The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-07-30

price received for the truck has been
more than i've times the total price
received for the cotton crop OF 1904,
and yet the truck acreage was only
about one-eleventh OF the total acre
age Of the county now under cultiya.
ton. Copiah Is 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 IL one of the
richest counties In the State What
the sensible and energetic people Of
that county have accomplished can
be done by the people Of dozen more
counties in the State. Get together
and resolve that something must be
done. Go to work along sensible lines
and there viii be results. CONVINCING
to the most skeptical to follow.
Fresh meats have advanced on &C
count Of strike inaugurated By the
meat cutters in the big packing 60.
adjustments up North. It has at last
reached Mississippi, and our people
who eat Kansas City and other North
ern butehered meats, are paying q
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 own 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 q source OF much
qualification to property owners. Thrre
is still land to be had at from Sc to-
$12 per acre that in few years, with
out development, will almost. il 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
til3ers 1t will be worth q great deal
more. Forty acres there would be q.
big farm for man with one IT tNo
pIows. While two plows might posi-.
bly, cultivate more than forty acres il
It were all cleared and in cultivation,
the two pillow family could NOT possibly
gather the crop that would be made.
With the clearing Of the country AMI
securing good water. health conditions
have improved wonderfully ami soon
no man need fear to take his family
and go there and make it his home.
Great is the Delta, and greater still
the crops it produces
Reports from the great Delta 81 Mis-.
sissippi go to show that an enormous
crop will be raised there this season
il nothing serious befalls it 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 it 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 peo-
pie will have an abundance of money
this fall. Industrial activity is on the
increase and, with the splendid pros
poets for banner crop the entire
Delta section should blossom as rose.
There is no richer country In the
world and the citizens are wide aWak.
Great Is the Delta.
The discovery OF rich phosphate
beds near Van Vleet, IN Chiekasaw
county, will no doubt bring the price
OF fertilizers down and prove bless
ing to the farmers who must use
them, as well as the owners OF the
mineral. It is hoped that the ind
is COON one and that it Will pan out
beyond the expectation Of the people
up there.
Several prominent citizens of Ma
con have arranged to take In wash.
ing. stock company has been Or
ganized to build laundry and It Is
expected to be In operation before the
summer Is over.
]. 3. Parker. the Peach King. Of
PopIarville, recently shipped ave solid
cars Of peaches IN single day. He
has one hundred acres planted In
peach trees, ten acres Of which are
hearing. In few more years his
shipments VIII be multiplied By ten.
Mr. Parker finds the investment very
profitable one and will enlarge THE
paintings gradually from year "a
year. What he Il doing can be dono
BY any one who win try. There is
money il the fruit business IL man
viii go after it in i sensible and huss
ness-Iixe manner
The Greater Mississippi Aasocia.
ton has had several parties Of pros.
peetors IN the State recently. and
some Of them bought land and decided
to locate in Mississippi Ths assocla
ton works up the interest ana when
they come here turns them over 60 ass