The Forrest City times., 1905-06-16
A Trip to Johnson Township.

MeSsrS Nadakin and Moose went up to Johnson township Tuesday to
 spend the day with Hon. and Mrs.
 T. 0. Fitzpatrick. and make few
 pictures for the Art Souvenir Supple
 ment.
 Our first stop was al the poor farm.
 where we were refreshed with cool
 water. and found Capt Mcdonald coll
 fined to darkened room and suffer-
 ing with an afiiiction of his right eve,
 which has been giving him more or
 less trouble for several years and has recently been very painful. Capt.
 Mcdonald has furnished uS with pie tures of himself and home.
 At New Castle. we stopped to see our friends the Pirtles. Mir Pirtle was not at home. though We SAW him on the return trip. We found Mrs. PrtIc and their beautiful daughter, Miss Alma. at home. They are both well and happy and seemed to he ea- ! toying life
 Thence we called 1t Dr. McDoa- gals home. He. too. was away We had the pleasure To meet his good wife. however, and We return thanks to her for hospitaiities. We talked to Mr. Have Horton from there over their new telephone line. which k in fine condition. and q great coh- ycniencc.
 After having missed our way couple of times, We finally arrived al our destination about ll:30.
 NIT. and Mrs. Fitzpatrick and their children. Mrs Kate Miller and Mir. Lee Fitzpatrick were very cordial and did all they could and much for our comfort and entertainment. Soon after ridding ourselves of great quantity of dust. and refreshing our face and hands with cool water, We were invited out to partake of their hosptable board. There were no friIls or furbelows, but there ~as an abundance and great variety ef splendidiy cooked and seasons sub stantialitieS, and kindly, cheerful
 and interesting hospitality which We
 greatly enjoyed and made us feel u
 home.
 After dinner and a pefusaEe oHe of the host $ cigars. We made pie ture of the COSY and comfortable homestead, and began circuit of the farm. first visiting his timothy field linstead of millet, aS it was erreneeuslY referred to last week.. Here the mower was at work. and Mf. Moose made d fine view, showing the hay te be from two to four feet high. Thence We trayerSed the broad acres To tht pasture on the southwest of tht | house, and here made beautiful pie ture of a bunch of fine young mule
 and cattle.
 1 There are soc acres i'll this farm and in addition to this Mr. Ftt1 3 patrick has q large tract i'll cultiYa q tion in Cross county. Until recent 3 IY, when he disposed of his b0tt0 \ farm, he had TOO acres in cultivation ! He is au intensive farmer. He bt \ lieyes in fertilizing and intensive GU a tivation, and says that generally fal Il mcrS are working too much land fo the amount of help they have. an s would do better to cut down th X acreage and increase the fertilize ' and muscle on the fewer acres. N \ have long held the same idea. W N believe il a waste of energies to hal z work 100 acres, when he same labo
 would properly cultivate 5o or ] acres, aud produce just as much c 7 more
 l Mr. Lee Fitzpatrick k young la ] mer of great practical ideas II < keeps tab on his profit and loss Il, ] count He says cotton crop can h
 made. gather and mqrketed in hy
 months. and that last year his ind N yidual crop netted him S6 per day f6 T every day he was actually engaged i
 its cultivation. II k usually b,
 lieved. by the inexperienced, or ratht 8 il ie sometimes faeetiouSly state X hat II takes l3 months in year
 raise d cotton crop.
 .4 We return our sincere thanks {
 this eStimahle family for their geni; T Icntertainmcut Me assure them Una
 We enjoyed our visit very much il u deed, and highly appreciate thei Fl Friendship and favor.
 T Returning We turned east at Ne' a Castle and passed through Horton A AeWerc I little surprised tosee Tn $ enterpriSlng appearance of this place k We had never been there before. an a supposed il just a onc store town. N E. l.. Horton has a splendid stor & here. as does also Nr. N. !. Dillon ! 2 Son, Both buildings are modern am