The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-28

coltS, all h0ma-ralSed. lie ralSed over one hundred and fifty turkeys last year. He supplied the state with sixty-fve turkeys when they had the banquet at the completion of the state capitol. E.. l.. Jackson, of Albany, Ga. said: T came to get my keg full of good news and glad tidings to carry back to Georgia and have got it. I started blowing with my pants rolled up and bare-footed. I saved five hundred dol lars and bought a home in Albany. I bought two hundred and fifty acres for seven dollars per acre and paid for it in three years. I made that pay for two hundred and fifty acres more. then bought thirteen hundred acres of land. I live on that land. It is all paid for. I have twenty-five buildings and they came out of my pocketbook. 'Thatland, is now worth twenty dollars per acre. If the colored people of Georgia will live economically they can get land and have, no trouble, When a, man pros pers}it don't make his head bigger It only makes him feel better. For a. dis tance of five or six miles from my set clement there has not been man in the chain gang for years. I work. forty seven head of mules. The only way we, will ever be race is by getting homes and a virtuous life don't give mort gages; I take mortgages on black and white. I had one room in my first house; four now. I have put the first bale of cotton on the market in Georgia for eight years, .+n
 Squire Jones, of Fort. Gaines, Ga. quite a young man, ,said:-ss T began working for myself when eighteen years old; my father and mother died when was child. first worked for eight dollars. and a half per month, cleared eighty-three dollars the, first year. Then worked. on shares for awhile. Then bought mule on cred 1t, using my money to support myself, while raising a crop. I own fifteen hundred acres of land; all paid for. I have six rooms in my house. I don't give any mortgage. I have twenty three blows and bank account. I haul, on my drays, about ten thousand bales of cotton every year. I have fifty acres of land near Fort Gaines on which I have six-room house. Our school runs about seven months.''
 Mrs. Lucy Nelson, Dadeville, Ala, said a good many in her neighborhood owned homes, others are getting homes. They have from one to five room hous- es. 'There are three in my family and I am the boss. I save about one hum dred dollars a year. I give no mort gage. I plant everything that a farmer can plant. raise my own syrup, meat. peas, corn and everything to eat. I have three COWS. You have got to go low down to get up high. I traded a little puppy with my brother for a pig. He had eight head of little pigs and from this one pig that I got of him I raised eight pigs For seven years I have not bought a pound of meat. I am living on the strength Of that little puppy yet I own forty acres and sometimes rent some. I have a good winter garden.
 Mrs. Smith, of Tuskegee, has a nice little home. At first she thought it was unreasonable to try to buy. She only made ninety cents per week at washing Now she has house with three rooms and a front porch.
 Rev. MT. Rankin of Evergreen. said he was a renter for seven years. Then he bought forty acres. He would split rails during the day and carry them around at night and his wife would lay them up during the day. "In nine years we paid for four hundred acres of land. now I own 1015 acres About fiffTr nf upon me. have twenty-five head of hogs. I raise my own horses, mules and COWS. I do not make mortgages, but take instead. I can ride for five miles in my county and not find three white men. Nearly all the people own their homes in that section. own the land where used to live when a renter and live in the house of the man Of whom once rented. The public school in our section runs three months; we have added two months by our own money.
 R. B. Moore, Macon county. said: T got my home by hard work I hara two hundred and nineteen acres. Ore man in my neighborhood owns eleven hundred acres of land. I haise cotton, corn, peas and potatoes. I own three head of mules, two cows and seven gogs. I have log house of three rooms.''
 William Boyd, Ellerton, S. C., said: q love South Carolina and am further from it now than I ever was before I came here to learn, and I want to say