The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-02-08
Farmers Department
MOTTO:
He that ploweth, should pillow in hope

very interesting figures in relatio
to the corn crop OF the South fo
1894.
The entire South raised two hur
bred and forty and one-half million
Of bushels, or two-ffths of the entir
crop OF the whole United States. Q
this crop, Mississippi raised thirty ST
million bushels, or about twsnty-fou
bushels per head Of population. Thi
is ample to feed the people and tn
stock, but it is not evenly distributed
Another year, we predict that still
more will be produced and that eacl
county will have enough for it's owl
consumption.
Is it not strange that in the face Of
such indisputable facts as the above
there can be found men who will say
this is not a corn country? Croakers
and GROWERS do more injury to cou n
ty than can be overcome by twice
their number oflindustrious workers,
because the former have twice the
amount of gas and Incidence of the
latter, and never lose an occasion to
pose in public places as great phlloso-
piers, while the other class are at
home and at work. There is no
doubt but what as fine corn can be
raised here as anywhere on earth.
The South has in the last year been
a shipper of corn to the Northwest,
something never heard of before. 1t
is like shipping coal to Newcastle, or
shipping iron to the North from our
Southern iron fields and factories.
Corn is the great main crop for us to
produce as reliable and fat forming
material, and if we will but let our
motto be corn, corn, more corn, we
will have a ''cinch'' on the rest of the
world, for with it and our long sum-
mers producing such abundant green
feed and fatten stock, we can ulti-
mately become one of the greatest
sources OF supply for the markets of
the world in meat foods. We could
become exporters of these meats to
foreign countries, where land is to
scarce and overcrowded for stock
raising, and where to great portion
Of their population meal of meat is
almost entirely unknown. These
meats, beef. hogs and mutton, could
be sent fresh by refrigerators as we'll
As in dried or canned state. Plant
corn in the greatest abundance, and
lfter You have done this, plant some
more. You can't have too much. for
,he hogs, horses, cows, chikens, tur-
seys and people will all need it, and
III should be fat, and it takes heap
If corn to do it. II
SIX DOLLARS PER TON.
Commencing February 1st, the price
If cotton seed on the banks of the Mis-
,issippi will be $500 per ton, fall
If $1.00. This was an agreement
made by the Oil Mill representatives in
Jew Orleans few days ago, and it is
stated, has been approved by all the
Mills in this section. There being no
Iemand for either oil or cotton seed !
neal, and the low price of the product
as caused the cotton seed oil mills to
AXE the above action.
COTTON SEED.
In line with the above article on corn, I
ONES this reference to cotton seed. A @
Old of cotton seed is so bushels, which 6
t the above price, is 10 cents bushel r
fter it has reached the Father of y
Waters, which of course greatly re- y
uces the price at all interior points, d
~ cents. Is it not strange that our t
eople will SO universally part with
UGH valuable feed and manurial crop
,r such pitiful price. The feed value
{ cotton seed meal and bulls has been 4
DO well attested by actual practical n
.sults right under our observation to I.
Z doubted. Besides this phase Of the d
inject a 'bushel of cotton seed as a n
substance is said to produce o
S equivalent in corn, which is always d
orth about so cents. This cotton ii
ed waste is one of the most potent a
ctors in our pauperization, and it is b
,eless for the man who annually sells e,
Is seed to complain of his hard fate, u
II no man who INDUCES in such prac- h
ces will ever become prosperous. Il