The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-07-30

more than hVe times the total price
L received for the cotton crop of 1904,
ana yet the truck acreage was only
about One-eleyenth of the total acre.
age OF the county now under cultiva.
ton. Copiah is a poor pine hill coun-
ty whose people 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
t llehest counties in the State. What
, the sensible and energetic people OF
that county have accomplished can
be done by the people Of a dozen more
counties in the State. Get together
and resolve that something must be
done. Go to work along sensible lines
and there will be results, convincing
to the most skeptical to follow.
Fresh meats have advanced on &C.
count of a strike %inaugurated by the
meat cutters in the big packing es-
adjustments up North. 1t has at last
reached Mississippi, and our people
who eat Kansas City and other North.
ern butehered meats, are paying a
higher price. There is no reason why
the people of Mississippi should be af.
fected by these strikes. There are
ample opportunities here for raising
meat at home. Thousands upon thou.
sads of acres of land in the State is
especially adapted to stock raising,
and it would be but little trouble and
expense for each community to raise
its W meat. We have the cheapest
feed in the world, cotton seed prod.
ucts, and with the fine winter range
to help out there is every reason
why more attention should be paid to
stock raising,
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
be had at very reasonable sums. and
the growth of the values in that sec.
ton is surprising and a source of much
u iotiitSobipi w plSIEIly D. l Ei'ID |
Is still land to be had at from Sc to
$12 per acre that in a few years, with.
out 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 1t will be worth a great deal
more. Forty acres there would be a
big farm for a mar with one II two
ploWs. While two ploWs might posi-.
bly, cultivate more than forty acres II
il were all cleared and in cultivation,
the two pl0w family could not possibly
gather the crop that would be made.
With the clearing of the county AMI
securing good water, health conditions
have improved wonderfully ana soon
no man need fear to take his family
and go there and make II his hom3.
Great is the Delta. and greater still
the crops it produces.
Reports from the great Delta Of Mis-.
sissippi go to show that al enormous
crop will be raised there this season
If nothing serious befalls 1t between
now and gathering time. More cotton
will be produced than can possibly be
gathered. A liberal acreage of corn
was planted despite the abnormally
high price of cotton at planting time,
and 1t is in fine condition. Too much
rain has damaged it to some extent, but
not appreciably so. Take it all in all,
the Delta is in fine form and the PEG.
pie will have an abundance of money
this fall. Industrial activity is on the
increase and, with the splendid pros.
poets for a banner crop the entire
section should blossom as a rose. ;
There is no richer country in the t
world and the citizens are wide awak. l
is the Delta, 1
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The discovery of rich phosphate |
,eds near Van vleet, in Chickasaw t
county, will no doubt bring the price c
fertilizers down and prove a bless !
ng to the farmers who must use v
hem, as we'll as the owners of the @
mineral. 1t is hoped that the find
S a COON one and that 1t Will pan out U
,eyond the expectation Of the people !
Up there. y
Several prominent citizens of Ma =
on have arranged to take in wash !
A stock company has been or =
.anized to build a laundry and It is !,
expected to be in operation before the r
ummer is over. n
J. e. Parker, the Peach King" Of q,
'opIarville, recently shipped five solid fe
ars OF peaches in a single day. He n
as one hundred acres planted in tn
each trees, ten acres OF which are
In a few more years his
hipments will be multiplied by ten.
[r. Parker finds the investment a very tv
rofitable one and will enlarge the q,
gradually from year to lie
ear. What he is doing can be done W
Y any one who will try. There is
Ioney in the fruit business II a man m
i'll go after it in 1 sensible and bus' IN
manner. pc
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Laurel has organized al athletic Vi
isociation with $4,000 capital. 1t -,
i'll take up the baseball franchise NO
i'd attempt to get into one Of the mi
leagues next season. Laurel 1t
a live tow and would support a TO
ball team. NJ
In
Copah county raises corn this sea