Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-18

chsslng 0oO,uOO acres OF Tennessee lands on
which TO settle colony Of Eog.ish rgricul
turists 1t i. to be hoped the nsw venture
will steer clear OF The blunders that upset
Rugby.
PRoF. H. E. COTTON, OF Knoxville. State
| geologist, has recently extended his obserys-
tious into Cooke county, Tenn, and has dis
covered some very valuable iron ores. There
are ouicroPpiugs OF immense deposi's of
| specuisr aud hematite ores, which may be
readily worked with large profits 1t is un-
| derstood that 2 company Of Nashville cap
Itallss propose 10 purchase the property
and to develop the ore.
TIE Montgomery Adu9tissT notes that a
new business has sprung up recently in the
| direction OF cattle shipments to Texas and
other portions Of the West. A considerable
number have been shipped by ciliz.ns Of
Alsbama, and there appears TO be a demand
| for them in Texas. 1t Is reported that
agents are going through the country with
the object OF buying all the cattle possible,
which are cent to Texas.
The Knoxville (renn) Chronicle mentions
the arrival there Of some of the recently in
vestigated iron ores from Wolf creek, Cooke
county, and which are Of quality beyond
all expectation. The deposits are large
and easily worked, paying ! large profit.
The Chronicle says: "The specimens brought
10 this city are standard Bsssemer steel ores,
and indicate wealth yet undiscovered" A
| large force OF miners and a narroY-gauge
| railroad are expected as aconsequence of the
| discoveries.
The Chattanooga Times says lat hundreds
OF thousands OF acres OF Mississippi, Louis
lana, Georgia ard Florida tint Der lands ave
been bought by Michigan and other North
ern parties during the last fall and winter.
These lands have generally been entered at
government rates, and more will be bought
by the same parties and their friends. They
! are mostly to be held as investments, the
buyers not generally contemplating improve
menl of any kiud. Year by year. EAU parts
with his palrimony to jacob for mess Of
pottsge.
The State Commissiouer at Nashville h AZ
received quite a number of applications
| from psrtles wanting sikworm eggs for the
| purpose Of experimenting in the culture of
| silk. The experiment of raising silk in the
| United States, which received such blow
on the failure of the celebrated mulberry
muiticsuis experiments, has revived, and
persons in the South, many if not most of
whom are ladies' are giving the subject fair
| and earnest trial under more favorable cir
cumsisEces and with a wider kuo rledge than
| before.
THE great bulk of the jug ware used in the
| South Is Manufactured ab3ve Athens, Ala.
where clay especially adapted for this pur-
pose is found. Ii is taken from the banks of
streams, aud all the work doue by hand. A
man can manufacture about 100 gallons a
day, but one-lFgged jug maker in Jackson
county easily puts up 200 gallons. The clay
ls hrst ground every lump carefully weighed,
when the vessels are formed around revoly-
| ing wheel turned by the foot. They are then
baked in furnaces aud glazed with glass
| They sell for about four cents . gallon at the
| works.
A CORRESPONDENT of heSuaay South writes:
'The South will soon grow green with a new
prosperity. are 10 have uIDru grvwin.
| grass and clover; more CO.'S TO milk; more
| orch ards and gardens; more mines and fac
| tories; more population and better schools;
| more sheep and fewer dogs; more school
| houses and fewer grogshops; more churches
aud fewer gambling dens; more music Of the
| scythe blade and less monolonous Whittlirg
on goods boxes; more Libraries, reading.
rooms and lyceums, and less street corner
| gossip; more purpose and less dreaming /;
| more industry and less loaiug; more thrift
| and hzppiuess and less poverty and misery"
The people Of the North ere beginning TO
| understand what advantages the Sou h offers
| to enterprise and capital, and in our own
State visitors from various States are look
ing around this spring and some investments
have already been made. One day last week
Jshn L. Reeves, of East Kansas, and G. 3.
Surface, Of Springboro, o., called en- the
commissioner of agriculture to make in
quiries Of stock farms in this State, as they
desire to invest about $4,000 in real estate.
G. J. Domnye, of Buena Vists, ILL.,, has also
been on tour OF inspection in Tennessee,
and will remove here at once. j. w. Gros-
- e ID. Il L.. II
acres of Tennessee woodland near points for
shipping
I A LoUIsIANA planter, unfamiliar with the
English Language, but acquainted with
thrift, writes to the Picdytae as follows: "In
order to prosper, planter should plant first
what ia Of prime necessity for his domestic
wants, and otierWard whatever he likes. Hsv-
ing abundance of cor1," he adds, 81 can at
ford to be perfectly unconcerned about the
possible failure OF M other crops; but if /
have no corn | shall be compelled TO suffer"
This gentleman declares that he raises
everyt hing essential to his subsistence ex-
cept -four and coffee, and would not buy
those if he could raise them. We remember
well that before the war just such Lsuisisna
planters were the richest and most Jude.
pendent. They we're not splendid bankrupts
Mr.. w. P. lowers, Of Webster county, Ga
|
over 500 pounds, on twenty acres of land.
The following 10 his plan: Laid off the
rows four feet apart with two horse pillow
following that with wide scooter drawn by
one horse. In this furrow be put thirty
bushels of cotton seed to the acre. Bodied
on this with two horse turning plow, fol-
lowing each furrow with a scooter drawn by
one horse. At planting opened with large
scooter, aud 10 the furrow pnt 200 pounds oil
gusno to the acre, and on this he sowed his
seed and covered them. Sided this with a
scooter at frat blowing, and when ready fol
the second blowing put in 200 pounds more
of suauo to the acre in these scooter furrows
and covered it up with sweep. The bal
ance OF the work was done with a sweep
No hosiug was done, as the cotton grew &C
rapidly as not to require it, Mr.. lowers sayf
if he lived close to railrosd depot he
would use 1000 pounds of gusno to the acre
EAR ann ARnIIT WAHEN