The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-03-08

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OF the low price of cotton. After
they have surveyed the causes, and
learned that there could be no re
lief obtained by Congress, they
suggest to the Southern people in
their report that they save their
money by making and raising at
home everything that our climate
and soil will produce.
How are we to avail ourselves
of this wise and and fruitful sug-
9estion? First, we must be care
tul and honest with ourselves and
plant such parts of our crops in
grains, cereals, grasses, potatoes,
Irish and sweet peas Of different
kinds, melons, summer and winter
fruit of all kinds that our climate
and soil will produce for the use
of man and beast, every farmer
acting upon that manly integrity
that he would if there was no other
source on earth to obtain anything
only as he produced it by the
sweat Of his face. We Of the
South land may say Of Attala
county" have the best country in
the world for variety of timber.
Land that is regarded as poor, is
susceptible Of furnishing a living
for family and growing richer in
producing power every year. IN
der skillful management we can
take and SOW an acre tract of as
poor land as you can find in Attala
county Chat is not SO rolling that
a pumpkin will not lie on the hill
side without a hole to lie in) and
after clearing plant in corn and
peas (cow, clay, red, black, quak-
er, Crowder, sugar Crowder, speck
lie, or whitc) all of which are good
the second year plant in cotton,
the third year in small grain, and
after taking off turn stock on tors
short time, then SOW peas broad
cast, plow in and harrow, and OF
the fourth year the crop OF corr
and peas will be at least fifty PEI
cent greater than the first year.
There is great mistake made
by many farmers in the prepara
ton of their land for crop OF an,
kind by the continued scraping Q
the surface the depth of three Q
four inches year after year. i
preserve our land we ought at leas
once in four years to sub-soil b
turning over with IA pillow that Wi
cut six inches, to be followed /
each furrow with long narro'
ull-tongue plow to run as deep d
one horse or OK can pull, and thu
increase the producing as well a
enduring power Of resisting th
damaging effects Of drouth. B
this course OF rotating and cult
waiting. oar lands Wi.i furnish A
that we need 10 make us pro.
! porous and an independentpeopleI
: mean independent Of debt with a
annual surplus to invest in OthC
property as our Judgment may d
rect. We need more ol what
called intensive farming and not
: much desire for too great nun
Der Of acres poorly cultivated.
On land that is not too rollln
; the better way for the planting
corn and peas is to lay of the cor
: rows four by five feet that IS Wh'
i a CaroIinian would call streak an
check plant corn in each checl
! and in May plant your peas
space between the five feet rows
: the center of the space. BY tn
: plan the peas are ploWeu t"lC'
: and make a better crop. We WI
: till the soil or have 1t done tor
living should by no means presun
to take advantage OF our broth'
planter by making our crop to COZ
sist of cotton to the exclusion
other crops with the hope OF ga
greater than those who diversity.
d A few years back, in the days
n the organization OF the Patrons
= Husbandry, there was comme
d consent agreement IN THIS state
f plant one third of the crop IN co
r ton and the other lwo-thlrds
g other products. | will here illu
r trate how we'll the order observe
i their agreement by relating what
y member told me. He sad tn
g his wife had been sick tor son
n time and he had been staying WI
/, and nursing her SO closely that