New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-02
A NEW AMERICAN EDEN.
LEGENDS or TUESIPs AND OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
WANTED.

LEGENDS OF TUENIPS AND PCMPklNS-lMMlfRANIS
WANTED.
There is a man here from Georgia burdened
with schemes for making his region prosperous. lie
owns land by thousand AMI thinks that IL he
persuade immigrant farmers to buy Of him 1t Will be
to their everlasting prosperity. and help him along
tho world, beside doing little for his state.
lie doubts not that his motives patriotic. Tho
people Georgia." he says. "dont bother their heads
about immigration. Foreigners may there IL they
To. but they've got to como without begging we
don't mind thor coming II they'll sctts among us and
learn our ways. but don't want cm in colonies.
bringing their socialism and communism and their other
isms with them destroy the peace state Give us
immigration but colonIzaton' That's tho way they
talk aud that's why we've had no agent here to turn
foreigner. down our way"
"what ina Icencnts have you to orr to farmers
"No,hing eKtrornary. reckon. my resioa = tho
Eden Of America That's all. Amt place. that can
beat 1t for crops"
Corn-l"
"One hundred and thirty bushels to tho acre. Plant
In April and gather In November. One pOughing. po
hoeing Fodder TIL you Have pull It from
horseback Whyi Stalks h gh you can't reach to the
top. Th.ru's only trouble with growing corn in
Georgia; you don't have enough nubblns feed your
sieers."
"Eubbns for steers I -
That's what's tho matter. Tbs so big that
a steer can't get en In his mouth scei You've got to
chop eu up and that takes time
"DO you grow pOiAioosT
"sweetI No. They grow thamselvos. We just give
EN- half a ch Run furrow In the sand. drop In
your seed. It with your foot you along and
leave the crop itself 1t grows summer and winter
and you needn't dig for or two. OF course.
By and bye get big TO DO good At eigh
teen months old half ono makes a meal for ten por-
sonA'
ANY turnip,T
"a few. It don't take many do We darent
SOW the seed yous Northern farmers do. We check
off the turnip patch ike making the cor
ners eight apart; that the turnips won't crowd.
II won't 10 % have tnrnps too thick. How large 10
they grow Well had fourteen n"rino sheep. une
fellows they were nni u,ei fold 'cn every night
OF doS' ono day three OF the biggest were
niS,ng and the whole farm turned ont 10 nnd en-.
We hunted Tor 'em FOR two days. killed seventeen
dogs on suspicion. and gave mp the search. Tho
naxt day found tie three Inside OF Of Iy turnys.
You sec ihcy had jumped INTO tho turuip patch and
eaten their way riihr llso ono Of tho vegoables"
How could you fcei sIch things to your stock I"
"Oh. We have 10 chop cm up use hecH-ioot cross
cut mine
"rani.a,i They fairly sweat, they grow so fasi.
There amt ~ predict music INN tn1 .o"". Of fFo"ni
acting. Crows and bl ickblrds worried - rs
ono Ia your rn.pberry patch and the birds Won't
como around. Why The growth. pains aui ne groai1
Vine Crrcki Got IA name rom punkin vine. Years
ago when the Cherokee Indian lived IA North Georgia
There wasn't a tree around aud they didn't know what
to An Old settler said he'd fix T. Ito planted pun
to grow he trained It IN the direction OF
the water. In few days 10 grow
across To other ba and bore big punkin on that
lido which held IL - that the Indians could cross Any
Oh farmer !own theis III te YOU that story From what
rye .rci-Ol pluklns readily believe H."
l. yours "A good fruit country Any apples ~
Moro ~ We know what to do with. turned all my
hogs and nrghbOrs into orchard tho other day To
see II they couldn't rad OF few bushels Of the fruit
They didn't 40 much good drove through
tho next day with horse and buggy.
inc apples were thick fhe
ground that there regular slnce OF cider Follow
Ing mo wherever won't Mashed out You know, by
the wheels aud the horses hoofs. That give you some
idea OF our fruit crops Anything cisc yond like to
kBowH -
Is n all like what you've been telling me p
. Every man for himself you know. I'm talking for
my own region. haven't travelled much
q" DO mean To say ~
- Dung man. haven't got time to 90 into details
DO you want to 20 to Georgia Come down and start
a ncwspaprr"
- I'd starvc 10 death"
d" No you won't III chip In a bushel OF 'taters and
reckon the ne. shbors II throw In punkin or two.
say can tell where I'll ni some boiler or Kettle
work. want give order for kettle twenty feet
across the mouth anil sixteen feet deep
My What In tins world Will YOU do with such
kettle I"
Boil my turnips In It."