Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-01-02
.MOONSHlNER WILL
TURN TO FARMING
Prisoner is Convinced
Woman That His Still
Is Unprofitable..
Prisoner

.
To ascertain il it is more profitable 10
raise cowpeas and cattle for the market
than to run and illicit still, a resident OF
Morgan county, who is now serving Jail
sentence in that county for booileeging, will
engage in the farming and cattle raising
business when he has served his jail sen.
tence.
This incident was reported TO the De-
partment Of Agriculture today by Mrs. Ellen
Walcutt, OF Shelbvville, who has been at
tending the County Farmers Institutes and
speaking on farming. Mis-. Walcutt says
that TIE farmer. in the mountain sections
Of this State do not know what crops to
raise and how're raise them. She also finds
that parents do not know what to feed their
children.
Ia large number 0! homes visited BY
Mrs. We Icutt, she found that the children
existed mainly on fat meat and poor bread
The farmers do not raise vegetables for the
table, and Mrs. Walcutt is Of the opinion
that the Department Of Agriculture can do
much to improve the conditions among the
tanners Of the muntains.-Frankfort Dis
patch to The Louisville Herald.
It's right you are in some re-
spects, Mrs. Walcutt, but o. how
woefully ignorant or wilfully
wrong you are as a whole. IT'S
true the farmers of eastern Ken
lucky do not farm as scientifcal-
ly as do the farmers of Den
mark. They have yet many
things to learn and a great deal
which they already know to put
into practice before they are per.
feet. But in dealing with the
question you seek to leave the
impression that, during your worl
in the mountains. you were try.
ing christianize heathens in
stead Of teaching our house
!! wives how TO make boqnteoul
| butterbaTls from Bossy and Brin
die and cause old Speck
lie to lay steen hundred eggs
year.
We do consume a lot of SOW
tbelly, that's a fact, and we'r,
glad we've got Ter, but the corr
dodger that goes with it isn't al
ways poor. Yes, and / had lik,
to have forgot-we sometimes
wash it down with coffee, and ;
few Of EN- mot us) have TASTED
+, tea. Now as to that other bev
erage you spoke of, Moon
shine"-It's gitten' distressinl,
scace in these diggins, and j
you people down in the settle
mentss don't stop nosein 'roun,
up here and buttin into our bust
ness that particular tickle whicl
it imparts to the palate will soor
be a memory only, and we Wi
have to be content with an occa
sional nip of that brand of Red
which incites frenzied mobs t
hang niggers from bridges an
impels the officers toletthe mob
go free.
Seriously we appreciate the wor
the Department of Agriculture
trying to do for the mountains
but we resent the insinuation tha
we are living in a state of sem
barbarism, The children of MOI
r gan county are as well fed, we
r clothed and better educat
} ed than the average child through
E out the entire state of Kentucky
. This is a broad assertion but
t will backit up. We need to /
r taught a greatmany things - TIL
: cannot be denied but what W
want is real instructors, verse
in Agriculture, horticultur,
t etcetera, and not missionaric
/. seeking to convert the Sinner.
: We can take care of him. He
! not much in evidence in Morga
a county anymore, and consequen
n ly can't do much hurt. We we
e come any bonafide effort to he
t solve our problems, economi
S domestic and agricultural, b.
we resent the giving out of int
views which are gobbled I
: gredily by the blue grass and Gil
f papers and used by them to di