. The Southern States. not shift-less, always dissatisfied and--ti^verprosperous people, but in almost everyinstance families of means and force, portion of Western Tennessee. To-pographically, it is described as agreat plain that slopes gradually to-ward the Mississippi river, usually Avitha surface gently undulating, but insome places greatly roughened byabrupt hills and sharply-defined nar-row valleys. In this division there arebut few rocks. The character of thesoil varies greatly from the other di-visions of the State, being light, po-rous, silicious, and for the most partash-colored, but
. The Southern States. not shift-less, always dissatisfied and--ti^verprosperous people, but in almost everyinstance families of means and force, portion of Western Tennessee. To-pographically, it is described as agreat plain that slopes gradually to-ward the Mississippi river, usually Avitha surface gently undulating, but insome places greatly roughened byabrupt hills and sharply-defined nar-row valleys. In this division there arebut few rocks. The character of thesoil varies greatly from the other di-visions of the State, being light, po-rous, silicious, and for the most partash-colored, but charged with the ele- WESTERN TENNESSEE. 403 ments of an abounding- fertility. Thissoil, owing to its highly pulverulentcondition and the absence of rocks, iseasily washed into gullies, and greatercare is demanded for its preservation. few equal it. For clover and all thecultivated grasses, including timothy,herds-grass and orchard grass, as wellas the strictly Southern grasses, Ber-muda and Lespedeza, the plateau of. Somerville Female Institute. It grows all the crops of the latitudewith a wonderful fecundity, but cottonand corn are the staple crops, except inits central part, where vegetables andfruits have been substituted in largepart for cotton. This general description may beamplified by further fact. For in-stance, it gives a more thorough un-derstanding of the resources and capa-bilities of Fayette county to be toldthat no portion of the country is bet-ter adapted to the growth of fruits andgrapes, while for cotton, corn, wheat,rye, oats and barley—and all the gen-eral crops grown in the North—noportion of the South surpasses it and *Tennessee: Its Resources, Capabilities and De-velopment ; issued by the State Department ofAgriculture, Nashville, 1894. West Tennessee offers a soil and cli-mate unexcelled North or South. Statements regarding the wide va-riety of products to which this part ofTennessee is adapted are not based ontheory by any means, for the success-f
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