The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-11-06
IN COTTON RAISING.

f-Ditlitii - iliStS Aas$ q 0isS i'Nk
concerning the profits of cotton cul.
:ure. The widespread poverty OF
our farmers all over the South ought
70 tssch us that there is a very lit.
lie profit in cotton. Where one far
ner makes money, ten farmers make
aone. Experience is the best school.
Why then will we not learn from it?
There is some money in cotton Gull
ture, but only when the farmer
plants good land, cultivates highly,
raises his own meat and bread, and
grain and rough forage for his work
stock. 1t is better to diversity our
ron in the fire. If one crop fails, we
can fall back upon the others. Di-
Versitied farming pays. 1t pays to
use labor-saving implements. Any.
thing that saves labor increases the
profits and decreases the expense of
making the crop. The best seed
pays. There is blooded seed as we'll
A. bIooded stock. Poor land makes
poor pasture, and poor pasture makes
poor stock, Poor land makes poor
crops and poor crops make poor seed.
The idea is that both good seed and
good stoek will rapidly degenerate
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oeElect,
Til. general rule all over the South
20 rem the land to any and every
Body. without any restriction as to
ilow the soil should be plcwed. culti-
ratei, dralned-withont reference to
any wise method of rotation of crops
~sll this il wrong and Is yearly rob
hing u soil of its fertility. Some
thing must be done to preserve the
soil.
Another point Is, that we do not
make good Use Of green crops for fer.
t|Ilizing purposes. Nor do we hu,.
band the droppings of our stock-nor
all the old straw aud hay and trash
generally, to be found around ONE
place, which could ne preserved and
manipulated 20 as To Furnish splen-
did fertilizers for the soil. 1t il very
important that everything of this
Kind should ne utilized for manure.
even the dead leaves that cover the
ground, and the rich dirt from the
fence corners, the muck from the
bottom of pond aud creek. 1t j.
rarely that commercial fertilizers
pay.
We sell our cotton seed at a mere
hominal price to the oil mills. No
farmer q long thrive ana do this.
Be sensible men and either feed them
70 the stock and apply the rich drop.
pings to the hungry soil, u apply the
seed themselves to the land. Don't
sell your seed! YOU cannot afford
t.. Learn some cnnnion sense.
Keep out Of debt. Debt has ruined
is millions, and will run you and
yours if you do int take good care to
keep ont Of it, clutches. Debt is ,he
worst of all masters and foes. 1t de-
.troys your pence Of mind, aud day
and night, week days and on sun
days, year in aud year out, il rises up
ii phantoin. ghost Ike form to wor-
rs you, AID if you are not careful it
haunt YOU to your grave. Beware of
debt! 1t Is q nightmare that rob- the
weary brain OF rest. Debt is your
worst enemy. Keep clear Of debt
and you are all right. DO not be
tempted in this thing. Let your
pride suffer, aud your back suffer,
and your stomach suffer, but keep
out of debt If you possibly can.
When you are in debt you are not
yourown master, but somebody else's
slave. Don't be IA slave to any man
VI men II III can possibly be avoided.
Think Of these things. Study econo-
my, but not penuriousness; one is a
virtue to be courIed, while the other
is a vice to be Stunned.
Be ye men. There Ia more in the
man than in the land. If a farmer
cannot make money in the South as
\ farmer, it is the fault of the man
himself. We have the best country
on earth, and considering our ad
tages of soil and climate, and other
natural advantages and resources, we
are the most s%loveuly farmers that
have yer cursed any country of the
same perfection of climate, wealth
and variety of soil, adapted to such a
diversity Of crops, and with such So
uial, political, religious and general