The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-10-18
b n. e. BLAKESLEE. Jackson, Miss.

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The following acconat Of an ideal
farm is well worthy Of reproduction
and the careful reading by al who are
interested Ia such matters. Mississip-
pi has number Of excellent men who
are perfecting their farms and sup
plying them with all conveniences,
several Of them having been described
ir this department in the past few
weeks. This Holmes county farm is
undoubtedly a model and the exam
pie of Mr.. Lundy is worthy Of emula-
ton.
"Editor Of the Pines: It was my
pleasure last Sunday merning, in COM
pany with my nephew, Sam Stigler, to
visit the home and farm Of Mr.. W. B.
Lundy, on the west side Of the corpo-
rate limits of Lexington, who took
pleasure In showing us around his
premises.
"Mr Lundy bought this place five
years ago, has built nice seven room
cottage. Mrs. Lundy has nice flow
er yard that would be an honor to the
kings palace, has one fne-fayored or
ange tree, two lemon trees, one with
seven lemons, several measuring Ii
inches in circumference. The back
yard has about a dozen nice pecan
trees, a few mulberries, Japan walnuts
and brown figs, enclosed in net wire
fence was pair Of large mule-eared
rabbits sent him from Texas. We next
noticed his magnificent barn and the
surrounding lots, wired off into differ
emit departments 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 stall
liono, Is IL hands high, a perfect
beauty, kind and gentle, just such a
horse as a farmer needs. Next Ne no.
ticed the two jacks, Cortez, his Ten
nessee jack, and Vanduke, his Ken
lucky 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,
enclosed with a net wire fence, in
which he has Ave hundred choice fruit
trees, including grapes and English
walnuts, one acre in Strawberries.
Mr.. Lundy gathered off this orchard
four tons Of fine peavine hay. He has
about three acres of thin Land adjoin-
ing his yard south Of his house he has
sown In peas for four years in sue
cession, cut first year, four leads, Sec
ond year eight, third year twelve, and
the fourth year eighteen loads, that
shows the Increase in the fertility of
pea vines.
Mr.. Lundy has about ten acres plant
ed in pecans. He has an Individual
crop of forty acres In corn besides all
these patches, with only one wage
hand and fine pair Of mules. This
one man has done all this work, and
plewed some for share hands on the
place, also did considerable amount
of blowing on his plantation five miles
southwest of Lexington, besides this
man has cut and saved % tons of pea
vine hay, IA tons Of bermuda hay,
cutting and raking Is tons of hay for
other people. The york of this crop
was done without the use Of 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 cultivater harrsw,
planted in the water furrow. Says
that it cuts cotton ad corn stalks
equal to a regular stalk cutter.
1--WE forgot to mention that we were
shown along the edge of the woods
Number Of Large pecan bushes that
were grated in the old native scrub
hickory. He also showed us a few
native peach and apple trees that he
had different varieties of fruit grow
ing he had budded into the limbs and
body Of the tree, all this work Mr..
Lundy does himself.
sSMr. Lundy has the natural gift,
energy and perseverance, Of a business
man, there lies the secret of financial
success, others should profit by his
experience.
"Before leaving we asked Mr.. Lun-
dy 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 sue
cess. Independence means success,
and I say to my brotner farmers, your
small or large farms will have to be
self-sastaining and lift the yoke Of
mortgage before you can challenge