The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-10

mat n one npItt TURNER WIFI OCrnAlnnnllN
OF adventure is not dcad in hia black breast,
wsouuiGd be be Tor a miner to steal a scuttie OF coal.
lie has hogs OF his own, plenty of them, and q
smoke house full Of bacon; Black Digs Of all
that any farmer. can tell his. own. They wal
low In the muddy ruts. and slumber. under
hedges. and steal oft away into the woods. and
when u carriage comes along and disturbs them
as they lie in the road they move very dellbcr.
says, "why cant you let q follow %alonoY''
There Is II heap of expression in II Georgia
II is the hog that. makes life worth living
for the one-horso farmer. Cotton is well
cracked teapot, but il cannot but the pleased
expression on the farmers face that II wears
when M he 1s Gp Ts,ns. tsG az IS smoEs,honso door and
invitingly overhead. Come frost or snow. hard
times, blight Gotten worm. no matter what,
"Dore's a yeah's meat ahead. sab" he says.
covered rafters OF the smoky building; IAN
dey's another yGah's meat a runnin' 'Ioun' do
no. sah. We's not n-gwiue to go hungry"
Then, he leads the way to the little building
feeds the family feeds the hogs also when they
need II. What Is left over lie worth so much II
s Sps n,,ch In \ town nonnd The ne, surplus ! vs., OF bacon is worth Z
comes from Brooks county than when It comes
from any Other part Of the south, because
tion. In a corner OF the corn house Is the
hand mill with which the grain Is ground into
added, the meal soon becomes corn cakes.
A sharp knife will produce IL meal OF ham or
bacon at any moment.
There is no such thing as q pork barrel full
Of brine and sections of white meat; the Geor-
gia darby must have his pork smoked. ex.
cept when he takes it fresh from the. young
roaster-his own rooster, perhaps; perhaps, q
grumble over so small a matter as the loss Of
II hog In Brooks county. There are eggs to go
with the bacon. laid by the hens back of the
lpusa Spnptimpa tho hens flafnSplyps mako
part Of tho meal. always in the fried. state.
The Southern darky. knows II hen In two
states only-when 1t Is alive and when 1t lie
How, do you fry your chickens, aunty2'
not necessary to explain to her that the ques.
tion was prompted by curiosity to know by
was changed into a morsel of bones and
scorched skin and Rristle.
sah:' y she answered, proud to give such infor.
nation to a stranger. YES, fat wat l does
save when fries de bacon. sab. ! does cut
an put on de kiver. an does let dem fry tell
dey brown. brown" Thi. dlL not explain
sist1 OF tough wings and tail ends, but It was
enough to account for the general undesirable
county.
The colored one-horse farmer is the most
picturesque figure In this part, of the South.
but the white settler of small means is the
shining example OF what brains, and muscle
being covered in large part with noble pine
Forest. There is no need to ask rhich OF tho
new settlers are Germans: their places can he
picked out always by the neat ~whitewashed
fences, the bright painted buildings, and the
general appearance of thrift.
The white settlers have the same chance
70 rent ne or two horst. farms as the negroes.
particularly, when they are foreigners. Land
at 80 or $40 an acre seems SO ridirulousiy
buy 1T. Many of the new settlers. too. have
some means. and to them the original cost OF
Good pine land can be bought here. not too
close to town. for 81 an acre; ard the new.
conner with muscle to WELD an axe sees In the
his barns, and a. village OF outhouses., Clear
ing n field sufficiently. TO cultivate it between
raised the first year. Taking out the .stumps
is slower and harder work. but that is done
rented for 80 cents an acre u year TO be 'tur-
pentined,' as they call tapping the trees for
Tic, see the cotton grow in a newly cleared
wood lot Is one OF the sights OF south Georgia.
richnsss. and brown in places with pine
needles. called In the South pine straw. Black
s an G no% ai ai;Es Sre PI tieii rows @nd nrc f inid OYER Hti.
three feet apart. a deep centre turrow being
made With a subs3il or scooter" plonEh. Il
II any is used. Then n turning plough i run
along each side of the fprrow. making a bed
this bed is opened with a new furrow, into
which the seed is dropped, either by hand or
off and a heavy board cover" as it is called, is
holted in It's place. and this is drawn on edge
surface again. and destroying the early weed
germs. This Is the simple process Of prcpAr,
Ins,r for % . the Great wo STt'"n nS Gr'E KNOW but e., E m SsIa,
Every good seed has brought forth n plant.
and negro boys and girls have worked. care
fully up and down each row, letting their heavy
hoes fall With apparent carelessness. but really
with great precision, cutting away a dozen
leaving always the right one.
As they mechanically raise and drop their
hoes they sing songs and tell stories stories
hind Crowier'4 Till, or the terrible 'a appariti ion
in Mr.. Johnsing's barnyarl. or OF The hoodoo
that has been put on Mr.. Thompson's farm.
THESE, ghost stories. however. must be taken
The moment a whit" man appears in the field
the talking stops, ana every boy and girl is II
Now. in MAY the thinned-out cotton plants
have so increased in height and spread that
from Il little distance the field Is a mass of
s!rinped them in 1ize; hut corn Is larger and
stronger 81" rS%s PANT ,o Kin H., rIiSn Ses5 Are FSr a Gs,t sS,T icIG
Whether the plants are to grow, as tall as a
the quality of the soil and the kind Of cotton
A few months hence the fields viii
every colored man. woman. and child in
Brooks county vii, ne nicking cotton.
by Georgia house wives. The treasure Of a
cook can make more money picking cotton at
AZ cents a hundred pounds than she can make
in the kitchen. and she thro VS. mp her place
forthwith and becomes a field hand, When
the season is over she Is glad 10 90 back to her
pans, and generally the mistress is gIad to take
her back.
:, After the cotton has been picked and ginned
II goes To the compress and comes out in
bales: Then about Christmas time, perhaps
= little before or litt!e after, the tide OF bales
begin to flow toward town and the railway
The recent of n savannah warehouse
for so many bale, of cotton is equal In buying
power to u greenhack In any mart Of Georgia.
WarehousinE cotton does not necessarily
imply that It Is to he sold Immediately. II lies
in safety till the owner needs money or the
price Is high enough. and then "A telegram To
the agent 10 sell all or n part does the bust
ness. That j. the season when dollars roll IN
hill In Brooks county, and double rations of
bacon fry in every pan.
the extent 10 which cotton il the equivalent
Of cash IN the cotton country i hardly eGualled
by any product in the North. And time has
been when the man with cotton bales laughed
M the man who had nothing but cash. About
thirty-hVe years ago a nun Der OF Georgia
planters desired to form a company to buy two
steamships. They. literally. had money to burn.
ari they would not have hesitnted long about