Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-29
JOHN DUSTY TALKS SOME MORE.
Farming operations-Fruit Prospects
Mill 1mprovements-Fishi leigh
borhood News, Etc.
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are also mosquitoes, ticks and flies.
The farming community now are in
perfect hurrah trying to catch up
with the work that ought to have
been done several weeks ago. 1t
has been many long years since the
crop of corn was not in the ground
and plowed over by the first of May.
Many will not be done planting
before that time. We are a month
behind, and harvest will find us still
just that far behind.
Wheat is looking well, but very
thin on the ground, and to say what
it will make is beyond any ones
knowledge. We hope for fair crop.
Nothing ike an average crop is
expected by anybody.
Plant beds are looking well. With
good seasons in May and June we
will get out fair crop. You will
hear of but little set out before May
20. Many of us were done setting
that time last year. We are bound
to make crop of tobacco if we only
get two and one for it. If we did
not have that to look after through
the spring, summer, fall and winter,
we might have time to do many
things needed on our places, but that
keeps us busy and out of mischief
with two crops always on hand.
The apple trees are full of blooms
and some few blooms on the peach
trees. From present indications
apples will be plentiful, and some
peaches.
! could give you some more
weather news, but / am afraid that
will become notorious as Il prophet
or be classed with the other weather
cranks, neither of which positions l
aspire to.
Did you ever know that Montgom-
cry county was fast becoming a great
stock county. We have within our
borders more good horses and better
jacks than ever before in our history.
Tobacco will go as stock comes in if
every farmer who can will stock their
farms with mares, and go to raising
horses and mules. We will have
better times in this country; we
have neglected rather profitable
industry-the raising of sheep. There
are but few farmers in all this coun-
try that have any sheep on their
farms. / do not believe in too many,
but the most of our farmers can keep
from twenty to fifty ewes; they will
double their value every two years if
not more. Besides there is no food
better or more wholesome. If you
are in debt get sheep and hogs and
give them proper attention and they
will pay off your Indebtedness, and
do it quick.
w. p. Hamburger commenced re
pairs on his mill-race this week /;
will be ready to run again in about
two weeks. He and Tom Whitfield
have had nothing to do so long but to
catch suckers and eat them that it is
said to be hard work for them to get
their undershirts off on account of
sucker bones protruding through
their hides. Suckers have not been
so plentiful for years in our creeks. l
think there has been at least ten
bushels of earth worms destroyed as
bait since Easter Monday. Every
body and his wife has been fishing
but the season is over and the suckers
are on the shoals. The boys that do
not mind getting wet are having
rare sport with their gigs. One
young man killed fifty-two the
other night that weighed from one
half to two pounds, and could have
killed more if he could have carried
them
II. O. Hamburger will build an ele-
vator between now and harvest on a
new plan-large enough to store
thirty thousand bushels of wheat.
w. II. Burgess will put in new
dam at Montgomery mills this sum-
mer. The mills are going to try and
be in good fix to handle what wheat
is made.
j. M. Anderson has got out again
after several weeks sickness.
l.. Hammond has also been on the
sick list, but is up again,
Rev. Green p. Jackson preached
to large audience last Sunday at
Bethel-his first sermon there in
twenty-seven years. Time has dealt
gently with him ; his locks are white
and he breaches better. Otherwise
he is the same Green Jackson.
JOHN DUSTY.
Ringgold, April q, 1890.