Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-09-03
CLAIMS TIMES ARE
NOT HARD IN STATE
CHARLES c. GILBERT GIVES IN
TEREsTlNo ACCOUNT OF TRIP
THROUGH THE STATE.
DRY FARMING" SAVES DAY
Crops in Middle Part of State Have
Good Prospects - Manufacturers
Somewhat Scared by War.
Shortage of Dry STUFF.

Nashville. - That the corn crop
shows fine prospect and that good
times are still with the people of the
state. is the report of Mr.. Charles C.
Gilbert, Secretary of the Tennessee
Manufacturers association, who has
just returned from an extensive trip
through Middle and East Tennessee
In an interview Mr.. Gilbert gave the
following interesting account of crop
and manufacturing conditions as he
found them:
Throughout Middle and East Ten
nessee the farmers are exceedingly
! jubilant over the crop prospects and
predict an unusually large yield of
| corn. This, coupled with the bumper
wheat crop, is going to mean much
TO the people of this state. It's an i'll
| wind that blows nobody good has
been clearly demonstrated this year
While it is true we had almost an
unprecedented drought, at the same
time, by reason of this long dry spell
the farmers were enabled to plow
their corn more frequently, thereby
keeping the ground well stirred; then
when the rains came the soil was in
proper shape to take it up. This is a
feather in the cap of the advocate OF
dry farming and goes to show that
if the ground is properly cultivated
the absence of rain makes little diff
ference. Some of the farmers /
talked to stated that they had plowed
their corn two or three times oftener
than in other years.
'The people of East Tennessee are
not talking hard times at all l met
with the East Tennessee Press Asso-
citation at Athens and came in con-
tact with about forty editors, all of
whom seemed to be prosperous and
enjoying life to the fullest. In that
number were editors of all political
FIFTH and belief. but when it came to
their discussions as to how to adj
vance the material resources of East
Tennessee their political differences
were forgotten The people of West
and Middle Tennessee who do not
visit East Tennessee and have in their
minds art gallery the picture of a
long, lean, lanky mountaineer, with
a jug of homemade over one shout
der and a muzzle-loading rife on the
other, need to take a trip in that
section and see how far advanced that
portion of the state is The people
Of East Tennessee are industrious
and thrifty, as evidenced by the good
'oads they have built, the splendid
and schoolhouses and the
attractive farm houses in which they
i've.
THE manufacturers in East Ten
lessee were getting along fairly well
Until the scare of war to some ex-
ent crippled their business. 1t is
charitable how much Tennessee is
materials. Especially is this
rue among the textile and cloth mills
Inless some way can be devised
Whereby few cargoes of dye stuff
an be brought over from Germany
retty soon, all of us are going to
ave to wear white socks for sea
on. Practically all of the dye stuff
J imported, and as none has been
eceived during the past few weeks,
ne stock of most of the mills is get
ng low
THE manufacturers of East Ten
essee believe in the merits of the
ennessee Manufacturers association
S evidenced by the large number
no gave their application for mem
ership during the recent trip. The
cope of the association is so large
nd SO many real things are being
ccomplished for the people of the
ate, through the means of this as
,ciation, that it is with little diff
lily that a membership is secured"