The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-08-04
ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT.
THE FAVORED SOUTHLAND.
People Leaving the Blizzard Country for
 Eternal Sunshine.

south, after a two yearS residence, says: Business men have grown weary of listening to calumnious as- sertions against the south. They have discarded the practice of listening to belligerent speakers and writers who forgot to fight when there was cause tor fighting. They have taught them- selves that at Appomattox the south surrendered all that generous men could ask; all that brave men could concede. They have concluded to come south and investigate for themselves whether or not they would be welcomed to yawning graves or hospitable homes. Those who have come have found the latter, and are royalty enjoying the fact. The south is to- day inviting visit to her borders from all who seek homes in 8 salubrious climate, where wondrous health brings back the blush to faded cheeks of dyspeptics and consump- tives. The terrible winter just en- dured has decided thousands to seek homes where flowers bloom nine lAonths in the year, instead of con- tinuous blizzard; where ice is rarity and never found two inches thick, in- stead of six months of snow. North ern and eastern men have come south every y ear since the war, and the vol ume has increased steadily. What they have written home to their friends has caused them to come, and when they came they stayed and caused others to come. The universal opinion with them is hat there is less talk of war in the south than there Is in the north.
 "The invitation to come south and be pleased is based on four facts |: Climate, health, agriculture and minerals. The climate here is salu- brious, semi tropical and invigorat- ting. During the two winters that l have spent here, there has not been 8 day that would have been considered too cold for outdoor work in the lat itude of my former home, and no week in consecutive weather in which brick laying could not be carried on. The majority of the winter days one is comfortable without an overcoat. There has been no day in summer that was too hot for outdoor work, not even an hour at any given time. There has not been a night in the past year during which one could not sleep comfortably under blanket. While those coming here in winter feel that they have found a cline of perpetual summer, those who come in summer do not suffer from the heat. AS late as the middle ot November flowers can be found in the gardens in bloom, and as early as Feb- ruary they appear. Not overly hot days, made bearable by pleasant and continued breeze, coupled with the luxury of cool nights, make a climate most delicious and desirable. This climate is particularly desirable for those afflicted with pulmonary, ca- tarrhal or dyspeptic troubles. The native whites are never afflicted with such diseases and those who come with such diseases -e greatly relieved, and In the less pronounced cases they are frequently entirely 'oured.'
 "Many of the small grains are now being grown in this section with profit. Grape culture and fruit grow ing are also becoming important fac tors. Old plantations are being cut into small farms, and on many of these can be found truck farmers and dairy men. They find it profitable in growing such and sending to different cities. One gentleman, for whose word am willing to vouch, tells the following: I planted crop of early potatoes in February on ten acres oi ground and got splendid yield ir May. planted corn on the same ground and cut it in October, getting excellent grain. In November I dug a crop of volunteer potatoes that yielded three fifths as much as my first yield, getting three fair and pay ing crops from one piece of land.'
 "Northern people are coming in here rapidly, buying lands and homes and are we'll pleased with this section of the genial, sunny southland"
 "A gross and most injurious adul- teration by which farmers suffer and the public health and life are endan- gered is the mixture of cotton-seed oil with lard," says Henry Stewart "The market value of lard is not only unduly reduced ty the excessive pro. duet, but the character of the adulter. ant is dangerous in the extreme. The effects cf cotton seed meal upon cowi in calf are well known, for numerous eases of abortion are produced by thil food used only in moderate quantities The medicinal character of the cottor plant, the root especially, is vel
 known, and the use of the meal ha. been found to result in similar way
 If the manufacture Of olsoms-gar;n. was put under ban on account of it. ssTrcscd unwholesome qualities, tha
 of cotton-seed oil lard should be en.
 tirely forbidden, because of its know,