The Grenada sentinel., 1906-10-20

careful reading by all who are interested
in such matters. Mississippi has a
number of excellent men who are per-
fecting their farms and supplying them
with all conveniences, several having been
described in this department in the past
few weeks. This Holmes county farm
is undoubtedly model and the example
of Mr.. Lundy is worthy of emulation:
Editor of the Times-It was my pleas
ure last Sunday morning, in company
with my nephew, Sam Stigler, to visit
the home and farm of Mr.. w. B. LGndy,
on the west side of the corporate limits
of Lexington, who took pleasure III show
ing us around his premises.
'Nlr Lundy bought this place five
years ago, has built. a nice seven room
cottage. Mrs. Lundy has nice flower
yard that would be an honor to the
Kings palace; has one fine favored
orange tree, two lemon trees, one with
seven lemons, several measuring thir-
teen inches in circumference. The back
yard has about dozen nice pecan trees,
a few mulberries, Japan walnuts and
brown figs. Inclosed III net wire fence
was a pair of large mule-eared rabbits
sent him from Texas. We next noticed
his magnificent barn and the surround
ing lots, wired off into different depart
ments for convenience; barn 46XS6 feet.
Not like the rich man, he did not tear
down and build new barns, but simply
added to. Under this same roof he keeps
his fine stock, wagons and harness. Here
we saw Prince Albert, Jr., his high bred
saddle stallion 161a hands high, a per-
feet beauty, kind and gentle, just such
horse as q farmer needs. Next we no.
see jack, and Vanduke, his Kentucky
jack, both fine and good size. We also
saw a number of fine mares and colts.
Mr.. Lundy is a hog raiser, too; showed
us a fine lot of Berkshire and Poland
China hogs, mixed breeds.
'He has an orchard of five acres, iu-
closed with net wire fence, in which
he has five hundred choice fruit trees,
including grapes and English walnuts,
one acre in Strawberries. Mr.. Lundy gath
cred off this orchard four tons of fine
peavine hay. He has about three acres
of thin land adjoining his yard south
of his house he has sown in peas for
four years in succession; cut first year
four loads, second year eight, third year
twelve, and the fourth year eighteen
loads. That shows the increase in the
fertility of peavines.
"Mr Lundy has abont ten acres plant
ed in pecans. He has an individual crop
of forty acres in corn beside all these
patches, with only one wage hand and
fine pair of mules. This one man has
done all this work, and plowed some for
share hands on the place; also did a
amount of plowing on his
five miles southwest of Lex
ington; besides, this man has cut and
saved twenty eight tons of peavine hay,
fourteen tons of Bermuda hay, cutting
and raking eighteen tons of hay for
other people. The work of this crop
was done without the use of turning
plOw The secret is he used nothing
but riding cultivators in making and
laying by; the hand only walked when
planting corn He broke his land with
a heavy disc cultivator harrow, planted
in the water furrow. Says that it cuts
stalk cutter.
Eve forgot to mention that we were
shown along the edge of the woods a
number of large pecan bushes that were
grated in the old native scrub hickory.
He also showed us few native peach
md apple trees that he had different
of fruit growing he had budded
nto the limbs and body of the tree. All
his work Mr. Lundy does himself.
'sMr Lundy has the natural gift, en-
ergy and perseverance of business
nan. There lies the secret of financial
success. Others should profit by his ex-
]erience.
Before leaving we asked Mr.. Lundy |
f he belonged to the Farmers Union
lie said no, but had thought that he
would Join. I said to him that he was
he very man they needed to instruct |
hem along to the road of success. In |
dependence means success, and L say to |
ny brother farmers, your small or large
arms will have to be selfsustaining
nd lift the yoke of mortgage before you
an challenge the financial world"
Our beloved Southland is fast coming
nto the rights that have long been hers.
he initiative of the past few years is |
eginning to tell. The world reserves its
ig prizes for those who take the initia-
i've and the South is taking it. We are
ow doing the right thing without being
old in a general way, and doing it after
eing told once, anyway. The Manu-
acturers> Record paints the following
right picture of the past and also the
uture:
"Give free rein to your imagination
nd let it picture the future of section
yhich has one-half of the iron ore of
he United States, nearly three times as
,uch coal as Great Britain, Germany
nd Pennsylvania combined, which holds
world monopoly on cotton production
nd is rapidly becoming a great cotton
center, which dominates
he phosphate rock and sulphur trade of
he world, which has much of the richest
il territory known, which has one-half
the standing timber of the country,
.hich produces all the sugar, all the
ice, most of the tobacco, and add to
hese s00,0OO,OO0 bushels of grain a
ear. and then think of it's water powers,
8 splendid rivers, its great seacoast, it's
xpanding commerce and remember that
s cotton crop alone annually exceeds
ne total gold and silver production of
le world, and that every dollar of gold
mined is not enough to pay