own on the Farm 101~200
From: Clarksville Chronicle
101 MOLASSES FOR FATTENING CATTLE
September 9,1845---Some spirited cattle traders have begun to use molasses for fattening their stock, and if the Porto Rico molasses should be admitted, the supply will be abundant and the article cheap.
From: Clarksville Chronicle
102 LARGER
July 7,1842---That was indeed a magnificent Tomato sent us yesterday, by Mrs. A. Vance, weighing 24 ounces, and measuring 10 inches. We have half a notion to make it into catsup, and keep it to serve up at our next birth-day dinner.
From: Clarksville Chronicle
103 GREEN PEAS
May 5,1846--Who would not be an editor? Dined on green peas yesterday, again, before any of our town neighbors, for which we are indebted to Mrs. A. Anderson, of New Providence. She will please accept our thanks.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
104 SPRING TIME
May 4,1916---Farmers are very busy preparing lands and planting corn while the good women are very busy with their spring cleaning and attending to the little chickens. Tobacco plants are plentiful and prospects bid fair for a full crop of the weed.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
105 PUMPKIN
December 8,1902---A pumpkin weighing 79 pounds and 5 ½ feet in circumference, which was raised on James Coke’s farm on the Southside, is on display at Keesee, Northington, and Company grocery.
From: Clarksville Chronicle
106 EARLY POTATOES
June 2,1842---We were presented a few days since with a couple of fine early potatoes, grown the present year by Mr. P.W. Greenhill, within a few mils of this place, weighing together half a pound--the one 4 ¼ ounces, the other 3 ¾ ounces. They were dug last week, and Mr. G. says they are a specimen of his crop. Who can beat them! We commend his skill and industry.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
107 McADOO
August 16,1861---Mrs. Jacob Foust, of McAdoo, has sent us a beet as a sample of the production of her garden. It is nineteen inches long, and large in proportion. This does not look like starving us out. This beats all the beets we have seen.
From: Clarksville Chronicle
108 PEACHES
August 18,1865---Fine Peaches! glorious peaches are in market, but none that we have yet seen or tasted are half so delicious as those brought to market by B.C. Felts. He certainly has one of the best orchards in the country, and those who wish to purchase the very best fruit should patronize him. He is in town almost every day with a two-horse wagon load. He will be in to-morrow with some of his very best----remember that, and be sure to lay in a supply, if you want something real nice.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
109 PEACHES
August 31,1860---We received yesterday from some young ladies “up the country,” near the “Old Mill,” a box of the finest peaches we have seen this season. It is conjectured that the reason that they are so large, is, that rocks were placed in the trees to protect them form the frost. We don’t know whether the rocks done any good or not, but we do know that the peaches were mighty sweet (most as sweet as the ladies themselves,) and good. They will please accept our thanks; and may they live a thousand years, and send us a box of peaches each year.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
110 PORT ROYAL
July 26,1861--L.A. Weatherford, of Port Royal, presented us, on Wednesday last, a stalk of corn taken from his father’s farm, which measured sixteen feet and two inches! The field from which this was taken contains ninety acres, and will average fifteen feet in height, two stalks in a hill and two ears upon a stalk. Now, Mr. Rail Splitter, take “twenty days” and search your Northern States through, put one stalk upon another, and beat this if you can. Old Abe, our fields are all rich and heavily laden, and promises a harvest sufficient to sustain us for two years to come. Would not some of your regiments of starving women and children be glad to visit such fields for about “twenty days?”
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
111 “HERE’S YOUR MULE”
November 15,1861---We have received from Mr. Albert Herring, of this county a real monster in the shape of an Irish Potatoe. It consists of no less than 30 potatoes in one---or thirty distinct potatoes grown into one cluster! We need not ask if any body can beat this for we know it can’t be did.
We had to stick tacks in the potatoes to count them, and as we were puling them out Solmon (a typo) gravely said that he was going to prosecute us for collecting tacks with authority! See what marrying will do for a man!
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
112 MOLASSES
October 27,1865---We must return our thanks to Mr. John R. Martin for another sample of his sorghum molasses, better even than the first, and the best we ever saw. H is selling it at a dollar per gallon, and his losses, by a last winter’s raid, ought to secure him purchasers for all he can make. Honest industry should always be rewarded, and when it is struggling against adversity, calls for both sympathy and patronage.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
113 TATERS
October 27,1865---We return thanks to Mr. Goodlett Brown, Mr. Jesse T. Harris, and Mr. George Warfield, all of this county, for specimens of their sweet potatoe crop--the average weight of said specimens being seven and a half pounds. So nearly equal are the samples in weight and quality that it would take a committee on vegetables to determine which of the three producers is entitled to the premium.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
114 LARGEST TURNIP OF THE SEASON
November 23,1860---Mr. Z. Grant, of this county, has again favored us with a Turnip, which exceds the former one he sent us three pounds in weight. It weighs thirteen pounds, and is a vegetable “whale” in comparison with anything of the kind we have ever seen before. Who can turn-out a larger turn-up than this?
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
115 A NINETEEN POUNDER
November 23,1860---We are indebted to Mrs. David Grant of this county for a mammoth beet, the weight of which after being dug a week, is nineteen pounds! We hope our enterprising founders, Whitfield, Bradley & Co., will furnish us a kettle to cook it in. All lovers of beets are invited to come up and examine this huge specimen.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
116 SORGHUM SYRUP
October 6,1865---We are indeted to Mr. John R. Martin for a sqecimen of Sorghum Syrup, and pronounce it as good as any we have seen. He will deliver it in Clarksville, in five, ten and twenty gallon kegs, on the most moderate terms. Mr. M. was the victim of a last winter’s raid by which he was stripped of everything and his house burnt. He is making an effort to support himself and family by honest industry, and deserves the patronage and sympathy of a generous public.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
117 BIG TOMATO
September 6,1861--On of the largest tomatoes we ever saw was sent us the other day by Mrs. W.S. Shackelford, of this city. It was grown by her, in her own garden, and weighed nearly two pounds.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
118 A LARGE PEAR
September 27,1861--We saw, a few days ago, a pear taken from a dwarf pear-tree, grown by Mr. William L. Hiter, of our county, that weighted one pound and a quarter. We had the pleasure, too, of trying, at our friend’s hospitable board, some extra fine sweet potatoes with nice, fresh butter and milk to match---things that can’t always be had by traveling editors. We have a decided penchant for such diet, and if, like Oliver Twist, we “ask for some more,” it must be set down by a natural weakness for good things.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
119 BIG CORN
September 27,1861--Mr. William Rogers, who lives on Yellow Creek, in this county, has shown us a sample of his corn; and we must say that, so far, it is entitled to “the horns.” It is not only very large but the grain is full and well developed. This corn weighs 61 poundes to the bushel. Who can beat it?
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
120 PEACHES
September 14,1860--We have been favored by Mr. John Tandy, residing near New Providence, with a basket of the most delicious peacher we have seen this year. They are of the variety known as the Heath Peach, and are the largest, and among the most delicious of that superb fruit. We take great pleasure in acknowledging Mr. Tandy’s nice present.
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