The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-10-27
SMITH SENDS ANOTHER LETTER
Continued from First Page.l

iiVAh IHe GaTuen n from Stops from
the kitchen. If at Christmas every
tenant is given a plot of land for a
garden ard have him haul from the
stables all the fertilizing he can get,
leaf mold from the woods and in fact |
anything that will make a rich plot, !
and before gardening time plow un-
der all this and when gardening time
comes, see that he has plenty of
seeds, and don't forget the rape and
the squash-these' make a quantity
OF feed with the squash cooked with
the Stops. Let it be seer to at least
once a week, twice a week would be
better, that the garden is worked and
that the hogs are fed. Especially
does the feeding of the hogs need at
tention on funeral days" If the
negro is not watched, he will feed his
hogs that day on hot air and SUM-
shine and maybe after he is back
from the funeral, give them a little
dollar corn. Now, if this is follow
ed the negro will be kept away from
the store and will not have to make
so many steps to the land owner to
get something to eat. The negro,
most of them, need to be directed in
a business way just like children.
and l am mighty near thinking that
there are lots of white folks the same
way.
Some of the land owners say that
they expect to charge the tenant
high rent for the garden, ETC., to
make sure of the tenant working it;
that is the thing that suits the ne
gro; he don't mind knowing what he
io owing and next year the land own
er can settle his garden rent by tax
ing the money out of one pocket and
putting it in another. The blank
garden is all the receipt he wants.
Before. spring comes, examine your
self and your agent and see if you
really know the first step in farm
life and if you don't know, it may
be a little embarrassing to a man of
mature years, but an honest confess
sion is good for the soul. so call on
the little Canning Agcnt-she will
tell you how to garden. Also go be-
fore the supervisors and have that
body enforce the dog tax so that
these nuisances can have heart fail
re which will thereby add thousands
of pounds of pork and hundreds and
hundreds Of dozens of eggs to the
money crop of Grenada county. AT
ter this is done there will be still dog
enough not to spoil the taste of the
tenant, who. if he were as careful
about raising sorghum, his garden
and other things as he is about his
= often mangey dog, he would be ir
IA long way better shape. / wa
raised with the negro but didn't eat
and sleep with him nor shoot craps
with him either, and am so years ole
and know him as good as a grown
man.
Our A. & NJ. College friends tel
US to raise some wheat, but like those
who saw Noah building the Ark, some
say there is nothing to it. Perhaps
from a single view piont there is not
but consiedr the advantage a mar
with one horse has in c%ultivating &c
acres He can plant 5 acres ir
wheat and in March plant lespedeza
I in the same plot and in due time you
will have from 10 to 20 bushels OF
! wheat to the acre and from | to
two crops and have more time fol
working corn and fighting boil weev
il and the man that divides his croI
up OH this basis may be sure of max
ing a fairly good yield of cotton il
spite of the weevil. 1t will take bu
two days to cut and house the whea
and I see but one obstacle in tn,
way and that is that we have NJ
thresher. But we all should realiz'
that our farming policy has beer
wrong and we should study for pas
mistakes. There is little reason TO
people crying hard times in a section
SO well favored as ours; the fault i
with us and no where else. We mus
be more economical and must leari
that the leaks that bust" the banke,
and the merchant will also bust
the farmer.
1t is embarrassing, Mr.. Editor, fo-
enc to feel that he wants to benefi
his county and that he has some mes
sage for his people and yet be unable
to properly express it in a letter.
just about completed the fourtl
grade at school and l want to sa!
that l did not break into the news
papers to stay and am now ready t,
quit. hope that somebody will nov