The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18

1t is time for the Truckers to begin
to prepare for their crops. Remember
that to the early and best truck comes
the best prices and an always ready
market. The hot beds should be con-
structed and the ground put in good
condition by repeated plowings and
manuring heavily, it is useless to ex-
pect paving crops from poor land.
Manuring, however, can be overdone if
applied too near planting time, but if
begun now, and frequently plowed
and incorporated evenly with the
coil and we'll fermented and rotted
or disiptcgrated, it will prove profit
able in an eminent degree. The man
who studies and works is the one who
will be heard to say in the summer
trucking pays" 1t would be well we
think, for the truck people to try and
begin canning this season, II only
on small scale. 1t would un-
doubtedly be a great source OF profit
that would be lost. One OF the largest
canning establishments in this country
situated in Indiana, began by canning
on a common cooking stove. tWhcre
there is a will there is d way espec-
iallv when concert of action can be
had. and the way made easy and profit
able. There are enough level headed
truck farmers in this county to inaug-
urate the canning business, If they
will only combine and make the effort.
inst as soon as the cold and wet
weather will admit, work should be-
gin for another crop by starting the
plows to running. and all hands to
cleaning up and gathering and dis
tributing fertilizers. The blowing
should be so done as to give a firm bed
in which the seed can take root and
grow. We think it is fully proven that
no root will grow as we'll in loose earth
as in that which is firm and moist.
w, want b loose fresh surface on the
bed to plant in, which should be
thoroughly narrowed before seeding.
In order to get this firm bed, we want
either to turn out the old beds into the
middles, and then hip them up when
ready to plant, or run the first two fur
rows turning into the middles now, or
as early as possible over all our land,
especially for cotton, and then when
ready to plant turn out the middles.
All blowing should be done with
double teams. and deep, and the land
thoroughly broken. In our stiff clay
soils which run together so tightly,
this is indispensable, and the turning
plow is the implement to use in break
ing and early cultivation. All labor
should be put to work, it is the way to
discipline and renderit efficient and
conteDted.
nm I ~ fa hnf
the happest man of all men is the one
who lives in the country and tills the
soil, aud leafs of the fruits of his own
labor He may long for the imaginary
pleasures and fancied ease and enjoy
ment. of the apparently more favored
classes in cities, but he knows nothing
of their trials, privatiops, and strug-
giles to keep the wolf from the door,
nor of the eternal round OF treadmill
duties and confnements to one spot or
kind of business. All this, could the
transition be made in most cases,
would soon demonstrate how this mode
of existence, would not only prove how
unavailing of enjoyment it would be.
but how positively irksome it would
become to the sturdy farmer, accustom-
ed to his regular hours. change of
duties, interest in his crops and stock,
and above all. the full and satisfying
consolation that he bad living ia
spite of all calamities. and all men,
and was free and independent. 1t
does not require wealth to bring hap
piness. on the contrary it generally
has worry or misery for those who
WOO its tavors freely. besides she that
makest haste to BE rich shall not be
innocent"