The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-01
CORRESPONDENCE.

Il CORRESPONDENCE
i MARSHALL, Texas, March nth, 1875.
DEAR TELEGRAPH 81 suppose that Ken
osha County farmers are beginning TO look
at their land little and to calculate about
how soon they can begin to prepare the
ground for crops. while her. farmers are
beginning TO have an easy time, oats all
gardens MADE, and farmers can take o rest
before planting cotton.
The farming here is decidedly the most
primitive that have ever seen. Passing
tho field of a man who prldss himself on
being one Of the best of farmers, / thought I
would measure the depth OF his furrow and
found it to be rttic less than two inches.
He says. "No shallow blowing for me, man
must plow deep If he 10 going to make
crops" The plows which are used here are
| decided curiosltieA. The pillow share 10
about as Ia, &c again as good sized cultiva-
tor tooth. have seen boy OF fourteen go
into the field driving his enc mule before
MIN and carrying the pillow on his shoulder.
Tie boy was probably much better able to
carry 1t than the mule for some OF the mules
have to lean aga INST their mates when they
have one to stand up in the streets. In pre-
pairing the ground for corn. they plough only
cross furrows about three feet apart, to mark
the ground and the only fertilizer used is O
handful Of cotton seed in each hill. Only
one kernel Of corn is planted in o hill and
they think that ten bushels of corn to the
acre Ia ipe crop.
The harrow used here is even more prim-
tive than the plough. 1t consists of bundle
Of brush bouHd tcgetl er with q rope and
dragged back and forth. no other kind 10
known. RakeR, hoes and farm harnesses all
correspond, and rsa, ers, mowers, or even
syihes are not known. 1t does not coat
much to 1T man out with farming utensils
here.
Every thing grows almos. sponta neously
here and with proper cultivation I see no
reason why II should not become the garden
OF ths Southw west. Fruits grow IL the great
est abundance and yes none are preserved
for winter use. and the fare ON the average
able either town or country 10 usually bat
con and corn bread with occasionally q dish
of sweet potatoes or Tom fuller (uomny.l
i SO little demand ia theirs for esh vegeta-
bies taat Northern people can only get them
by having them imported from st. Louis,
which of course make than veIy expensive.
Cabpages vary from 20 to 4oc's j. Il, &C.
cording TO size. Irish potatoes from to 4
dollars hushel. Turnips dollar bushel
and Goshen (Northern) butter from so 20 FL
cts pound and not to be had sometimes,
even at that price. Texas butter in the
is very much like rancid sour cream. Dairy
ling here is not very profitable, from the fact
that during the Wsnter, the only time they
lean maks good butter, the COWS are turned
into the woods to pick up their own living
whicL al that time Is a precRrious one,
and in the spring If they do not starve quite
TO death they are so thin and weak that IL
requires severaI months to recruit in Very
few ever feed their cattle during the winner.
Farming 10 very profitable TO the large laid
holders, for as n general thing they are I'M
scrupulous as to the meaps employed TO
get the whole crop away from the laborers
be they white or colored. The result Is that
after struggling for ears. with want and
privation, working almost night and day,
trying to get start, only to see the fruits
Of their labor taken from Them by fraud,
they become discouraged and leave the
fsrms and colleco Ia the towns, where If
they labor. they Will get part al least of
their wages. They think that OF two evils
they had better choose the least, and prefer
TO s,arve in idlenes to working hard with
the Ger ainty of being left to starvation.
Those who can succeed in getting a little
piece OF land of their own will many of them
work late of nights o fix it up. The poor
whites do not rise much for they rcpel every
effort TO elevate them, but the colored peo-
pie, many of them. in spite of the terrible
oppression and fraud which is practiced up
on them, are honest, reliable, and indrstri-
Gus. have had q chance to observe and
study them which no tourist can possibly
have and The wonder to me is not that so
many are INDECENT. dishonest and unreliable
but that SO many have made for themselves
good reputation in spite of all the efforts
that have been put forth by their former
masters to degrade them P.M.H.
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