The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-10-19
What Industry
Applied to Cut
OUer Land WiNDo
HENRY MEYER, GERMAN EMl.
GRANT, MAKES THE SOIL
BLOSSOM.

"o III anu east 10 settle the cut
over pine lands of South Mississippi.
Dut there is concrete example right
here in Hattiesburg that few people
know about.
There has also been a great deal
OF talk about the need of intensive
cultivation of the soil instead of the
thriftless fashion so prevalent. of
merely scratching the surface so that
it is frequently difficult to determine
whether the farmer is growing a crop
of corn Or hay there is so much grass
between the rows. Within a stones
throw of Main street, however, there
is a small place on which intensive
farming has been carried to a high
degree. Land which a few years ago
was nothing but pine stumps now bios
SONS like the rose.
Henry Meyer came to Hattiesburs
from Rock Island, Ill. He is of Ger
man descent and has inherited the
German thoroughness and love for the
soil. After careful investigation he
invested almost all his capital in
what was known as the Schauber
place Just off Main street on Redus
street. Singlehanded and alone he
has done most of the work of making
that % acres of cut-over pine land
the most highly cultivated land in the
county He is horticulturist by pro-
fession and proposes to raise flowers
for the market besides doing land.
scape work.
He has built a green house 21X90
feet. 1t is his pride to tell about how
he built it from cypress lumber with
galvanized nails. He says that the
glass is Of extra strength and that the
pins are Of zinc. 1T may blow down
someday," he says, "but the same
wind will carry away all the houses
in the vicinity as we'll" He has
built his own water plant.
Grubbed Stumps by Hand.
lie said he was told there were no
stumps on the place but he found
about fifty to the acre. He did not sit
down and wait for the stumps to rot
and he did not waste much time figur
ing on the most economical way OF
getting the stumps out. He sailed III
and grubbed most of them out. When
that failed he used dynamite. tsThe
trouble with people, he says, sis they
won't work"
81 am going to make my place the
garden spot of the county," he says
81 want to have it spoken of as ont
of the show places of Hattiesburg.
want people to come out to see m!
flowers. | am going to build a goot
road in front of my place and put ;
neat hedge around it. 1t will be lik'
park" he said
Mr.. Meyer says he came South frs
on account of the splendid climate
He says the cold North does not agre,
with his German blood He says h
never intends going back to the Nortl
except to tell his German friend
about South Mississippi. Another rea
son why he came to South Mississippi
was the attraction of the cheap land
The land, he says, ersponds readily t.
good treatment. What it needs, h
SAYS. is lime The continuous rain
and the intense heat robs the soil ant
the plant food has to be replaced.
An Austro-German alliance is form
ed between Mr.. Meyer and Karl Pish
Pish is assisting Mr.. Meyer with hi
green house. Pish has not heard iron
his family, who are still in Austria
for months, and he fears greatly TO
their safety. He proposes to manufao
ture Austrian sausage at the Meye
place according to receipt he brough
from the old country.
Could Encourage Emigration.
Mr.. Meyer says that more of hi
German friends could be persuaded t
come to South Mississippi to take u
the cultivation of the cut-over land
if they were told about them by on
who has made a success of farmin
here.
Mr.. Meyer has demonstrated tina
industry applied to the land of Sout
Mississippi will bear dividends, but
takes industry and plenty Of it, h
says. He does not wait until ne cal
find a negro to do piece of wor
| for him. He goes to 1t himself wti
trained hands and the result is tn
land blossoms. He is the type Of eli
| ixen Hattiesburg has been trying I
encourage to come here p i've.