The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-15

and he planted that one stalk in
hill. six feet apart each way, ne
cause" he said, corn must have air III
the South and he got more air than !
corn, and not enough for supplies.
John said "farmin' don't pay" but ne
went on year after year in the same
old way and plowed the land right up
to the windows for cotton, and took
his holidays in bed with fever and
ague.
One spring, however he and his
wife took rare holiday by invita-
ton of his cousin, the Hon. James
Crakore, who lived in pretty home
in a Northern town suburbs, surroul'"-
ed by beautiful farm, with graYel
walks, shrubbery. trees, and flowers.
John and his wife had never taTel
so sumptuously in their lives lnere
was running water in the bedrooms
and fine porcelain bath-tubs in the
bathroom, which was heated by "a
diator from the kitchen range. Soft
carpets covered the floors, and the
| beds had soft mattresses made from
cotton felt. John and his wife felt Ike
living in Paradise. Then the table
was supplied with fresh meats, Win
green peas, snaps, tomatoes, cucum
bers. and profusion of vegetables or
| all sorts. John wondered where they
raised all these things, and was told
that they came from the South where
he lived, and that they had to buy
them at fancy prices, and they sald
"HOw fortunate YOU are to live IN
climate where you can have all these
things long before any of them can be
had here. You must be happy to i've
where such Injuries can be had so
cheaply for the gathering. We would
love to live on a Southern farm and
enjoy these blessings that COST So
much here"
John got to thinking. Said he:
wife, we are not going to be crack
ers any more, we are going to be
Crakores." And they went home, and
: John went to work and laid off space
y around his house for lawn, and So"
9 ed it, and planted some trees anc
shrubbery, and laid out flower beds lol
his wife. He took The Southern Farm
n Gazette AMI learned the value OF
e farm rotation, and changed his farm
$ ing till he made more cotton on one
It fourth of his land than he had before
t. made on all of it. He had corn TO sell
and oats for his mules and nay a
II well. and bacon and mutton and Deel
IL Then he did not forget the vegetables
u Int started a garden, and studied IN
lie hest in variety. The old house wa
1t painted and a broad porch added a
u his farming began to pay. His chlldre
began to take an interest in the home
and they, too, read the farm pape
Ell and went into the competitions o1ere
re for farm boys and girls, and ofte
III beat John himself, and made MI
In think. A windmill and deep pipe we
u and a tank soon gave them water
ne the house for range and bath an
fever was no more.
81 Some years age his cousin, the no
W lanes Crakore and his wife, can
- down for a visit in the South IN la
"a winter, and they were SO dehghtt
49, 49, with everything, especially with Il
~ fresh headed lettuce from the glas
u covered frame in the garden, whit
was so crisp and fresh that it MAJ
- the lettuce they had been buyil
's' North seem worthless. They were
nleased that the Hon. James dett
Try mined to buy little place in t
same section for a winter home to
IN cane the rigors Of the North, and
no have fresh vegetables from their o'
: = garden instead of the stale shlpp
bit stuff.
, q Moral: Get away from home, Jof
ter and see how other people live. ana y
,ed will realize that you are not living
YER to your opportunities, and that the
me is something more in farming tn
all getting supplies" for growing me
EN- cotton merely; that farming pa
the while planting does not, and that be-
lies tiful surroundings make life bet
col. worth the living, and that in a r
les. home your children will grow up
ers telligent and worthy citizens, lead
in improvement rather than tread
ear in the tracks of their grandfathers
bot w. F. Massey, in (Starkville, Mis-
ear. Southern Farm Gazette.