The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-07

EDITOR VIDETTE-Will you please
allo" me space in your valuable paper
for few suggestions to tho farmers
OF our county. The year 1894 is past
and gone, and we are just entering a
anysbetter off by our having been in it
during the year 1894, if so we should
be thankful, if not where does the fault
lie? If within us we should endeavor
to correct it du ing the present year.
| { is true our county is considered poor
and to certain extent it is fact, but
while il has some disadvantages it has
many advantages that the richer coun-
ties have'nt-good health, good
water and society. Comparatively we
are i'll IT'S good shape financially as our
sister counties. We have plenty meal
and bread and not much in debt. Our
people are better contcnted than
yeat ago, and u good many of our
friends arc coming back from Texas to
stay with us to the end. This means
something. We are all convinced that
it will not pay to raise cotton in this
county as q money crop. So we must
cast about us and find some other crop
that we can raise as a money crop in
stead OF cotton, We know there is no
better potato (both I.ish and sweeO
country than this ard potatoes grow
10 perfection here with little la Dor and
Il oubie. Peas, beans and peanuts
grow aud pay well. All small fruits
do well, plnms, grapes and berries of
all kind. So this Is no bad country
after all. Some one wiz say We can't
ship these things the freights are to
high, but we can. II We will produce
them in quantities so we can ship by
the carload we can got special low
rates. The railroads are as anxious
to build up this trade as we are 1t is
to their interest as much as ours
suppose eight or ten farmers in
neighborhood would agree (and do
what they agree) plant half each in
early Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes,
tomatoes, and late or fall crop OF Irish
potatoes, plant same variety at or
about same time, cultivate so they can
be harvested and shipped at same
time. This way you would get your
carload and get cheap freight rates, T,
Now if ten or twelve neigbbors would
do this you see we would have ten or
twelve carloads each of these things.
which would make forty or fifty car
loads to ship. You see this would soon
grow to a business Of some magnitude.
Buyers would soon hear Of US anG come
to our doors to buy our produce This
is no faLcied improbable or impossible
theory, but is matter of fact business
suggestion. All this can and will be
done, and if we do not do IL someone
else take advantage of the opportunity
and reap the benefit. Now let us form
clubs in each neighborhocd and go to
work and get ready for the spring
crop of Irish potatoes, then the sweet
potatoes, tomatoes and fall crop of
Irish potatoes. We can sow seed for
our fail crop OF Irish potatoes from
our spriug crop at very little cost.
Both Irish and sweet potatoes will
yield from 100 to 200 bushels per acre
with little work, and if they only net
ted 25c. per bushel that would be from
1926 $50 per acre net but they will do
much better than that The fall crop
of Irish potatoes will net three or four
times that Tomatoes yield from go
to 400 bushels per acre; always net
from rs to 50 cts. per bushel. Some
one will say we can't find a market
for these things, but we can. We
have the markets both East and West.
East to Washington City and New
York, and Kansas City and other