Year: 1872

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bottoms and uplands are free from stone
and very easy to farm. Wheat, rye, corn,
oats, barley, sweet and Irish potatoes and
garden vegetables of every description are
produced in abundance. Blue grass Is
native to the soil and furnishes the very
best pasturage, while clover and timothy
yield heavy crops. The country is admir-
ably adapted to raising stock, and hay can
be profitably shipped to the South. There
is no finer fruit-growing region in the
United States, Plenty of peach trees more
than foot in diameter are to be seen i'll a
perfectly healthy condition, and apples,
grapes and other fruits flourish. 1t is
very rare thing for fruit trees to fail to
bear. The insects which make such sad
ravages with us do not affect them to any
great extent, and it is very seldom that
frost nips the blossoms.


There is much fine land for sale at cheap
rates in East Tennessee. Here the prostra-
ton caused by the war was very seriously
felt. While it lasted this section was all
debatable ground, being held by the Con-
federates to-day and by the Federals to-
morrow. The land-holders came out of
the struggle with little except theland and
their debts, and many of them have been
unable to get clear of the encumbrances
which are pressing upon them. The result
is that desirable farms are in the market at
low rates. Persons who desire to secure
fine land in the finest climate in the Uni
ted States, can do SO by going to East Ten
nessee.


The peopleOf East Tennessee are intelli-
gent, open-hearted and very hospitable.-
The homeIy saying that "the latch string
is always out" is applicable to this section.
In fact the people pride themselves upon
their hospitality. Any Northern man who
goes to East Tennessee for the purpose of
making his home there will be cordially
welcomed and treated as we'll as he de-
serves to be. If he be honest, courteous
and worthy of being received into society
he will have no reason to complain, but
will be pleased with his reception.


There are plenty Of churches and good
schools in East Tennessee, In Rogersville,
the county seat of Hawkins county, are
excellent male and female seminaries. The
latter is attended by over one hundred
scholars. Where is there female school
in any of the agricultural counties of Penn
sylvania which can make better show
than that? It tspeaks well for the farm
ers of Hawkins county, whose daughters
most Of the scholars are.


There is the greatest abundance of fine
timber throughout East Tennessee, and
building can be done much more cheaply
than in most parts of Pennsylvania. Saw
mills and grist-mills are numerous. There
never were so many negroes i'll East Ten
nessee as in other parts of the South,
There are fewer now than before the war.
Those who remain are said to be willing to
work, but plenty Of white labor can be
had at very reasonable rates.


There is an abundance of small game
quail being remarkably abundant and rab-
bits and squirrels very numerous. There
are multitudes of wild ducks on the rivers,
which abound in bass, jack salmon, red
horse, and other fine fish.


"a ~s- COMPARING THE CLIMATE.


From what we saw of East Tennessee,
after spending some time there in April
and again in December, we are convinced
that too much praise has not been bestow-
ed upon its climate. 1t was delicious in
April and charming at the beginning of
December. The morning we left Rogers
ville, on that terribly cold Tuesday, the
low enough and all the ponds and bitches
were frozen over Such cold weather is
rare, but welcome occasionally, where the
average temperature is so much higher
during winter than it is in Pennsylvania.
A freeze is needed now and then to enable
people to fill their ice-houses. A gentle
man from New York, in writing to the
Knoxville Chronicle, in reference to East
Tennessee, concludes as follows:


"When see the thermometer standing
at twenty degrees below zero at the North,
whilst it is forty above here, and the peo-
pie are out plowing in their shirt-sleeves
and attending to their domestic duties
without inconvience, I realize some of the
great benefits of your country. Here 1 see
stock of all kinds out in the fields, while at
the North they must be kept closely in
barns. have come to the conclusion that
if the people of the North could once re-
cognize this difference in climate, they
would emigrate here instead of going to the
cold Northwest.u


Such is our opinion after having seen
both sections more than once in winter and
in summer; and such we are sure would be
the judgment of any sensible Pennsylva-
MIA farmer who had enjoyed equal facili-
ties for forming an intelligent opinion.
We never saw country which presents so
many attractions as East Tennessee, and
we never met with more genial and hos
pitable people. II. G. S.