Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1916-10-25
CRossvILLE, TENNESSEE WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 1916.

SAhN<oS aASs
hearty, yet unobtrusIve kindness showi
US by Mrs. Moore and two daughter
maze US soon forget we were strangers
CATTLE AND FARMING.
Blooded cattle and scientific farming
engages the spare time of nearly al
the men while some of the women In
dulge in pureblood chickens.
Prof. j. E. Brandon, VINO has beer
principal of the school for twelve
years, and is now demonstration agent.
has several splendid specimens OF
Hereford cattle. Also William Richard
Young, the young son of DR.. W. B.
Young, has the Hereford cattle and
the Duroc hogs. The young man has
recently sold Hereford bull only five
months old to Eos. ID. w. Lundy, of
Pleasant Hill, for $50. No person
thinks ESQ. Lundy is profilgate or
wasteful. but on the other hand is a
careful business man. This purchase
shows that the value of pure bred stock
is growing IN favor with our people.
Besides owning Hereford cattle,
teaching and acting as demonstration
agent, Prof. Brandon has found time
to start an acre of alfalfa, which it is
a treat to see just now with It's deep
green in contrast to the generally
brown fields.
j. E. Converse has numerous expert
mental plats there and he has been en-
gagged by the N. Z. & st. L.. railroad
to have general supervision.of their ex-
perimental farm of SIX acres. Prof.
Brandon gives this work considerable
attention.
The establishing of this six acre ex-
perimental farn by the railroad is di-
rectly due to J seph IA. Judd. special
agricultural ags at, and he has there
an acre OF as fin alfalfa as grows any
where. He had several other success
full crops on the farm this year.
COMMUNITY FARMS.
Two years ago DR.. Young conceived
the idea of promoting what he calls
community farms. Seventy acres was
fenced, cleared and divided into tracts
of one acre each. In one direction the
plats are separated by strip eight
feet wide tor turning room while cult
waiting. The other way OF the plats
there is 12-foot driveway, so crops
may be removed without injury to any
one.
These acre tracts are turned over 2
the men at cost of preparation and
they are used free so long as desired.
Of the seventy one-acre plats all are
now under cultivation except three
All kinds of crops are grown, but
this year the most profitable crop has
been potatoes. In some instances over
$50 net was cleared. Three cars have
been shipped and they netted the grow
ers one dollar a bushel.
The farming is done according to SCI
entitic methods as is shown by the fact
that almost every one has his plat in
winter cover crop now. One year ago
there was no clover or alfalfa in cult
vatlon in Cifty, now there are sixteen
acres In clover and two acres IN al
falta.
COMMUNITY 'SIL.O.
This year community silo has been
built and filled by eleven people. 1t
fpr ic f,II TO hriv
The silage was weighed IN and will be
out. The outcome will be
with interest.
The Clifty Company has l52 houses
all of which are occupied. A house is
never empty long for usually there are
3evera men waiting for houses.
Nine Foreman l.. $. Bumgardner Is
deeply interested in scientific farming.
He has few acres Of corn that will
saslly shuck out rs buhsels to the acre.
K. E. Mccormick grew
potatoes this year that brought SIS net
20 the acre. while several others almost
.eached that figure. r. H. Lovejoy
md X. ID. holt. bookkeepers for the
company, take deep interest IN every
that Is for the com munlty
interest. DR.. J. r. Gott IS an enthu-
mast who wields . splendid influence
Imong the people while curing their
iis.
Depot Agent 3. +. Stone has q
wenty acre farm that shows the touch
f a skillful hand. Tom Bell. Geo. 1
Neal, machinist. Alt Parker, Mr.. ,
sockley and numerous others whose
lames we do not recall are interested
o scientific farming.
BLOODEU CHICKENS.
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