Knoxville Daily Chronicle

Grassy Valley Items.

Grassy Valley presents a lively aspect now. As many as four or five plows may be seen operating on one farm at the same time, and from this we may expect an abundant oats harvest, if the season is favorable. But very little has been done preparatory to the coming corn crop, the cause of which, I suppose, is due to the severity of the winter, and the recently heavy rains.

Our farmers have hulled out quite a quantity of clover seed this winter and spring. I do not know the exact number of bushels threshed, but you can form a tolerably earnest idea, when I tell you this, that about twenty-five bushels will have been sown, by the last of the month in our immediate neighborhood.

The present wheat crop, though having been considerably chilled by the last hard freeze, is reviving and the fields are assuming their greenish appearance once more. Notwithstanding this, some of our farmers fearful of a failure, still retain a large portion of their last year's crop, refusing two dollars a bushel.

Our young folks, who are ever jovial, energetic, undespairing, and believe in enjoying life, entertain themselves about every fortnight at a sociable, at which the Grassy Valley string band never fails to discourse sweet music.