The Russellville Democrat., 1885-11-05

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 CALEB DAVIS. Gumlog. Ark, Oct. 29.
 Correspondence of the Democrat.
 The farmers in Pope county all cultivate as their fathers did. Con- tented to gather scanty crop of 10 or 15 bushels of corn to the acre. to live on hog meat and hominy from year end to year end, to dwell in a log house with stick chimney, to despise all instruction in their own business under the impression that tLey know everything already. Such men, and there are plenty of them ail over the state, will tell vou that l it is all foolishness to think of saving manure, and that deep blowing is a yankee notion, that the Idea of i'm proving breeds of cattle IS all hum bug. And go to the farm of such man and you will find the door of his cabin hung on wooden hinges with wooden latch, puncbeon floor, a stick chimney, and the family all living, sleeping, eating and drinking in one room. He has no barn, but log stable, where he keeps his horse, and around which the heaps of manure have been col lecting since it's erection, and when | kl,to t> render access to the stable difficult, why he will remove it. the stable I mean, not the manure, to another To- cation and commence agaln, leaving a mass of fertilizing matter which, 1 if iudiciously applied to hls land would repay him ten fold for his trouble. A purifying mass at his door, perhaps, however if he is for tunate enough to have a deep ravine or stream of running water near his house he will haul away the manure and dump it down the bank. During the summer he sends hls two or three scrawny cows to the range to Lget their living, keeping tue calves shut up in raj pen to toll them home at night. When winter comes his cattle and hogs cobgregate about the stock yard or under the leak of his cabin or stable, wading in mire or sleeping on the frozen ground ex- posed to all the rain, snow and sleet and piercing winds Of our variable winters. He keeps three dogs and no sheep, his hogs--the land shark breed, enjoy the largest liberty to roam over the woods and into his neIghbors cornfield, and to sleep at night, and to wallow by day, Tn the quagmire directly in front of the door of his house. When pork and corn are high he has beef to sell, and when beef is up he has just shifted over to pork; and he abandons both and goes into the cotton business just as though those staples are drug in the market. Ask him to show you his garden and he will tell you he has none but that his wife planted little truck patch just back of the stock yard, but that the fence was down and one day while he was gone to log rolling or to town, the hogs got in and rooted 1t all up; if you ask him for hls orchard he will show you 2 few stunted apple and peach trees contending with the weeds and grass for a chance to live, half of them perhaps, peeled of the bark, and many of the healthlest branches eaten off by the stock winch have been permitted to run among them all winter, and he will tell you with sigh that he has no luck in raising fruit. His children attend no school, his father and mother got along well enough without learning, and he rcckons they can too. He would not read an agricultural book or paper if he conld, but firmly be lieves that the republican party has ruined the country, or that we would see better times if General Jackson were still alive and President.
 QuEAN's QUIRK.
 Correspondence of the Democrat