The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-04-28
The Farm Inspection Trip.


inspection trip taken Tuesday and
Wednesday by the farmers and their
friends over the demonstration plots
in the county. There were nearly a
half hundred citizens in automobiles on
Tuesday who left Somerville at o'clock
for the northern part of the county.
The first stop was made at the farm of
L. F. Catron in the fourth district
where members of the party were
satisfied that no better grasses and
stock could be found in the county.
And there is no doubling the fact that
Mr., Catron has been highly successful
in growing these two commodities. The
yield of hay from one of his grass
plots last year was made the subject
of special bulletin issued by the state
agent of demonstration work in Tenn
essee. The plot has been continued
and enlarged since last year.
From the Catron farm, the party
went to the farm of A. H. Harvey
where are more than hundred head of
black cattle, crimson clover fields and
alfalfa, all in such condition of excel
lence that q man will wonder If better
can be found in the world. Next to the
R. B. Young farm where are to be seen
some Of the best clover and alfalfa in
any county. Mr.. Young has but re-
Gently moved to this farm which he
purchased last year from Howell Tay.
lor who was conducting the expert
mental plots before he sold. From the
Young farm to the farm Of ]. A. Nc
Nabb Esq. was but a short run and
was soon made, carrying the party from
the fourth district into the fifth. Esq.
McNabb has clovers and alfalfa of ex.
cellert quality: he has lined number
OF acres Of the lands and they are re-
spending to bis improved methods with
increased crops Of the staples and fine
crops of these newer feed crops and
soil improvers. A few miles west Of
of the McNsbb farm was reached the
large farm of E. C. Boswell on which is
said to be some Of the finest red clover
ever seen by members of the party,
either in this part Of the state or the
great rich Middle Tennessee where it
grows in luxuriousness equal to any
quarter of the globe. Mr.. Boswell has
always raised hogs, cattle, mules and
corn, with cotton as a side line and his
splendid farm shows that 1t 10 in no way
typical cotton farm.
From here the party went to Center
Point in the sixth district where is the
farm of j. A. d. Moore who was one
of the first men in the county to take
advantage of the help Of the comfy
agent. He was enrolled as a demon
strator the first year of the work and
has profted by the advice and help Of
the county agent. He is selling corn
this year, some of it specially selected
seed corn, has winter crops which show
that he has learned the lesson Of soil
conservation and improvement. Next
was the W. H. Claxton farm near
Braden, another of the county's most
successful demonstrators.
From Braden thru Galloway and on
to the seventh district where the farms
of C. C. Russell and E. v. Luck were
visited, both showing excellent winter
crops of clover and alfalfa. Then to
Oakland where the plots of J. C. Kelly,
]. N. Clay and ]. P. Matthews were
visited, it being said by several men,
bers of the party that the plot of
alfalfa on The Kelly place is the best
seen during the day, tho admitting that
others are fine.
From Oakland the party broke up,
going to their respective homes firmer
in the faith that not in all of the choice
places where the good things of nature
have been lsvished is there a better
place than Fayette county and no where
are there lands which respond so quick
~ to the Improvement than here.
The second days travel included stops
at Williston where were visited the
plots of red clover, bur clover and
alfalfa of Prof. ]. B. Summers. I. ].
Walker and 7. A. Crawford, thence by
Moscow and LAGRANGE, At the latter
place w. B. Franklin and P. R. Bess-
ley have some extra fine plots Of clovers.
The party then went to the Ames place
and back westward to Piperton where
c, B. Piper has some of the finest
alfalfa and clovers to be found any
where. Some Of his lands on which
these crops are growing have been re-
deemed from gullies as bad as any in
the county. and now they are produc-
ing growths Of clovers that excite the
envy of growers in the blue grass sec
ton.
From here the party divided. going
the nearest routes to their respective
homes, with qualification and satisfae-