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soil and the presence everywhere of limestone, render this one of the 

 finest clover regions in the United States. We know of no section where 

 it does better, if so well. 



Timothy, also, does well in East Tennessee, not only on what is termed 

 "meadow land," but also on our rich rolling lands, and especially on the 

 rich sides and tops of our mountains. On the top of the Smoky moun- 

 tain timothy grows six feet high. The average yield of this grass in 

 suitable land is about equal to clover. 



Herd Grass, on low flat soil does well also, but it is not so much of a 

 favorite as clover. Orchard and Hungarian Grass also grow here, ^^^lite 

 Clover grows wild everjTvhere. On the sides and tops of our high ridges 

 and mountains, vines and wild grasses grow luxuriantly, aff"ording fine 

 pasturage in summer for sheep, cattle and horses. In these mountain 

 ranges, in April and jNIay, large herds of cattle are driven, where they 

 roam until October or November, when they are driven into the farms fit 

 for market. Enterprizing farmers near the Cumberland have made 

 fortunes by raising stock in these highland pastures. Georgia and 

 Alabama, where clover and timothy do not grow except to a very limited 

 extent, afford a never failing market for our hay at prices ranging from 

 $1 50 to $3 50 per hundred. These markets are at our very doors. In 

 them we can never have a successful rival. The same is true of bacon, 

 beef, mutton, corn, apples, Irish potatoes, butter, cheese, eggs, iron, coal, 

 and many other articles, which we can produce and they cannot, or which 

 they cannot produce so cheaply or perfectly as we can. 



Schools and Colleges. 



At all times we have had a number of colleges in East Tennessee. The 

 first public school West of the Alleghanies was established by Rev. 

 Samuel Doad, D.D., in Washington county, in 1781, which was afterwards 

 known as Washington College. Since the war a free school system has 

 been adopted and put into operation, which opens the doors of knowledge 

 to every child in the State black or white, rich or poor. The State Agri- 

 cultural College has recently been located at Knoxville as a branch of the 

 East Tennessee University. This will make Knoxville the attractive 

 centre of the highest educational advantages in the State. 



State op Society. 



The people of East Tennessee are at peace. The outrages of which 

 strangers may read are in Middle and West Tennessee. There are no 

 Ku Klux outrages here. During the late civil war a very large majority 

 of our people sympathized with the National Government. Those who 

 took the opposite side in East Tennessee, are to-day law-abiding and 

 peaceable citizens, quietly engaged in legitimate business. Many of them, 

 possibly a large majority, sincerely desire to see immigrants from the 



