The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1888-02-18

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therefore we recommend its aban-
donment rs soon rs practicable
A radical change which will effect
an entire remedy of these things,
the committee dues not think
practicable in the present condi-
tion Of the State finances.
"Your committee recon mend
that this Board of Control should
have the appointment Of all oil
cials, medical or otherwise, charg-
ed with the personal managen. ent
and he paid out of the treasury.
"We sabmt that the State has
no personal supervision and man
agemeut of its convicts; and we
believe that such II supervision
will in a great measure abrogate
the existing evils" We further
submit that the changes recon-
mended would modify, if not alb
rogate the contrast with the @.
& S. |. r. r. The Committee
recommends the purchase cf a
farm where conyicts unfit for
heasy labor shall be employed.
The committe further recon-
mends that some inducemcnt to
good behavior be grated on our
prison system, and that a rate OF
commutation, based upon good
conduct be fixed.
A PLEA FOR THE RAZoR-sAoK HOG
EDITOR GAzErTE:-A man is 2
coward that will not fight for his
country. A man is a mora
coward that will not contend fol
the principles of his practice, lei
thcm be what they may. Now
the farmers arc assailcd in almos
every paper and are represented
to the world as a set of unmitigai.
ed ignoramuses by men that don't
know sugar from sand. They
tell us how we ought to Go, an
do nothing themselves, they set NJ
examples, prove nothing they say
IN fact most of them would no
lsno donkey from mule
cared rabbit in high grass. Any
farmer knows, who has bad fort,
or fifty years of experience, lha
a Chester, Berkshire or Polei
China hog, is worthless propert,
on well directed farm. The far
mcrs who have trle them,. founC
that if they cat hog meat at al
they g9t it from the West, suel
hogs cat their heads off long be
fore they are fit for man to eat
The farmer needs hogs that Cal
shift for themselves, all the yea
round. They need the razor back
with snouts one foot and hal
lDng, aud a pine kuot securel,
tied to their tails, such hogs q,
down deep into the ground AM
find food where your fancy breed
would never smell il. They d
not skim over he patato patchc
and squeal round foi corn and slop
no they viii 90 two feet il ella
soil for the little end of the las
'tater, and when their work
done your land is subsoileA to til
bottom and ready for another crop
1t is not even nee 'ssary to 90 t
the trouble to mark the pigs, tho
all follow tho old sow and stay i
a bunch, 81 they can make 4 bi
rally when a dog dares to tackl
them. A man can commence wit
one razor back SOW, the first yea
she is good for twenty pig.
half 0 that twenty and the oil
SOW will raise twenty each ID
second year lpl2opll0-23e hea
of hogs, he will haya at the en-
OF the second year, ana IN III
same ratio in 1--WE years, he'll hav
more hogs than Carter had oats
He could sell off at twenty-fiy
cents apiece five thousand dollar
worth of hogs and have plenty Al
the while 10 feed his family, ii
trouble, no corn, no slop. Now a
figures never lie, where is til
sense or the profit in raising fame
| hogs | shall always contend fo
the razorback, because he IS chea
hog and a good hcg, he gives yo
no trouble, is always out lookin
for bis living, like honest people
he looks to no one for his CRU
free, he IL an honest hog, hc
mot like the chester ard som
people always hoging his wa
I through the world. You neve
see a razor back with one or bot
ears off close to his head, beeaus
he never b9thcss the fields an
potato patches until his grateful
owner turns him ia, he's srictl
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