The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-30

n truck farm, he failed. but his failure
Wal. not due to negro Ia Dor
These same negroes whom he calls
#siIftess and worthless, made mores.c ca n n
#t;,loupes on t. farm that ysar taans
have ever been produced on any farm
q iii this county; and think one ca say
mere han have been produced on any
half dozen farms in thu count
They made for him SO many that ne.
ccu!d not find sale in stne8countS At any
pricc. He would some days almost load
u stea nlcr for Norfolk. This was the
case. until Ie#co,1ld not sell them in New
York and Philadelphia for any Price
was told to-day by q white gentleman
that often when The cantaloupeS couid
not sell III the Northern marker. tnes
were peddled in the county, ana on on one
occasion he bought a double morse wagon
load for forty cents.
w. The next year he went into ralslnS
I c.tba Se These 50 me shiftlsss negroes.
e. he calls them made for him so#nany5
cabbage heads that he could not give
them away in the North nor the SCUM
II he lost money! il Was due. IN my
opinion. to his profound ignorance Of
the successful management .oi 9 III ~.
tfe said he "strove and stroVe Win
them. and after all lost money. This
Y.ass his fault nor the faultHof the negro
labor. No man can make q successful s sL
track farmer, or any other#kl OF &iafhl-
er While three-fourths OF MS tlme ne Is
miles away. as is Mr.. Dixon
No doubt he iost money Any man
v hc#has followed 50 many different pro-
LESSONS. according TO his own story,
would be expected To lose money farm-
ilG. | would Judge rs LOST money "heh
in politics, aud surely he lost money
..laen in the pulpit where there were.
no negro laborers nor any negro Wor-8
slippers. why should he not lose MONEY
IN Glouces ter farming
Il discharged them all. and have
turned to raising Poled Angus beef for
tile English market. says Mr. Dixon.
II am told by8Speopie who should know
that he has not more than fifty head of
cattle on his ia rm. and that there is but
cnea thoroughbred bull among them. L
should suppose that any man raising
#c3ttls4 for the English market5would have
more. tfanSone thoroughbred bull, unless.
,le, By cattle raising is like Mr. Dixon,
who cultivated cantaloupes ana cabha sc.
knowing little or nothing ahout the bus
mess.
Now work tie farm with two white
rie1l.ss To my own kncwtefge. ha has
had on the farm, for the last one or
two years three. or four colored men
and Two white men.
On going to his wharf one VIII see me ne
negro catching the steamboat me. On
III llGtfarnl YOU VIII see lilG y uiiAA
tie mower. blowing and making fence .
4 negro does his cooking, takes care OF
liz. house does the chores ahou1 the
f.,i1n. aud. i'll fact. does all about the
farm except occasfonally5 yon see.
V its man riding about as*lf wo1lde 2l Is
@1s-ts-t naxr 10 direct
The negro. like all otileF ala7crsfs. VII VII
MOI assume the responsibility 81 a oyo-.
acre farm unless he is made TeSPofisin-s
for. the engagement BY The owner II
Mr.. Dixon would call on some OF these
st:iftless negroes they would give nm 2
.,let q cal of forIrla ton about the man
aae1nent Of a 5OI-acre farm. by Which ne
would be ablc#to make q. financial sue
cess His help to-day consist lz OF enc
White and four colored.
The farm labor in this county Is gen
erallv negro labor. II Mr.. Dixoi1 spent
more OF his time in the county Sls Isl
.sI,c,i farms as AR NJ. Is. smiths MI
m Benson s. captain 1onn Il. l Sapp
~ l,sl,,te lI;llssf Mr. i. ~. leahr1sy ms
3Tiext ,lsiglf3or: MI. Mott Judge J- -. 5L-s
TaIiaferro, Messrs- Thomas and y alter
Howard L. O Hall and hundreds OF
others might mention. he Would II. C
few years learn something, bout farm
Ing. after which he WoEid learn 70 at
tribute his failure to solns o1sisis ssatse
= NJ not ne gro J ai1sr.
All. 81 these gentlemen I have nlan-
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