The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-08-01

There is nothing that should be O.
more interest to the people of Mis-
sissippi in general than the descrlp
ton of an improved farm that il
making for the owner a liberal protit
and getting better year by year. w
F. Lagrone in the West Point Lead
sr recently wrote interestingly OF 6
trip to farm of this kind and the com
munication is reproduced here be-
cause it is worthy Of a careful read
ing by all. :
Recently friend and / left West
Point at 2:3O in the afternoon ane
at four O'Clock drove through gate
into a grove of beautiful oaks, one
hundred yords from the home of Mr.
J. E. Evans.
"On our arrival his young son in
formed us that his father was at 8
hay barn, 200 yards distant, beyond
skirt of woods, west Of the dwell
ling. We drove to the barn and
found the wagons and hands storing
away as beautiful mellilotus and red
clover hay as you ever saw, the same
being cut from a pasture. In the
distance we saw Mr.. Evans watching
with delight his mowers and rakes
run and the hands load the well cured
hay on to wagons. We drove to him.
and in his happy way he greeted us
and said: Boys how is this for q
pasture7' Now, right here you will
pardon me for giving his questions
and his answers in their succession
without reference to the style and
arrangement that characterize well
written newspaper letter. 'Mr. Evans,
this is mighty fine land to run in a
pasturef' 'Yes, but that is what ]
wanted, and not barren waste over
which stock work all day to live
you see I cut fifty tons of hay here
and furnish pasture for my dry cat
tle.' Don't you like bermuda
grass7' Il see you have none here.
4 only like it in its place; my grove
set in it. and it is the only grass that
will cure standing up in the fields,
and I let my dairy cows Craze on it
all winter, for it aids their diges-
ton and gives them variety. Come
along, boys, want to show you over
the place. This hay is nothing; you
ought to see my alfalfa and thirty
acres sown to mellilotus in March.
How are the crops between here and
town. well, they are small but
clean, and-I think we will make the
biggest crop we have made in years.
Do YOU see that nineteen acres over
there7 1 made fifteen bales there
asst year, and l put, I do not know
p low much manure there this spring,
Ind I am counting on twenty bales
rom the nineteen acre cut this year.
1t was clean, good stand and in a
thrifty growing condition. He said,
Il keep this barn over here for my
dry cattle; I avoid crowding too
man. .getner al niglt. 10 you s'.,
that pasture over there? 1t con-
lains thirty2fve acres, and I am n>w
Grazing one hundred and sov'nty-
Eve ho.i O.: stoc6 IN it. IL .luding
hogs. Do <or Sc. the milli., us, red
and white clover eng 10 seed?'
And it was so, you could hardly tell
that it was grazed at all. i get my
pastures in shape just as / do m,
cultivated fields. I SOW all the good
i asture grasses and keep all stock off
the pasture at night. Come, let's 60
to the house; this is my gasoline en-
CINE and laundry room; that is my
tank house; across there is where l
churn and mould my butter; I heat
that stove for. my irons in the laun-
dry; my engine churns and runs my
separator and pumps water to all the
pastures, and | have installed in my
dwelling complete system Of water
works and sewerage aand even my
wash tubs are connected with my
sewers. You see the cement floor in
there and that tank is what | heat
my water in and l clean my hogs in
here. I don't have negroes kicking
wood at washpot and ,shivering. A
hog-killing time is a hog-killing time,
in deed and in trutX on this place.
This is my horse barn,'-and it was
well filled with sweet alfalfa hay,
and his mules and horses were as
sleek as moles. did you ever see a
hog barn? Well, here it is; and the
floor is Of cement, and all stalls are
connected with water. works. The
floor is inclined. SO the hose can be
turned on and wash it clean. An al
ley runs north and south and east
and~west through it, into which pens
open where we can separate the diff
ferent kinds of hogs. Six feet from
one end Of onesalley is a gate behind
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