The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-07

and truck patches. aud who are making
and saving money.
The Austin Corbn plantation at Sun
nyside, Ark, has tried Italian labor,
with the greatest success, Tt is found
that an Italian can make a profit of
five dollars where negro would make
one. This plantation has 900 acres
under lease, which is divided between
ninety negro families and an equal
number of Italians Each family is
leased as much land as it can work
for which rental of seven dollars an
acre is charged. An extra tax of about
twentv-fve dollars is made for mule,
and small sum for tools. The Italians
not only make the best crops, but pick
their cotton so much earlier than the
negroes that they hire out to the latter
and make extra money after harvesting
their own crops One Italian returned
TO Italy not long ago, taking $4,000 in
cash with him, which was the earnings
of his family from a thirty-acrc farm
on this plantation.
There is an Italian colony at Bryan
Texas, which is considered an example
Sicilians there who are scattered over
a territory of eighteen miles. Those
who are willing TO clear timber land
are given the free use of a farm for
two years. The best results from this
cleared land have been obtained by
those who raised grain the first year
and cotton the second. Many of these
thrifty people already own tE<tr own
land, and few of those who rent are
saving less than $500 year. The lit
tie community is so prosperous that
after the last harvest $ll00 was raised
in Il few days TO pay off the debt on
the church which had been erected I'M
der the direction of a Young priest who
accompanied the colony on its journey
across the Atlantic.
The Italians are most frugal peo-
pde. They can get more out of the
land. and at the same time build it
UP better, than any other agriculturists.
For this reason owners of large plan
tations arc eager TO have them. Aside
from their skill as farmers, they are
Industrious, thrifty, and generally tenn
perate. AS truck-farmers they utilize
every inch of ground, even cultivatiug
the fence corners and the banks of
streams. They even save every root
for fuel, and know how to manage so
well that they rarely have TO buy food
of any kind. Their intensive style of
farming is IN strong contrast to the cX-
trayagant system in use in the average
American farming community.
In the old country the Italian farmer
raises 9 mixed crop, so that his time
Is employed during the whole year
Principally he raises wheat, grapes and
olive trees. You Will often find the
most ignorantlooking man an expert
in the knowlG dgc of conditions of the
soil and what may be expected from it,
lie knows what to plant in damp
ground ann what will grow best where
it is dry. He is also an expert in crop
rotation and irrigation He Iabors hard
at all seasons AS the grape harvest
approaches he may have TO sit up all
night 10 protect his vines from thieves,
and work all the next dav in looking
after some other crop. The women arc
industrious and earn money by spin
ming, In some localities the Young girls
earn their pin money by plating straw
Bridgeport. Connecticut, has pros
porous Italian community of about $500
members, who have newspapers, church
es and benevolent institutions of their
own. In Utica, New York. the Italians
have built themselves an opera house
and provided a local stock company
that gives very creditable performances
TO most courteous and enthusiastic au-
dhcnces. The famous La Colouia Ales-
sandrlna di Memphis has a goodly num-
Der of Tennessee s quota of 5000 Ital.
Ians. There are lnnumerablc communi-
ties composed of this nationality in the
suburbs OF Washington d. c., Balti-
more. Maryland. Dallas, Texas, and all
through the peach and garden districts
Of Delaware.
An historic Italian town in America
is that of Finland, New Jersey, which
was founded by the Chevalier Senchi
de Casale, a disciple Of Razzini, a com.
rade of Garibaldi. and refugee from
Italy, He came TO this country in lS4g
and established newspaper in New
York known as ''L Eco D'Ifalia -
Through this country's influence he
secured the passage of bill IN the
Italian Parliament ahating the padrone
system, His colonization scheme WAC
a great success, and his people became
the best grape raisers and truck farmers
in the East, The refugee was finally
knlghled by Victor Emmanuel IT. was
owing 10 the success OF the Vipland
community that the towns of Daphnc
and Lamberth were founded in the
heart of the Alabama woods. where suc.
| cesstul vineyards were established
The Foreign Element in America will
be the topic Of Mr., Haskin's article in
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