Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-06-03
T. ETTIBONE.

June els there no effective remedy
for potato bugs? Any one who can cor
rectly answer the above question will be
entitled 10 a vote of thanks from this en-
tire community,
The cut worms first made an assault on
the corn fields working more vigorously
during the cool and wet weather than they
have ever been known to in this section.
Some of our farmers got rid of thousands
by hiring boys to hunt them at ten cents
a quart. They estimated that for every
quart they destroyed they would save 40
bushels of corn.
Mr.. Nathan Bains informs me, that af.
ter experimenting with the Grisham weed
for several years he has at last found a
way to get rid of it, and that is 10 die and
leave il.
The decline in the tobacco markets last
year has given many of our farmers a
scare, and the consequence will be. that
our county will show up a smaller acre.
age next year than usual by 25 per cent.
| can but think that the principal thing
standing in the way of them and an aver
age price was timely housing and getting
it cured and graded by an experienced to
bacconist. By observation and reason /
am led to assert that it would pay we'll
to give an experienced man from ten to
twenty dollars ON the barn to care for q
crop of tobacco until ii is on the market.
was well pleased with our County
superintendent letter to the Nashville
Union. Think he well represents the
views of the leading educators of our
county, The wonder to me is, that there
has been so little said and written about
so momentous a question as the Blair
Bill proposes. Educationally, / fear we are
retrograding at least our energies are lag
ging. We need not expect q man or a
body of men to spend the best part of
their lives in advocating a measure of
such incalculable value to our southern
people when not al amen from the cog
popu6 reaches the b~enefactors cars. Ours
is historic ground and if the people of
Washington county have half such big
and generous hearts as Ramsey in his
Annals" attributes to them our child.
rem will receive more attention intellectu-
ally, though it takes our own hard earn
ings. We heard one of our good school
men asked, a few months ago, what he
would consider an equivalent for q good
common school education. He replied
that If he had to set a cash valuation upon
1t, he would rather start one of his boys
out with q common education than tc
give him fifteen hundred dollars.
In our great hurry and hustle to gel
through the world and lie down in old
age covered with the trappings Of wealth
and fame We so often forget the children.
We arc not surprised at times that the
boys turn prodigal, and that girls run
away with triiing young men scarcely
before they make their debut into society.
They find some one who cares for them
more than their parents seem to care, and
home not being so attractive any more
they go out into the great busy heartless
world and father and mother then grieve
but 1t is too late. Parents, let us make
our homes as attractive as we can. Give
them a chance, and show them that we
love them and they will be our sunshine
and happiness until they are old enough
to make q wise choice.
Mr.. s.. X. Hartman has returned from
Bradley and Jones counties where he has
been canvassing for j. d. Nasty & Bro,
for nursery stock.
Perhaps he will resume his task as cor.
respondent and tell you about what he
saw. INcoGNITo.