First and Second Reports of the Bureau of Agriculture for the State of Tennessee: Introduction to the Resources of TennesseeTavel, Eastman & Howell, 1874 - 1193 pages |
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... fertile , but marshy spots , covered with cypress forests , occur in places along the river . The main valley sends out various subordinate ones , extending sometimes as far as twenty or twenty - five miles before they are lost in the ...
... fertile , but marshy spots , covered with cypress forests , occur in places along the river . The main valley sends out various subordinate ones , extending sometimes as far as twenty or twenty - five miles before they are lost in the ...
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... fertile portions of the State . III . The Cumberland Table Land . The region of coal . A high plateau or table , capped with sandstone . IV . The Highlands , or Rimlands , or Terrace - lands , that encircle a basin of rich lowlands in ...
... fertile portions of the State . III . The Cumberland Table Land . The region of coal . A high plateau or table , capped with sandstone . IV . The Highlands , or Rimlands , or Terrace - lands , that encircle a basin of rich lowlands in ...
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... fertile soils . Under the more favorable conditions , corn will sometimes grow three inches in a single night , and the melon and grape - vine almost as much . European grapes rarely do well with us . Attempts to acclimate the Malaga ...
... fertile soils . Under the more favorable conditions , corn will sometimes grow three inches in a single night , and the melon and grape - vine almost as much . European grapes rarely do well with us . Attempts to acclimate the Malaga ...
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... fertile soils . It is to be noted that the higher mountains of the State trend in such a direction as not to interfere with these life - giving and fructifying breezes . Table No. 17 gives the number of winds from the different points ...
... fertile soils . It is to be noted that the higher mountains of the State trend in such a direction as not to interfere with these life - giving and fructifying breezes . Table No. 17 gives the number of winds from the different points ...
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... fertile a region may be , it cannot become the focus of wealth unless its conditions are favorable to health , and consequent activity of the mind and body . The two united , fertile soil and salubrity of climate , coupled with a fair ...
... fertile a region may be , it cannot become the focus of wealth unless its conditions are favorable to health , and consequent activity of the mind and body . The two united , fertile soil and salubrity of climate , coupled with a fair ...
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abundant agricultural amount annually average barren better blue-grass bottoms bushels cattle Central Basin cents Chattanooga chert Clarksville clay climate clover coal colored corn cotton county seat coves Creek crops cultivation Cumberland River Cumberland Table Land district dollars per acre Duck River East Tennessee farmers farms feet fertile fifty Fork fruit furnaces grape grass grow Hawkins county hematite Highland Rim Highlands hills hogs horses hundred improved iron Kentucky Knoxville labor limestone manufacture Maury county McMinn county Memphis mills mineral mountain mules Nashville nearly oats plows poplar population portion pounds profitable quantity Railroad raised region rich road rocks runs sandstone schools Shale sheep shipped Shoals side soil spring square miles streams supply surface Tennessee River thickness timber tion tobacco tons town trees Valley valuable variety Virginia Walden's Ridge water-power wheat yield
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