New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-14
A NEW AOIERICiANEDEN.
Queer Legends Of Turnips And Pumpkins
Where Immigrants are Wanted.

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I There is a man here from Georgia
burdened with schemes for making his
region prosperous. He owns land by
the thousand acres and thinks that if
he can persuade immigrant farmers to
buy OF him it will be to their everlast
ing prosperity, and help him along IN
the world, besides doing little for his
state. Hedoubts not that his motives
are patriotic. 3The people OF Geor-
ga, " hesays, "don't bother their heads
about immigration. Foreigners may
come there if they want to, but they've
got to come without begging. eve
don't mind their coming if they'll set
tie among us and learn our ways, but
we don't want EN- in colonies, bringing
their socialism and communism and
their other isnls with them to destroy
the peace of our state Give us immi-
grafton, butnot colonization That's
the way they talk and that's why we've
had no agent to turn foreigners down
our own way
"What inducements have you to Of
fer to farmers?"
"Nothingext 'ornary, reckon. My
regions the Eden OF America That s
all. Amt no place that can beat it
for crops
"Corn-?"
zone hundred and thirty bushels to
the acre. Plant in April and gather
in November. One blowing, no hoe.
ing. Fodder till you can rest. Have
to pull it from horseback. Why:
Stalks SO high can't reach to the top
There's only one trouble with growing
corn. in Georgia; you don't have
enough nubbins to feed your steers"
''Nubbins for steers?'
''That's what's the matter The
ears are so big that a steer can't get
'em in his mouth. See? You've got
to chop 'em up, and that takes time y
"Do you grow potatoes?"
"Sweet? No. They grow themselves
We just give 'em half chance
Run a furrow in the sand, drop in
your seed, cover it with your foot as
you go along and leave the crop to it.
self. 1t grows summer and winter and
you needn't ever dig it for year OF
two. OF course, by-and-by the Eaters
get too big to be good. At Is month
old half one makes meal for ter
persons"
"And turnips?"
GA few 1t don't take many to dc
us. We daren't SOW the seed as YOU
Northern farmers do. We check of
the turnip patch like a chess-board
making the corners eight feet apart, sc
that the turnips won't crowd. II
don't do to have the turnips toe
thick. How large do they grow:
Well, had Ii merino sheep, fine fel
j lows they were, and I use to fold ZEN
every night for fear of dogs. One day
three Of the biggest were missing ano
the whole farm turned out to find 'em
We hunted for 'em for two days, killed
II dogs on suspicion. and gave up tn,
search. The next day / found th
three inside of one Of my turnips. 70,
see they had jumped into the turni,
patch and eaten their way right int
one OF the vegetables"
GLOW could you feed such things t,
your stOck?"
"Oh, we have to chop 'em up. us
a 15-foot cross-cut saw on mine"
GLOW about pumpkins?"
"Pumkins? They fairly sweat, the,
grow so fast. There amt no prettie
music than the sound of growing pun
kins. Best scare-crow in the world
self-acting. Crows and blackbirds wo1
ricd us lots until | made the discovery
Plant one in your raspberry patch an,
the birds won't come around Why
The growing pains and the groans c
the punkin brighten 'em away. Eve
hear of Punkin Vine creek? Got it
name from a punkin vine. Years ago
when the Cherokee Indians lived il
North Georgia, they wanted some sor
of a bridge across the creek. Their
wasn't tree around, and they didn'
know what to do. An old settler sal
he'd fix it. He planted a punkin see
near the bank, and, when the vine be
gan to grow, he trained it in the diree
ton of the water, In few days
grew across to the other bank, an
bore a big punkin on that side, whic
held it so that the Indians could cross
Any old farmer down there'll tell yo
that story From what I've seen {
pltlihllIS ICcAuIIy OCl4CNS IL.
els yours a good fruit country
any apples?''
More'n we know what to do with
I turned my hogs and my neighbol
into my orchard the other day to Sc
if they couldn't rid me of few bushle
OF the fruit. They didn't do niue
good. drove through the next da
with horse and buggy. The apple
were so thick on the ground that the,
was a regular sluce Of cider followin
me wherever [ went Mashed out, yo
know, by the wheels and the horse
hoofs. That'll give you some idea {
our fruit crops. Anything else you
like to know?'
els it all like what you've been tel
ing me?"
"Every man for himself, you know
I'm talking for my own region.
haven't Travelled much
"Do you mean to say
"Young man, haven't got time
go into details. Do you want to g
to Georgia? Come down and start
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