The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-16

TO $50 at least, and maybe more. in
supplying his family with food: and
then he must have Il brood mare and
raise a mule colt In that way he has
i'm that pasture the value of five bales
of cotton.
And then ! insist that he must have
a good garden and plenty OF vegetables
the year round. He won't have them
unless insist, but do insist. So that
is equal to another bale of cotton.
Now that man has gotten from his liv-
ing there. six bales of cotton. and new
err has touched his crop. And then
take these two acres that we run in
the quick money" crop, and he will
usually get 5000 ont of that and some
times more-but say it is $500. that is
equal to four bales OF cotton. That
man has made the same as ten bales
of cotton and never touched his crop.
That crop. whatever it is, is just SIM
ply a surplus crop. tell him he has
! to raise barrel of sorghum, and right
there he will balk. He will say he
don't like moasSes. We'll, it would
be very nice for YOU to have some to
sell" No. | don't think | could sell
it. That | have to say, We'll. grow
that molasses or get off the land"
And. as | tell them We will roll into
prosperity and out of debt when We
roll on this sort of wagon, that we will
! have the wheels OF barrels and meat.
and the wagon bed will be big corn
crib full OF corn. and the team that
will pull it will be two brood mares
come out on top And we always will.
We have never failed at all: and ] tell
I will guarantee any man that | will
put him on his feet if he will work the
first year.
They have great idea of working
part of the year and dling the balance.
The cotton crop requires a mans real
labor for $50 days, and that is all il
does take-but those 100 days are scat
tered along throughout the year, so
/ that he can't take up anything else.
and he is really idle 300 days in the
10 60
earns 1885 year, and takes that on
credit. three-fourths of it, and never
sees the money, so when the end Of
the year comes he has only had his
yictuals and clothes. And of course
he is laying down on the job all the
, time because he doesn't see anything
in it, The system is wrong. | don't
know who is to blame: 7 think some
times the merchants and some times
the banker. But | don't run my own
business that way at all | take hold
of the man with view of trying to
make a better man of him. and make
him have something when the end of
the year comes, and all the year am
telling him. We're going to have a
right nice little sum OF money when
the end of the year comes"
| | will give you my experience with
one man. Mr.. Wagner. who came 10
me and wanted 10 know if | could make
a place for him. knew he was a bad
manager. but pretty good worker
and he said to me: 81 don't know how
to manage. If you will take me on
YOUR place and show me how to man
age one year. | believe | can make it
all right So took him, and was a
little astonished at the end of the year
year to find him $3.50 in the hole. SO
we made our arrangements and agreed
to subsoil the land. making improve
ments. Well, the year passed on very
happily and he made splendid crop.
He made % bales of cotton that came
to $4,000. and he had corn and oats
ch1 PotoiOCS anu Idt anu CFti' INN -
else along that line, and his stock in
the pasture When we summed ii up
we had between thirty-three and thirty
four hundred dollars He paid up the
$3.50 and everything else that he owed
and was walking around with six or
seven hundred dollars in his pocket. A
little later he bought home and set
tied down TO educate his children.
That settled that man He is going
on and doing real well. | have done
the SAM thing for great many OF
the renting class of people. and any
body else can do what | do. There
isn't bit Of secret about it. Have
a plan That L what you need and