The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-15
Memorial of the stock Breeders
Annexation
ABERDEEN, MISS, May 9TH 1880.

ABERDEEN, MISS, May 9TH 1884,
To the Trustees Of the A. a NJ. College;
Al a meeting of the Stock Bre eder'
Association of Mississippi, held at Meridian
on the 10Th ult., the resolution heret'
attached, was adopted, and commute.
, named to lay IL before your body, ana ash
that the object signified therein might d
fostered as far as In your Judgment Woul.
be in consonance with the general obJecti
of the Institution of which you are maa'
the guardians.
We are encouraged in our work IRON
having intimatiOns through credited
sources, that the subject of our commune
cation will not be new in your counsels
and that portion, If not the whole OF y0ul
board, have bestowed thought upon It and
are in sympathy with our wishes, ana thai
so far as may be eNpedient IN inns cary
stage of the Institution, Will favor the
bestowal of your fostering care and atten-
tion on the grass and stock growing
interests of the State.
II is evident to the thoughtful and intel.
ligent, that Mississippi can never be blessed
with that degree of prosperity, which her
resources render her capable OF, by con-
tinuation OF all its labor ana capital alone
in the growth of cotton. She has diver
sity of soil and diversity of sources OF
wealth, which can never be all probably
utilized in any one single crop, but which
if put to the uses tor which they are
severally adopted, the aggregate develop
ment and products would make her highly
prosperous.
Hitherto. her population have not been
satisfied that anything could be prontaDly
produced except cotton. Very recently,
however, through experiments made ny a
few enterprising and public spirited clti-
Zens, it has been demonstrated that i'll MIS-
sissippi, at least, and probably in many
other States of the South, the growth of
grasses and stock can be profitably con-
Quoted.
Ii is no longer an experiment, but q
veritable fact, that the greater portion, If
not all, the pasture and meadow grasses
known to the catalogue i'll the Middle and
Western States, under favorable circum-
stances, may be grown in as great perfec-
ton in Mississippi as in Kentucky, Illinois
or Michigan.
We venture to assert as fact estab-
lshed by actual experiments made, that
the prairie land of East Mississippi, and the
rich aluvial lands in the Mississippi bot
tom, and bottoms along the tributaries of
the Mississippi river, cannot be eXcelled as
clover lands in any portion OF the United
States.
Blue grass too. has proved very decided
success where tested on the lime lands, IN
which large portions of this State abounds,
with the same care and attention it will
bear grazing about as well as i'll Tennessee,
Kentucky and the Western States. In
addition to clover and blue grass, the
orchard, meadow, fescue, herds, guinea,
bermuda and many other grasses, will
make profitable meadow and pasture
grasses, on our lands and in this climate.
The clover, the blue, orchard, herds and
some other grasses, will yield you green
and rich pastures the entire winter in this
State. Indeed, we may say the entire
year.
Owing to the mildness of the climate and
the perpetual winter pastures, stock may be |
grown in Mississippi with half the grain
and long-forage necessary to subsist them
in the Northern climate, if our people will
themselves with comfortable
housing for bad weather. Nor are our
abilities less than in the North for raising
grain, and root crops protitably, and
usually fed to stock of different kinds in
The Northern and Wester States.
With all our advantages for the growing
IF grasses and other stock crop; and with
,ur mild climate, WHICH SO materially cur
ails the necessity for costly food during
profitable and least expensive which can be
crown by us; they being often produced
lpon lands which would be otherwise
Useless, and at the same time, being the
most pleasant department of agriculture,
Why should not the growth of grasses and
took become an important factor in the
ducation of the young men of Mississippi
Who are placed under your tutelage and
EDUCATIONAL guidance and control. The
ime is not far distant, if the people of the
tate are true to their own interests, when
he live stock of Mississippi will be of far
reater pecuniary value than the landed
interests of the State, notwithstanding
our lands will have been doubled and
erhaps quadrupled in value, in conse-
uence of tie growth of the stock interests.
Teach the young men of the State the
SEES; the best species, and the mode of
the grasses. Teach them what ;
re the most desirable and the most profita-
lie stock to be raised. Teach them how to
aise and doctor stock. Teach them that
he growth of grasses and stock and the s
of their lands are each depen- ,
ent on the other. Teach them that a
iversity of crops are necessity in success
ii agriculture. Teach them these things
y ocular demonstrations, for boys run by l
ght, not by faith. Impress it upon them :
nat Mississippi can never reach the full .
leasure of its destiny in wealth and pros I
Gritty and greatness until all the varied
ldustries are cultivated, and all her !;
sources developed, and you will have
anted a tree whose fruit will ripen be 8
!tnoiod anu ehJo!Gu Wy ScHcl"biohs tnat Z
ill rise up and bless the names of the
'unders of the Institution which is now =
he objects of your watchfulness and
lXious care.
e. HOUSTON, B. L. DALE, fl
A. GREENE, II. W. FoOTE, u
EPTHA ROBBINS, MCRAE MosBY,
o. SYKES, W. Il. OATS,
Committee.
The following extract from the minutes
tho Board will show what action was Z
ken: III
"The Memorial of the Stock Breeders
ssociation was received, read and placed I'll
file, and the Secretary was instruct
to assure the committee that the Trus- 81
es of the A. q NJ. College were heartily in al
mpathy with the views expressed in re
id Memorial, and would cooperate to al
e extent of Their ability. " til