The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1906-10-19


careful reading by all who are interested
in such matters. Mississippi has q
number of excellent men who are per
fecting their farms and supplying then
with all conveniences, several having beer
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 Stiglor to visit
the home and farm of Mr.. w. b. Lundy
on the west side of the corporate limits
of Lexington, who took pleasure in show
ing us around his premises.
"Mr. Lfndy bought this place five
years ago, has built a nice seven -room
cottage. Mrs. Lundy has nice flower
yard that would bs 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 a dozen nice pecan trees
"a few mulberries, Japan walnuts and
brown figs. Enclosed in a net wire fence
was pair of large mule cared 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 1919 hands high, per-
feet beauty, kind and gentle, just such
horse as farmer needs. Next we no
ticed the two jacks-Cortez, his Tennes-
see jack, and Vanduke, his Kentucky
jack, both fine and good size. We also
saw number of fine mares and colts
Mr.. Lundy is hog raiser, too; showed
us a fine lot of Berkshire and Poland
China hogs, mixed breeds.
He has an orchard of five acres, in
closed with q 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 croI
of forty acres in corn beside all these
patches, with only one wage hand and q
fine pair of mules. This one man has
done all this work, and plowed some fol
share hands on the place; also did
considerable amount of blowing on his
plantation 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 a turning
pillow. 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 1t cuts
cotton and corn stalks equal to regular
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
and apple trees that he had different
varieties of fruit growing he had budded
into the limbs and body of the tree. All
this work Mr.. Lundy does himself.
'sMr. Lundy has the natural gift, en-
ergy and perseverance of a business
man. There lies the secret of financial
success. Others should profit by his ex-
perience.
"Before leaving we asked Mr.. Lundy
If he belonged to the Farmers Union
He said no, but had thought that he
would join. [ said to him that he was
the very man they needed to instruct
them along to the road of success. In
dependence means success, and L say to
my brother farmers, your small or large
farms will have to be lf-sustaining
and lift the yoke of mortgage before you
can challenge the financial world"
Our beloved Southland is fast coming
into the rights that have long been hers.
The initiative of the past few years is
beginning to tell. The world reserves its
big prizes for those who take the lnitia-
tive and the South is taking it. We are
now doing the right thing without being
told in general way, and doing it after
being told once, anyway. The Manu-
facturers' Record paints the following
bright picture of the past and also the
future:
"Giye free rein to your imagination
and let it picture the future of section
,ybicb has one-half of the iron ore of
The United States, nearly three times as
mucb coal as Great Britain, Germany
and Pennsylvania combined, which holds
q world monopoly on cotton production
and is rapidly becoming great cotton
manufacturing center, which dominates
the phosphate rock and sulphur trade of
tbe world, which has much of the richest
oil territory known, which has half
of the standing timber of the country,
which produces all the sugar, all the
r;ce most of the tobacco, and add to
these s0o,OO0,OOO bushels of grain a
wear. and then think of its water powers,
its splendid rivers, its great seacoast, its
expanding commerce and remember that
its cotton crop alone annually exceeds
the total gold and silver production OF
the world, and that every dollar OF gold
annually mined is not enough to pay
the South's bill against Europe for cot
ton. and you will get faint conception
of the future.
"Here are the materials for feeding
and clothing an unlimited population
Here are an enormous supply of those in
d;spensable sinews of all manufacturing
;ndustries-coal and iron. Here are in
wonderful profusion and supply most i'm