Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1905-07-13

The following description ~ a unfque
Mississippi farm i furnished bv frisud
at HaxelhurSt. ami il well worth read
ing.
In response to an invitation by Mr.. r.
z. Nelsuu. visited his Red Hog Farm
near Hazelhurst- Ny first question:.
alter pleasant drive u four miles over
good rcads. was. where dos your lrn
derive IT, nameZ In reply he carried
me 10 his hog pasture. There saw
numbers Of Red DsIros hogs grazing on
young sorghum. He todd me thar h..
had tried all kinds Of hoes and found
thus hog will tatten On less feed than
any other breed. They were certainly
35ctures. Mr.. Nelson showed me pigs
tx mouths obi that would easily weigh
l-1 pounds. He remarked. Il DON'T 0ss-
lieve those hogs know how TO eat corn,
a. they have never been fed grain of
any kind
- He i a great believer in sorghum
for hogs, also a. a hay crop in the early
spring.
= he called my attention to his mules,
also mule colts. He don't feed them
grain of any kind and they come through
winter fat and sleek. tie claims that
One acre OF sorghum will keep twenty
head OF hogs. He has his sorghum in
patches .dioining, and turns his hogs
from one patch to the other. He saw
that hogs are very wa.tefal. that they
viii bite OF and tear down lot of feed
that they do uos eat. and by turning
his saddle horses IN at night they viii
pick up the sorghum that has been
torn down during tine day and become
partially cured Horses viii eat very
little sorghum when green
MIR. Nelson raises three or four
mule colts each year. He uuW has on
aand ten Or more and says they have
uoe cost him more 10 raise than a SlO
yeariicg would
lie also showed me fine herd IL
AngOra goats. some ot the full bloo.-
and great rfauy grades. The kids
are equal to venlson for the rahle.
ami my appetite az the table tna1 day
was II sub-tanliafiou - this theory.
'-Soutbdowu sheep are raised by
Nelson xtth the best % -acCess. BE
outsiders them the best foE mutton ami
1ther purposes and wel aGpdtsd t0
climate and othe- sundIttaus.
Ar. Nelson = q b....a YER IN she
Jersey COW ami showed me some excellent
ones, SAYS that h.. occasionally sells an
animal or two but Is rot 80 deeply in
terssted IN cattle a. he i IN lirtes and
hogs.
lie makes about sixty bales Of cut
ton with an abundance. of corn. hay.
oats, peas. Eoiatoss, ETC., toe home
consumption. i a member ct ths. opisih
County Cotton Association aud his car
rted 0ut his plesi-e 70 the lslter-
BsI- BRANDON
The following anens a fresh colony
eeared near v inons. and taken from
the Times OF this place, VII prove IN
te-vstin-.
Just this side Of TomnoIeu. amt
about twenty miles east of WinonA On
the southern. l. th. small Frenrh gul-
0ny thai l. opening the eyes 0t the n.l-
lives Of that section 10 tie real possI-
5ilitIes OF their sou and resources.
In an incredibly short time, they
have possessed and brought into culti-
varIon a laEge tract Of land. aud in the
meanwhile have operated mill indus
try. They purchased their goeiiy 1,res
In the virgin form ainlost At : song and
oy skill and industry have rai>s-.t the
value several dollars per acre e.veu
were they 20 abridge their labors nov
and 20 buck to the obi country. they
woula take back no iEeonsIalerdte
amount Of profit on their Investment.
They raise cotton, but do not make
Z their only money erup. They realize
IN practical experience what we have
realizse; cnly in our minds, that 1t Is in
austrially profitable to Use, Eot simply
lust one, but several Of the sources Of
wealth that generous Providence has
~ lavishly bestowed upon Us. Rather
than exhaust by eultivatlnyonscr the
fertility OF their sosi, they increase its
fertility BY we'll plaEtesi rotation OF
.rops. Virgin fertility can be main
tanned BY proper rotation without even
the use Of much commercial fertilizer.
"a Iarge vineyard visible from the
raiIrost.!. has been planted by the leader
Of the culouy- Others ara follow ing
his example and il viii not be long be-
bre the name OF the little colony
as-o-I1ted a. it i with the frutt and
vintage Of the lus -ious grape, viii serve
To produce some Involuntary eontraet-
iols ani expansis5ts Of The muscles OF
the lips and palate
IF our people will only use their
eyes To see and their ears to hear, they
will learn several prvatdbis industrial
lessons from this Little France near
WInoaa-
Greenwood Is bGildlug twenty new
brick business houses ami a large num-
ber of handsome dwellings a. well as
smaller ones.
EHazelhursc will spend $1,000 on mu=
nlcipal improvements. the order for Is
stIance Of bonds being made az a recent
meeting OF the city council The mouey
viii be used for various improvements
ami will be OF great benefit to that EN-
terprising place. More money i being
used in the State for municipal unprUve-
ments than ever before
The IocaI-optiou fight In Yazoo eoun-
w was won before the Board of Super
vlsors ansfthe election will not he cali
eai. The prohibitionists secured enough
Withdrawals from the petition To pre-
vent the election This will prevent a
hot tight and the attendant bad feeling
usually engendereti and the people OF
Yazoo are to be congratulated on hav-
ing escaped the campaign during the
summer mouths.
Evansville has begun work On the
water plant and ere long will have pro-
lection from the tire iiend- The city
has been lighted by electricity for sew
eraI years
Upon tie proposition To Isse $4,000
additional bonds for enI=r@iag the
water and Light plants 1t Tupelo recent
", the vote stood ls3 for and } against.
The result should be very CRAFTY ing
to the progressive citizens Of tkar spler-
did city. It Is not many years SINCE it
would have taken hard campaign 10
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