The Pulaskian., 1919-06-27
TIME HATH WROUGHT MANY CHANGES
(By H. L. Gardner.)

"Time hath wrought many changes" This old saying could not be better applied to anything thought of than it could be applied to the agriculture life of Pulaski county. Years ago, where the Red man roam ed throughout the country, the deer giving him a wide berth, with Old Bruin neither running nor making an effort to claim kin with the Indian, who in his endeavor to secure meat for subsistence, was always very glad to run across His Lordships, if not possible to secure meat with his bow and arrow elsewhere. That was very well and good-for the Indian, but the tide of immigration from the eastern coast pushed the pioneer farther inland, so consequently the Indian gave way to the "pale faceo- the tiller of the earth. The pioneer probably located where his fancy dictated, clearing up about three or four acres, in midst of the virgin timber, for his corn 'patch"-criti- vating it with a ''bull-tongue" blow pulled by a small team of ponies or may be little old flea-bitten mule. The pioneer went to "Sunday-meet- ing" in an ox-cart, if he owned not the ponies or the mule, wearing his homemade trousers and Hickory, shirt, Coonskin cap and shoes made from the hide of the steer that he "pickled-down" for family use way back last fall. His wife made their own soap from the "ash-hopper' and the surplus fats and greases accumu- lated in "the smokehouse." The sskids were all barefoot from the first day of May to probably the first of November, that was. altogether how the weather was. Their hogs were
 raised wild in the woods, feeding on acorns and as fat as you please when 'hog-killing-time' came along. The head of the household probably went away, after crops were laid by" to a thicker settled community, or in the woods to work out some ready cash" The autumn coming on he re- turned and gathered his crop-ffty or seventy-fve bushels of corn that was later used in making meal for his corn bread, or on the or made it into ''chops" and took it up 'the next hollow" and turned it over to ssthe man in charge" of the "oil of glad ness" mill. The corn was later sold for dollar "gallon" (worth $30 now-on account of the war;. The farmer next turned his attention to "coon hunting" some times catching as many as six or eight night, the pelts were taken off and stretched upon the side of the house to dry and were taken, when dried,s to the near est market and sold for Twenty-Five cents apiece, extra large ones bring ing as much as fifty cents. If the farmer used tobacco he raised it, as precious little was bought in the stores at that time except powder and lead, for his muzzle-loading rifle, some coffee, salt, pepper and a little sugar. About everything else that he needed or used, he either raised or found it in the woods. Those were the days for the pioneer. Later on cultivators and larger blows were in-' troduced into the State. Farmers be- gan raising cotton and other products that they could sell at high price. Farm journals and newspapers were subscribed for by the farmer. In the beginning automobiles were for the town man solely, but the busy farmer found out what labor saver and pleasure bringer that they were, so now it is nothing very astonishing to find high priced-high-powered cars in the rural districts. The farmer