Evening journal., 1912-12-03

might lead you to think that paint
was held to be Injurious There is
rarely any attempt at grass or flowers
to turn this weather-beaten rented
thing inte a home The vegetable
garden Is often put in some remote
corner TO be out of the reach Of the
pigs and chickens, and is limited
largely to cabbage, beans and pOta-
toes, and the variety of potatoes they
grow rarely keeps through the winter.
| II IS sad country Of cheerless homes
but don't mako the mistake Of think
/ ing that these people are lacking in
good qualities. They are good-heart-
I ed. generous. hosnitable They VIII
share the last piece of pork and pone
with you. A newcomer moved I'm last
year and insulted the whole nelghbor-
hood He asked them how much he
owed them when they had all turned
ort TO help him haul his stuff over
and get Strengthened out; and that
was insult, for they had helped him
cut OF the generosity of their hearts.
These people are land-poor They
are Jest starving me to the WALL de-
clared a man near the Delaware boun-
Diary. 7 can't make no money untel
20 have so acres us white potatoes and
90 Acres NV sweets. but amt got no
room, I saw his place Such paint
less. ramshaokle buildings / have
rarely seen even on abandoned farms
Right in front Of his old house was
ten acre block Of scanty weeds and
1t was then June He had 2l0 acres
and his system was 100 acres of corn
II he could get IL in, and 100 acres
resting He lived about A5 miles to
the south of the Bancroft farm, where
crimson clover aud corn follow each
other on the same land the same year
and have kept IL up for twenty-threo
years He Is also about 40 miles
north of the Virginia pOtato-growers
who take a crop of potatoes and a
crop Of corn off the same field the
! Same year: and this land-poOr Della
5 warean could copy either practice II
e be really tried
4 "The best thing that has recently
e happened to that end Of Delaware IL
I the establishment Of a demonstration
8 farm to show what scientific methods
e can do. Mr.. II. s. Lippincott, the
r manager Of the farm, convinced one
D of the two railroads that cross the
D country that IL would pay them In
T. increased freight If they would buy a
4 farm there and show that the coun.
{ try really could produce something
{ besides poor corn one year and sassa.
e lras bushes the next three. Now
a this country has two great advan-
4 tages. The first is that it won't run
4 away There's lot of old slave land
: that has had treatment equally bad
TnffI
3 the Peninsula is different 10 can bg
: abused to the limit and beyond. it car
r be cropped until it will yield moth.
4 ing. and then it can lie and leach
= for "A generation. but it still stays
: by. you. waiting for you to get con.
Y verted to the new system of agricul
4 urc. That is a great advantage ant
. one that is much too rare.
I'm addition TO its patient waiting
v II Is supremely tillable. Being ligh
n and sandy. It plows easily Tw,
n small mules can achieve as mucl
4 there as three big horses on the ella.
p Of more fertile districts; and then
+ although it may rain all the morning
- YOU can plow after dinner DO nc
\ forget that fact when planning farr
y work. All other things being eQua
N that alone viii give you adoquat
~ dividends that IS. win increase you
,S workabllity at least 10 per cent owe
'e clay and 10 per cent is a good div
dend.
~ "To make his demonstration prov
=, something Mr. LiDpincott picked on
y the worst piece of land he could fin
" near the railroad. One Of the official
~ of the road came down to see i
- Alightng from the train. he kicke
~ over some OF the white sand Jerl
= salient Lippincott, said he. this
no farm, it's a sandbanki What ar
you going TO do with il? That wa
tl natural query for n town maj
H. That land had lain and leached fc
ic eighteen years The wagon road th;
&c goes through it now seems like th
= seashore itself I'd like to have
couple Of carloads from almost an
Of those roads. My little boys no
on clay hill would feel rich vii
he all that sand TO play in
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