The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-11-30

Plow the ground thoroughly, ope
deep. and drop the pototaes. whole
small, cut if large Ito one or two eye
cover with cotton, seed, hulls, or me,
and then put six inches of dirt on thel
!. to insure protection from freezes, an
they will make little tubers all winte
under this warm cover, and as soon a
frosts or freezes are over in the spring
the tops will shoot up and the littl
fellows develop into large early pota
toes. You have doubtless seen sprout
on potatoes in taking them out of bar
rels with young potatoes on them
That is how it is done under thu
ground when the potatoe is planted il
the fall. This article is worth ter
years subscription to the TINES
/ A bout one hundred bale3 of cotton
has in the last few weeks gone from
/ within six miles north of Canton tC
! Yazoo City, upon which the owners,
reliable gentlemen, claim to have re-
allied profit of about $500 per bale,
clear of expenses, above what the
same cotton would bring in Canton.
Some of the cotton was brought to
Canton and carried back home and to
these facts the merchants of Canton
are not aroused to the danger threat
ening them, and most of them do not
read the TINES as they should, and
some do not even take the town papers
If they were fully as enterprising as
these times demand. they would not
only give good support and patronage
to their local papers in order to keep
abreast of it and watch for danger sig
mails IN them, but under our urgent APP
peals they would take such steps as to
insure the interests of the farmers as
well as their own. by combining
with the farmer in bringing the rail
road to terms. 1t costs $1.4O more to
ship bale of cotton from Canton than
from Memphis or Yazoo City. Twenty
thousand bales or more are shipped
from Canton annually, which shows
that about 100000 is fltched from the
t trmers every year in this one item. !
A barrel of flour is now shipped from
st. Louis to jackson for forty-five
cents, while the charge to Canton is
cents, or nearly double,
jackson is only twenty miles
from Canton. Now take these rates on |
all else you buy, and do you wonder at
hard times or poverty? Poor red
necks, what fools you are, and how
you do freely and uncomplainingly
furnish blood and sweat for these
suckers. who, like the worm that dieth
not, continually and insatiately calls
for more. "How long, Oh! conscript,
fathers, shall these things be-"
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we, Madison county gentry, pay about
sixteen mills on the dollar, taxes, with
)ur warrants not at par, whilst our
sister county of Rankin pays only a
,en mill tax, and don't owe "a dollar in
he world. The state tax is six mills,
which both counties have to pay, leav-
ng Rankin county tax only four mills
whilst ours is about ten or more than
louble. In other words, the Rankin
county farmer pays his tax on the dol
airs worth of property with not quite
me pound of cotton, while the Madi-
on farmer has to give more than two
pounds for the same tax on county
axes. Iazoo county. adjoining us on
he north, pays much smaller tax
han we, yet we hear she has much
iner roads and bridges, some of them
ron, than we. The average Madison
ounty redneck is Jim dandy" he is
fellow that don't read much nor {
hink much, but stays at home and {
lows poor land, and raises scrub {
took and dissatisfied children on scant
ations, whilst the other fellows fix .
he taxes and laws and offices, so as to
eep them fat, clean, and sweet-Scent-
d, whilst you poor devils sweat, smell
nsavory, and raise HI among the
impson weeds, and paw up the earth,
ut keep right on in the same old rut
'oor fellows, "Ephrian is welded to
is idols pax Vobiscum), peace be
With you.
We are going to try mighty hard to
rag you poor sinner, farmers, up to
he agricultural heaven by the hair OF
he head, and if the roots don't pull