The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-05-15


Yazoo river At this latter place he ar
rived little more than a year ago, and
being entirely without money, effected
a rent Of ten acres Of ground from
Judge Scuthworth, q planter, who for
merly owned a considerable number of
slaves. Upon these ten acres he pro
duced, unaided, nina bales Of cotton.
which were recently sold, returning a
clear profit Of 500 for his years labor.
With his present experience. he thinks
Che ten acres might readily have been
made to yield 6 profit Of $500. Mr..
Averbeck has this year rented sixty
acres, and is now IN the city for the
purpose Of employing a number of
Germans to work on the plantation-he
Judge Southworth lIr. HilIiard and
each to take some Of them. With this
additional force, increased nuAber of
acres and one years experience IN rails
ing cotton, Mr.. Averbeck feels quite
saneuine Of his prospects for the pres
ent year.
In reply to an interrogatory from us
respecting the climate and state of his
health while living in Mississippi, he
said that his health had never been bet
ter since coming to this country, and
that each day through the season he
had worked In the field at his cotton,
and that. also, there were several others
of his countrynen on the same planta-
ton, each of whom, like himself, were
in perfect health.
Editor-Do you think that section
adapted to your German population?
Mr.. A-Yes, entirely SO. I know no
part of the Union where, with reason
able care of themselves, white men may
expect better health, or by energy and
industry reap a more certain return for
their labor than in that part of the
South where I am at present living.
Editor-How have the citizens treated
you, and how are they disposed toward
emigrants Who come among them to
make homes?
Mr.. Al have uniformly met with
kindness at the hands of those people,
and so viii every emigrant who goes
there with the right split.
Editor-Dd they interfere with you
in your political views?
Mr.. A.-No; vote as I please, attend
to my business, and, indeed, am thor
oughly satisfied with my surroundings,
believing that I have at last alighted
upon the right place for money making.
Editor-Do you cultivate anything
beside cotton?
Mr.. A.-Eo. I think there is more
money IN / than in corn, and believe
that the Wet and the Northwest is the
proper place for grain although the
Judge and others there contend that we
might and should raise fine crops of
corn. believe one serious error in
Southern culture proceeds from the ex-
treme shallov blowing that is almost
entirely in vogue. Deep blowing viii
protect both cotton and corn from
drouth, as well as from excessive rains !;
and the soil In most instances is so deep
that it is difficult to reach the bottom
even with the deepest pillow.
Editor-WIat progress are the ne
groes making?
MIR. A--Some are doing well; but
the majority, however, are not. They
are disposed to take too many holidays,
in the first place, and in the second,
when at work viii not put in a full days
labor, making it late before going into
the field, and leaving off before night
comes on. There is a family of eight
colored persons renting from the Judge,
their land lying beside mine; and with
their united force they made ten bales
of cotton-iust one more than I made
single-handed. You can readily see the
reason of this was because they wouli
not work steadily.
After some herremarks upon the
condition of affairs in that section. and
the future promise of the planting in
terest, M. A. left, mpressing us that he
was thoroughly inbued with advan-
tages there found, and that, SO far as he
was able to judge from an agricultural
standpoint, the South had decided adj
vantages over any place he had tried for
this purpose.