Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-04
GUTHRIE GLEANINGS.
A Cosby Letter From a Regu
lar Correspondent.
General Remarks ON Farming Personal
Mention-Other Matters of Interest
to the Reader.



any direction from Guthrie is a thins
of beauty and a joy for good while
to come, for the fields of wheat are
showing up well, fine heads filling
out, oats very promising and clover
never better. With prospect o
plenty for man and beast, why should
it not be tonic to the soul? Visions o.
light wheaton loaves spread with
golden butter, twelve months long
already present themselves. Toe
much rain? That will regulate itsel
in time. One season it is too dry
another too wet, but at the end of the
year we "chronic GROWERS" count up
an average yield. Ifone crop fails,
Others mature to make up the short
age, always with superabundant
board, and TO waste. Money? Oh,
that is a crop that does not mature
on farm; we are contented TO read
of its wonderful yield in certain other
favorable localities.
Corn is late and looks well con.
sidering the wet spells and cut
worms. We hav" seen numbers OF
fields of well-set tobacco, good size,
growthy plants. The crop of young
squirrels is unusually promising, and
little rabbits are as thick as hairs.
The cool, cloudy weather has told
its own tale on young chickens and
turkeys. Spring broilers will be
cheaper and more of them broiled
late in the summer.
For the last several years the farm
ers around here have shown quite a
tendency to change the old plan of de-
pending on wheat, corn and tobacco
in addition to these making special
of other things.
Taliavue, the fine dairy farm be-
longing to and developed by S. ".
Taliaferro, whose herd of Jerseys,
famous in the agricultural world,
added to his income from two to
three thousand dollars year, from
butter alone. The herd was lately
sold in Louisville at a big stock sale
and bought BY men from different
parts of the Union, who knew their
value, to add to their own herds.
Among these sold was his favorite
butter COW that he had refused seven
hundred dollars for only a short
time before his death. Also, the
patriarch Of the herd that he had de-
clined selling at an enormous sum.
Il. S. Mimms is adding to his herd
of Jerseys and will soon have one
rivaling the Taliaferro herd.
That gentleman farmer, SO we'll
known in the two States, Polk Prince,
although across the line has
his beautiful home, where he
does the hospitalities OF both host
and hostess, is known as a real
modern farmer, who makes
speciality of his favorite breed OF
fine stock.
William Meriwether, owner Of the
fine old homestead, Meriville, ships
great numbers of fine sheep TO Louis
vile and other markets.
Downer Bros. have a bran"h Of
their well known nursery within two
miles of Guthrie, from where they
ship each season thousands of young
fruit trees, filling orders from all
parts of the country.
During May and part of June
Henry Williams strawberry gardens
are visited by great many people.
Ben. e. Kendall grows fine straw
berries that he markets at good
prices, as well as grapes in their sea-
son. He is the grape man of this
section, having received as many as
five or six premiums at different
fairs.
w. ID. Taylor has large tobacco
factory in the suburbs of the town,
in charge of John Lock ert, a well
known tobacconist among the busi-
ness men.
John. .Meriwether and family have
returned from an extended trip to
Texas. John says there is no place
like old Kentucky for comfortable
home.
We are sorry TO learn that Mrs.
VIM. Meriwether cut her arm on a
broken pane of glass a few days ago,
painfully, but not seriously.
Mrs. Morton Randall gave dainty
party to her infant class at the close
of school June /.
DIR. Bibb, of RusselIville, spent a
day with his old friend, T. s. |
Mimms, at his elegant country home.
Joseph Perkins, of Decatur, ILL.,,
while on visit to his people in Elk
ton, visited the old Perkins home
stead day.
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The little children are delighted
with DIR. Mendenhall's Ague Cure