Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1916-07-19
A VISIT TO THE "H|lL."
Editor Finds Wideawak Farmers and
Good Crops in the Pleasant
Hill Neighborhood.

Good crops IN the rleasant
Hill Neighborhood.
Through the courtesy of Clinton An
derson and Herbert Smith, the editor
of the Chronicle was privileged to en-
joy most delightful visit to the Pleas
ant Hill nelghborhood Saturday and
Sunday. We found Pleasant Hill to
be a neat little village of 200 people
who have been influenced to gather
there by the excellent advantages offer
ed for schooling their children at
Pleasant Hill Academy. Almost the
entire population depends on farming
for livelihood and the class of farm
ing that is being done by most of them
spells success IN very pronounced
way.
We were entertained at the pleasant
and hosuitable home of Clinton Ander-
son, where we received every courtesy
| and mark OF kindness and good feeling
that any person could ask and even
more.
Herbert Smith and Clinton Anderson
have been looking after the Pleasant
Hill Academy farm for several years.
They are both enthusiasts on the ques-
tion of crimson and other clovers and
| legume crops in general.
Owing to pressure of his home farm
ing, Mr.. Smith resigned as farm man.
ager for the Academy the hrst of June.
1t was with much regret that Prof.
W. E. Wheeler, principal of the Acad-
emy, accepted his resignation, but as
Mr.. Anderson still remained with the
institution the loss of the services OF
Mr.. Smith was not so severely telt as
would otherwise :sSve been the case.
These two gentlemen have been work.
ing in the utmost harmony ul'dlng up
the Academy Iarm by turning under
crimson clover and legume crops.
When these gentlemen took hold OF the
farm about five years ago there was
very little OF the 130 acres that had
good fences, only small portion Of
the land was IN even passable state
of cultivation and much OF 1t was badly
run down and washed with deep gulies.
They at once began to grow legumes,
pIow deep, hll up the gullIes and rotate
the crops in such way as to lmmedl-
ately start the farm on the road to fer
tlllty. They have now so acres IN a
1alr state of fertility. A considerable
portion of 1t is now producing excel
lent crops and those portions not yet
improved to the point where good aver
age crops can be produced are being
rapidly brought to better state of
fertility by turning under rye and
crimson clover.
| Mr.. Anderson showed us an excellent
piece of corn where only three years
ago the land was oonsldere. worn out
and worthless because 1t was so poor
and full of gullles. By deep plowing
and turning under crimson clover he
has it where he will get an excellent
crop of corn and its future improve
ment is a comparatively easy task.
Mr.. Anderson may almost be said to be
crank on the question OF turning un-
der crimson clover, but any person who
will learn what he has done by that
means will readily admit there is
method IN his madness. Mr. Ander-
son is certainly entitled to be classed
as one of our most capable and sue
cessful farmers.
Herbert Smith and father, n. j.
Smith. have been doing a class OF
farming with new land that should in
terest deeply every person IN this coun-
ty who Is trying to get their new land
into grass and thus raise 1T to higher
state of fertility.
They have a piece of new land that
is now growing clover more than waist
lhign that has had no lime, that pro-
duced a good crop Of oats last year,
which was the first crop it produced
after being cleared. The land was not
plowed but was dlsced thoroughly.
sown in oats and seeded to grass at the
same time. Last year ton OF good
HAY was cut to each of the three acres
in the piece. This year it will produce
two tons to the acre or more. The
only fertilizer 1t has ever had was lO(
pounds of acid phosphate. This is only
average mountain land. All in all tht
methods employed by Messrs. Snitf
are the most successful and advanced
that have come under our notice To-