The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-23

'"a 0ho hic'I
1aisers of the State is given below.
The fruit from this farm brings on the
st. Louis market from 20 to 80 cents
o per crate than that offered by
any point in the section of the coun-
try north of this. Read what Mr..
Howerton has to say and profit by his
example and experience. The follow
ing is his wi language in description
of his farm:
"All orcharding in Mississippi ten
years ago was an experiment. We be-
gan at that time. We tried Kieffer
pears. While the trees are still alive
n bearing they have never made Us
much money. Blight has hurt them
more or less, and the fruit comes at
a time when other States north of rs
have home grown pears and apples.
We put out at the same time several
hundred winter apples; this, too, was
a mistake. In the spring of 1898 we
put out 500 alberta peach trees. In
1901 We sold from these trees S%42
worth of peaches, and received cOmpli-
Eentary letters from our commission
Merchants, saying We were sending
In some of the finest peaches eve"
seen in st. Louis This showed us
the way. We have since set out sew
eral thousand peach trees, all of which
are doing well and promise fine crops
next season. The second year OF our
five hundred liberia peach trees
brought us in $1.150. These trees were
on four acres of land, that cost Us 81,
In the woods-s1 Al acre. After we
had gathered our first crop Of $3.50 VIC
considered our -four acres worth four
hundred dollars. This is the posi-
bility of the Mississippi 'sandhills, I'M
derlaid by a good clay foundation.
Any of them will yield the farmer
500 all acre in peaches or strawber-
ries. if he will only get after them
right. The same hills will make one
third of a bale of cotton or ten bushels
OF corn. What are they good for? We
would rather have an acre in bearing
peaches in the poor hills of Missis-
sippi, or an acre in strawberries. than
the richest cotton acre in the delta.
I'VE have tried the Japan plum,
and they do well and bring us good
money. So, also, do summer and fall
apples. We are now getting forty
cents a peck for Ben Davis apples
and other red varieties. Yes, sir, there
is money in the poor red hills in Mis-
s%issippi, if you only hit 'em right
1--WE find that we can grow the very
finest kind of nursery stock on the
same poor red hills We are grow
Nug thousands of liberia and other
peach trees, budded from the very
best type of Il bearing trees, and
they compare f%ayorably with trees
grown north and east of us.
I'VE set our first apples on a rich
bottom and second bottom, and they
did not do well, but at the same time
we planted something there which did
60 welI-the paper she'll pecan. Buy.
ing the very best nuts We could get
of the Stuart Van Deman' and &C.
lumbar varieties. We planted the
nuts and find that a good per cent of
them came true. We are top work
ing with buds from our very best
trees. With the poor hills in Mis-
s;ssippi growing peaches ard straw
berries. and the bottom lands COW
cred with fine pecans, running about
fifty nuts to the pound, we need not
fear that we will have something
good to eat and that Il neighbors
north of us will want some of it, ard
pay us well for it.
&c. r. HOWERTON."
This farm is located near Guntown.
IN Lee county.
AT experiment in road building is
being tried at C%larksdale that should
be watched with interest by the whole
State. The road has been graded with
q road machine and covered with
burned clay, which was secured and
carried through the baking process on
the ground. The verdict of those who
have seer it is, "that the result is a
firm brick-like product, %impervious to
water and apparently durable in the
extreme" 1t is to be sincerely hoped
that this experiment will be attended
With success, both in the durability
and d~esirability of the road construct
ed, as well as in the smallness of the
cost. If good roads can be made with
common clay found along the right
of way and prepared and distributed
without too much cost, the mooted
question of good roads has been set
tied. We hope to hear more from
ClarksdaIe and her good roads prof.
Get.
Great developments are reported
along the line of the Mobile, Jackson
&c Kansas City railway. New indus
tries are springing UP all along the
line, lands are being taken up and
gut into cultivation, new towns are
building and old ones taking on new
life and SO many good things happen
ing that it is impossible to mention
them all. That section Of the State
will be heard from in the future II
m uncertain way. 1t is a favored sec
tion and has only needed a railroad
to bring about the development of its
resources.
7. T.. Parker, Of Sandersville, Jones
county, has eight acres of Elberta
neach trees that Melted him this sea
son over $50 per acre on the crop
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