Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-07-29

'y III. Il. BLAKESLE, Jackson, hiss.
Several of the delta counties offer
great inducements for the investment
of capital in lands. There are large
quantities in some of them that can
lstill be had at very reasonable sums
and the growth Of values in that sec
tion is surprising and source Of
much gratifcatiop to property owners.
There is still land to be had at from
Sc to $12 per acre that in few years
without development will almost if not
quite, double in price. Attention is
being attracted to that section by
small farmers more than formerly,
and when it comes into the hands of
the tillers, it will be worth a great
deal more. Forty acres there would
be big farm for a man with one or
two plows. While two .plows might
possibly cultivate more than forty
acres if it were all cleared and in cul-
ltivation, the two plow family could
not possibly gather the crop that
would be made. With the clearing of
the country and securing good water,
health conditions have improved won
derfully and soon no man need fear to
take his family and go there to make
lit his home. Great is the delta, and
greater still is the crop that it pro-
duces.
As an example of the trucking in
dustry in some of the counties where
it has been tried, it will be we'll to
make note of the fact that Copiah
county, which is just closing a success
full season, that the total price re-
ceived for the truck has been more
than five times the total price receiv-
ed for the cotton crop of 1904, and
yet the truck acreage was only about
one-eleventh of the total acreage of
the county now under cultivation. Co.
piah is one of the poor pine hill coun-
ties that refused to sit down because
their land was not rich and wait for
something to turn up, but went to
work and made it one of the richest !
counties in the state. What the SEN
sible and energetic people Of this coun-
ty have accomplished can be done by
the people of dozen more counties
in the state. Get together and resolve
that something must and will be done.
Go to work along sensible lines and I,
there will be results, convincing to the
most skeptical to follow.
Fresh meats have advanced on ac-
count of a strike inaugurated by the
meat cutters IN the big packing estab-
lishments up north. 1t has at last
reached Mississippi and our people
who eat Kansas City and other north
ern butchered meats, are paying a
higher price, There is no reason why
the people OF Mississippi should be
affected by these strikes. There are
ample opportunities here for raising
meat at home. Thousands upon thous-
ands of acres of land in the state is
adapted to stock raising and
it would be but little trouble and ex- !,
pense for each community to raise its
own meat We have the cheapest feed
in the world, cotton seed products, and
with the fine winter range to help out
there is every reason why more atten-
ton should be paid to stock raising.
Send for few of the Greater Mis-
sissippi Bulletins, write letter to
some friend or acquaintance In anoth-
er state and enclose them. This will
do good Every citizen should take
an interest in the welfare of his state
and in this manner good can be done
without cost. Resolve that you will
do something for Mississippi before
the week is ended and then do it. If
everybody would speak a good word
for his community every time the op-
portunity is afforded, we would be
richer, more contented and happier.
Give this plan a trial and then write
your experience for this department
J. E. Parker, the "Peach King" of
recently shipped five solid
cars of peaches in a single day. He
has one hundred acres planted inpeach
trees, ten acres of which are bearing.
In a few more years his shipments
will be multiplied by ten. Mr.. Parker
finds the investment very profitable
one and will enlarge the paintings
from year to year. What he
is doing can be done by any one who
will try. There is money in the fruit
business if man will go after it in
a sensible and business-like manner.
This department is promised some
facts and figures concerning the fruit
farm of Howerton Brothers, near
Guntown in the northern section of
the state. This is one of the largest
in the state, and by far the largest in
that section. Success has attended
the efforts of the promoters and their
will be well worth publ
cation.
Laurel has organized an athletic
with $4,000 capital 1t
will take up the base ball franchise
and attempt to get into one of the
regular leagues next season. Laurel
IS live town and would support a
irst-class ball team.
There are opportunities in Missis-
sippi for all who are competent to