{"newspaper_name": "Holly Springs gazette.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
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Talk of fine crops as you please, there is
a half acle In this town from which the
proprietor has realized a more abundant
harvest since its cultivation, than ever was
gathered from the corn fields Of the west,
or the onion patches Of old Connecticut
The cotton planter of the South thinks he
is doing large business, when he raises
two bales of cotton 10 the acre whilst we
have known the old bfJOted proprietor
of "hell's half-acre,' 10 cart home at least
six or eight drunkards annually, with a
promising crop on hand continually. which
is available at all times. Shut up boasting
about your turnips in Tennessee,-your po-
tatoes in Iowa, or the advantages of a rota
tion in crops, our old squatter has never de-
waited from the course first adopted by the
machinery OF Alcohol.