The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-11-30
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He that ploweth, should plow in hope
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Bobbie Burns the farmer poet says
..For care and trouble set your thought,
Evn when your ends attained;
And al your views may come to naught,
When ev'ry nerve is strained"
Our experience is, that the man wht
has aspiration and ambition to sue
coed and hew out position, compe
tence, and independence, for him an,
his, meets with almost insurmount
4 able obstacles in this county, even il
his own household The want o
trained business habits, the indolen
case and extravaganza of our peopl,
generally, and its indulgence, espec
, tally on our young people, the laxity
If discipline over them, as we'll as ovel
laborers, makes it a hard pull for the
progressive and am bilious man to APP
ply those measures, which alone, will
BRING success to any country or any
calling. The man who stands in front
Of a heavy responsibility has no easy
job. Four-cent cotton is the best ally
he has ever had, it will bring things te
his sta ndard or to starvation. 1t will
hurt somebody mighty bad but it
will in the end, "prove blessing in
Disguise" ''When things get to the
worst, they always begin to mend"
The darkest hour is just before
dawn In these axioms we find con-
ISOLATION. and hard as the situation
may be to some of us, we must face
the inevitable, let it be what it may,
aud set to work to create an enduring
pros perity, on new and solid basis.
at some time in the history of all
men and countries, these conditions
occur and have to be met. Let us
then, like true heroes, meet and over
cone them undaunted and undismay-
I'd. The time is near at hand for con-
tracing with labor for another year.
aud success and profits can only come
from making them. judiciously, and
having them rigidly observed. The
very best hand can only be given S.. 90
per month as wages, and this can only
lie done on good land, for it will take
about three bales of cotton to pay his
wages. and one to feed him at present
prices of corn and meat. This hand
should then make eigh. bales OF cotton
and gather it all by his own labor, to
b.. equal to half. The safest plan on
ordinary land, is to work on shares,
wages and not IL partnership. They
should work under directions just like
wages hands, and be responsible for
work by the first of January, running /
center burrows, and putting all trash
in it and wrapping it up out Of the
way of interference with the growing
crop. hauling manure, and cleaning up
s,,L l. l.. l.
and the farmer to do this, and if labor
won't do it, it will prove unprofita BILE
from ignorance, and IA desire to gouge
and shirk. Labor can be handled now
at will, on just principles and honest
and this course alone, is
the true one for all concerned, and
leads to permanency and success.
IT ever we plant any more oats we
will endeavor To do SO in August, as
we generally have rains to bring them
up 1t is very difficult to get II stand
during dry time in the fall Besides,
in late snmuer, they are up
by this time to afford plenty of green
which is SO greedily sought
after and relished by all animals and
fowls. We have oats near our resi-
deuce, and it is impossible to keep
chickens and turkeys out of them.
They pick them even with the ground.
Grass is the natural food of all ami
mats They have to be fenced from
pats to keep from devouring them,
now when yonng. We turned our
sheep in our fields some time ago, soon
,fGer frost, aud they almost live on our
pats, passing through the wire enclos-
are. The oats are small and thinlr
:one up,so the grazing Injuries them.
i planted in August, good stand
would not only have been reasona bly, ,
insured, but they would now be out
ii danger from loose stock, and would ,
rave been large enough to give good
grazing.
During a seven-hours enforced stop
,ver in jackson, caused by disconnect- {
ng cars, on our return from Vicksburg :
asst week, we met a representative of 5
II Messrs. Newsom & Co, $40 Front
treet, Memphis, Tenn, who wanted .
o buy eight car loads of Irish pota- +
oes. He stated that he had Just /
ought three car loads few days be
ore in the delta for which he paid 81 r
ents per bushel. He also stated he I
would buy all that we would raise =
round Canton next spring at market r
'rices. by the car load, loose in the I
airs or barreled, which costs ten cents i
er bushel. He also stated he would n
NY them in the patch, but give less a
Io.iey. On anything like good land, a
veil prepared and fertiized by cotton n
eed or meal IN the drill, we ought to a
e able to raise at least two hundred n
ushels, which at say the price above h
'ousd be Sil0 per acre for spring crop; r
hen add To this say 1,b bnshels nsr =