The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-04-28
Among the 9avuley5,
Meat Question.

90 their pa,dons when we say en- th
hatically-we don't believe them KIN
We think we know the people OF pc
his country pretty well, and candol r '!
,ompels us to say that the great bulk til
# misfortuues that now threaten I" ST
,yerwhelm onr people result from =:
th.;r own stubbornness or ignorance ~
We are willing to admit that hogs OF
cannot be raised in the o'd "ay--for fl
that sold way" is and has been the a
cause of nine-tentls Of our farmers " "
failures. c
What seems the desire of all IN Q
hog raising as we'll as in every thing r
else in this country, is to do it without =
mich work or feed. No range, ana
negro stealers at once shut ont the ;
old way, and we are forced to say
that it is almost an imposs'bII'ty TO
get our people to learn any thing
NEW. They are Bourb"ns OF the
worst character they neither learn
nor forget anything, which is mis-
fortune, and almost crime, at TINS
particular period.
If our farmers vii! ezpcnd care IN
selecting good stock-t'mc in liz III s
and watching their hogs, there w"n'o
he no difficulty in producing our own
meat.
Our people must learn now for all
time that they cannot range hogs
with success they know full well
that negroes will steal hogs; there
fore, OTHER methods must be adopted.
With the Importance Of this ques'
tion of meat-raising continually
brought to their mind, and more es'
pecially when "no profits" result
from the cultivation of cotton anu
the purchase of meat and corn, 1t
seems strange something has not
been done ere this to succeed III pro
ducing bacon in large quantities at
home; and more so, is it strange
when we feel assured it can be done
Let each and every planter and
farmer invest some money and time
it does not require much of either, u
good bloot}ed stock and its care ant
attention. Plant pastures and grow
food for your hogs. Keep them unde
fence and the eye ofyour guard, ian.
old negro or white man, and there
an abundance Of sueh people here ii
for nothing else); fatten these hog
to 300 poAuds net weight at - month
old, (nothing is easier) and our wor
tor it, an abundance of meat will b
produced to supply all demands.
Go ahead planting cotton and buy
ing corn, meat, and all you eat an
wear, and poverty will be yo" E"
eertnin. 1t is useless and idiotle
argue otherwise-the history OF agr
eulture Of this sort in the Sou'
proves our emphatic assertion
Ninety five per cent of oar pIante
are now in debt, owing to that systt
alone. and they will only become mo-
invol we'd by containing it. ,
Raise your own meat TlRsT-th
produce cotton as = profit from 20
labor to procure a hiring.
How You Fail.-Plow your tiel
two inches deep; suffer the |1lr
people to look alter yonr stock a
ride your horses and mules Saturda
and Sundays. STE that they
never 'tcurricl or salted;" buy &C
and bacon in St. Louis and flour
Chicago; invest nothing in narr
gauge railways; take yssr cockta
Regularly before breakfast; spe
your money before you make it;
vote Saturday, anyhow, to sw'ng'
aColt's repeater around the corr
grocery and "cuss the id mig
because they won't work."
Mr.. John w. Lewis. manager
King William county, Virginia, VII
to the Southern Planter and Farm
that during February he plants
tomato seeds in hot-beds made
rich earth; seldom waters, as t
will stand drought better and I
transplanting more successfully If
too succulent; the early plants
set out in five feet squares, from
the twentieth of April to first of \
each square receiving a good SUI
of manure; for a late crop the
are planted in these squares, FUR
having been run five feet apart
way; his yield is an average
peck to the hill; the greatest en-
TO the plant is the tobacco worm,
he grows large aroves OF turk
which act as great scavengers in
respect; he is preparing this sp
to plant seven hundred acres il
matoes, aud now has seed p'ante
hot-beds covered by six hun
sashes, contaiug seventeen thou
pancs of 8xlO glass. Here is a
lem which we would like to
solved by some Of our lady reat
II Mr.. Lewis averages a peck t
hill, how many bushels will he Il
on seven hundred acres, plant'
hills five feet apart each way!
presume the company, OF which
Lewis is manager, cultivate til
mato as a speciality for canning t
selves or to ship to the caDniD