The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-04-11
s.I AGRICULTURAL
OvERPRODUCTlON.
Views Of = Kentucky Farmer on the Que
tlon of Planting n Half Crop.

Views of = Kentucky Farmer on the Quss
ton Of Planting = Hat Crop
] believe | can truthfully say that
nave never yet written a line for pub
location that | did not think | woulc
never write another. But the adage tina
says mo man knoweth himself is
maxim hat is not less wise than true
and here | go for a quarrel with my
brother tobacco growers. However,
instead Of quarreling, as advise costs
nothing. and nobody IS obliged to take
it, | will advise them all TO stay al
home and look after their stock, the
preparation Of their tobacco beds, and
other farming interests, instead OF go
ing to Lexington or any where else,
spending their time and money talking
talk that is just calculated to start
every man, who can hunt up q square
foot OF tobacco land on his place, to
planting. though never having set a
plant before. That farmers are
fools has become an adage, | am not
surprised. But | am surprised TO think
that any number OF them place so low
an estimate on the intelligence OF the
others as TO suppose that II they.
the wise ones, resolve to raise hall
q crop, the less wise won't pitch
in" 10 me, this is one Of the cases
where d ''wayfaring man, though a
fool would see an opening for him
self; and believe ne, brother planters,
when | tell you they have seen il, and
! unhesitatingly say that | believe
there will be more tobacco planted the
coming spring than has ever before
been planted in any one season. Why,
sir, ! have more applications for TO-
TbaccO seed than ever before, and that
from men, exclusively, who have no,
heretofore p4tOIta plant No, brother,
the resolving to plant but fifty per
cent won't do. not evel i men memo
ries were not go fraii; but men will for
get, you know; and besides many are
3ot good a calculating per cent, or
r2ea- -r.1y and. NJ idea is that we
Who already have tAs necessary m
plemenis. the barns already built, the
experience in growing il. had better
20 dog ana pat Il what We know
"" can cultivate in 1r-t-rate order
AMI no; L"re than oar present barns
a.. AoGd w.,a1.t crowd.ns wish
to BE- deferred when | tell you,
brothers. IA, I will build 40 new
barns, | am sorry to say that ! can
49, NJ $50 ~ c-4G-e th- -.a,.s Of To-
baec0 Or ty govern the price but the in
,"..,o.e "-.pp.y and demand" But
r"r.-y oe-.eT4 hat have an idea,
'."ory or pan, or whatever you may
Gail il, that if carried into practical
operation mo4.u bring to the owners
and toilers OF the earth all Of the
Millennium that they would eve de-
to SCI, and DO no wrong to q single
h .:lan being on the entire earth, and
! believe It TO be practical, although
so-ewhat 5tgp"ndous. | believe it to
he practical. and if original, | guess
lad better ro-"rve tn" right to claim a
on it. II anybody will be kind
ouoo1h 70 show me why it isn't prac-
tlcat, then | will say no more about it.
lAIsI u my id"h tIf 50 it may b. ca.led):
if the owners Of the entire pro-
soil Of the earth would, by
.ei"gat'- from among Themselves,
in \ great and grand
convention Something like these
ProhiD,tioui-ts and Womaa's SUI
t.uaia.o viii have before long,.