American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-04-26

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about fifteen dollars per thousand,
and if a large quantity is ordered il
could IA short time ago be had for
about thirteen dollars per thousand
feet. We hav plenty OF most eX
ce lent brick.
CROPS.
The great staple production of
the Sou;h Is cotton, and SO with us
cotton is the leading crop. During
the year 1872 this county produced
over 10000 bales of cotton. which
was worth this year about $40 per
bale. The corn crop of this county
Is always large, but never SO large
as it should be. Everybody en-
aeavor> to raise enough corn for his
own use. Good farmers Away
succeed in this, and some Of them
lave large quantities to sell. OatS
grow admirably. On the place of
Wea.hershy & Hnff,nan. before
mentioned, [ walked into the cat
field and found the oats in many
places higher than my head. Rye
also does well. Wheat is raise l..
but not to any great extent. never
planted any wheat. Irish potatoes
grow nicely, but they do not keep
in the fall as they do north. Sweet
| potatoes seem to be i'll their ''native
element" here. | have seen them
to weigh eight and nine pounds,
! and one to weigh as much as eleven
pounds, and what is surprising, y
single acre will produce from two
hundred to three hundred bushels
of them. These potatoes keep we'll
land make most excellent food for
milk cows and other beasts. | have
eaten sweet potatoes in many other
States, but never had them so sweet,
nutritious and excellent as h re.
! We have what is known as field
peas, which are on every plantation.
and are magnificent thing for man
and beast. Gardens are in their
glory here, and Notwithstanding so
much can be grown, ami in many
instances two crops can be grown
on the same ground in a season,
they are still much neglected. Every
kind of garden vegetables grew III
great abundance. Peaches and figs
are abundant every year-fg trees
grow very fast.
THE SEASONS
are so early that it makes living
cheap and enjoyable. You know
when you were here a month ago
that peach trees We're in blOOm-the
late ones are still blooming. Forest
trees are now green with foliage
and many trees in the forest in full
bloom. Gardens are every where
made now, and many garden vege-
tables are above ground, coming on,
with pride and promise, and this is
perhaps the latest spring ve have
had for years. We plant Irish pc
taiOes in January or February, and
they are large enough to use by
May first. Every year since | have
been in the State l have had Irish
potatoes ready to use by the first
day of May, and sometimes earlier.
Corn is .ipe in September, and cot
ton picking cOmnencrS-by the first
of September, and some years soon
err. We SOW oats in December. If
sheep or calves find their way into
The oats during the winter months,
they, generally, are sufficiently ell
tertained to remain till sent for.
WINTER
has been unusually long this year
the hardest winter | have PX
perienceu in eight years. We have
usually one or two light SHOWS every
winter, which melt as fast as they
fall. and we have mud very heavy
and no demand.' We generally
have but a few real cold days every
winter. We had Ice once strong
enough to holi a man, and | heard
IA gentleman WHO had lived here all
his life, say that he had never known
such thing before. The great ali
vantage of this climate over that
of Pennsylvania is shat we DO
not have to stop work here and
feed our stock for Ave months out
of the year. Little can be done IL
Pennsylvania during winter pit
take care OF stock, aud the tariA IS
an expense during all this time,
while here we Can plow every day
of the year, il the ground is net toe
wet. ] have known the weather in
January to be very warm and pleas
ant, and the streets and roads I'M
pleasantly dusty.
STOCK.
Cattle are bat rarely fed here,
and / never have known q sheep 90
lie .ed here. They generally run i'll
the fields and sNanps and gather
enoug,. to live upon. Bat this is
all wrong. They need some feed IN
the winter, and should lie ied and
cared ;o.'. But my argument is
that il cattle can gather "a !ivin g
here without 81 :noutlf:.. of Feed.
except What they SO pick up. how
much less must 30 tie cost CT win
tering them than where you iiiist
feed and shelter them Ave months.
y farmer can plow or 10 farm work
every day Of the year.
ZEE PEOPLE.
In this connty tne negroes are in
tie majority. and they work fer any
body who will pay them, and l
know OF many OF them that wo1k
"a! the time and get nothing beyond
food an,. Clothing. But they, AS g
class. are the NEST kind, Submissive
people that / ever l;new anything
about. Tne history OF the world
does not ...g:iis.i gI, instance Of so
many ignorant ha:uan beings made