The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-13

Evansville, Sprin gield, in Delaware
and in New Jersey, it is not a difficult
! prophecy to make that the north is
I coming TO have an understanding OF
/ what white supremacy means, and
why the black man is in no sense a fl
running partner for the white one.
And as the black plague spreads over
the north this condition is certain 10
increase. And burnings and hangings
multiply. | am not defending; merely
making a guess at the future.
worn Out Lands"
But to return TO the south. We
read of worn out lands Do you
Know what that means. Merely that,
year in and out, for hundred years,
perhaps, the same soil has yielded the
same crop. And, until within a few
recent years when artificial fertilizers
a6ve come into use, without a single
ounce of manure. How long, think
you, would the best farms in Ohio
yield with such treatment? There is
no winter in Alabama; none such as
We know. Occasional snow may fall
And az times ice forms In thin sheets
But IL Is gone when the sun looks at
it; retreats, shame-faced, as though it
knew it was a long way from home
As result you may ride or drive
through the entire state of Alabama,
and you will not see a single big barn!
Or at least not as many as are to be
found in one township of Lucas coun-
ty AS a normal result. there is no
central place where the st ock gathers.
1t runs wild in the winter time. 1t IS
neither housed nor fed. The manure
is wasted. 1t could not be otherwise.
And the cattle are apologies In a land
OF splendid pasture; of unexcelled wa
ter; with climate which does not try
animals in the summer beyond that
which our cattle endure, and where the
winter affords them no trouble, 1t is
only within a few short years-three
or four-that the slightest attention
has been given to beef-cattle growing.
Now it is coming up for discussion.
HerfordS, Short Horns, Galloways,
Aberdeen Angus, and Devons are be-
ing brought down from the north with
which to improve the native stock.
Slowly, to be sure, for here is another
trouble. The tick fever" fatally at.
tacks these northern animals. And
kills them. | saw herd of fine Short
Horn animals near West Point, Miss,
last summer, owned by Col F. NJ. Alb
bolt of this city. There were between
500 and 900 OF them, and all real
beauties. But Col. Abbott told me
that when he laid the foundation of
the herd a dozen years since, he lost
more than half of all he brought dow1.
But he has persisted, and today has
his reward. Last winter a carload of
his cattle fetched the top price for
the week at Kansas City, averaging, I
believe, something above 1000 pounds
each.
In West Florida.
When l first visited West Florida,
less than half a dozen years since, it
was stated to me as an absolute fact
that the average weigh. of cattle for
that state was between 600 and 700
pounds. In fact, the one Joke the
new conner was sure TO meet up"
with was the gravely admitted state
ment that the only profitable cross
to make on one of these diminutiYe |
Florida COWS was to cross her with
locomotive! West Florida, your map
will advise you, is geographically a |
fair part Of Alabama, and 50 pertinent
to this article.
One of the most common terms met |
in the south Is Cow pen" This, in |
many cases, has come 10 be the name
of a town or crossroads. It is the re-
suit of "penning" cattle at night at |
same central point, as they were driv-
en- to the landings on the streams or
Gulf from where they were shipped to |
points. These spots remain
fertile. after years of crop
ping, and today show where cattle |
were "penned" long before the war.
saw last week. in the midst of a great
field Of growing cotton "pen" where
on the cotton was growing with such |
vigor as to mark the outlines Of the
original enclosure.
But, while intensive farming, and ro>
tation of crops will restore any of the
so-called worn out" land there are
other methods, infallible and easy OF
which will accomplish the
same result. The several Legumes
will accomplish this result on the poor
est, most washed-out land, and within
a single year. What are legumes?
The heterogeneous plants which take in