Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1875-04-24
FARM GARDEN ANO HOUSEHOLD,
MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY.

MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY.
Col. W. w. Troup, Of this county,
has about thirty white men from this
State and Alabama ut work ON one Of
his farms, and speaks in the highest
terms 0: them. On another place he
has four Englishmen at work. aid
says that he never saw men get along
more satisfactorily.-Ab Err.
dminer.
The secret of it, VIC guess IL, Col.
Troup treats them like white men who
are bis equals. We have heard men
say that they had tried white Iaborcrs,
and they proved q dead failure
worse than the id niger. In.
quiries satisfied US that they tried to
treat them like id Niger" and
white men can't, shouldn't and won't
stand it.-Merididn Mercury.
There is q great deal more Of truth
than poetry in what is said by the
Mercury. With too many people the
only idea Of immigration is to induce
white people to come to Mississippi
to take the place of negroes" as
hired lsborers! In many cases they
are expected to occupy the same
miserable houses once occupied by
negroes, and to live in the same filthy
and shiftless manner. Such immi-
grafton is no: desirable. What We
want TO advance the prosperity and
promote the wealth Of Mississippi, is
honest and industrious white meu to
come to our State to own and till the
soil on their own account! With
white men 20 cultivate, beautify. and
adorn their oua broad acres, Missis-
sippi will move forward with an
elastic bound ON the high road to
prosperity, but without that kind o:
immigration she will continue to
founder in the wide, deep slough of
despond in which she has been strug-
CLING for the last ten years."-Ficks-
burg Herald.
| VENTILATION.
In o recent physiological work a
very simple method Of ven,ilating
slceping-rooms is mentioned. which is
said to prevent draught being felt
an Inconvenience often experienced
When rooms are ventilated by the
windows. A piece Of wood three
inches high and exactly as long as
the breadth Of the window, is to be
prepared. Let the sash be now raised
the slip of wood placed on the sill
and the sash drawn closely upon it.
If the slip has been well fitted there
will be no draught in consequence
of this displacement Of the sash ut its
lower part; but the top Of the lower
sash will overlap the bottom Of The
upper one, aud between the two bars
perpendicular currents Of DIR, not felt
Is draught, will cutter and leave the
room.
(Co.rc.pon,lence Southern Cultivator
PRACTICE WITH SCIENCE.
Agriculture is an art developed from
the application Of many sciences, and
unless it is studied and practiced as
such, there will he little or no change
in the condition Of farmers. Th'
prevailing custom now is, for mai
or boy " hO has more than ordinary
in,ellix ixence, to select some other oc
cupatiou than farming; consequently
q large part of the intelligence Of ,h'
countr, Is in other fields, and l.
managing to get the last dollar th'
farmer can make. without giving il
return value received.
Unless we can change this drift o
. intelligence, farming will way along
with the same success as it has for th
. last ten years. The older farmer
. lost by emancipation aud con6scation
their energy and labor. But II W
5 could put part Of the energy ant
= intelligence working against US q
present in the farm or If tho younl
men and boys would change thei
ideas about the gentlemsnly ant
. honorable position of clerk. pro
!. gressive agriculture would commence
s l don't know, however, that tic afOrt
], said young men arc badly wrong
l. they work directly and correctly. an
y we indirectly; but respectively Tor tb
. factor and merchant.
It If all the Patrons of Husbandr
1t had money. they could maSe farmin
e. scientific art-cOuld put millions {
D dollars in the farming interest. an
y move energy and enterprise with
20 But the process through tho Grang
ct is too slow-wc want change in th
y, generation.
ID Intelligence plone can make farr
'e ing progressive. and pay the labo
er Tho negro would bo the best work.
D. 10 the world. if we could invent
of plan to make money o considerable
o. with him. That is our great nee
Of We have the negro, progressi'
es science. q good climate. aud eveI
II. facility for using labor-saving impl
of ments and diversifying our croT
r; don't attribute our present CONF
lis ton altogether to ixoorsnce-I put
&C. good share down 10 La.iness, Ii o
lie young men had the necessary industr
I'D studied the Southern CultlvatOr, al
Of observed the wise laws of nature, ,
er would have q wonderful change in
'ly few years. OF. e.
ch
i'm BIG.uEAD IN HORSES.
nd w. c b. Fsyette. Miss.-In o
of the early Nos. Of American Far
or, when published by its first ag
leu cultural editor, j. S. Skinner, abe