Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-11-21


NcruE tl.A, Nov u, 1891.
DEAN BEAcoN Mr., DunAlin, OF
Grceu,nlc, says he can build mp prai-
rle iaud easier than sandy land. lie
! plants his cotton and corn in seven t0
foot rows, fcrliliscs with cotton seed
and plants peas IN The middle and the
next wear he. alteraates, blowing the
pea vines under. lie says Butler
county viii make is bushels OF corn to
every horse aud mule worked in ii
| This year and eight bales Of cotton 10
every horse, mule and OK. CONNER
cial fertilizers have never done bis
prairie any good, uses only cotton seed,
pea vines and melclotus, and has his
laud fenced and meyer allows stockton
il except in very dry weather. Farm
ers buy n iarmright from the N0Nubee
Hodge Co, and you can get plants
enough for a mile for $40 and tcn6e
your place, This makes the best fence
in tie world and we are selling ii over
here for 500 per mile, rhey maneur
and cultivate it and we have plants
set ont last spring that are over six
feet high and vii! do to pl0sh next
year aud will then turn anything from
a rabbit to a negro.
| met a young man nan C Thag-
gard at G"rccnvillc, aud asked him
how he was getting on. He said
his father had given him u five mule
fam and he rented out all but enough
for two mules and he hired a man ard
and they run the plough and hired
his hoeing an1 only hocd his cotton
twice. lie made twenty five bales
as his land was not JUiH up, as thy
call land that has not been tcrlillZed
for some years, but he made plenty OF
corn, meat and molaSscs.
4 merchant told me that lie had a
three mule farm and hired Il white
man to attend to it for $500 and he
was to plough during %cultivating time,
and hired two other men, making
three regular hands. Hired day labor
to chop cotton md made 81 bales
and enough corn, meat and molasCs to
run him another year. liaying St few
hands to feed his expresses were very
light
Mr., Lee, first cousin to Gen. 5. y.
Ice, lives near Richmond, Ala. Last
year he had 225 acres in cotton and
made IA bales, but his negroes all
wanted to rent, so he rented nearly all
of his land this year at 81 per acre and
required the seed all TO be put on the
land. llc said that eight years ago he
could rot have COTTON over six or
eight dollars an acre for a deed to
the same land,
Now, | am not writing these articles
TO induce any one In NoXubCo TO pull
up stakes and come over here. but am
only DESTROYS Of improving their con
dition where they are. | am by
NoXubcc County and her people like
hntlitlo is, persuaded him to 90
over 20 our Fair, and he says he wrote
to his father that he had always
thought and said that Kinds county
and Kinds county people, were lit
lie ahead OF anything he had ever
seen in all Of his travels, bat since sec
ing NoXubCc's best and bravCst, her
handsome and intelligent men, her
beautiful and bewitching daughters,
dressed in thoir gala day attire, that
he thought Kinds would have to Yield
the palm to old N0Xubeo, told him
that | always knew that NoXubce was
ahead in looks and Intelligence. but
that these sandy land men could beat
us farming. Sometimes when they
arc telling lis about making fifteen
and twenty bales TO the mule, won't
tell how much | am making, but VIII
turn to Mr.. Archer and say, mich,
did not yonr wife write that your
crop was turning out better than you
expected -that she thought YOU would
get thirty-niuo bales and only had
eight mules" He says eyes" rather
dryly, and they tell him if that is tie
best he can do he bad better cmigrate.
! get Il good many letters from our
people, asking me to get them situa
tons, buj | would advise all of them
to stick to their farms, and il they
will fence up, adopt the intensive sys-
ten and raise all supplies at home,
they will be much happier than to DO
separated from their families, roam
ing around like am, seeking whom
| may devour. Myself and another
agent sold over $4,000 worth Of fence
around Mobile last week. Good bye
and more anon. BIG BUD.
Come and see onr clothing we have
horroiuc far won n SINkJ rs 4, 10