The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1892-06-04
MIR. "HAYSEED"
Bobs Up serenely and sallies Forth With
More Figures.
FREEwATER, La, June >, 1898.

more flgures.
FREEwATER, La, June >, 1893.
Editor PRoGRESs:
You will not wonder at me when
L tell you that the hay and seed
have all been pulled from my
clouded understanding. L knew
it would be done by those DeSoto
fellows, but they doubled up on
me. But | used to live down in
DeSoto, and knowing the people,
| suspected they would do it. L
will tell You how they get fellow
into trouble with their theories;
boys and negroes are mighty fond
of melons, SO they told me how |
could raise some melons with but
little expense, and one moonlight
night, Just as | had obtained my
prize and started for The fence, the
old man, with his dog, took after
me- | dropped my melon and the
dog caught me by the seat of my
pants, but as | had got to the
fence, / made it over. That used
to be the DeSoto way of raising
things. l have become honest
again since my removal from that
parish.
Now sir, we know that diversity
Of agriculture will relieve our de-
pressed condition, Practical Farm
er. l lift my hat at such high
sounding names, but nevertheless
am like Collins ram-I have a
head of my own. If your theory
is correct as to corn and hogs, do
you not advocate idleness, so the
supposed farmer could live off OF
the real farmer. And just here we
will answer Mr.. Tim OThy.''
Suppose a man on a place doing
his own work, and count his ex-
pense for twelve months, and you
have the key to my figures.
The writer has been a farmer fol
twenty years, has managed some
large farms, and has always been
considered the equal of his neigh
bors, but he never lived on II
cents per day. practical Farmer
wants me to read. Well, L read
the bible last night, and it said
Awake, thou that sleepest, auC
arise FROM the dead, and Chris
will give thee light
No, / can't live on 10 cents pei
day. Christ ate honey, and 50 d,
l. 1t is worth TO cents pound
and 1 eat n pound every day.
was at preaching III your parish
near Logansport, recently, and the
preacher said we must not reaC
anything but the Bible, SO Tv'
been afraid to look into an alma
nae ever since to see when ia,
moon changes.
But Dora will give you som'
statistics of other States in on
next on diversification, which i
one of the essentials to our agri
cultural salvation.
| Mr.. Editor, L see in your last is
sue something about the farme
making living without the fre
coinage of silver, or the subtreas
ury. We know that, and he Cal
also make enough to keep up mil
lions of idlers. / will give yo-
and Practical Farmer" and Tin
O'Thy" something to answer: Il
1880 the farmers owned 20 pc
cent Of the total wealth Of th
country; in 1860 they owned abou
one-half; in 1880 they owned abou
one-third; in 1889 they owned
fraction less than one-fourth. Ii
1850 the value Of farms was %, ,271,
575, ,421; in 1860 the value of farm
was $6,645,0 5,045,0O7, a total increas,
in ten years of S3,373,469,58G
Now take the twenty years follow
ing. In 1880 the value of farm
was $1O,197,096, a total in
crease in twenty years of S3,552,
051,769. The average yearly in
crease in the value of farms drop
ped from 101 per cent as in th,
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