The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-10-02
CAN WE LIVE E

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Another question most people ask
land a very important one it is, can we
live there, meaning the South. Ger.
ltainly; white people do live there.
Yves, but they are natives. s.
Not all of them by any means. One
finds Northern born lei everywhere
There, some who have been there for
Wears. We have stated that in West
ern Louisiana there are several settle
ments of Northern, people, who have
removed from Iowa, Dakota, Ne
braska, and other Northern States.
and these people tell us they can work
as we'll and as comfortably as in Iowa
| or Nebraska.
But can q white man work and not
| be looked down upon? Is it not con-
sidered a disgrace to work?
We heard no such sentiments while
in the South. We saw white men at
work in city and country, and no one
treated them as inferior, OF, anything
but gentlemen. Indeed, we saw moth
ing that indicated that labor is con-
sidered disgrace. The day of that
feeling has passed away, we trust for
ever. The climate is no more a bar
to labor there than here. Such tenn
peratures as SO degrees, 100 degrees,
ETC., in the shade are unknown there.
The extreme is about 95 degrees and
not much of that. On'the Gulf coast
and for a hundred and fifty miles
back there is through the day from
1880 or. s a., m. to 6 o. $50 p. M, a
fresh, pleasant breeze, never sultry,
always cool, and cold,~ refreshing, and
never strong enough to be unpleasant.
But is it not very sickly? ,r
No. We believe it is just the con
trary. The people are as robust and
healthy looking as any we ever saw,
and there is as large a percentage Of
old people there as here. The grave
yards do not indicate a great mortality,
and we heard very little complaining.
Doctors were not busy, and are not as
a class rich, and drug stores are not
as numerous as in LaSalle county.
Are there not multitudes of snakes,
bugs, and other troublesome and I'M
pleasant creatures ? , w, a..
If there are, we did not see them.
We rambled in the woods, inspected
swamps and walked miles over the
wild prairies, and saw only two snakes,
neither of them two feet long, and
one Congo snake-Amphiuma means
more nearly related to the sala-
manders than the serpents, which is
believed to be venomous by the col,
ored people, but no writer, so far as
we have examined the subject, speaks
of it as being poisonous. Mosquitoes
are no worse at New Orleans, Houma,
or Lake Charles than here. In fact
one could walk in the woods at either
place and be less troubled by them
than he would be in the woods near
this city. Of bugs we saw but few,
and they such as we see here, with
n exception, and that not a danger
Gus creature, but nowhere did we see
them in large numbers, and the leaves
of plants and trees we not eaten and
defaced as we see them here. Farther
from the coast this may not be the
case. We presume the sea breeze is
not favorable to their growth and
multiplication, and this is one point in
it's favor as a fruit growing region.
Nowhere have, we, ever seen such
splendid foliage, such perfect leaves
and such fine flowers as we saw there.
In short, we see no reason why any
man, who is willing to work and will
take ordinary care of himself, cannot
live just as we'll on the Gulf coast as
here, and work as hard and be as
healthy, if not even more healthy
OtaaDa Globe.