-08-11

The following correspondence is taken
from the Agriculture Department Of
the Cincinnati Gazette:
GLEN MARY, Tenn, July 25.
Much has been said about Tennessee,
but it is a subject that will not grow
old very soon. Let me add my mite.
| myself am an East Tennessean, ana
feel so interested in the country that
| want Others to become 80 too.
There is no doubt that the country
is improving. Settlers and visitors are
arriving every week, for the new Ger
man colony of Allardt, in Fentress
County. The colony is prospecting, for
the settlers are people who are willing
to work, and, more than that, they
know how. They are no English boys
reared in idleness, who think that it is
beneath them to do stroke of work.
They are not younger sons, who
could not pass their examinations, and
who, because their friends did not know
what else to do with them, were packed
off to Tennessee. Not bit of it.
They are sturdy, working Germans.
They know that the field before them
is rough and uncultivated, but, having
once put their hands to the pillow, will
not turn back because the roots are
hard to pull through.
The soil here is generally good, and
can all be made so by hard work and
the use of fertilizers. know of a
farm which, when it's present owners
went Oh it, was an old, WORKOUT field,
so poor that it would not raise decent
rag-weed, and it is now one of the best
farms in the country. They raise gar
den vegetables of all kinds, in alum
dance They have had plenty of straw
berries, The raspberry bushes are loaded,
and the grape-vines are as fine a sight
as | have seen anywhere. And this
was an old place, worn out by having
corn planted on it for fifty years with
out intermission, and of course it was
harder to bring up than new one
would be.
The farmers in this neighborhood
plant corn, though occasionally you may
find one who has a patch of German
millet and Hungarian grass, rs the case
may be, or perhaps field of rye, oats
or clover, though the latter is very
scarce, as is also wheat. Clover they
need.-AG. ED. Now, all of thest
grains, aud also all good grasses, can bt
grown in abundance if proper care is
bestowed upon them.
There is also much profit to be mad,
by raising stock, and also bees, as ther,
are many wild flowers from which they
obtain honey, and white clover ant
buckwheat are SO easily raised. Thos'
are for the practical mind.
For the lovers of nature, let me sa,
that in few places will be found NOR,
beautiful scenery than in the mountain
regions of East and Middle Tennessee
Take, for example, the precipices ant
hills of Clear Fork River and the But
fialo and Poplar Coves, and also tn
many coves which abound in this re
gion. They are almost unequaled il
beauty and grandeur.
Much more might be said of thes
, places, but it must at any rate be dc
! ferred until some future time. | woul
like to have all come and see for them
selves; for do not think they woul
be disappointed, although the roads ar
rough. The Cincinnati Southern Rail
> road passes through and near the re
gions of which speak, and all can tr
: it for themselves.
Rugby, Tenn, near which | live,
! not dead, las some seem to think. Their
is more Of the real good stuff in it tina
ever Long may it live, an honor t
Thomas Hughes.
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