The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1883-05-26
GREN IDA. MISS. SA rJRDAY. MAY 26 1883

a tanner, there being none within thirty
miles around. All the hides are shipped
North and come back in boots and shoes,
although there is every convenience for
tanning. -
There are openings for 'foundery
and machine shop, a wagon factory, a
broom factory, and for number OF small
manufacturers. The town begins to fee
the need and value of such things, and
will deal literally with men coming there
to establish them. 1t is q good point
for cotton factory, or for the manufact-
ure of bagging, having the Yalobushe
river as a water-power and number OF
fine sites. al...
THE PRESS.
Grenada has but one newspaper-the
Weekly Sentinel which has a large and
steadily increasing circulation, and is do>
ing good work in building up the town
and in helping on all enterprises calcula>
ted to benefit that section of the State.
Its proprietor, Mr.. Buchanan, will gladly
answer any inquiries by mail which come
from men desirous of investing in that
section, and is thoroughly posted as to
what is needed and what will pay.
THE COUNTRY ABOUT.
Missippi offers no great encourage
men. to the wheat grower, although any
farmer can grow his own, but it isa gar
den spot for corn, oats and vegetables
The country about Grenada is rich, but
not half worked, Everybody is into cotton
and farmers are in debt and struggling to
come out even at the annual settlement.
Three and four crops of fine quality of
Bermuda grass can be raised, and there
is not day in winter-unless it rains
when the farmer cannot work out doors.
Stock is neither fed nor housed during
the winter. Foliage and vegetation arr
farther advanced by the LIST OF March
with them than by the lst OF May with
us. Every acre of tillable ground will
produce two crops the same season, and
the Illinois Central railroad offers quick
transit to the best markets OF the North.
The region about Grenada could raise
oats, hay, early potatoes, grapes, toma-
toes, melons, strawberries and various
other things for shipment North, butthey
are waiting for some one to come in and
take the first steps
HOW THEY FARM.
In the streets of Grenada talked with
several farmers on the subject OF guano.
Enrichipg the land is something un-
known there. The farmer is in debt, in
a hurry to get out, and he forces the land
to its utmost year after year, and fee 5
that any put back is taking just SO much
out of his pocket. A negro farmer told
me that he was working a plantation
which had not pound Of enrichment fol
upwards of thirty years, andin the same
breath he growled because he could only
harvest one bale of cotton to three acres.
His cotton seed was sold to the mill to
furnish him ready cash, but the idea OF
buying back the meal for fertilizing or
even using the manure at hand on his
own place, was something he had never
thought Of Any Northern farmer can
take a Mississippi plantation and make
it produce from one-third to one-haii
more than it does under present man
agement.
| THE YOUNG MEN.
Before closing this article l want to
speak word for the young men of Gre
NADIA. They are enterprising, reliant and
full of energy. There are no idlers
among them. They are not afraid OF
work. They run neither to drink mol
cards nor horses They have accepted
the situation and taken the only way t.
better it. And what is true OF that town
is true of all towns in the State. / did
not see one case OF intoxication among
the young men OF Mississippi in two
weeks tour 1t was rare to find one out Of
employment. 1t was an exception to
find one dissatisfied. On the contrary,
it is the young man who takes the most
hopeful view, who bothers the least with
politics, and who is the most ready to
pull off his coat and give the wagon a lift
out Of y herut.-N Quad, in the Detroit
Free Psesf.