The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, June 20, 1906, Page 7, Image 7
* The Negro on the Farms.
He Cultivates Nearly Half a
Billion Dollars' "Worth of
Land in this Country,
Mostly in the South.
(From the Baltimore Sun.)
A supplementary report of the
census of 1900, just issued, shows
that the value of tne farms of the
Uuited States cultivated by negroes
was $499,941,234, all but
a small fract on of the amount
re presenting' farms in the South.
Buildings were worth $71,902,0(H);
-land, $324,242,000; live
stock, $84,936,000; implements,
etc., $18,859,000 The average
v:ilfin rlor fa-tv. ... ?? a n n r\
... ?iin jj>oow; 01 the
l>uildinKf, $96 ; of live stock,
$114: of implements, etc., $25;
of lond, $434.
4^0ver half of all negro farms
are in Mississippi, South Carolina,
Alabama and Georgia. The
number of farms held by negroes
was 746,715 ; the aggiegate acre
age, 38,233,920; the average acrea,?e
per farm being 51.2. From
one-half to two-thirds of tbese
farms was improved land. Only
five States uorth of Mason and
Dixon's line reported over 1,000
farms hold by negroes. Of the
entire number of negro farms in
xne united Slates 517,000 were
of 50 acres or under, the number
under from 20 to 50 acres being
343,178. Ail idea of the area
held by negro farmers may be
gathered from the fact that their
acreage of 38,233,933 acres is
9,7 A square miles, or about the
area of New England.
The value of all products of
negro farms in 1899 was $255,751,145,
of which sum $25,843,413
Represented products led to
livestock. For labor there was
paid $8,789,792; for fertilizers,
$5,#114,844. The farm homes of
negroes were 758.463, or 414
per cent of all homes of negroes
inflm
*- vu iMimcu omifs, nooui on?*
fourth of all negro farmers owned
their farms. "The massing of
negroes, tenant farming and cotton
culture," says the report,
^ ** appear to l>ecorrelated facts, the
first resulting (rom the last."
As respects the distribution of
negroes owning farms, Maryland
>k credited with 2,262; Delaware,
332; District ol Columbia, 5;
North Carolina, 17,520; West
Virginia, 534, and Virginia, 26,566,
the last mentioned State
leading all I lie Southern States in
Ihis regard.
Hog Notes.
BY Sll K 1*11 KKI>.
A pure-bred hog looks better,
matures earlier and ou jess feed,
.w -
nous-more reaony, commands a
higher price and affords his owner
and all who look at him far
greater satisfaction than a scrub
fca .) Now is the best time to push
hogs intended for early summer
market. With the run of a good
pasture and all the grain they
will co'iiRume. they should gain
very, rapidly.
As far as can be done, the sows
should be bred to farrow their
full litters the latter part of
September, or early in October,
no that the pig" will have plenty
) of time to get well started to
growing before severe cold
^weather sets in.?Live Stock
Journal.
'
A Legend of the Zulus. ^
(From the Country Gentleman.)
The Zulus account for their
origin by a story ot a talking
elephant who ted upon children.
He met a woman laden with an
axe and bundle of laggots, accompanied
by her child.
Seeing the elephant, she guessed
his intention, and pleaded : ?
' Spare my child, O elephant!"
The elephant refused. "Then,"
aaid the mother, "if this evil
must happen, swallow me too, ()
elephant." So the elephant
swallowed mother and child, and
they found themselves with all
the other children who were eaten
previously.
By ami by the child grow hungry,
and tlie mother lit a fire with
her faggots. She then, with her
axe, cut away the elephant's
llesh,cooked it, and they all ate.
As the fire burned its great heat
filled the elephant with pain,
and he ran, and ran, and ran till
they felt the thunder of his hoofs
racing over hill and valley.
At length, exhausted, he dropped
down dead. Using her axe,
the mother chopped until she
made an opening in the elephant's
j ? ah ? * -
o?ud. Aiier mis, tney crept out,
and became a new nation in a
' new country.
Rebuke for Human Hog.
A slender, plainly dressed woman
stood behind a very stout
and pompous man at a ticket
office in the Grand Central station.
When the fat man received
his change he dropped a coin.?
Turning to the woman, he asked
her to pick it up for him, as he
could not stoop to get it.
"I find it rather difficult to
bend over myself," replied the
woman quickly, "but there is a
lit lift hf?v wtin **?;n ?-? ' ?
J ? ..U mil goi It lor I
you."
The little fellow's eyes had fol
lowed the money, and as soon as
the woman spoke he ran and
picked it up. When he handed
it to the owner it proved to he
only a cent, but the fat party
pocketed it with a grunt which
may have been intended to ex- |
press thanks or mere porcene
satisfaction
Tlte boy was moving away,
when the woman called him
back, thanked him for his kindness,
and then,opening her purse,
gave a nickel to him.
The tat man looked on with
amazement. Then his face and
necK became red with rage.?
Knowing of no better way to escape,
be waddled to the tram
gate as tast as his fat legs would ^
carry him,all the time muttering ^
i strange oaths at the bov and tli?
woman.
? LI
Men Under Indictment Killed
by Train.
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I special from Mindan, La., says ^7
drover Cunningham and doorga 'V*
Huff were run down by a tram t,v
and instantly killed at Spring JiX
Hill early this morning. Both |-v
recently had been indicted by lg
the grand jury, Cunningham lor ~~
embezzlement and Huff for lar- (;ii
L.A
ceny.
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-p. THATJN ?JUAJE ISWMEN NATURE
^ CLoTHES HERSELF IN RADIANT
. beautv- NATURE is giving us
/NO $? v v THE TIP To Do THE SAME. WoW
I Do WE Look in June with old
1 N CLOTHED ON? AND Now Do
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Aren't you going to follow the suggestion ?
nature makes and cloth yourself in beautiful 1
attire. How bleak and hot a park would I
look if the trees and bushes wore only their $
heavy winter barks and no leaves and bios- g
soms! How out of place women and chil- |
dren dressed in heavy garb look during this |
month of June! For summer the weights of S
cloths are not so heavy, therefore for a little |
money you can have the best. We have so I
mon,, 4-u: r? _ i .1 1
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beautiful as a rose bush in full bloom. Ycu
love a blooming rose bush. People will like
you better if you too are in full bloom. It
will not cost you much to bloom.
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