Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-03-21
Tennessee's Display.
New Orleans Picayune.

ficient assistant, Major l.. f. Camp
bell, is one of the most attractive and
instructive features at the Exposition.
Although the Legislature failed to
make an appropriation until little more
than month since and then but a
small one, the excellent judgment and
ability of their Commissioner have en-
abled him to represent the products of
the mines, forests, fields, farms and
orchards Of his State in such way as
to indicate an energy that cannot fail
to result in general prosperity. Within
the short space of two months he has
been able to place his samples of iron,
coal, timber, fruits and grain, side by
side with the best ideas of the age, in
carnival of embodied thoughts, a
wilderness of resources, that stand as
gigantic obJect>lessons before the eyes
of the assembled nations.
In the centre of the department a
handsome pavilion is devoted to cereal
products, comprising wheat, corn, rye,
oats, barley, clover, millet, Hungarian;
timothy, alfalfa and many other farm
and garden seeds. In no other exhib-
it are the grains shown to greater ad'
vantage, nor or they found cleaner,
larger or more diversified. This is due
to the fact, however, that a large ma
jority of Tennessee's population are
actively engaged in agriculture, and it
is their special boast that on no spot in
Gods universe are the fields as fair,
the streams more numerous or as clear,
the land as rich and undulatipg, or the
scenery so inviting. In fact it is said
that on epe occasion when a distin-
guised Virginian was driving out from
Nashville to "Belle Meade" the home
of Gen. VIM. Jackson, who owned
Bonnie Scotland" and who now owns
Enquirer" Luke Blackburn"
"Bramble, "Great Tom" and other
distinguished flyers" he exclaimed as
he gazed into the waving blue grass,
watered by a dozen little streams.
This is country so beautiful that it
seems as if God might have smiled as
he created it, and the smile crystal
lized into the landscape before you"
1t is everywhere noticeable that this
is par excellence stock growing State.
All the most valuable grasses are rep
resented in this display, and their sta
tistics show that during some years five
tons of clover hay are taken from a
single acre, and that blue grass in Mid
die Tennessee grows higher and thick
er than in many parts of Kentucky's
best blue grass belt.
The number of acres in this State is
about twenty.nine millions, and only
about nine millions are in cultivation.
There are over one hundred and sixty
seven thousand farms worth about
1912, 100000. Their climate is mild
and winters short, enabling them, as
their displays prove, to raise every
thing but rice and coffee, that is grown
between Louisiana and Canada.
At least fifty bushels of very fine
corn of every variety is well displayed
on dozen large tables, and It's graft
flying for Tennesseans to know that nc
person from the Northwest inspectE
this feature without begging one Of
their large ears. So great has the de-
mand become that6ve thousand papers
of their best samples have been put W
for distribution.
There is also a fine show of cotton
which is grown very extensively, a
they raised last year over 100000
bales. 1t may be matter of interes
to know that Shelby county is the fiftl
county in the world.
Tobacco is largely cultivated in Ten
nessee; the past year their crop amount
ed to over thirty millions of pounds
This product is represented by many
fine Tugs from Robertson, Montgomery
Davidson, Madison, Henry and othe
counties, and its culture seems to b,
fast penetrating the mountain districts
Several stands contain wines mad
on their table lands, where the Swis
and German colonists have, during tn
past few years, planted some largt