The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-10

de liar per bushel at the crib. from the very
lamentable fact that the farming cOmmuni-
t. in this country invariably neglect their
grain crops for their cottt"n crops. Away
putting in too small an AZ reage of corn and
negIecting it if their cotton crop becomes
/ endangered. Clover aud a large variety OF
grasses grow finely in this section; but lit
tie attention is given TO either grass or
stock raising.
Northern farmers moving to this country
/ and deVoting themselves TO grain, grass and
stock farming woi Id reap golden harvest.
/ The lands here would yield in grain equal
4 to the best lands in the Northern States ii
+ git en- the same preparation and cultivation.
| aud market would be found right at his
door for all his surplus grain and stock.
The native Inhabitants have never been ac-
cuStomed to grain and stock raising and are
/ slow TO comprehend the grand profits and
| advantages To be derived from il. and in
| consequence an opening is given to the en-
| ergy and enterprise of the northern farmer
who Is familiar with that method. Grass
and grain can be grown in this latitude that
will give grazing feed for stock the whole
| year round. Little shelter and little extra
| iced is required for stock from the fact OF
| the mild and open winters. Out door work
can be carried on all winter, an advantage
that could not be too highly appreciated.
The Mississippi q Tennessee Railroad, I'M
der the supervision of courteous and able
officials, is kept in first-class condition and
the most liberal reduction made to bona 6de
grants IN rates OF charges, etc.
Immigrants seeking homes in Northwest
Mississippi can reach their destination
coming 10y way of Cincinnati by water or
rail TO Memphis, or by way of Louisville or
Richmond on the Memphis, Louisville and
Memphis and Charleston Roads to Memphis
" here a junction is made with the MiSsis-
sippi and Tennessee Road, or on the Chica
go, ST. Louis and New Orleans Road to
Grenada. Mississippi, the point of the
southern terminus of the Mississippi and
Tennessee Road.
All of these roads offer extreme low rates
to all immigrants settling in the State.
The State of Mississippi is tree from debt,
matter OF great consideration to those
seeking homes and relief from the burthens
of taxes. The taxes in most all the counties
in the State are at a very low rates. The
taxes in Pamela county, Estate and county
ali teld,) last year was only Seventy-fiV
cents on the hundred dollars, and with
prospect of d still greater reduction in the
future.
Immigrants will find that a kind recep-
ton will be given them by the people of
Mississippi, and that law and order reigns
as supreme in Mississippi as in the best reg
ulated States North, notwithstanding idle
rumors TO the contrary.
This section has DO grasshOppers, no pro-
tracted drouths, none OF those plaques
that brings disaster upon the farming
interest as in the prairie countries of the
West.
L dflleS WlSIIluS ~ puTCudSe IdTmS VI
lands in northwest Mississippi will receive
all necessary information by addressing g.
B. Vance, Batesville, Pamela county, Mis-
sissippi, or Lonsdale Il Co, Memphis, Ten
nessee.
But parties desiring to locate would do
well to visit the section in person and eX-
anime for themselves.
The city of Memphis is only few hours
run from any section on the Mississippi and
Tennessee Railroad, a city OF considerable
Importance as a commercial point, where
merchandise and produce could be bought
at the lowest rates and an excellent market
for every character of product raised by
the farmers upon the line of the Mississippi
aud Tennessee Railroad.