Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1914 — Freemont Goodwine Farming 3,600 Acres of Mississippi. [ARTICLE]

Freemont Goodwine Farming 3,600 Acres of Mississippi.

The Williamsport Review. A G. Broadie, one of our enterprising hardware merchants; returned Tuesday from a ten days’ trip in the south, including Mississippi and Louisiana. While on this trip he spent a few days with our former fellow-townsman, the Hon. Freemont Goodwine and family, and reports them in the best of health and living like old feudal lords in the center of their 3,600 acre plantation known as Oneonta, surrounded by their colony of about 200 colored people, all used in tbe cultivation of the plantation. While Mr. Goodwine lias about 1000 acres in cotton, he is following the northern plan of crop rotation, having 400 acres in oats and 200 acres in corn; also soy beans and peas, and a crop called lespedeza, a sort of clover imported from Japan. He reports Mr. Goodwine as setting the pace down there and that his place is in a high state of cultivation, largely because he is using more modem machinery than his neighbors. It certainly will be very gratifying to all of Mr. Goodwine’s old friends to know that he is doing well