Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-21
A WAVE OF THRIFT
Passing Over the Agricultural
Section.
Frugality and Industry Will Paw Manv
Debts-Interesting Reading For
Rural Readers.

special Correspondence LeafChronicle.l
GUTHRIE, KY, June 2i,-Who
works half so hard as the
average farmer? Pass over the
country and observe that every farm
Is well cultivated, whether rich or
poor; true, fence corners and waste
places are not always clean, but fur
rows and fields are put in their best
condition, either by the tenant or the
owner and his boys when he is 80
lucky as to have these. For the past
several decades the system of labor
has been sadly demoralized, as we all
know too well, but a reaction Is GER
tainly being felt. The colored hand
still fills his place in the farm quota,
but the white proprietor is solving
the knotty problem that confronted
him a few years back. A wave of
thrift is passing over the agricultural
section. Frugality and industry will
pay many deots, and these are the
virtues practiced by the typical far
mers' families. 1t is astonishing
how many of the small industries
are carried on by the farm-wives and
children; scarcely a house but sends
its weekly accumulations to be re-
turned in pennies, or perhaps
"trade," representing that much
saved to the patient "toilers."
The harvest is now upon us. An
anxious time it always is, until the
golden grain is cut, threshed and
turned into money, or the bin. The
farmers are rushed just now. Owing
To the excessive rains a few weeks
ago, much work was delayed that
had to be done before the reapers
could go into the wheat. Much hay
has already been saved and the Glow
er still ripening. Oats, too, will soon
be ready to cut, so there will he no
rest for the wicked farmer, ere the
corn will cry aloud and the tobacco
sing a mournful song.
Some crops OF wheat show smut,
mostly Of the beardless kind, and
that failed to be well soaked in blue
stone water before ii was seeded; SO
take heed good farmer, extra care at
the right time brings its own good
result.
The Bois D'Arc hedges along the
roadsides, having been neatly prun-
ed during the springtime, now show
luxuriant green growth, fiecked
with the pink eglantine and wild
sweet briar blossoms outlining the
fields. The old time stake and
rider" fence is rapidly disappearing
and being replaced by the more
modern wired slat or barbed wire
fence, presenting more agreeable
perspective than the "tumbled down
rail- as was so often seen.
A few years ago when the carp ex-
per,ments were made number of
points in this neighborhood were
stocked with these fish, notably a
large pond on the Perkins estate,
where many large fish have been
caught for several seasons. A short
while ago Capt. Bland caught two
from his pond, weighing from four
teen to sixteen pounds. The carp Is
not so good IA table fish as some
others ii is rather dry and c0ttony,
but it is letter than no fish, and good
seasoning and cooking will make
rnything pa'atable
he.c re a number Of new build
i gs in contemplation at Guthrie.
M. John Chroat has extended his
business house aud has added furni-
ture to his hardware and undertake
ing.
Sund ~ was Children's Day at the
Methodist church.
Ms. Mary Williams and little
ones are at G. M. Days.
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