Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-10-10
Farmers of Noxusee

Don't, DoNT sell any more OF your
cotton seed. know, if YOU could be
over here and see how the Alabama
farmers have brought up their lands
from making 500 pounds Of seed COT
ton TO 1000 aud 2G00 pounds TO the q.
ere, with cotton seed rs the basis and
main agent. YOU would sell O.
mother bushel of seed. Major Bryant
says be puts thirty bushels of cotton
seed TO the acre aud from 10 tive
bund. ed pounds OF acid phosphate aud
makes u bale to the sore and AS he gets
his seed back he is only out the cost OF
the acid-iwo or Two aud one-h0lf dol
lars per acre. When you hear q mai
say that fertilizer only acts as 4 stlnn'
| liant. YOU set il down that he does not
know what lie is talking about, for
| these men al tell ne that their lands
Nro getting more productive all the
tine. Jadge Henderson says his plan.
| tatiQn before the war with slave labor
! never made over $50 bales of cotton,
and lie had brought the place up SO
tina, his las, wears crop was 60I bales
and has no' bought any corn in Fix
wears. Hon Mr. Williamson, formerly
a member of Congress from this dis.
trict, has brought his crop up from l25
bales to 500 on 800 acres (his crop OF
1890 and hopes TO make 1000 in a few
years. MIR, Morgan rents out most OF
his land but has a crop OF sixiy.flve a
cres around his house that viii make
fifty bales this yeaA and it is pot as
good as last year. Mr., Melton of Pine
Apple made fourteen bales 10 the mule
last gear and will makc..as mnchsihis
These are not isolated cases. Negro
renters make from seven to ten bales
to the mule and intelligent white men
double this, And fcrtili2ing is yet in
its infancy, for these men have only
been at i, six or eight years, but all are
catching the step. Soon an eight mil
lion bale crop Will not be 4 phcnome.
nal one, Then farmers, raising every
thing at home and such crops OF cot.
ton, can do it for five cents and want
NoXubec to be in the..swim.
These people are making money aud
have new life and energy. | hear no
talk of hard times, no talk OF negroes
and whites cmigrating, all are fairly
contenlcd. are fixing mp their home,
aud of curse buy cur hedge fence,
got acquainted with DR.. Mcdaniel
who l~ives:at Camden.in the-summcr
and Mobile in the winter. He Is Prof.
Of MateriasNcdica in the Mobile Med,
icul College. lie says DR., Scales is one
Of the foremost surgeons IN the South.
Prairie land seems to be 4 good place
TO draw men from as nearly all the
boys that leave II prairie region at.
tain cninencc aud prosperity.
Mr.. Archer and your writer are both
well pleased over here and he says he
would not take seyenty.ilyc dollars for
what he has learned about farming
lie hoprd 10 make forty bales with
mules on 12j acres aud thought
that WAS pretty good, bnt finds men
making that much Oh fifty acres with
t.W-o. mules.
Ratih is a Baptist. Archer q Meiho.
and | am a Presbyterian. and when
we strike a town we take it al! in, bat
when my Presbyterian brothers give
out / tackle the Methodist aul tel,
them that old man Jehu Harlan was
about the most level headed man that
ever lived in our county, and he al.
ways told me "he Gas going on be-
he could fall and do all IN his
power to keep from falling aud when
he got to heaven il he found he could
not have FALLEN, thsn he wouldn't be
any the worse off," and that | thought
this a mighty safe doctrine. a good
Methodist after this generally tells me
to write up the contract Tor a mile or
so Of fence,
lave gotten a tur!ougl to attend
the Fair and win bring two of my
pretty cousins with me, Tor | have q
lot Of kintolks over here, They both
have large plantations and might be
persuaded to take a Mississippi mana
ger, at any rate | will DO my par, in
bringing them over and the boys will
have TO do the %pcrsuading.
AS | will see YOU all at the Fair /
will close for the present.
BIC Bed.