The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1075 
that nine-tenth* of those who read this 
have always considered Mississippi as a 
cotton State, without, much of anything 
else as an asset. This year the hay crop 
alone will about equal iu value the entire 
cotton crop of the year in which I came 
here before. The combined hay crop and 
cattle output of this year will, I think, 
be greater than the cotton crop. 
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If this is so. why, then, has not this 
country been fully settled? Why is it 
not as thickly populated as our Western 
States? Corinth. Miss., is as near St. 
Louis, Mo., or Chicago, as Central Kan¬ 
sas, Nebraska or Iowa. That is a good 
question, and one that we should all try 
to understand. I talked it over with 
many Southern, men. Briefly stated, the 
South wants suitable immigrants, but is in 
no great hurry to invite people who would 
not naturally be satisfied. All the great 
successful waves of immigration have 
been largely along lines of latitude, with 
perhaps a margin of 200 miles. There 
have been, of course, great, changes from 
North to South or from South to North, 
but as a rule these changes have not been 
constructive. There are. of course, indi¬ 
viduals or colonies who move successfully 
along lines of longitude, but. as a rule it 
is not. safe to encourage them, unless it 
may be as a matter of health. I could 
hardly feel like advising families from 
New England, New. York or New Jersey 
to move to Mississippi. They would be 
unfamiliar with the climate, the soil- and 
the peonle. It would be too violent a 
change for them. I think, however, that 
people in the lower part of the Ohio Val¬ 
ley and on the limestone in Kentucky or 
Tennessee would do well here. A man 
to settle in this section must have capital 
and understand farming on a large scale. 
ITe must also understand something of 
the Southern habits of life and thought if 
be expects, to succeed. I do not see that 
Mississippi offers any great opportunity 
for the man with a few hundred dollars 
who expects to do most of his own work 
or to operate on a small scale. A State 
like New Jersey or some locality on the 
upper Atlantic slope will be better for 
him. A man in the lower part of the 
Middle West, with fair capital and a 
knowledge of stockraising on a large scale 
ought to do well in the limestone belt of 
Mississippi. The people there say frankly 
that they do not want misfits or disap¬ 
pointed settlers. The.land is usually held 
in rather large tracts. The owners gen¬ 
erally lealize its value, and are not. so 
anxious to cash in on it that, they will 
sell to people who are not wanted. That 
seems to be a fair and frank statement of 
their position. I should think that colo¬ 
nies of eight or 10 families of Western 
people could combine and buy a large 
tract of laud and do very well. n. w. c. 
Roses for West Virginia 
Will some one who knows give us a 
list of the best hardy evei-blooming Tea 
roses in West Virginia, six of each color, 
red. piuk, yellow, white and the mixtures, 
such as Sunset? Here in the eastern 
panhandle of West Virginia the Winters 
are very cold sometimes, and, of course, 
I want roses that will live. The Winter 
of 1910 killed all the tops of my roses, 
and they have never done so well since, 
but Bon Silenc. Aurora. Sunset, La 
France and the White Hermosa came up 
from the root. White American Beauty 
and Jonkheer ,T. L. Mock have stood two 
Winters and are splendid roses. The old 
roses, William It. Smith and Viscountess 
Folkestone, I bought last Spring are well 
worth the money. Lady Hillingdon and 
Luchess of Wellington, yellow, and Rhea 
Reid and Grass an Teplitz, red, are beau¬ 
tiful in color, but of weak growth for me. 
I have never been able to get a yellow 
Ooehet to live, or the pink and white 
Coehets to live more than two years, 
though they are said to be so hardy. A 
neighbor of mine has a red rose that has 
flowered from May till November for 20 
years'. I suppose, but she doesn’t know its 
name, and 1 cannot get a slip to grow. 
The catalogues advertise lots of roses an¬ 
swering to the description of this one, but 
no red rose I buy comes up to it in sturdi¬ 
ness or profusion of bloom. Sunburst is 
one of the loveliest of all roses, and 
Kaiserin Augusta ^ .ctoria is a most sat¬ 
isfactory white. B. 
West Virginia. 
This inquirer gives no address, and we 
are thus unable to judge anything of local 
conditions, which have much to do with 
success in rose-growing. If it were a 
little farther south we should think the 
very free-flowering red rose referred to 
was one of the old China or Bengal roses, 
which are not hardy, but we have no data 
concerning their behavior in West Vir¬ 
ginia. They are of moderate, branching 
growth, with foliage and flowers both 
small. There is an old sort called Agrip¬ 
pina which is excellent for bedding, pro¬ 
ducing crimson flowers in great profu- 
S 01 |', It makes a good many branches 
ttint have a somewhat sprawling tendency, 
aud we have seen a large bed filled with 
' paving the longer shoots pegged down, 
■ that the whole bed was a carpet of 
n a ? d i bloom ,. Geu - MacArthur is 
it! , ai tmularly good red bedding rose, and 
w.V „!.i a( I lai . lce is ; ? highly praised red that 
, e trying this year. Another of the 
m Admiral Ward. Gruss 
knv!^ 1 Z v vcrv satisfactory with us in 
v\lnt t J T st - v - b »t small, weak 
Kami™ * V * ry ‘ sU> " to sta, ’t- Careful 
iniDortw d ik a V iage !U1(1 fertility are all 
bUt 0lU ;, 0WU failures in rose- 
weal- rUnllf resll Red from small, 
before 1 w tS j tbat tailed to get a good start 
mtoie hot, dry weather came. 
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