The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-01-10
SOUTHWARK Is THE CRY.

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the biggest liar to be found west OF
the Missouri river, recently, and sent
him south to write series OF letters.
thinking the publication of his false
hoods would check the immigration
from that State southward. But all
In vain;- the people are still coming.
Listen to what Mr. +. II. Gilmore, a
former resident Of that drouth strick.
en-, blizzard swept State has to say
about his personal experience in this
falr land Of ours. He says:
Il am from the State of Nebraska,
and when first landing in the State
was surprised, for the reason that
when leaving my northern home l
supposed | was coming to swampy
country, but just to the contrary. A
southerner, in speaking of this coun-
Try, uses the word swamp for low
lands, thus all the advertisements
sent through the north are misunder
stood by northerner. When looking
over body of land he would say
Now, there is some swamp land down
there that we might look at Well,
imagine my surprise when looking
over it to find that it was as dry and
mellow as any agricultural land in
Nebraska. 10 my northern friends | |
VIII state that a sOutherner calls
swamp land that which is lower
than the upland, and it lies along the
rivers and creekS-not tamarack or
cedar swamps of the north. where
chicken would mre down. We would
call it in Nebraska bottom or valley
land. 1t Is just this and nothing
more-thc very richest of land in this
State and very productive, raising
from forty to fifty bushels of corn to
the acre, while the upland, which is
used for cotton, will raise from twenty
to thirty bushels to the acre without
fertilizer, and at the price corn is here
now will bring from $40 to S25 per
acre, and this is done without much
labor. The crop is never cultivated as
in the north, but just plowed with the
same plow that turned the ground be-
fore planting-a 6-inch string pl0w.
Northern farmers who have been here ,
Tor the past ten to fourteen years, in ,
0rm me that they use II and l6.inch ,
blows, plow middIing deep, plant with I
PLANTER and cultivate just as they did I
n the north and raise most excellent .
rops. They also state that money
ould not t.hire them to return to the 9
lorth since living in this climate: that T.
hey have made money here without :,
much labor and enjoy the best of a
lealth.
"Truck gardening is a grand sue
ess, SO far as tested, which is not very
xtensive as yet, but will, think, be
n the front rank in a few years, the
winters here being so mild as to admit +
I raising Il large portion of this crop u
II winter, thus supplying not only y
he home market, which is a good y
ne, but also markets OF the north a
uring a season when prices range very "
Ugh. h
Land is very cheap at present, but "
nth continuation of the present i'm n
ligratiOn it will more than double in at
rice inside Of five years, and from q
hat l have seen would advise my "
orthern friends to get out of that u
)untry where you work hard for al
,ven months and hug Il rcd.hot stove fr
nd spend for fuel and living all you hl
ave earned to pull through the re- NJ
laining five months Of the year. Come I'll
,uth and get home in a climate Df
here you can work the year round, pc
lille land is cheap, where they yet ot
4 inches Of rainfall year, and elude I'll
le droasht!s. and crop failures Of that IN
'untry, where you can raise every 10
ling you can there with better sue ye
IS excepting small grains) and much fe
ore. til
mills and factories arc just begin
ing to locate in this country and they
e coming, not one at time, but
Se geese, in flocks, and it will be but n.
matter of avery short time when ~ ~
le opportunities now held out here ~,
III be things OF the past, and the be- ~ -
ted ones will be compelled to pay ~ ~
lndsomely for what they gct." ." o.
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