The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1892-05-28
Hints for the Farmer.
DE- SOTO IN The LEAD.
PRACTICAL FARMER ANSWERS Mr.,
"HAYSEED,"
And His Letter, Together With One From
Grand Cane, Speaks Well for
Progressive DeSoto.

KEACHI, La, May 2G, 1892.
To The Progress:
Your friend "Hayseed," haiiing
from Freewater, La, need not be
uneasy about his fellow citizens
who might move to DeSOto for
the purpose of raising corn and
hogs. Some of them might do a
great deal worse, and no doubt
are, by remaining in a neighbOr-
hood that furnishes agriculturists
Of the "lIayseed' type.
The farmers Of DeSJto are up
and moving in the direction of i'm
proved and diversified agriculture.
There is little leaveu scattered
throughout the parish, and it is.
doing good work.
l suppose you already know
that some d DeSoto'7 farmers are
competing successfully with st.
Louis in the meal market Of the
parish, and | have no doubt but
that Western meal, with rs, will
soon be a thing Of the past.
Our farmers are shipping month
ly hundreds of pounds of butter
to the different markets of Shreye-
port, Houston and New Orleans,
besides supplying all home de
mands. | know of one farmer
who ships weekly n good deal
over a hundred pounds to Shreye-
port at a market price OF % and
| 80 cents per pound. lie also ships
! throughout the year hogs fattened
on the waste milk; bis wife has
over 800 young tufkoys, and eggs
still Matching; and this mHn plants
corn and C iton In order to give
his laborcn employment daring
the whole year.
Cattle are bong improved. and
You can find here GrJ-ciass jcr-
sey cows, homo raised, and lots OF
them.
received q letter from a young
friend last week, and among other
things he mentioned Che fact that
his mule colts had commenced
dropping. lie expected to gel
twenty this season, and the mares
were foaled hy a home-raised jack,
aud he is a good one, and my
young friend does not neglect his
corn or cotton crops either why
Mr.. Editor, our parish can show
to-day as good draft, buggy or
saddle horses as were ever brought
to your town from Kentucky by
our friend Iii Rogers. 1t would
astonish many TO learn tho num-
Der OF colts raised in this parish
annually.
1t will be but a short while be
fore DeSoto Will ship her first car
load Of Fat hogs to pork packers of
Fort Worth, or some other point
near by, steps having already been
taken to accomplish that object.
No, "Hayseed,' don't be uneasy
about your friends. We have
everything here to make a pro
gressive agriculturist happy. But
you, / am afraid, are experiment.
ing more in the direction Of be-
coming an end man in a fourth
rate negro minstrel show than to
become PRACTIcAL FARMER.
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1t is regarded as a fixed fact,
says the Southern Cultivator, that
agriculture is greatly depressed.
II matters little whether the
farmer himself depressed agricul-
ture or agriculture depressed him.
Depression works both ways.
The only question to determine is
what is the remedy for it. If the
farmer will make a vigorous and
unremittent effort to lift himself
out of the slough of depression
agriculture will soon feel its quick
ening power. There is more in
the man than in the land. What
is needed is for the farmer to live
at home instead of merely subsist-
ing there.
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The following is said to be a
sure protection to tomato and cab
bage plants from the cut worm:
Before setting wrap the stems
with common wrapping paper, cut
into strips three inches wide.