Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-19
GREAT PROSPERITY
FOR THIS COUNTY
Outlook Now Brighter Than Ever Before
Our People Have Better Crops,More
Live Stock and Better Prices
Are Being Offered.

Never in the history OF Cumberland
county has the outlook for general
prosperity been so f1attering as at this
time.
s.,A POTATOES BUMPER CROP.
Crops IN general are the best ever
grown on this plateau. Potatoes are
especially good, the acreage is the
largest ever planted and the crop Will
be many thousands of bushels more
this fall than ever before. The price
has opened at $1.00 bushel. That
means that the crop will bel very
no higher. Many persons think the
price will be much higher before pota-
toes grow again, and even predict that
they will sell readily this fall at not
less than SIPS bashel.
Numerous farmers will have so Dush-
els of corn to the acre, and that too, on
land that people used to think would
not produce a profitable crop OF any
kind. Blu better farming methods
have mace great strides among our
people and ley are heartened today as
never betoit.
An opser ing and capable farmer and
cattle-buyer remarked to the writer
yesterday, that he had been all over
the county this year and that the crops
grown would amount 20 five times that
of any previous year. That is the
strongest possible evidence of the in
terest that is being taken in farming
and an indisputable fact that our peo-
pie are making farming pronounced
success.
WHEAT ACREAGE CONSIDERABLE
So greatly encouraged are the FARM
ers of this section at the price of 81. 90
a Eushel fixed for the wheat crop next
year that relatively large acreage
will be sown in this county. 1t will be
small compared with some sections,
but when it is remembered that no |
wheat at all has been grown on this
plateau for many years, it will then |
become clear that few thousand acres
sown on this plateau means much for
start. From information we have
gathered thus far. we think more than
l 200 acres will be put to wheat in this
county this year.
BETTER LIVE STOCK.
Our people are also paying more at
tenti0n to the grade OF live stock than
ever before. More pureblood males are
coming in every year and it is very graf
flying to note the improvement in the
ton. This year there is stronger
disposition than ever before to keep
and breed every female animal With
WOOL bringing over 60 cents pound
The idea of raising more sheep is gain
ng ground rapidly.
SOIL IMPROVEMENT.
1t is very encouraging to see so many +,
farmers sowing more cover crops, es- F..
)ecially crimson clover, and preparing ;
10. only for more early pasture but
king to turn down green crops tor f,
Ioiling purposes. This, with the en- ,
arged growing of legumes, is great ,
.dvance in soil improvement and that :,
ian mean nothing short of better crops ,
mother year.
LABOR CONDITIONS.
The opening for common labor is ex-
ellent. One coal mine in the county
s working some 30 men and is just be- :
timing to ship while two others are
working large forces of men getting
eady tor coal and coke outputs. That .
means that no man who is willing to :.
york need be idle and the wages paid :.
re good.
OUTLOOK FOR HOGS.
While there are not 30 many hogs in c
he woods now as year ago, there are h
many thousand head on hand that will o
q made tat on the large crop of acorns a
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