The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-28

years. died at his home in KNOXVILLE
after a lingering illness. He was at
torney-general of the State of Tennes
see for sixteen years, from 1896 to
1912.
Fort Oglethrope has been designated
as a place where reserve army officers
and applicants for commissions in the
officers reserve corps will be trained
A camp to be established next week
will be the rendezvous of reserve off.
/ GERS furnished by the states of Tennes
see, North Carolina and South Caro-.
lima.
Rotation systems and ideal methods
of agriculture are being sacrificed this
year to the necessity for maximum
production of the crops absolutely es
sential to supply food for the people
and for farm live stock and poultry
Realizing the extreme seriousness OF
the present situation, Hamblen county
farmers are responding nobly and will
contribute their share to the harvests
demanded for East Tennessee this
year.
According to law passed by the re-
cent legislature and now in effect, all
mortgages, deeds of trust, or other pa
pers in the nature of these instru-
ments are subject to tax of fifteen
cents on every $500, or portion there
of of the amount Of the indebtedness
SO secured This tax, according to the
new law is in lieu of all other taxes.
1t must be paid to the county court
clerk before the instrument in question
can be registered.
East Tennessee farm demonstration
agents met in Knoxville and discussed
plans for a movement toward increas.
ed crop production and conservation
of the food supply. Farmers over
East Tennessee will be told by the
agents of the seriousness of the food
situation, their opportunities in view
Of the present conditions, and the i'm.
portance of considerably increasing
their crop yield. Community meetings
will be called in that section of the
state, and demonstration given.
Government control of the freight.
car situation by means of a universal
pooling system and the direction OF
the Interstate Commerce Commission
was proposed in resolutions adopted
at a conference in Memphis, of 100
hardwood manufacturers. Protests
against the granting of applications
filed by Southern carriers for an in.
crease of Is per cent in freight rates
on forest products also were adapted
and plans were formulated for vigor.
ously contesting the application.
Under direction of the board Of con.
troll the state of Tennessee will this
season farm an immense amount OF
land. The Herbert Domain is to be
q part Of the states farm land and to
aid in the work it is planned to send
twenty-five youths from the reform
atory in preparing the ground for seed
ing. About 400 acres have been leased
for the reformatory, which will give
I-ti1at institution about 600 acres in adj
dition to the 500 acres which the boys
will cultivate at the Herbert Domain
There have been 1913 acts, new laws
applying to all the state, indexed in
the office of Secretary of State to date
while the private acts applying to one
county alone number between sever
and eight hundred. The total output
of laws by the recent sixtieth genera
assembly will be about 1000 private
acts. So far the greatest call to the
Office of the secretary of state has
been for certified copies of the Tor
rens law governing land title regis
tration.
In line with the suggestion of the
President and the Department of Agri
culture the twelve demonstration
farms of the Nashville, Chattanooga
and st. Louis Railway, representing
1853 acres, will be turned over to tn,
cultivation of food crops during tbs
war, the company having announced
that its plans for the working out O.
system of crop rotation had beer
abandoned for the present, and tina
it would devote it's efforts toward in
creasing the production of crops fol
the feeding of man and beast.
A bulletin just issued by Commits
sioner of Agriculture H. X. Brysor
calls upon the people of Tennessee tC
till the soil as never before, tell then
that the crop Of 1917 is to decide
whether people will starve or subsis
!, in 1918 He declares that there are
100000 improved acres of grount
in Tennessee and that every acre
should be made to bear fully, He
estimates that work Of supplying the
100,000,000 people Of this country lies
with the 100000 farms of the United
| States.
That male inmates Of the Eastern
Hospital for the Insane should BIZ
given farm work to do and that add
tional land at the institution for tina
purpose should be purchased, is thu
| opinion Of John S. Denton, of Nash
Vile, chairman of the Tennessee state
| board of control The state board o
| eoufpnl has 9Q00 000 To cnnDd for i'm