Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-04-29

tllce along Flint river. q small stream running into the Tennessee There are aboI- seven hundred acres Il cultivation. the balaucc in timber ei magnificent frs, growth h9Gd wood principally white o5N. w. raise co trH pfteetP5lle, bHt@oH account of oug is;oNinil} to trwu. also wa raise corn. hay. some oat~ and each trn9nl raises S6H4aum cane for hiz long sweet 1biue during the year
 T now cal Nate about one hundred acres myself. with hlrcd help. the bai- ;,nce is rented on what is known as jhe tenant system. only as the land k so near market and very fertile l com lhand q money rent instead of share crop. receiving for upland g. and river, bottom $1 per acre. Each tenant takes. to use a tcchnicd I CXpresSion d one. two OF thrre-horse crop. accofd ing to the amount of stock the man has. A horse is supposed to be able L tend twenty five acres
 How the Tenants Fare
 Fl have twenty families on the place but they arc not all tenants, as some of them are hired by he year Each tenant has t cabin, q garden spot and pasture free of rent, and his trcwood also
 "Npsrops fiud, afe not al all mi. siatorN Many of the younger mon have been horn on he place aud some have been here since the surrender They book on il IS much their home as mine. One, fer instance dspleased Hle this summer. ani tela Aim he would have te go to town and coHld hnt five out here any longer. Then I went off for q month traScling On my return alnost the first person saw was Bud, and one of the other men sad 'Oh. Mrs Wilder, hes chopn!ng wood Bud said he had no where to go this WAS all the home he had, and We just told him to staH Of c0nrse | vas slad, for sRaa was here wh"n l cnme q bride | try to the English tenantry of holding their ltnd for life and leaving their leases tS their children. man takes better care of land that he expects To con thu" to live on. and. maybe his chil- dfru te cultivate after him.
 "Ot course the busN time of year on the plantation is the fall. Then the cotton is being picked and ginnod. The tenant is ready to pay his rent, aud here is where the beauty of cotton comes in. If Eallf crop has raised enough 10 pay you, you can feed easy fer our man cannot run off With the l cotton, even. If he has only corn, you have to watch pretty closely, OF he gets away with small quantities. How ever, have an eye on all my tenants. and also am very good collector
 Settling of Accounts.
 Saturday afternoon is paving off Gay among the cotton pielers SatHr- day it is all counted up Hardly any power can get work out of negro Saturday afternoon, so the week clos e, at noon. am on my horse every Gay seeing that the cotton is picked az: rapidly as possible. In the season I also ride constantly oyer the fields te see that the crop is being put 1T properly and in time. The negroes are very proud of having no ovrrSeer and take a great pride in giving me all the help they can always. though with sort of an air that a woman farm
 ing is a great joke. have gained their confidence thoroughly by the strictness with which I keep my books. Each tenant has his account 1 they come to settle up is great affair They bring their books along for if they cannot write they all have some child that can, and we go over the year, take out their work accounts and square their rent before I sign contracts with them for another year.
 q am very proud of the way my influence extends, even in my absence.