The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-03-20
CONDITIONS OF SUCCESSFUL DEVEL
0PMBNT.

Success in fruit-growlng, as in al
Industrial pursuits, only be ex
pected by a strict observance Of ma
tural laws and conditions.
The horticulturist is as dependent
! upon fixed law for success as the civil
engineer, the electrician or the chem
list, and hap-hazard effort at fruit
raising promises little more of success
than in bridge building, construction
OF machinery, astronomical calcula'
tiOns, or the administration Of medi'
cine to the sick.
1t is well to recognize the immuta.
ble law. AS a man sOweth shall he
also reap, and surely any given cause
will always produce like effect. Until
it "a be shown that the best cOndi-
lions have been supplied, any number
Of failures is an evidence that crafty
ing success will not reward every one
who conforms to natural laws.
Since, II the blind lead the blind
they are liable to fall in the ditch, it
is most important that the eyes OF the
blind be opened, that the eight of
knowledge in which they can put their
trust, be made to direct in what they
may say and do, and that he who
seeks more light" shall do so of
those who have we'll served their ap-
premiership and become master work
men. Let those who are competent
keep the work on the ''trcstlc- board"
that discord and confusion do not
work ruin to the craft.
There is much proof that this Mis-.
sisSippi Coast is unsurpassed II
cquallcd, in natural conditions for
profitable fruit-grOwing but while a
few have demonstrated some things
by intelligent methods and skill, as
yet there seems to be a ruinOus con.
fusion OF tongues.
II each one is left to find the road
to success by individual experience
progress will be extremely slow in the
future, as it has been in the past, and
this generation will enjoy but little OF
the fruits thereof.
The successful development of all
natural resources require that the
best efforts Of those already occupy.
ing fields should be supplemented by
the requisite amount of additional
capital, skill, experience and enter.
prise.
The local elements OF success will
not be properly brought into action,
or the additional outside aid secured,
until cooperative effort, through the
medium of well organized associations,
shall be made TODD the required work.
AS long as the masses are engaged
in tearing down what the few enter.
prising ones are trying to build up,
strangers will look on in surprise and
ignorance, refusing to take the chan
ccs, but soon as those influenced by
well-meaning enterprise, write to as
certain and make known natural con-
ditions and resources, and the igno-
ramus induced to keep still, the con-
fusion of tongues will cease, the car
of progress be set in motion by our
citizens, and the required means for
the development of all resources be
easily o%btainable.
Fruit-growing is but one of many
interests that deserve the attention
of all cnterprising, liberal minded
citizens, and it Is a question worthy
Of serious consideration, whether CO.
operative associations should not be
broad enough to take them all in. All
interests are intcrdepcndcnt, and
every man has an influence, in gen.
eral. The harmonious development
OF all interests will insure the great
est success Of each, and II a different
association for each interest were
feasible, conflicts, and ~incflciency
would be the result.
The subject is too comprehensive to
be fully presented in the columns Of a
newspaper, besides, the DEMOCRAT
STAR has contained much to the point
and OF profit, If acted upon.