The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-08-13


another canal for reclaiming swamp
land, and twill be completed in about
a year. This canal will be twelve
miles in length and furnish drainage
for several thousand acres of as fine
land as the State affords. This is the
third one for Lee county and the PEG.
pie find the experiment a success.
Bonds are issued for the work and re.
paid by tax Of rs cents per acre on
the land benefited each year. Large
quantities of fine land are brought into
cultivation in this way and to be
worth good sums to the owners where
1t would be practically worth nothing
otherwise. Other counties with low,
wet lands might try the experiment
with profit. A letter addressed to
any of the officials of Lee county
would bring information as to the
proper method of procedure.
The farmers of Tylertown. Pike
county, have organized club for the
purpose Of meeting, discussing meth
DDS, exchanging experiences, etc. A
large number of the best people in the
neighborhood have joined the organi-
cation, and they will go at the bust.
ness in the right way. There are just
as many reasons why farmers should
organize and attempt to improve con
ditions as other business or profession
al men. No man yet has accumulated
SO much knowledge that he can't be
taught something. The experience Of
one man along certain line might aid
his neighbor who would likely repay
with something on another subject.
These farmers clubs are good things
and the writer hopes to see more Of
them formed.
An excursion was run to the expert
ment station at Mcneil on the 30th of
last month, to give the people an op.
portunity to inspect the work being
done there. Quite a large crowd took
advantage Of the opportunity to visit
the station and expressed themselves
as well pleased with what they saw.
There is something to be learned on
an excursion of this kind, and after all
of our stations are under way it would
not be bad idea to inaugurate regu-
lar excursions so that the farmers
could visit them at various times and
take advantage of the experience and
education to be received. There is a
demand for educated farmers and
these stations are the means Of edu-
eating them.
Machinery has been ordered and
work begun on a lime brick plant at
Grenada. 1t will be in operation with
in sixty days. The brick are made of
lime, cement and sand, and are said to
be much better than those made from.
clay and cheaper Should these plants
come up to the expectation of the own
ers, the brick industry will be revolu-
tionized. Grenada is not asleep, as
shown by this announcement. and the
fact of other factories being gotten on
foot there during the year.
Corlnth already has the largest en-
CINE, boiler and machinery manufac-
turing plant in the South, and now an
nounces that the second one will soon
be in operation. The new plant will
be the Corinth Engine & Boiler Works
and will employ large number of
hands. These men receive good wages
and are generally desirable citizens.
Corinth is fast becoming a manufac-
turing city, probably having more peo-
pie employed in this line than any
town of its size in the State.
Yazoo county has the contract sys-
tenn Of working the public roads under
consideration and will likely try it.
The people are very much in favor of
better roads if the plan to secure them
presents itself. All the people of Mis-
sissippi are interested along this line
and the agitation will be kept up until
the solution is reached at last.
Farmers throughout the State are
beginning to realize that in union
there is strength. A number of clubs
and associations have been formed
recently for the purpose of exchang-
ing experiences, discussing pertinent
subjects, etc. II interest is kept up
these organizations are productive OF
good, and it is with pleasure that we
note their formation.
So
Mississippi is awake industrially as
never before. While the present pc
Rod of activity may only be the be-
ginning, it is so much better than
ever before that we are apt to think
it perfect Don't let this idea get pos
session Of you, but still look ahead for
greater things
Eupora marketed last year $75,0 900
worth of poultry and eggs. The out
put this year will likely be larger. A
number Of the citizens are very much
Interested in the enterprise and will
give it a thorough trial. Almost all
of Mississippi is adapted TO poultry
raising and where it has been tried
along sensible lines has proven a sue
cess. In a few years the State bids
fair to produce large proportion Of
the poultry product of the world. Di-
versified interests free our people from
the failure Of one crop or the breaking
of market for one product.
An effort viii be made to rebuild the
opera house at Yazoo City, and an
address has been issued calling for
contributions to the capital stock The
new one win be up-to-date in every
respect.
The proposition is now made to run
the Liberty White railroad through
from Liberty to Natchez. This would
be nice arrangement for the people
along the proposed route and would
also give Natchez the benefit Of more
competition in freight rates
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