Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24

pay. In subs,antiation of this state.
ment the experience Of one Of the
best known and most successful fruit
iasers Of the state is given below.
The fruit from this farm brings on The
St Louis market from 20 to 30 cents
more per crate than that offered by
any point in the section of the coun-
try north of this. Read what Mr..
Howerton has to say and profit by his
example and experience, The follow.
ing is his own language in description
Of his farm:
"All orcharding in Mississippi ten
years ago was an experiment. We be.
gan at that time. We tried KiefGor
pears. While the trees are still alive
and bearing they have never made Us
much money. Blight has hurt them
more or less, and the fruit comes at
a time when other States north of rs
have home grown pears and apples.
We put out at the same time several
hundred winter apples; this, too, was
o mistake. In the spring of 1883 we
put out 500 Elberta peach trees. In
1901 we sold from these trees $S42
worth Of Deaches, and received compli-
nentary letters from our commission
Merchants, saying We We're sending
In some Of the finest peaches ever
seen in st. Louis This showed rs
the way. We have since set out sey.
eral thousand peach trees, all of which
are doing well and promise fine crops
next season. The second year Of our
five hundred Elberta peach trees
brought us In sl,lJ0. These trees were
on four acres Of land, that cost lis 81,
ir the woods-$1 an acre. After we
had gathered our first crop of $3.50 VIC
considered our four acres worth four
hundred dollars. This is the posai
bilty of the Mississippi 'sandhills, un.
derlald by a good clay foundation.
Any OF them will yield the farmer
500 an acre in peaches or strawber.
-ies, If he will only get after them
right. The same hills will make one
third Of bale Of cotton or ten bushels
oil corn. What are they good for? We
would rather have an acre in bearing
peaches In the poor hills of ,Missis,
sippi or an acre in strawberries, than
the richest cotton acre in the delta.
I'VE have tried the Japan plum,
and they do well and bring us good
money. So, also, do summer and fall
apples. We are now getting forty
cents peck for Ben Davis apples
md other red varieties. Yes, sir, there
IA money in the poor red hills in Mis-
fissippi, if you only hit 'em right
1--WE find that we can grow the very
finest kind of nursery stock on the
same poor red hills We are grow
Ing thousands of Elberta and other
peach trees, budded from the very
best type OF our bearing trees, and
they compare favoraby with trees
grown north and east of us.
we set our first apples on ricn
bottom and second bottom, and they
did not do well, but at the same time
we planted something there which did
do well-the paper SHELF pecan. Buy
ing the very best nuts We could get
of the Stuart, Van Deman' and Co.
lumbian varieties. We planted the
nuts and find that good per cent Of
them came true. We are top work.
Ing with buds from our very best
trees. With the poor hills in Mis-.
s;ssippl growing peaches and straw
berries, and the bottom lands GOV.
cred with fine pecans, running about
nifty nuts to the pound, we need not
fear that We will have something
good to eat, and that our neighbors
north of lis will want some of it, ard
pay us well for it.
&c. T. HOWERTON."
This farm Is located near Guntown,
In Lee county.
An experiment in road building Is
being tried at Clarksdale that should
be watched with interest by the whole
State The road has been graded with
a road machine and covered with
burned clay, which was secured and
carried through the baking process on
the ground. The verdict of those who
have seen 1t is, that the result Is n
firm brick-like product, impervious to
water and apparently durable in the
extreme 1t is to ne sincerely hoped
that this experiment. will be attended
with success, both in the durability
and desirability of the road construct
ed as well as in the smalness of the
cost. If good roads can be made with
common clay found along the right |
of way and prepared and distributed |
without too much cost, the mooted |
question of good roads has been set |
tied. We hope to hear more from
and her good roads prof. |
ect.
Great developments are reported |
along the line of the Mobile, Jackson |
& Kansas City railway. New indus
tries are springing up all along the
line, lands are being taken up and |
Iut into cultivation, new towns are |
tuilding and old ones taking on now
life and so many good things happen |
ing that it Is impossible to mention |
them all. That section of the State |
will be heard from in the future ir /
DO uncertain way. II Is favored sec |
ton and has only needed a railroad |
to bring about the development Of Its
resources.
]. L. Parker, OF Sandersvile, Jcnes |
county, has eight acres of Elhorta |
peach trees that netted him this sea-
son over $3.50 per acre on the crop |
gathered and marketed. This did not |
include the entire output, however,
some of it being used at home and |
given 20 neighbors. This experience |
comes from the sand hills of South
and shows up well with the
experiences in this issue from the
prairie region and the red hills Of |
North Mississippi, Mississippi Is a
good fruit State.