The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-02-15

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-moothed with a New England brush.
and he was dressed in underwear
from Fall River, and a suit OF clothes
from New York, and has got on SHOES
rom Massachusetts.
.Fill's in a coffin from Ohio. IN a
hearse made in the same State, drawn
hv horses from Illinois. with harness
on them from Indiana. His grave IS
lug with picks and shovels from Mis-
souri, and a slab of Vermont granite
goes on top Of him after 1t is over
WELL remarked the other hope
fully. anyhow. Mississippi has fur
oished the corpse. the hole in the
9. ound, and the niggers to dig tt
The boil weevil is bringing devas-
alton to those III have eyes and viii
not see. and ears that a hear but
heed not.
The farmer who sees the clouds
upon the horizon prepares. He cuts
his cotton acreage one-thfrd at first.
He plants a big area Of oats. BY the
time the oats ripen in the spring ne
stubh'~ is ploWed under and corn
planted on the same ground. with
cow-peas and pumpkins In between.
The corr is gotten off in September,
end the same ground broken again,
stubble and p~ea-roots turned under
md then sown partially to turnlps
and rye for fail and winter food n
pasture for hogs and stock.
He gets hogs and cattle to raise
and breed from. and to fatten for
market. He begins raising his own
chickens and eggs and meat and meal
and molasses. He puts more land
next year in corn and hay and stock
foods. He is ready. When the weevil
reaches his farm Mr. Farmer can af-
ford to lose the whole crop of cotton
and then not be ruined. He is MAX
- - -:--
a surplus for sale out of the soil.
What cotton he gathers after his
wrestle with the boil weevil is clean,
clear profit. He can keep the money.
He can hold his cotton until he gets
IN adequate price for it, which he
could not do under the credit system.
With a good vegetable garden. his
meat. his pantry full of home-raised
rolaSSes and meal and canned and
preserved fruits and vegetables, pota-
toes a~d other produce, he can o
the whole world in the face and tell
t to go to thunder.
To show the trend Of affairs. and
how the spur of impending neces-
sity is forcing sensible economics,
he instances Of wheat alone may be
cited. Wheat has not been grown In
mississippi in twenty-five or thirty
years. Last fall, in several
OF the State, a number of farmers
pledged themselves to plant from one
to five and ten acres each of wheat.
] he money is in sight to put in small
combination grist and flour mills in
the several localities. and good old
home-raised -four, with all the nutri-
ment in it. will be available once
more next year.
One man in Mississippi sold $50
GOO pounds of honey last season at
% cents a pound. Fifty men shipped
from $4,000 to $4,000 pounds. There
are a hundred or so of bee keepers
who raise less than $4,000 pounds
The honey is from wild flowers. and
costs nothing to raise.
The demand for seed snyarcane ex-
eeeds the supply. That means home
raised molasses-the best in the
world, with all the sugar and flavor
OF the can in 1t In some portions
or mississippi it is already on the
narFet In cans. and sells readily. Can
neries are ~springing 10 all over ,he
State, and the bulk Of their
is being taken at home.
ire truct-eroWire area IS being en-
iarged- There's money In it. One
man near Port Gibson sold six acres
or cabf age. an extra early SORT. nor
long ago for $1,000. That beats cot
ton for profits. Crystal Springs shine
twenty carloads OF tomatoes and
beans a day. The farmers plant late