The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-23
NORTH WEST MEssIssuPPL.
DEsoTo FRONT, DEsoTo Co., MISS. !
June 18th, 1875.

DEsoTo FRONT, DEsoTo Co., MISS.
June 18th, 1875.
EDITORS CLARIoN;-The crop pros
pect was never more fiattering here than
at present. The season, with the except
ton of some rather cool weather in April
and May, has been as propitious as could
have been wished. Corn crops have
never been so promising since the war.
The total acreage planted here this year,
as compared with last, is an increase of
about 20 per cent, but nearly all the in
crease is in corn, hay and small grain.
The planters here seem, at last, to have
realized that it is bad policy to raise cot
ton to buy corn with, and have deter
mined to raise their own corn at home.
The great scarcity of corn in this section
heretofore is not attributable, altogether,
to an insuficiency of area planted, but
principally to deficiency in fencing and
want of proper care in housing which
caused the destruction of large proper
ton of the crop. This, however, has
been remedied to a great extent. Fences
have been repaired, or built anew, and
crop when gathered.
Several of our planters have good
deal of oats, rye, millet, ETC., some o,
which will, in the course of few daysl
be ready for the scythe. They desire tc
follow with some kind of grass, or grain,
that will thrive best in hot weather, and
mature before frost. Being what might
be termed beginners in rotation of
crops" and particularly in growing small
grain and grasses, they need information,
which you can. and will, know, willing
ly give Some speak of orchard, or
herd grass, and some of sowing clover in
the fall If they intend sowing clover
would it be as well to pasture the land
until fall, after taking off the growing
crop? Irish potatoes have been planted
to considerable extent in our section
this year with view to marketing the
crop, but it is thought that the expert
ment will not prove renumeratlve.
Labor is more plentiful here this year
than it has been since the war, and in
stead of the planter being dependent upon
the negro for labor as heretofore, the ne
gro is now dependent on him for emyloy
ment, and the result is they are working
much better than usual.
The negroes here, as elsewhere, take a
great deal of interest in politics, and have
concluded that they have such a large
majority, in this county, that they can
throw overheard their carpet-bag leaders
and run the political machine themselves ;
consequently they have determined upon
straight-out black ticket for the ensuing
political campaign. They have so much
faith in their large majority that they
have allowed two rival factions to arise
among themselves. We look on in 81
lence but will not let the proper time for
action escape US. A few years ago We
beheld in the distance this black cloud
rising and stretching its dense masses
| along our political horizon. Each year
it has approached nearer, its darkness
and terror increased, and we trembled
more. But now that it has reached US
and hovers its black wings around US, we
see with pleasure the disaffectiOn of it'
own elements, and behold through its self
made rents the bright political sun, once
more rising, that is soon to illuminate
the whole of our once happy South.
]. T. L.