The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-05-26
EARNING Thai A Y
Hog -and- Hominy Ciodhoppeys Versus En-.
terprisine A~griculturists.

aos- Hominy Ciodhoppe1s Versus En-.
terprisins Agriculturists.
As has been proven times without
number. any kind of farming will pay
in the hands of some men. Brains, il
the brains be organized exactly right
that each season operations will show
that the movements are In the hands
of Q master, will make any kind Of
farming pay. Then. again. il . man
makes up his mind TO keep his family
on hog and hominy. paying nothing
out to the grocer except what the wife
pays In the form Of eggs from hens
that are never fad, but CLEAN their liv-
ing In tho fields and in scratching for
grubs. and expends the merest pittance
for any thing that can rank as luxu.
riss; such a man, if he grows any thing
to sell for cash, ought certainly. after
paying his taxes and hired help. be
able to place something in the savings
bank. Scrub stock VII pay in
tho hands Of such a man.
Why should it notp 1t is the
expenses on a modern farm. re-
quiring such disposition of grains and
grasses as will. without a shadow of
doubt, pay a profit; that modern
buildings may be erected and main.
tanned; that the family may be clothed
and fed as thrifty farmers in general
clothe and feed their family; that
some thing-more than alumber wagon
and a pair Of hard-worked horses or
mules be at hand to take the family
to church or to town, rs occasion may
require.
1t has been said OF some men that
they would make money if cast away
on a naked rock. Such tendency to
thrift, or on the other hand. the per-
sistent determin alton limited at above
to pay out nothing for comforts and
improvements, and the most meager
possible sums for the bare necessaries
of life. will enable a man to show 10
his neighbor farmers that he can sup.
port his family and pay his taxes.
though feeding no stock upon his
premises other than the merest scrubs.
Many a man managing in this man.
ner has been able to hold his land,
(such a man seldom adds TO his pos.
sessions by buying the land that joins
him). until enterprising men come in
about him. raising the value OF his
acres. aud with scarce any merit on
his part. he nevertheless gets ahead in
the world. Aman practicing such a
| system can not be said to have earned
mach, but merely to have stayed by
his land. bought at an carly day at a
nominal price. till through advancing
enterprise and the onward drift of
circumstances, he may appear to have
made something. not by improving
his farm stock. not in fact by improv-
ing any thing; not by ditching or by
undertaking; for during the years
his children that have grown to man..
hood and womanhood, are witnesses
to the fact that during all the years OF
their growth, the teams have plowed
around all the vet places on the farm.
So farming in the hands of such a man
pays in the manner limited at, but on
a like plan a railroad would pay
though ironod with the old fashioned
fiat rail and the cars drawn by q pair
Of horses, but the public has no
use for railro ad service of this
sort. There is no law against
hauling cars with horses, neither
against farming upon a plan that ut.
terly ignores all improvement. both as
to tillage and live stock. Those cir
cumstances hat force thrift. upon a
mans purse though he may have no
thrift in his prac tees. come to the
man without brains as well rs to him
with abundant wisdom.
But what would be the outcome to
the modern farmer, taking an adj
vanced position as he now does in
matters OF education and all affairs Of
public interest. should he. year after
year. pillow around the wet places Oh
his farm, make no nov toward seed
ing down a liberal portion Of his land
to grass, and placing thereon cattle
that are wanted in the leading mark.
cts at six cents a pound. instead OF
such as go slow at three cents. II
gain is made from year to year upon
the farm tits generally conceded that
wheat growing does not contribute to
this gain. but that we must look to
~self-tending livestock, to pastures that
furnish the grass ready for the grazing
beast, and to beasts that grow apace
and mature early. for modern practice
is bringing out the fact that rapid
growth, early maturity and prompt
fattening, alone pay any profit worth
the name. Farm, Field and Stockman.
"A miner and surveyor writes with
regard TO ivy poisoning as follows:
..Chy, MANY vaars hava snffared fer.