The leader., 1904-12-17

Jonn Amaker, OF POplarY1lle, Killed
a "razor-back" hog few days since
that tipped the beam at 1886 pounds,
and rendered 166 pounds of lard That
is remarkable showing for the razor
back, and possibly there is more good
in him than he is given credit for.
Greenwood's death rate of only &
little over eight to the thousand for
| the past five years is splendid show
ing for that equally splendid city.
The delta is showing a great advance
in healthfulness lately, and now COM
pares fayorably with any section of
the Union.
Protect your timber. Be slow to sell
unless you are made sure that it
will be worked into the finished ar
ticle right here in Mississippi Too
many large bodies of our splendid
timber lands are coming into the
hands of foreigners, who cut it into
rough lumber here and ship to other
places for manufacture. Right now
! is the time to stop this. Already too
much of it is in alien hands. We are
| glad to welcome any one who will
come and 9help us in the great work
OF development, but we do not want
others to get the best crude material
we have and carry it away, thereby
losing to us the cost of transportation
and the price paid for skilled labor
in its manufacture. Hold your tim
| Der lands until you know fully the
purpose of the intending purchaser.
Too much fine timber land in the
State worth $40 per acre, or more, is
| on the assessment rolls at So per acre.
This is not as it should be. Boards
| OF supervisors ought to see that it is
assessed at something like what it
| IS worth. By doing this, the owners
will be made to pay little something
of the cost of developing the country
and making their lands worth more
money. Otherwise they pay nothing
and reap the larger portion of the
| benefits. This matter is well worthy
careful investigation at the hands
OF our people, and it is to be hoped
that some action will be taken along
the lines suggested herein.
w. J. Quarles, of Long Beach, has
sugar cane that averages over nine
feet of matured stalk. Off of one and
half acres he made over eight, hun
dred gallons Of syrup. He only used
on the land 500 pounds of acid phos-
| phate and cotton seed meal mixed.
This shows what can be done on Mis-
sissippi soil if only common sense
and little energy is displayed. There
is no place in the world where the
husbandman can get such liberal re-
turn for his labor. Write Mr.. Quarles
and prove the truthfulness of the as
sertions herein made.
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Few people in Mississippi realize
the attention the State is attracting
abroad, and the demand for our cheap
lands by moneyed men seeking profit
able investments, as well as home
seekers from other States. Not a
week passes that announcement is not
made that large body of land has
been sold to some Northern syndicate.
And right here the writer desires to
sound a note of warning Don't sell
your land to spectators who will not
agree to improve it and put it in cul-
tivation. There are plenty of bona
fide homeseekers who will buy it and
make improvements. The syndicates
sometimes cut up into small tracts
large blocks and sell on installmentg
to homeseelkers, but too often they
hold merely for the increase in prices
which goes on rapidly. Our county
officials are derelict in their duty fre-
quently in allowing land belonging to
such concerns to remain on the tax
books at the figures for which it was
purchased, and not what it would
bring on the market at present. Lands
rapidly advancing in price and hardly
taxed at all offer tempting induce
ments to investors. Make such lands
pay portion Of the cost of develop
ment by assessing them at something
like their real value. This is nothing
but right and equitable, and the own
ers should not object to such course.
Write some friend outside of the
State of the wonderful resources of
Mississippi. Do this at least once a
week, and watch the result.
The writer has received three COM
munications within the last week
from parties inquiring for bodies of
land in Mississippi for the purpose of
locating colonies Of farmers thereon.
There is a growing tendency in the
crowded sections of the North and
East to get out from the cities and
own small pieces of land and live
thereon. Our State is securing many
desirable settlers in this manner.
There is plenty of money in Missis-
sippi to establish factories to use the
larger part of our crude material the
only item to be contended with being
the fact that our people are not edu-
Gated to the Importance and benefits
of manufacturing. Then, too, SO few
Of them have had experience along
that line and they are wary of strang-
.ers who come in and frequently pro
mote wild schemes that are only in
tended to get the money of those who
become associated with them. Thor
oughly investigate every proposition
before investing your money in 1t.
The Corn and Cotton Carnival is
on at Jackson this week. The dis
play Of products is a very creditable
one, indeed, when it is taken into con
sideration that only q few weeks were
available to prepare for it It goes to
show what Mississippi can do, even
if the time was limited Not an ar
ticle On exhibition was grown for
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