Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-27
A MODEL FARM.
What Town Man Can Do With the
Soil.

seen around town, about the ice fac
tory or store, much lately. He built
a neat cottage on the highest point
on his farm last spring and moved
his family out to summer in the cool
breeze that sweeps over the hill top
from one bend of the river to the
other, and has been giving his atten-
ton to farming just to see what he
could do in that line, and has been
making things hum in spite of both
dry weather and floods. The writer
took drive over the place yesterday
evening to see how things looked,
and found Mr.. Bowling cutting and
housing tobacco in a bran new barn
Of the Till Willis make, which
means its there to stay. He has the
finest crop of tobacco that we have
seen this year-regular in both quail
ity and size, and made most of ii on
the hill land without the use Of a
pound of ertilizer-simply clover
and meadow land. He has twenty
five acres and will make $4,000
pounds and get it all in the house
before frost time. This is certainly
the model farm of Montgomery Co.
By model farm we mean productive
land, well located, conveniently ar
ranged in shifts, meadows, pastures
for stock and fields for diversified
farming, and altogether this is GER
tainly among the most general pur
pose farms-good for stock raising,
grass growing, tobacco, wheat, corn
and truck patching-in the county,
1t contains 1874 acres, well under cul-
tivation, and is within ten minutes
drive of the city. 1t lies in the bend
of Red river in the perfect shape of a
horse shoe. Over half is very rich
bottom land, while the upland has
been covered until it produces equal
ly as well as the bottom, and by rea-
son of being nearly surrounded
by the river, with open
loose soil, which suffers little from
drought. The land lies beautifully,
the bottom land spreading out with
the horse shoe, or curve of the river
and the upland resting in the center
like the frog of horses foot. Mr..
Bowling can sit at a window of his
house and see all over the place, OBJ
serving the movements of the men
in the field and the stock upon the
verdant lawns. This place has fire.
quently been spoken of as the most
suitable location about the city for a
fair ground and trotting track, and
it does seem that nature has marked
it for that purpose. The ground is
so shaped that two full mile tracks
could be laid off without a bump or
rise in either. The place presents a
charming view from every direction,
with varied changes as formed by the
circling river bluff, full view of the
Gracey- Woodward furnace and the
sunset scenes that cast a beautiful
shadow from a fading light over the
northeastern part of the city, and a
handsome view of The stately homes
along the Port Royal pike. With a
few trees cut from the river bank a
fair view is presented of the yaWn-
ing chasm under Porter's bluff in the
picturesque park that is now being
laid out on the south side of the
river. The fairest view, however, of
this lovely place is presented from
the terminus of Commerce street, on
the fine bluff, where it may be seen
spreading out like a vast plain COW
cred with the richest verdure and Dor
dered by the rippling waves Of the
river. Fancy cannot paint fairer
field. Mr.. Bowling has the place di-
vided off by fences, into various
fields, for grass-growing and stock
raising 1t is also well supplied with
ample and conveniently located
barns and stables for every class OF
stock and produce. He is raising to-
bacco this year merely to better pre-
pare the land for timothy.
FINE STOCK.
Mr.. Bowling is giving his atten-
ton to breeding fine stock in practl'
cal way-not for racing or show, but
for all the straight profit their is in
the business. He has number Of
fine mares and colts, Holsteln and
general utility cattle and choice
Berkshire hogs.
Mambrino Forest, the sire of Oscar
Wilde aud other celebrated horses,
and himself the winner of many
premiums in the show ring, stands at
the head of the stud. Dake, the
pure bred Arabian stallion, takes
everybody's eye. He is the prettiest
pony in the United States, graudly
formed and pure milk white with a
few bay spots, and hair as fine as silk.
Pyrenees, his imported Spanish
Jack, is a remarkably fine animal,
with neat, perfect limbs aud form
and an extraordinary fine head and
neck. His service record numbers
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