The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-08-11
a RIYAL on srMoN suaas.
Macon CouNrY, ALA.


these fu lines from your old friend,
q mean strangely Pos Butts by name.
Now / don't run much on my name, but
run er heap on er one horse farm down
in these parts--that is, hits or mule yer
no we allows call hit or horse farm down
here. Well arter me nn all the boys had
got thru hoein' nifty fine peice nv
yung corn about fourteen foot high
down in the sand hammock this evenin'
an we wus comm or long to tho house,
felt like eSpressin' myself TO somebody
by letter about hit nn other crops in this
neighborhood. Well arter we got to the
house an fed the mule nm turned the
stear in the oat patch 10 Craze, an draw
ed er bucket NV water fur Jane, (Jane's
my wife you no) "a had partuck NV
supper, Sam he went TO bed nm Bill,
he wanted to go over an see old man
Jurnigan TO sc about gittin' his buggy
to take Sis Brown to meetin' in next
Sunday, an Jane CHATS my wife you MOI
she got all the chillun er sleep an every
thing was still except the mule er
kickin' at the caf down Mt the lot. Thinks
1 TO myself nows er good time fur me to
write nbout our crops an ez I'm er sub
scriber to your paper, I seed n copy NY
hit lyin' ou the table an the idear struck
me to write to you---but says to myself,
them felers don't know me an may not
like about my intrudin' this 'pistle in
in their sanktum, bnt thinks l, they air
interested in farmin' an good crops an
may not think hard on hit, so rit any
how just to get rid NV the feelin' there
wus on me to rite.
Never to the recollection Nv mankind
has there been rs many oats harvested
in Macon county as there has been this
year; why one nv our big farmers here
has made thirty thousand bushels. and
the small ones has made enough TO do
um. 1 never heard the like in my life
befo NV rs many oats ae has been. made
all over the whole country in genal still
corn keeps goin' higher, an what in
thunder is the cause nv this, answer me2
Well ef hits gifts mp as high as the moon
next year hit wont bother us IN this
section fur we wont have hit TO buy. I
tell you mister, we hav got corn planted
down here, patches nv hit, whole fields
nv hit, nayl miles nv hit, never seed the
like befo since wus born. Our black
lands down here is adopted to corn as
we'll as to cotton an ef the rains keep
comm like they haye been fur the last
two weeks, the yield will be ummencible,
so to speak; an we can sing the joyful
song nv peace and plenty in the land as
Q hit use to be in aunty bellum days,
(befo the war you no). Hit pears that
4 farmers air cummin' to their senses nv
a late, takin' the advice NV you newspaper
men, plantin' mo grain an taters an less
r cotton, rotatin nv crops an usin' mo
!, POLITICAL mean mo domestic economy
1 at home an less guano.
Hit will he the saIvashun nv this
whole country mister, ef the farmers
will only keep hit mp. and hit is the
only way by which we can become a
: happy and independent people, hit does
my old heart good to see hit goin' ON
: that the future is brighter fur our chill
; lun. Now while we all rasin good
deal nv corn an oats an taters IN so on.
we hav got lots Of cotton planted too,
but not all cotton like il has been here
(; to 70. You see we air in cotton region
! down here, hit grow just so, on our
black pararie land without guano. Why
I; show er farmer down here er sack nv
!; guano an let him smell hit he would be
very apt to run from hit. Hits no mis-
, take we don't use hit at all in this
section. Cotton seed. stable manures an
vegetable matter is our favorites with
! perhaps littlo assid fosfate TO make
hit pulverize quick. Now Jane (my
J !. wife) says she's er gittin' tired Nv my
sitin up here er riten an er riten an she
don't see nc sense in hit and says 1
must come rite TO bed. Ef she says so I
must. You don't no her, mister like I
: do an as have got er good days work
!, afore me fnr tomorrow, 'spose she's
! about rite, so must close fur expect
J that have taxed your pashuuis to much
: also with the forgoin' subjects. Well
: I'll promise not TO do 80 any more soon
;, as am not much gwen TO riteu letters
y any way, but sometimes when the feelin
j comes on me hav to get il of somehow
+ or ruther SO you must excuse me this
E time an write to me Whenever er onY,or
10 tnnity offers hitsseli. I will allows bt
/ glad to bear from you. My address il
/ Guerrytown, Bullock county, Alabama
a mean that is where get my letters al