Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-03-08
A REMEDY FOR HARD TIMES.
A Lady Correspondent Gives Some
Sensible Advice 10 Farmers.

lne ultJOlnteu COnultlOn or allArs IL
the Clsrksville tobacco district; try,
ing to find some practical solution o
the difficulty. l do not see it in cab
strntion" AS some represent IL.
Tho friends of abstcntion wish the
people to abstain from growing to-
bacco but they do not show them any
thing else to do. There are not many
people in the GAINESVILLE district in q
condition to rest year; it takes
money to rest on. Ii the people
would double or quadruple their
crops of corn and raise great many
more hogs and when they do plant
tobacco Gas each one intends to do,
plant very small crops and make them
fine, that seems 10 me the best plan
available to each individual farmer.
There is little danger of over-stock-
ing the markets with meat If the
whole Clarksyille district goes TO
raising hogs to sell, or with good
lard either. Hog meat is considered
a necessity and tobacco luxury, al
though the grower of tobacco doesn't
see much in the way of luxury about
it. There is quite lot of poorly
cured bacon and inferior lard ship
ped into this country every year, that
ought not to be the case. The people
ought to raise it for export as well as
plenty for home use.
II any one thinks well of the hog
business let him, by all means, get
good hogs to start with and keep
them growing rapidly all the time
and just as soon as til y will do TO
market sell them they would eat less
all told and have less time to take
cholera. If he lives In a neighbor.
hood where there is not much to get
outside aud he can turn them ont
with a reasonable certainty of seeing
them again, well and good, if not he
can ring their noses and turn them
ON the clover and grass, but by all
means keep them growing They
ought to be ready for market by or
before they are year old. He can
send on the market such as are ready
in the summer and butcher at home
and put up those which are ready in
the fall and winter, at least until
there is enough put up to supply
Sheep and beeves are good things
to eat at home when they are as low
as they are now.
A cotton factory, wooden mills,
iron works, a canning establishment,
a creamery or almost anything in the
way of manufactures would help the
if it was large enough.
Can't some of you men who have
money start something out of the
regular order?
If | could get twenty-five cents a
bushel for tomatoes and did the work
myself | know | could make fifty
dollars per acre raising them, per-
haps more.
There is another item, the Burley
tobacco growers complain of hard
times too, men most always do, but
If the Clarksville district people
could get the prices the Burley grow
ers do they would be getting rich. 1t
must be that they raise much less to
the acre il they are not. Every body
says Burnley tobacco will not grow
here, but very few have ever tried it.
| would suggest that you each Que
get package of Burnley seed, SOW it
In bed to itself and plant few
rows somewhere away from all 9th
err tobacco, they say tobacco mixes In
the bed and in the field, cultivate II
well and cure it the best you can and
send a sample of it to Louisville and
see what 1t is worth. l never saw
any use in saying you couldn't do
any reasonable thing when you hadn't
tried. Burley tobacco more than any
thing else has knocked the bottom
out of the Clarksville tobacco bust
ness, as formerly Clarksville tobacco
was used good deal for home con-
and now it has TO depend
upon foreign markets, which
want to use our stuff and starye Us
% death at the same time. / once
saw a good deal Of Burley tobacco
being cut, between Louisville and
Off land that looked to
ne very like Little Il yer land. l
wouldn't want to sell my tobacco
with warehOuseman who was him
self buyer, he would have too many
advantages.
would jump right square out OF
my difficulty if | could. L don't see
he way TO do that in this, but l
hink it would be better to raise less
obacco, make it just as fine as you
an and raise everything else that
here is any money in. We all get |
,ood many lectures on economy, in
lard times, especially the ladies, but
ecessily is keeping school now and
good many of us are attending and
We are learning rapidly. or course
We need to be economical to avoid all |
eaks in the household, if possible, all
mail wastes, and learn TO make the
most of home grown things, but we
eed more TO know how to make
than we do to keep it after
| IL made.
l must apologize to any man who
nay have read this for giving this
dvice, being a woman, but l can
either walk nor work all l can do
, to advise other people, and my
usband, poor fellow, gets tired list
ming sometimes and have to branch
ut and try the patience of the neigh-
ors. 1t is very provoking to finish
II elaborate, aud AS [ think, elegant
, turned piece of advice, hear no re-
ly, look around aud find him asleep.
THE LATE DELUGE.
Our town went Wet, as they call
, Saturday. 1 am in favor OF tenn
france and would rather have that
III, with all its restrictions, than
one, still | think it too severe. They
ight to have allowed the sale of
'irituous liquors on doctors pre-
in cases of sickness. The
Try violent agitators of whisky does
man no good, or does him harm il ,
10 doctor says he needs it he wants
and it is hard to convince him that
, doesn't. If there are any doctors I
no can't be trusted in that matter
ey ought not to be trusted in many
hers.
DR.. Collins has been absent more
an week he was called TO May
Id to see h$s father, Mr.. Thomas I
jllins who formerly lived near La
yette. The Doctor arrived only in
ne to see his father die.
Mr.. Collins was very excellent II
an and was the father of Mrs Rich q