The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-02-27
What are we to Plant?

70 The following article we cut fro
W " the Now Orleans Picayune, and publil
. . it in the Home Journal believing th
, it will suit the locality of Tcnnesse
V and Franklin county as well, perhap
as Louisiana: Says the Picayune
live may believe our exchang,
~ n from the agricultural parishes, thel
y will be comparatively little cotton plal
J. ted this year; but we fear that thel
r will not be bestowed on other cror
the same energy, zeal and labor whic
!. was last year. given to that staple.
is not enough that cotton, which W
r cannot live upon, should be given ur
but we must have grains, vegetables an
fruits raised, upon which we may.
Our people talk much upon the nc
cessity and usefulness Of immigration
but a region which cannot offer the i'm
migrant cheap food cannot retain him
He will inevitably 60 where he can liv
at low cost and lay up some part o
bis wages. The only immigrants W
retain will be that idle and vicious class
who live on their employers stores ant
never seek to raise themselves abov,
the level of dependency. Such labor
ers are Improbable, even as hirelings
as they have not the hopefulness which
gives persistence and energy to him
who strives to win a home, where he
may make an independent living.
Our exchanges iA the upper part of
the State are continually bemoaning the
fact that so many "movers" cross Lou
isiana and 60 into Texas. Why do
they not stay where there is so much
good land, far. more "convenient to
market" than any in TexasY Simply,
because the meat and bread of Louisi.
lana is so dear, and always has been
dear, from being produced north ofthe
mouth ofthe Ohio and bought in New
Orleans, while in Texas food can be
at half the price, not this
year only, but for the year to come,
and so on, as always has been the case. |
Men who are moving because of their
necessities, will not stay where equal or |
greater necessity must be encounter
I'd.
But what can we raise says the ex
cotton planter :? First, you can this year
lave four times the garden you had last
ear. You can help your wives and
daughters raise poultry. You can keep
!p and mind your swine and increase
heir numbers, feeding them largely on
ne roots you will raise in your garden.
,ou can thus have constant supply
t meat without buying bacon. You
an have bountiful crops of sweet and
rish potatoes, so as to have supply
f these things to live on from MAY
oming perpetually atterward. DO
lis, and never talk of starvation being
ossiblc.
Dig your ground deep and you need ,
ever fear the droughts which have |
cen so fatal TO shallow cultivation of
ardens. DO the work yourself and it
i'll be well done; put u negro to work G
I'd unless you stand by all the time it p
III be neglected, t,
The garden is first and paramount, a
+ it will support you alone, especially
you add to it small fields of potatoes 9.
d other root crops either to sell or ;r
I'd to stock. Then have your corn =, u,
las, and if possible your wheat, and =. =.
c, and barley fields. The hop, the -
stor oil bean, broom corn, and flax, VI VI
her for seed or lint, have all proved =.
ofitable, and their culture should be "
gun.
You should also plant bountifully of U
COW pea 1t makes good food for OF
n, and the best for your animals, be. b.
es being valuable manure for your 81
d. lfyours be Mississippi bottom, II
| rich, it is likely to be tenacious, te
! the plowed in pea vines will loos- W
it. Even rich land becomes exhaus- ha
in some measure and needs enliven- su
. But there is nothing we raise as or
d which pays better than the COW
), for it makes flesh and fat in abun. oil
ice for your animals. v;l
Fruit should receive special atten- Co
l. Like all things else which are Il
liable, it must be attended to, or the fo,
ce given it will be lost. The region dn
IRE lruit grows spontaneously, and
ps into the mouth without labor, is
topia which men read of and seek, DE
never find, as tue returning emf oul
nts to Brazil and Honduras will tell 1t
. You must work around, and er
r, with your fruit, and take care of yo'
II it will be worthless. But there GOV
more profitable thing to be raised sta
fruits, from the strawberry to the Is
III and orange, if mon make good dul
ctions, raise properly, tend well,
pick and convey to market in the Grs
t manner. As food it is vastly su-
Or to flesh or grain. 7
he garden should be chiefly atten. o,l,
to first, because it will be the earl "pn "rn
20 give harvest, and is therefore Wv
most needed in year following r
of bad crops and misdirected labor ~ =,
next, because it is TIE nursery of hios t.
things as will be needed as addi- ,,os os
to our lists officld crops. Among tho' e,
is the ramie, which bids fair to al, AL
the place Of cotton, being finer u tha,
safer as fn article Of culture; but, nro. r
e all, fruits Of all kinds, which E d.
Id be far more than they are now, tho,
ood of our people, whether we re- ;nto into
health or the making the home to. INV, ,n
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8 about the visitors that came totto o.
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