The Arkansas advocate., 1830-11-03
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ment; he may devote his attention. if so disposed, to the same kinds of cultivation to which he had been accustomed in other clines; and the mechanic will meet with the most hattering encouragement.
 Most of the southern settlements depend upon some other place for their supplies of wheat and other small grains; but here. every man can raise sufficient for his owl support. with the certainty of good mar ket for all lis surplus; and find streams in almost every neighborbood, for the eree- -tion of mills. Virginia is dependant upon her sister state, Kentucky, for her pork. Arkansas, within herself, possesses all the means, with moderate degree of indus try, of suppl ysasss sa. e.!yy Her own wants, but much of the lower country. The grasses, such as timothy and clover, pro inise to answer the same valuable purposes where requisite, that they do in the mother states though as yet, and probably for many years to come, there will continue to be solarge an extent of unsettled coun- try, producing the most luxuriant grasses, as to render their cultivation in great measure unnecessary. Cattle are raised Tn great numbers, and very many of the poorest families have stock which would be considered too large for the best plan
 
 tatlons Ill kentucky--a stock raised with out much trouble or expense, from which they yl1i not only procure their own meat and butter, bu. what money their immedi- ate wants require; and the winters are so nild as to render the feeding of them un- necessary. Persons accustomed to raise cattle in pastures, aud feed them in winter on the labors Of the summer, can form no adequate idea fthe extent to which it can be carried here, or the ease and tridinr expense attending it, nothing more being requisite than occasional salting, for the weather seldom becomes so cold, or con. tinues indictment forso great a length of time as to endanger them. 4 short time since, several gentlemen apparently from the more wealthy classes of Kentucky far ifieTs, were examining the T Territory, and mentionedthat they had stopped at a house, where thesinhabitants, though friendly and hospitable, scarcely appeared to possess ordinary necessaries, or the means of pro- curing them, yet they were told that this same family were the owners of a hundred head of cattle; so incredulous were they, they made other inquiries and to their astonIshmeht learned that most of his neighbors were equally as we'll off With
 
 from the depths of poverty to competency and responsibility from the gradual and natural increase of this kind of property, we feel no surprise, yet this competency and this responsibility is within the reach of every man who comes. Tn a few years farmer here. will from small number of cows, acquire a stock, the increase of which will not only gratify him, but create nS SferL saf l.. Her period of his life, come to the country so congenial to the increase of his means. Personal observation has long since con- ylnced me that najurelhas destined Arkan- sas to become an extensive sheep nursery. Like the cattle, they would require nc feeding either winter nor summer. for the grass Is sufficient for the supporter almost any number in any part of the coumtry.- Compare the sheepsraised here, with those which come from Missouri, Kentucky or Illinois, and we suffer nothing by the com. parlson; oars are not only larger, but com petent judges say, that the Ark ansas wool Is the finest. And this is not all; in those and other states, they shear but once in tle year, whereas we get two coats equally as large and equally as good. Their sheep give an increase but once in the year: ours usually lamb twice. So that, we cannot only keep OUT sheep at triIing expense, hut get what we call a double fleece and two-fold increase.
 It must be recollected, that Arkansas has not been settled "a sufficient length of time to have become much improved. or to have been the theatre of experimental farming; on1t 1the~contrary, most of our set tiers arc those who came dependant rpon their industry for an immediate support. and that in struggling with the forest, and all the hardships attendantupon new and unsettled country, some time is required to enable them to become in some measure comfortable, and the owners of their little farms. lt is, however, generally assuming an appearance fardiiferent from that which 1t presented few years ago. The inhab- ltants, many of whom had disposed of all they possessed to get here, and dependant upon their daily labor aud the game for livelihood, have become comparatively -in- dependent, and look back to the times. which are past as but dream. Fifteen years ago and beyond the immediate nirh-i borhood of the Post of Arkansas, there was but one family which enjoyed the luxury of glass window--an enviable distinction then, out considered as an extrayagance which should be discountenanced Now, most of our farmers occupy comfortable houses, and glass window no longer ex- cites astonishment.
 A few years since Crawford, Pope and " Washington, now possessing population of several thnnsand sen!s, and rapidly in- creasing, formed but one county, and rave but 6ouotcs. They are vet but tbinly set tied. presenfi3ar fo tho tr.,vaI1 ,r xt . eeau'iiui situations, with large bodies of me mn lands nnoeeupied and uninproyed. - 'iese countries, and particularly Wishing -fnIi..h.Au =