The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-03
IMPROVING THE FARMS.
The White People Should Live on
 Them.
China Grove. A

China Grove, Ala. Sept. 30. 1901. Editor The Advertiser
 There Is something In each Adveruse' l that makes its failure to arrive loss, es pecially as a rule. the Sunday edition Recently, however. there were two ar ticles on week days of great value ane interest The article signed c. L. Chiffon a surname that pledges talent and char acter--copld not have heen exceiied II the propriety. dignity and elevation ol its attitude towards the recent lyncn law utterances of certain Northern divines and except for slight repetitions its use of the Anglo-Saxon language was almos, perfect a repetition natural. however. tf what is written in "a first line furious rSptsre Then your 9Sr r,sSs tb,ns the right time. said in the right way;
 l am visiting on plantation where an intelligent farmer who Is a coiege Srau uate and the finest typsi yIpsirc Of venp eUp'tf the' ories. The farm in his care has peen sc improved in only two years as 70 1s .oVH like a new place. and the slouching naL- I saw with loathing on my hrst visit, crowded up close to the residence have been set in their proper places ana s,- tered into respectful: cleaniy laporers; almost unparalleled bad luck as to sea- sons. The first year had three overnows of the river on growing crops; the secoho had long drought on newly pianteo
 
 tured crops. a storm that shredded fod- der. prostrated much corn and wrung cotton roots so badly as to arrest devei- opment of bolls. What the whole country needs is for its brawn and brains to wrestle with it's soil. for its young men of intelligence. character and gentility to cultivate the lands now going to waste m the lazy hands of debased negro tenants. before the war several fortunes were made. and which when l visited 1t two years ago was disgrace to its owners. when look over 1t ana .r see & ,ss refi1MI ,Uasb that The Advertiser as well as all the Alabama papers of inferior circulation would proclaim the message: Live on your own farms. or send your grown sons thsre."
 Here only little cotton and corn were made first year; very little cotton and some corn next year. However, the barns are being filled with hay from grass and in the autumn sunshine such as was ths grass on Prosperos Isle, peas are to be stored and beans. cotton seed are be- storm S spared. The Berkshires which grunt their satisfaction over morning and evening meals are broad-backed and thoroughbred: while tn, Aberdeen: Angus and sleek sided, are beauties. and the proultry whose flesh anr eggs furnish forth delicious dishes under the happy housewife's hands, are the finest Ply mouth Rock John Ridd and Loona Doone had on Britains great isle no fairer prospect than is here on the banks of the Alabama River for self-resourceeul young people. I confess there's nothing on earth that makes me so happy as for my children to deserve success. grate- fully accept what Is second to that in the care of my two children here-the heliet ard hone that success will be finally achieved though nature may delay it while still her irregularities are devel- oping their courage and pluck.
 Pardon so long a note. but your patri- ctic editorial there at Montgomery makes this echo in Monroe Very rostoctfulv,
 N Fl. Morrissette.