East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1914-10-23

views, one Is fOrced 10 at W. mat
it is a week farming principal hat
is too ironclad to hr twisted
enough to fit an individual farmer:
and that no man has bct...right
TO he opinionated about G.l best
methods than the man VII, has
spent 26 wears successfully farm
ing it.
William Carleton says: The
test of good farm is whcthor or
not 1t pays-not always in bank
surplus, but in furnishing % decent
living in proportion to the capital
invested" The White farm pays;
pays both in a hank surplus and in
furnishing a decent living, aud at
the same time increases In soil
value yea,ly. a disinlnp-'ed
neighbor estimated Mr.. Whites
wealth Mt 100000, all made on
his farn without mining his soil.
Though he is the largest indiyir
dual beef cattle grower of his Sec
ton and the largest contributor TO
the cooperative creamery, this
GARNER does not neglect Other lie.
partments of his farm. Cotton
has been grown to some extent on
the farm, butsthe owner said in
regret to it, What money | have
made has been with cattle and not
with cotton. From - to H. Years
ago this land produced II bale Of
cotton to the acre. Now it takes
four or five acres of some of il 10
produce of q bale. ! never paut
cotton, or corn or anythiny else
for that matter, without first grow-
ing grass and grazing cattle ON rhp
land for some years, o. .aUl
that has been pastured I un.3
half bale Of cotton to the aa..,
hitch f0dutlKt us l"get mn II. -,. '.--
II grow all my own feed r& an'
cottonseea meal" lie condo u..
but | never cultivate the lHud
longer than three years; Lull II
goes back into grass aud is pas.
tured again
Mr.. White says that the two
best things on his farm are ~.
wife and his sheep, rs the sheep
take care of themselves aud his
wife takes care OF the chickens.
There are $50 head Of SoutndOwn
sheep. and they are fat on their
fare uf clover. They cost nothing
the year round except their room
in the pasture. There has been
small market in the South tor wool,
and so that product has for tue
past two years been sent to Il New
England mill that makes il into
blankets on shares. The blankets
are then placed with local mer~
chant who sells them OH cOmmls~
sion.
Mrs. Whites two deparmep's
are the children and the chickens.
From the chickens she made last
year $50 from her contract 10
furnish the co. operative poultry
association ut least five dozen eggs
each week at thirty cents the don
en-. OF the children there are only
half dozen, but they are Il heal
thy. hearty, happy half.
There are many thrills ani dc>
lights in day on this farm.
Generous hospitality is extended
by the entire personnel, from the
grinning Negro hired hands to the
gurgling fve>months-oId twin
bows, Allison and William White.
After passing some places where
the decorative value OF trees IS
little considered and the architect
ural beauty OF farm home Is OF
the least Importance, one comes
with delight to the White home.
The white house, in the style Of
George Washington's Mount Vern>
on home, with low roof, straight
simple lines, wide hall and spa:l'
Gus rooms, is set in an open court
in u great grove. The grove it,
Golf cove ilp many acre, Is a
scattered pattern of huge OAKS, us
| if some ancient gardening giant,
had sown at random.
There is nothing spectacular
about this farmer. He is NOT q
highly educated agricultural speci-
alist, but just a plain farmer who
attributes his success to hard oo.E
and AS much common sense rs he
could muster His farm is not
the one-in- ten n-thousand .iud
His story is not ulike that ol 10