The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-08
LETTER FROM TORRANCE.
EDITOR SENTINEL

EDITOR SENTINEL
As this section If the country (the
fork) is 81 very dull 7 am afraid it will
be difficult matter to write you
! tirSt-c letter. There are no com
plants being made against the severi-
! IS of the winter, though each one has
eli hered il out to bis own satisfaction
''at we have had an unusual one. In
order to asct rtain to a certainty that
this has been an unprecedented win
Ter. MesslS. Dabney Philips and
Pink Horton gathered up some old
amanacs dating from l743 up to the
present time. and on carefully looking
over them found that it was colder
during the revolutionary war than it
has been before or since. They con-
suited an old time darky and asked
him bad he ever heard anything of it.
The old darkey said he was very per
miller wild it, as he was den livin' in
terginny." They asked him could he
explain Why it was cold then. He
said he could. and think this was his
explanation:
You see boss way back in dem
times when de Merikins and British.
ers was having DER little fout, dar
was no yuther war anywhar to be
/ found on dis atmusfere. When de
Merikins and Britishers was tunning
loose dem big guns it created nifty
yacuity in de substaneous ositice of dis
planet. and all de cold dat was in
| hearin distance OBJ dis kuntry from
Maine to Afica come right in and sOt
endurin de whole war, and / men,
bers nifty well when de Sooner was
frez over plum into June"
| The explanation being quite reason
able they left well satisfied thanking
! Providence that they were fortunate
/ in not living during those trying
! times.
Capt. Pink Horton is an early bird
when he comes tt farming. He was
the first in this section to try the vel
vet bean. but he tried them only one
year. He said they were too much
trouble. The first he tried (knowing
it to be of rapid grcwth) he planted
mile north of his house between two
hills, thinking the hills would check
their growth when the vine began to
run. He was mistaken in his calcula-
tion for in few days they were up
and ready for business. In weeks
time they had leveled those hills and
destroyed a valuable grove in front Of
his house. The last time he heard Of
them they were on the south side of
NalOhusha river reaching out for
Graysport. He next tried bermuda
grass, planted an acre on a sandy hill
side. There is where he made mis-
take, but he found it out too late for
one morning he went over to view his
patch but found that during the night
the whole thing had slipped off in the
river bottom. He hasn't experiment.
ed any more.
Mr.. Jimmy Smith has started an
industry "a poultry farm in which he
thinks there is money. He will com
mence with five hundred hens. AS
incubatorS are so expensive he will not
use them, but will employ Muscovy
ducks to hatch the eggs. He says he
is confident they will fill the bill, as
he has often seen them sit in one
place all night. He expects to have
spring chickens all through the win
ter.
We are anXiously awaiting spring
time gentle Annie and as soon as
she gets here and your correspondent
fully thaws out he will try to let your
many readers hear something more
from this interesting section.
TORRANCE.