The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-17
BITCHES.


small space in the old Watchdog of
the Delta, the TINES. From the un-
precedented onward march of Gre0n-
vile and this great Delta country,
Greenville and Washington county
being the center of attraction, with
Catehings in Congress to guard the
interest of the Delta, the development l
and improvement of this great and
glorious country is an assured fact.
The year, with three eights, has
been hard one on the planters and
farmers. The truth is, they were COM
PEELED to prepare their land for plant
ing the crop in the rain and mud, and
much Of the cultivation was done
when the land was too wet. Hence
the short cotton crop in the Delta
counties. But what does that matter
to such men as the owners and cultiya-
tors of this Delta country? If you
speak about the shortness of the cot
ton crop, they will only laugh at the
idea and say they intend to make up
for the shortage another year. So you
see such men cannot be kept down.
There is nothing that will keep such
men back in country like this unless
the country is washed out from under
them or burned out with fire, and they
are swallowed up in the general de-
vaststion. There is no excuse for the
cotton crop being short in the year
with three eights here in the Delta
country. All of the old men know
well that before the war the owners of
large cotton plantations made no al
lowance for an excuse on the part of
their agents or ovcrseers for a short
crop on account Of rain. If they
made wet weather their excuse for
the short crop the owners would tell
them that they did not understand
their business, and had not utilized the
means placed in their hands; and
therefore they would not require theiI
services any longer. The means placed
IN the hands of managers of large
plantations were splendid spades ant
shovels and muscles to use them. Herr
was main ditch leading back to th'
low land; here another and there all
other, and cross-ditches leading int
the mains; oil kept neatly cleaned ant
draining every foot of land in cult
vation, and therefore there was no OK
, cuse for failure to make good crol
of cotton and corn every year unles
A overllowed in August. But where ar
those bitches now? Gone--hlled NJ
: grown up with cottonwood and willow
n trees, briars and weeds. If some o
, the old-timers could come back AM
r ride over those magnificent planta
tions and find mud hole where ono
= was neat bridge over a neatly KEEP
' canal or ditch, and see those ditche
: grown into hedgorows, they woul'
"cuss," sure, and say: You eanno
, make a good crop on this land, let
5 be wet or dry, unless you clean GU
the bitches and keep them Clean" |
r Is useless to say those old cotton mel
: did not know. They did know--thc,
knew il all. can well remembe
how those old lordly fellows looked a
that day and time They would com
in from the hills or some other place
on a visit to inspect tho crop am
: plantation generally. After one o
those old Romans had taken some
thing nice as a stimulant and n goo'
:, breakfast, he would mount his Ken
i lucky thoroughbred and away h
o would go to inspect the plantation
lie sat his horse like Mgor-Gencra
;, as straight as an arrow and his hea'
as high as a wild bucks with pack 0
j hounds Mt his heels. lie would neithe
c look to the right nor left, but don't yo
g forget he saw every cloddy place an
a every row of cotton and corn, let ther
be straight or crooked, as he passe
. along and every stick and bridge owe
% them. If he saw ditch with gras
o growing in il, or hole in a bridg'
| there would be council Of war. An
:, SO we of to-day must 90 back an
: take pattern after those old-time cotto
h men and clean out our bitches If "
IS would make big crops of cotton ever
8 year, wet or dry. They said thcr
:, would be no failure in this Delta cour
try of heavy crops of cotton and cor
u or anything a man would plant, If tn
q. bitches were kept in order. ] wi
r. here say that the South will never prt
\ duce another generation that wi
equal those noble old Romans thu
IL first tackled this Delta country.
N The cotton crop of this county wi
IN be sixteen thousand six hundred an
III sixty-six bales short of last year. Bl
!, that little shortage will amount to n
thing. Nearly every land owner
III the county will bring into cultivatic
m from twenty to five hundred acres
ID virgin soil another year. Some Of u
It. bulldogs speak of thousand acres
more of new land for cultivation a
er other year. Therefore labor will
lr- in demand in the Delta country theI
ly fore all well-disposed industrious CT
ne ored people who wish to better tho
condition are invited to come fro
the hills of Mississippi and the Unit
States generally to the center of
traction--that is, to Greenvllle a
Washington county-where they c
re find work of all kinds, such as railro
,s building, running sawmills, buildi
:, . houses, clearing land, ditching a
ui- many kinds of work. This is all ha
Ter but as the Yankees say, 1t is healtl
he All the planters, both white and bla
for have the cash to pay for all hon
Tho labor. Such thing as a laborer
al receiving his wages is not know
Ibe The people here believe in the hi