The Progress., 1892-10-01

ton to buy ten cent bacon and seventy
five cent corn raised in the West? How
can they clear up new laBd and tussle
with the roots for years-contiUually?
Young man soon grows old at such work
Why not improve the old land and use
improved farming implements? Work
the land OF cIops with much more ease
aud make much better crops? Why do
they not plant shrubbery and trees to
beautify the home and make il what God
inteuded it to be-a haven of rest and
pleasure? Then, Mr.. Editor. We would
SEE our country bloom as the rose and
our young people remain near the dear
old home in place of sitting around STAIR
cases and saloons holding down goods
boxes and telling aud hearing told vul-
gar tales. and often doing worse. Will
our people turn over new leaf along
this line, or will they let the yankee" or
foreigner come in aud crowd ths IN out,
and get rich where we get poor? just
look over in Georgia, Mr.. Editor, and see
VIII 3 is being done in the fruit line; aud
we can do as well here by the same care
and management. Some of our people
should take n trip TO Fort Valley, Ga.
and many other places in that State, and
ee the peach and pear orchards around
Fort Valley. There are over 1000 acres
in peach orchards. One firm. Hall Bros,
uf Connecticut, (but they are Yankees,
you know have bought SOD acres there
and have laid it of in streets, avenues
and squares like n town, and haye
planted 06,O0, peach trees. The Although,
Ca, Land and Fruit Company have
planted $4,000 fruit trees ut the same
place, (and they are Yankees to- aud
this was all brought about by one man
principly, Mr.. Rumph, who orri2ina-
ted the Eberto peach, aud shipped II
North, and these men saw, believed aud
acted. Right here, Mr.. Editor, want IL
cay for the benefit of the oid foRgies who
think or say thai seedlings are best. thai
fhe Ebsrto was the oDl " one out ofd2, ,oo(
seedlings considered OF sufficient merit
to be- propap ated for commercial pur'
poses, aud these are all budded trees
aud not seedlings, at Sla. per dozen, sold
by parties who are catering TO the want
and notions of the foggies, aud gettins
their money for budd.d trees at thre'
or four prices. Now, SIR. make the as
sertion, and can prove IL, that we Car
raise ss fine peaches and pears here IL
Bossier parish as can be raised anywhere
Witness The fruit exhibited at the Shire, .
port Fair for the last two or TIN ee years
and when the California fruit show wa
la Shreveport, men were heard to sa,
that s'Sanders OF Bo.sier could show u
good fruit as that" and you, Mr.. kditor
: can witness that fact.
l raised and shipped from here u
Shreveport and Trxarkana near 10
bushels Of peaches aud apples ut from
. 90 cents 10 s1.7S per bushel net, ant
could not I'LL orders. Early apples soi'
about the same as peaches. We have II
North Boesier some as good fruit land a
; eau be found anywhere. We have hill
, that are above the late Spring frost leve
: and they hardly ever miss crop o
: fruit. We also have some very line vine
5 ward land along the hills border In
Phelps lake: there are wild vines J
places that are very large, and doubtle'
hslf a century old, and Bossier Is nc
alone; these lands eau be found through
y out North Louisiana, and can be bouef
,.,,o, y,urs Z, uly. "BossrER."