The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-27

the reach Of all, at ttifling expense,
and iii iiiany Eases with NO expense
save the planting, and yet how iiian,
dwellings remain for years without a
single tree to shield them. The road
ways, too, could be lined with trees,
with little or no disadvantage to the adj
joining lands, and with great advantage
to the passer-by, including the owners,
and as, in most towns, cattle and all an
imals are properly excluded from a
vagabond life in the high#a}s, these
shade and ornamental trees may be
planted outside of the fences with
,fety
If the Patrons of this country would
take hold of this important subject
once in earnest, how easily they could
line the highways of the whole country
with beautiful ornamental trees, and
tax themselves but lightly in time or in
money:
Does any one doubt the desirability
of such improvement? Let such a
one drive along a public road where
even one farmer has by forethought
and a little enterprise, years before
such visit, planted such trees, and con-
trast his impressions with those
awakened by look at his own barren
highways, and then judge. The fact is,
such investments cost comparatively
little, and never fail to pay largely.
No one can pass such a property
without half wishing that he owned it,
and if he is ready and able to purchase,
he is willing to pay well for such i'm
provement. So it is with the more
substantial comforts of country life.
They are within the reach of all, and
cost comparatively little. All that
is needed is forethought and little
well-timed labor. Of such comforts
are the small fruits, which many
farmers never sec in their own
dwellings. Grapevines are as easily
cultivated as corn. Strawberries,
raspberries, and blackberries should
occupy few rods on every farm.
Most of the drudgery, monotony
and deprivation of farm life, result
from stupidity. 1t is commonly
thought by those who live along for
years on corn meal and potatoes, that
these luxuries are too costly for poor
farmers. This is all nonsense. No
class of people in the world can secure
them so easily and so certainly. City
people know little of these luxuries in
their perfection, as they rarely get them
fresh from the fields; and if the farmer
would only use his opportunities, his
family will seldom complain of their
situation.
HOW TO MODIFY OUR INSTRUCTIONS.
When we speak of planting peas in
and December, our sugges-
lions are good for our latitude, but we
expect readers in south Florida, or in
northern Virginia, and even in the
more distant parts of our own State, to
make the necessary allowances for |
difference in climate. Our dates must |
be considered movable, and may be |
carried backward or forward, accord |
ngly as the readers latitude may be
north or south of ours. From five
lays to week for each degree of lati-
Jude may be taken as general rule in
measuring climatic differences, but to
his there will be many exceptions,
upon the distance from the
ocean, altitude, the physical conforma-
lion of the country, and the character
IF the soil. In the same latitude, too,
he time for performing many horticul-
.ural operations will vary considerably
with the varying seasons. The reader
IS always supposed to have brains and
% use them, otherwise books and mag
,zines will be of little use.-RurM Car
'linion for November.
VICIOUS CIRCLE IN FARMING.
A correspondent of the Southern
Plantation is reminded of the anecdote
which the Professor of political econ
'my, in the University of Virginia,
lsed to tell:
A Pennsylvania one day hearing
Virginia gentlemen Boosting of the
arge crop of corn he expected to make
IN farm, remarked, Colonel, you
must make great deal of corn to sell.
No, sir, l never sell corn. What we
lon't eat give to my hogs" ooh!
beg pardon, you're a dealer in bacon"
6 No, sir, don't sell bacon, l give it
o my negroes" "And pray, Colonel,
what do you do with your negroes?"
8 What do l do with them? Why, sir,
hey make my corn" This is the
,ircle, only smaller one, which most
If our farmers pursue. They make
lotion to buy meat, mules, ETC., and
hey buy meat, mules, ETC., to make
cotton; and when the cotton is not
efficient for this purpose, they buy on
'redit, and mortgage their mules, land,
,tc., for payment. But an industry
reeds to be diversified in other respects.
n the language of Mr.. Jefferson, eve
must now place the manufacturer by
he side of the agriculturist."
HOLDING BACK THE COTTON.
Worthy Master d. Wyatt Aiken
las published a letter addressed to the
PLANTERS of the South, in which he
lrges them to hold back their cotton
or better prices. Sound advice, we
hink, if it were possible for the plant
rs generally to follow it, and the fact
hat they cannot is Il sad commentary
N their impoverished condition, and
N their method of doing business. To
hose who have given liens on their
rops, he says: Pursue the same course
hat the merchant does when he cannot
meet his obligations without sacrificing
lis stock-ask a renewal. "MOve
Onward just enough cotton to pay a
1.-THE; ask sixty days Indulgence; re
ew,' that's the word. IT refused, then
upon the servitude of the
otton planter and the sincerity of
friendships. If granted
he renewal, leave your cotton i'll the
eed, and instead of Furnishing your
umb brutes by that continued travel
no in a circle under your dusty gin I
ouses, go to work and sow down five {
ores of red oats to the mule, and one {
ere of wheat to every member of your
,mily. Fertilize the land well and
repare properly; or what is better,
,w the grain in your cotton lands and |