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A number of our reporters speak of the many eligible water-power sites to be 
found upon the innumerable rivers and mountain streams of the State. From 
Sevier county our correspondent writes : ) 
Our water-power cannot be surpassed in the world... There are three branches of the Little 
Pigeon river running through this county, running from the Smoky or Iron mountain, upon 
the banks of which you cannot go amiss for choice sites for manufacturing establishments. 
Our Haywood correspondent, in speaking of the formation of that county, 
says: 
Often, at the depth of 100 feet, we discover large trees, mostly of the oak and cottonwood 
species. Sea shells are often fuund in digging wells, also various other relics of a former 
condition of this country. In many places large tumuli or mounds are to be found, some 
twenty, some thirty, and others fifty feet high. These mounds always contain something— 
human bones, old pottery-ware, arrow-heads, curiously wrought devices in rocks, &c. In 
Lauderdale county, immediately west of this county, in the Mississippi bottom, a very exten- 
sive burying-ground has been discovered, unknown in extent, where thousands of human 
bones are found, belonging to a race of people at least two feet higher than the present, gen- 
eration. 
Very few counties of this State can be said to make a specialty of any one 
crop, a mixed husbandry generally prevailing. Wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, 
sorghum, &c., are grown successfully in all sections, while cotton and tobacco 
are largely cultivated in some localities. Ina majority of counties corn and 
wheat are the leading crops, the former being fed largely to stock. In Monroe 
“corn and wheat are the staples; the best hommock and intervale lands produce, 
with good cultivation, 40 to 50 bushels of corn to the acre, at an average cost 
of 20 cents per bushel; and, when well put in on a good clover sod, wheat 
yields 15 to 30 bushels, at ‘a cost of $4 per acre, including seed.” Corn is made 
the chief crop, beeause the surest. Corn is also the specialty in Rhea county ; 
“it requires a man and a horse on an average about four days’ labor per acre to 
make corn, and the usual yield is 30 to 35 bushels per acre.” Our correspondent 
says of the profits: 
This year a man’s work four days with horse, &c., would be $6; one acre of cOrn, say 35 
bushels, at 60 cents, $21: making a net profit of $15 per acre. A man can easily till 20 
acres in corn, giving a net profit of $300, besides harvesting his small grain and hay. 
Bledsoe reports 25 bushels corn and six bushels of wheat as the average per 
acre. Marion “bottom lands yield about 30 bushels corn, upland 10 bushels, 
but can be made to produce three times as much by proper cultivation, the 
mode of culture being of the lowest grade ; except in a few instances the soil is 
not broken up or disturbed below two and a half to three inches, and not two- 
thirds of the surface.” Our Coffee correspondent says: : 
Corn for the rearing and fattening of stock has for some time been our principal crop, and 
hogs the largest item of profit from it. Wheat, as an article for export, is 1eceiving more 
attention than formerly. j 
Stock-raising is.also a profitable branch in Williamson county. In Union, 
“corn pays $10 per acre, wheat $10, oats $3, potatoes $15, and sorghum $30.” 
In Giles county, “cotton has been a specialty for the last three years. With 
imperfect culture 1,000 to 1,200 pounds of seed cotton per.acre are produced, 
but those engaged in the culture for the past two years have found the debtor 
side of the balance sheet against them. * ™* Corn, wheat, rye, oats, barley, 
hemp, flax, tobacco, sorghum, potatoes, &c., grow to perfection ; 40 to 50 bush- 
els of corn and 15 to 25 bushels of wheat per acre being raised.” McNairy: 
“Cotton is the special ‘crop, though our soil is well adapted to corn, but not so 
well for wheat ; average yield per acre, 1,000 pounds seed cotton, 40 bushels 
corn, 10 bushels of wheat; the profit on cotton is small, and more could be 
derived from grain and stock, if attention were turned to them.” Lincoln 
county: ‘Cotton, corn, small grains and blue grass are the chief crops. Cotton 
has been grown at a loss the present year. The crop of the county reached 
6,000 bales in 1867, but for 1868S it is thought there will not be sufficient land 
planted to raise 1,000 bales. Our farmers have not recovered their hog crops 
