Nevada County picayune., 1888-05-09
AGRICULTURAL.
ARKANSA AS.

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 crave is compared to noble ship on it's voyage from port toport embark ing upon new scenes in new coth- tries. Ii may return home prosper ons. or wrecked in mid ocean.
 So is the life of a pioneer in a new country. He starts forth with high hopes and noble aspirations, regard less of threatening difficulties which may cross his path or the adverse winds that may destroy his hopes, believing that by industry he will overcome every obstacle and make a home where he can live in his ease in his declining years.
 There are SO many material facts to consider in looking at what kind of country will make the most en- during and pleasant home to live in. One of the principal conditions ot profit and pleasure for farmer IS the raising of stock. for without stock the farmer loses half the enjoyments of life.
 IL may be said that of all the rich es of earth what makes a country home desirable, is the shady groves and woods. the home the creator has prepared for his creatures; for here when the sultry sun destroys the grasses on the prairies, these shelter the earth. and when the win try blasts sweep ever the plains the cattle are sheltered from every storm that blows. When the drouth destroys the vegetation on the prai- ries. the forest trees draw the clouds and
 linen the blackcning clouds in
 sprinkling showers
 Distil. from the high summits down
 the ram
 Runs trickIing. With the fertile
 moisture chcered
 The orchards smile; joyous the far
 mcrs see
 Their thriving plants, and bless the
 heavenly dew.
 The locality of a home is one of choice. for without something there to strengthen desire to return when absent from home, the place can be at best but a camping place.
 With all the natural surroundings of a farm, whether it is the noun tains or valleys, or on the prairies, there is nothing more necessary than pure water. whether it comes from books or springs. One cannot choose the place for the home for another in new country, but each one has to choose his own farm, as the land for ones use may not be such as to suit another. In the building of home the importance and usefulness which fruit and other trees may have in the economy and health of q family, can not be overlooked. And there is no pleasure so great as to gather the fruits upon the trees. Where the of the fruit tree and the vine; here they have all the deliciousness which is so pleasant to the taste, while up- on the plains and prairies they may be of fine form and color but are at best insipid to the taste. On the timber land they live natural life. whilst on the treeless plains nature never placed the necessities for their life they live awhile whilst carefully nurtured, but if forgotten, die for want of food.
 Arkansas is the land of sunshine and crops. Here flowers blossom wherever planted, and the tempera- ture rises no higher than at the North in Summer, and rarely runs so low in Winter as to destroy the tenderest plant. Here plants can be grown without the tender care and nurture necessary at the North, or without incurring the outlay of glass or fur mace heat. Arkansas is like the promised land; yea, like the garden of Eden, where every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. can grow. It is a land of wa ter, of springs, of valleys and hills ; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. Here every kind of crop will grow, nearly every fruit will ripen. A land where cotton is queen of the valleys. A land where there is room for thousands of homes and a choice to be had satisfactory to the desires of those who will choose A lantl that bids they who will come well come. to till land which will endure for ages and give q home in peace. .--- Little Rock Correspondence Arkan-