The Grasses Of Tennessee: Including Cereals And Forage Plants -
1878 - PREFACE. - In the preparation of this work all available
sources of information to be had in Europe or America have been
consulted. Free us haa been made of the standard works of Gray,
Flint, Gould and Howard, and also of the rdports of the
Agricultural Department at Wdshington, as well as the numerous
State reports. The admirable works of Prof. S. W. Johnson, of Yale
College, have supplied me with valuable information. I have had
access to the various publications of Baron I Liebig, the pioneer
in agricultural science, and have also derived much aid from the
painstaking researches of Wolff and Knop, of Germany of Johnson,
Way, Sinclair, Mechi, Voelcker, Lawes and Gilbert, of England, and
from the reports of the Highland Society of Scotland. The little
work of Edmund Blurphy, of Ireland, has been suggestive. I have
relied mainly, however, upon the experience, observation and
success the best farmers of our own State. Reference is made I
elsewhere to the great assistance received from Dr. W. M. Clarke,
Dr. Gattinger and Prof. Hunter Nicholson. The work is the result of
much labor, and I indulge the hope that it may be instrumental in
directing the minds of our farmers to the importance of the grasses
in the solulution of the problem of agricultural thrift and
prosperity. It is due to Mrs. Clare Snivelj, of Nashville, to say
that the cuts which appear in the work were executed by her, many
of them from original drawings. Several verbal errors escaped the
proof reader, many of which were detected and corrected before the
full edition of the book was worked off. On page 14, fifteenth line
from the top, there is an errorin the a statement made. There are
in fact about eighty species of sedges and rushes found growing in
the State, very few of which are eaten by cattle. The broomsedge,
so called, is not n sedge, but a true grass, belonging to the genus
andropogon, and for1118 thechief surnmer grazing of the Cumberland
Nountains. It should be called broom grass. J. B. KILLEBREW. July
27, 1878. To His Excellency, Governor James D. Porter Herewith is
submitted n treatise on the Grasses and Forage plants of Tennessee.
The geograpllical position of Tennessee eminently fits it to become
a great grain and stock-growing State. In 1840, Tennessee was the
largest corn-producing State in the Union. Difficult and tedious
tranaportation made it necessary to feed this corn at home, and so
in 1850, it took the foremost rank in the production of hogs. The
Northwest, with its virgin soil, was able to supply meat and bread
cheaper than Tennessee, and it became necessary for her people to
turn their attention in another direction. The demand for mules by
the cotton-growing States opened a, new avenue to agl. icultural
industry, so that in 1860, she became the largest mule-producing
State in the Union. The shock given to all her industries by the
war, and especially to her agricu tural interests, by the
destruction of her labor system, so disabled her that she bore off
no prize in the census returns of 1870. The destruc tidn of her
labor system, however, has tended to direct the minds of her
farmers, to a system of agriculture in which less labor will be
required. The sowing of more grass, and the raising of beef-cattle
and improved hogs and h e e z G ill rohnblsyh ow the direction of
her growth in the future....
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