Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1916-11-22
MIDDLE Tenn. FARM NEWS
Prepared Exclusively for the Chronicle by
Division of Extension. College Of
Agriculture, University Of Tennessee,
Knoxville.

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Knoxville.
i The Middle Tennessee Beef Breeders
Association is holding Hereford sale
at the State Fair Grounds Nashville,
Friday of this week-November "a.
This sale makes possible for the live
stock farmers of Middle Tennessee
who desire TO develop the Hereford
type or beef cattle an opportunity of
unusual value at the very least ex-
penCe.
SHEEP AND WHEAT
1t is a Middle Tennessee farmer who
tells this story:
In driving a band of two hundred
ewes they got into wheat field along
the road. The irate landowner under
1 took to hold them for exorbitant dam
ages. Believing that the squire was
prejudlced against sheep and realizing
that witnesses for plaintiff testified
that damage was greater than the crop
off the same land brought the year be-
fore, the shepherd put up $500 and
bought the crop and left the sheep
| there.
Later he sold the ewes averaging
100 pounds at IA cents and lambs, IS
! pounds at &c. Then the wheat crop,
much to the chagrin OF the natives,
made HIM an average of 70 bushels per
acre, whereas only Is bushe were
threshed from its last crop.
Since then it has become the general
and very profitable custom TO Craze
small grain well up into April with
sheep and lambs, having good fences
so that they can be kept off in very
soft weather, from cropping too close,
or after joints begin to form. Actual
results justify the assertion that hight
rumlnants like sheep and goats are a
distinct advantage to such crops. In
this way one can eat his cake and have
too. Many folks thought the land
could only grow wheat, whereas it
more easily and better than one-wheat
wool lambs.
BEES OF VALUE TO FARMERS.
Have you ever noted the fact that
the honey and wax produced on Ten
nessee farms in 1909 reached a value
of almost $l85, 900?
Do you know that this honey was
produced on ~, 600 farms?
DO you know that the man who made |
the most out of bees was the one who |
made the most out OF general farming |
and live stock?
Do you know that since the date
when accurate figures were secured,
the honey output of Tennessee has
dropped off very materially; that foul
brood, the worst disease that can at
tack bees, has ruined the industry on
many farms and IN many sections of
the state?
do you keep bees?
Whether you do or whether you do
not you will be interested in a plan
which has for its purpose the develop
rent OF an industry which should be
least half million dollars each year.
e. E. Bartholomew, an expert bee.
keeper, has been added to the staff of
specialists Of the divisions of extern
sion. He will be subject to the call of
the farmers of the state. Right now
he is beginning campaign of educa-
tion on the point that bees need to be
protected against winter weather in
tennessee as much as in any other
state. His work is made possible !
through the cooperation OF the u. s.
Department OF Agriculture and the
State Department of Agriculture with
he Division OF Extension of the Uni ,
,srslty of Tennessee
IN AGRICULTURE
The state college of agriculture, -,
which is part of the University Of !
Tennessee, has just announced definite
,lans for this years short course in
This course consists of :
TX weeks of instruction in agronomy, .
nimal husbandry, dairying. and horti- t
ulture and is available to any psrson j.
lxteen years of age or older. The Z
expenses for the SIX weeks course
iced not exceed $35. This small ex- !
ense is made possible for the people i
f Tennessee because of the equip 4