The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-01-02

had quite the same impression on their minds IT leave you say
whether Solar as the highways and older settlements Of the State
concerned, it is fully justified.
From Ripley Housefom Holly Springs Wood
Vile do many and danger of
going the encroachmen of the red washes and
surroundings waving with broom sege instead Of bread cr
plantations tumbed bodily ule almost beyond
the of practically possible hills denuded
subso and the fertile valleys with Hood OF
arid years ago had lively running
high banks all the round-through fields waving with
corn and
scOURGE
portions of the State which comparatively exempt from
the sand ourge injury inflicted by
would hardly portions of Marshall and Benton
counties lately has assumed the character of public
calamity turnngout hillside land during
suited innumerabe hillside gues which,
qucsand reached the depth of few feet widen with
rapdty only Washing but by caring The hard
protected untitled surface of the land sheds much larger proper
than formerly and much rapidly into these
gues which, during heavy tumbing grulke of
and w4tere energies upon the valleys.
the the then comparatively slight danger of nundaion
by Strengthening the channels of the
thus increasing their carrying Oft the sand poured into them
from hillside now quantity greatly
old valley bitches
is extremely any likely
command private individuals kept keep open
The huge hills lodge
somewhere land Each
neghbo above below him. the may be- and the lawsuits
resulting thereom would be legion but for the fact that each
being himself for precisely the omissions,
all parties would in the end fare about alike.
probably upland county the State where
examples general character resulting
the serious injury the upand and the
smaller valleys
What we Marshall Lafayette repeated
in Winston Lauderlale Jasper
underlying
subso great DEPTH which the fully
of the upland. in the State
rest-look prair of Northeast Misspp-Aon
oe Lowndeshe garden spot Mississippi
which for thirty forty has unremitgy yielded mag
nfcent crops rapidly giving ou7 Were lands that twenty years
ago. bought $2O offered per just
the without finding purchasers? viii argue about
market vaue influenced by outside circumstances
through glare fact the older
Okolonahundreds and acres of
richest looking prairie thrown cultivation because
their market
ceased be remuneratve both from their Indifferent quantity
quality and from their liability to frequent failure.
"INEXHA UsTIBLE" BOTTOM
From the growing nly of the uplands the large planters
especially have years past sought refuge bottoms pacu
lry that of the Mississippi In these indeed many
thought they had found that tabled soil that
poohoh the idea becoming exhausted dark
pitch bayous to get rid of
it. But the laws every where and cannot long
be defed with mpunty It that the Mississippi bot
rich and and that
fertile as was three thousand wears ago But that il Of
the annual overfows which continually
rich soil from the table-ands of Abyssinia.
But as it the best soil Mississippi bottom 1.-THE
bucksho aluvial one, by the deposits of the
present river but analogous to the upland prairie soils Moreover
best shut overfows and will doubt
less succeed in doing The time of exhaustion bottoms the
WI" surely COME ana VIII be felt by OF the generation
the Of the of the fertility that
they receive the of the soils o uplands
I'VE MUST CHANGE THAT
Can this of things Does how long will it be
before the faret nd
out by the first settlers shall become gues and
broomsedge? If do not their heritage nationally well
might the Chckaaws and Choctaws moral right the
act by which their beautiful pake hunting grounds were turned
another put them to the u
for which the Creator them.
Under their these lands have lasted forever. nno
as heretofore pracced in less than more the State
would be reduced to the condition of Campagna
This will not and cannot be- in these rapid PROGRESS infer
communication and hot competition If ourselves were to fail to
do by lands ought they would simply pass ayay from r
hands into others willing conform If the
times, dictated prudence common sense Tho
fraction of bale
long hold his ground alongside of him with little more labor a
expense raises entire BALE and quality which in the
market will bring two or three per pound
1t almost tre that will cultivate Door
and yet dare there among do not do 50 certain
extent. In this evidently works our faith
CULTIvATING MUCH LAND
What the poorer land the more of it we try 70 l
vae Vany attempting our labor bv dif
it larger
There not probably in all practice error more widely diff
useo ana more aa Its consequences than this attempting
cultivate much ndtng badly of course firing the teams
by dnt of just travelling manuring not at all The labor
and expense thus scattered ground raise one hale
OF cotton would frequently if bestowed of half
the almost double the product staple raised on mora
generous soil would be of much better quality that gathered off
the haitstarved stalks on the four poor acres
One of this persistence cultivation of moor land h
that opinions differ greatly poor land and h
no farm accounts kept always Judge when u
ceases to be profitable Them too mu in the
habit OF considering all lands poor that will not produce nr
bic crops of corn