McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-05-04

er into the foreground. Thousands
of lawns, yards, and even golf grounds
here and elsewhere are to be turned
into gardens and fields, but there will
be pretty mess made by some of
these amateur farmers, and a howl of
disgust will rise when some of their
crops are gathered, imagine. But
there will be new departures made in
agriculture, resulting. let US hope, in
better systems Of delivery to consum-
ers, direct from the farms, so that the
vast army of middlemen, mostly USE
less parasites SO far as this city is
concerned, will be greatly diminished.
We paid 38 cents a pound for ba-
con this week, and so cents for but
ter. All bread is now to be ten cents
loaf. My thoughts go back to the
old McNairy home Of my boyhood,
when dozen ears Of corn made us
enough I've hominy to last the whole
family several days, and to the deli
cious fresh pork, raised for almost
nothing on the acorns and other wild
food, the underground corn meal
bread that was so good. Didn'. I love
to hear the eggs sputtering in the
pan when mother was fixing break
fast, and to smell the sour-sweet
aroma of the raised or Eight corn
bread" remember how those gener-
GUS biscuits, when hot. turned the
fresh butter on them to a soft. rich
foam, and it makes me hungry now
to think of them and the pulled. up
meatskins that father knew so we'll
how to prepare. Right here let me
say that meatskins are perfectly de-
licicus q len lightly puffed in hot fat
and eaten with lieh corn bread or bis
cut, and they are very nutritious,
containing much heterogeneous matter.
Some people make the serious mistake
Of throwing them away. | tell you.
the time is coming when we will have
to save everything that can be eaten.
We used to throw away the Cuttings
of hog, but we will be forced to eat
Cuttings yet, and will be glad to get
them, if the war keeps up.
Now is the time for men like Glen |
Lea and Miles Inman to tell the peo-
pie how to raise hogs. They ought to
hold classes, like Sunday schools. for
young and old. The best of hog-fesd
can be raised there in abundance, al
most for nothing. Dwarf Essex rape
will grow almost like weeds, and there
is no better hog pasture. And then,
there are soy beans and velvet beans.
chufas, peanuts, cowpeas. lespedeza,
Bermuda grass, and a whole lot of |
other things. expect pork TO be
fifty cents a pound here before it
drops much. for not only will our |
armies and civilians be to feed, but |
the people across the seas, as well, |
for Uncle Sam is now taking pot-luck
with the British, French, and other
Allies, and we will have to help feed
them.
Make no mistake about this. There
will be demand for every pound of
pork and every bushel of grain you
raise, no matter whether the cotton
crop keeps its value or not. ''Eatins
comes FIRST says old Buck Snort of
Owl Greek, and there is more truth
than grammar in what he says. 1
look to see great wealth come into
McNairy from live stock and grain
production. Some Of these billions of
dollars we are Ioaning the Allies will
come back to US for food-stuffs. Men
cannot fight on empty stomachs.
The flags of France and Great Brit
ain are flying in brotherly union with
the Stars and Stripes in New York to-
day. 1t is fine time for humanity. |
Ties are formed now with these great !
countries across the sea, never to be
brok IN within the experience of those |
nov wing. Russia with its nearly |
two hundred millions will join US;
Souti s.merica is lining up with US.
Yese ~ Lua -a4ala broke with Ger
mar; Braz.., Cn' Panama and
Chi did SO before. May not all
thi 'oy shadow the dawn of milen-
ial 5herhood, from which in time
evet ing Germany will not be ex-
cluied, and a constellation Of repub-
lies reaching around the earth, and
then a manifestation of the Creator
that will draw all men into better