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the corn is standing.’ Our correspondent remarks, “if we were to sow wheat 
on fallow lands and put it in properly, we would add at least 50 per cent. to 
the product.” In Perry “the only cultivation is to plough the ground and 
brush in the seed.” Giles county, “the culture is scarcely worthy the name; 
a plough boy with a bull-tongue plough scratches among the standing corn.” 
Monroe: “ We sow wheat on clover sod turned on an oat or corn stubble, 
ploughed and harrowed in grain, top-dressing thinest spots with stable manure 
or leached ashes.”” Lincoln: “ Wheat is usually ploughed in with an ordinary turn- 
ing plough and occasionally harrowed.” With such indifferent culture it is not 
surprising that in 1866 the average yield per acre was only five and three-tenth 
bushels, or only four bushels above the seed sown. 
6. There are a variety of natural grasses in Tennessee, including musquit, 
blue grass, crab, fox-tail, sedge, nimble-will, &c., furnishing, in some sections of 
the State, with the cultivated grasses, pasture for cattle during the entire year, 
and at but little expense. Red-top clover and English and Kentucky blue grass 
are extensively sown for grazing purposes, and for the meadows, clover, timothy, 
red-top, orchard grass, &c., are used. Our Lincoln correspondent writes : 
Blue grass is natural to our pastures, and covers our hill-sides when the undergrowth is 
eut off. Farm animals can feed exclusively on the pastures except during January and 
' February, though they frequently get very short in August and September, when rains are 
not frequent. 
In Weakley most of their cattle, sheep, and hogs live in the forests on the 
wild grasses from the first of April to the middle of November. Davidson 
county : “ Blue grass is our best grass for pasturage, and will keep stock in 
good condition through the entire year, if dry food be furnished during the 
few days or weeks in which snow is on the grass.’ Coffee county: “ Early 
spring and summer grasses abound on the table-lands, upon which stock, 
especially sheep, do quite as well from April | until frost, as upon eulti- 
vated pastures. Sheep husbandry, properly conducted, would prove a com- 
plete success on our cheap table-lands.” In Perry, “farm animals feed ex- 
clusively on pastures the whole year—nine months on grasses, and three 
months on cane; the cost per head of pasturing cattle is the amount necessary 
to supply them with salt.” Giles county: “ Blue grass grows here second only 
to Kentucky ; clover and lucerne superior to Kentucky ; farm animals can feed 
exclusively in pastures from Ist of April to 1st December, and, if we would seed 
land enough in grasses, could graze and do well all the year round. The price 
for grazing cattle the past season has varied from $1 to $1 50 per head for the 
season. Our climate, in connection with our short winters, the fertility of our 
soil, and its adaptation to the growth of the various grasses, &c., makes it one 
of the most desirable portions of the Union for raising and feeding cattle.” 
7. Fruit culture has received comparatively little attention in Tennessee 
beyond raising a supply for family use or home consumption, though apples, 
peaches, pears, plums, the small fruits, and all fruits suited to the latitude, suc- 
eeed so far as tried. ‘Our Giles correspondent says: 
Quite a variety of fruit is grown. Apples, (some 20 varieties,) peaches, pears, plums, 
grapes, have all been grown to perfection, with occasionally a heavy yield, taking into con- 
sideration the fact that there is no after-culture, and very little attention given them after 
planting out. We know of apple-trees yielding 25 to 35 bushels. Very little fruit is sold, 
the surplus being given to the hogs. A society has recently been organized to improve the 
culture of fruit. 
Hawkins county : “There are few localities better adapted to fruit-growing than 
East ‘l'ennessee, especially for the cultivation of apples and peaches, which could 
be made a profitable business in this county if conducted with that care and skill 
necessary to success in any branch of industry ; but there is generally so little, 
attention given to orchards after the trees are planted, and the business is con- 
ducted in so careless a manner, that it would be impossible to estimate the profits ; 
but even with the small amount of care bestowed upon them, peach trees will con- 
