New-York tribune., 1906-12-02

painstaking, old world methods, have ooaxed
more and better returns than those who cu-
tivated the soil in It's pristine fertility.
Most of the purchasers, in fact prefer the
opened farms but some are choosing that land
which has been timbered, but which has been
denuded of its heaviest growth by numbering
companies, leaving the buyer with only enough
standing trees for shade and for several years
supply of irewood. and it should be profitable
object lesson to their Tennessee neighbors to OBJ
serve how careful those people are to leave no
foot of soil untitled.
There are no weed filed fence corners. no
suckers" springing up about the stump of
recently feled tree, no bramble lined field paths,
no brash covered low places on any acre Of
Pollsh or Bohemian ground and something that
Will do we'll in the shade is under every detached
fruit tree-eXcept about the dwelling, no other
trees permitted There are orchards, bear
ing Drolifcly, the older farms, and the
colonfsts are joyfully reapng the benefit Of
other mems forethouGht, while younger orchards,
planted with an eye to enhancing the attractive
ness OF the tract, are coming on.
To households which in their hard lives over
the seas held in reverence the one or two gnarled
and whitening trees that made scanty show Of
pIoSsoMs IN the Springtime and a Scant1er show
OF fruit when summer came the hundreds Of
pear, peach, apple and plum trees scattered
through Pilsen make Of the colony veritable
garden OF Eden, even with the forbidden fruit,
when IT is ON the other fellows farm.
small fruits are. and will continue to be- a
source of profit to the Pilsen farmer, and the
early vegetables. too. bring him in good
enue' not only from the Strawberries, grapes
green peas, tomatoes and potatoes that are sent
TO markets north and east, but from local
caEnery, which will buy up his surplus stock
The Bohemians and the Poles make good
truckers as the Italians. judged by the results
OF their labors along that line in the colony
for they certainly seem to have the faculty
knack OF getting out OF the soil all that is
due them and a little bit over. And they are
or at least the Pilsen specimens are thrifty in
deed. causing their American neighbors to re-
gard their agricultural operations with unquali-
fed astonshment and ungruding respect.
Any sort OF melon that will grow in any part
Of this country they grow In profusion and of
haCQISa a ref ms h.
DDS. and because there is no part Of the South
or west where nature has done more for her
children or is moro ready to foster their every
endeavor than in this breezy upland and green
valley where peaceful Pilsen lies
While the colonsts the smaller tracts and
the larger alike grow small fruits and vege-
tables. the more extensive landowner obvious
ly can pay greater attention to the staple
products Of the soil. Stock raising cannot Of
course. be much followed where the largest farm
is 200 acres, and most Of that In garden, fruits
or cereals. although the native blue grass that
grows wild makes 1t a profitable occupation for
the Americans with larger areas of land; but
the newcomers grow almost every grain Of the
temperate zone-corn. oats, rye. wheat and bar
ley-cultfvating these crops as painstakingly as
their gardens.
Although of the foreigners have ever
had any experience in raising peanuts or to-
bacco they have tried both, finding them es-
pecially tobacco, to be the principal crops of
the valley. and have succeeded remarkably we'll
with them Their thorough system of cultiva-
ton has enabled them to do exceptionally well
with tobacco, producing high export grade Of
the leaf. Clarksville, Tenn. less than thirty
miles above the colony, on the Cumberland
River. is the largest first hand dark export to-
bacco market in the world, and from three to
five steamboats, each week pass the colony bound
for Clarksville, offering them a market for all
the tobacco they may grow.
But the crop of all others that the colonists
know how to grow, wish to grow and. by all
Indications soon will grow is hops, for which
both soil and climate peculiarly adapted. 1t
was one Of the first Of the settlers who origi-
naly called the attention Of Mr.. Lory, the resi-
dent manager to the fact that not only the soil,
water and climate but the very scenery might
we'll have been imported with him from his old
home in the hop growing district Of Bohemia.
Assisted by the manager, the colonsts then To-
Gated undertook an experimental crop. and the
results, says the Bohemian who engineered the
experiments are beyond their highest anticipa-
tons. Every Bohemian already there and many
OF those coming, we'll the Poles know
something Of hop growing. Most Of the former
are experts in that line Of agriculture and are