Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1905-02-23

Der. this organization vas perfected
on the third day Of last June. witA
the purpose % dosng everything po<-
stoie toward Advancing Niszf-~sppl
along Agricultural corn rmerrial and IN
dustrisi lines The work as ouflize1
vas AZ once b~gua ana Il Is FOR fhose
Who read 70 say whether u has II
any sense f1lHiied the o5liEz-icu-
Here are souae % the things art-zIiy
accomplished;
1000 Greater Mississippi huttocs
were bought and dIstribnted arorr
citizens sf the State Who aftezAef H.
fair last year ant xere rot .shan~a
for the world 10 know that they w@rs
xississippisns-
A great mary thousand Suilefsrs on
agriculture. trucking. health. etc.
have been Issued and distributed
broadcast Throughout the eranfry.
These bulletins have undoubtedly AZ
conplished great good. many Of them
coming as revelations 10 the people
outside our own State. as TO health.
conditions and other important mat
ters
ss.eoo acres OF land has been sold
directly through the Advertising os
the organization Possibly much more
Indirectly. Several bottles OF this
land are being cut MP into snail tracts
and eolonized by thrifty ard good cit
irens who will work il themselves.
Advertisements have been inserted
one time. telling OF the wonderful ad-
vantages Of Mississippi. in papers OF
the North and West. with combined
circulation Of over five million copies.
Estimating that as many as Eve
people read each copy OF pager pub
lished. twenty-five million people have
then heard Of the good things in Mis-
sisstppi
Special articles on the possibilities
OF agriculture and manufacturing in
Mississippi. and ether subjects OF
pertinent nature. have been prepared
by the secretary ani published IN
prominent papers in Memphis. New
Orleans. Atlanta. Baltimore. Duluth.
New York and Boston Descriptive
articles will appear in a number Of
such papers during this year ant
should prove Of great heneSt 10 TIE
State al large
AID has heen rendered a number of
publications for exploiting the aavan-
tages OF Mississippi. one Of such beiag
the Mississippi Hand Book which Is
just out. and egGai to anything of the
Character ever published By s1y State
Preliminary work for \ eanpaign
o. greater energy has been 6oze and
will be put into execution turing the
present year The sssoeIztioa 5 al
Ways alert 20 the be<. Interests of
Mississippi zad the cooperation % er-
cry efriren who has the welfare Of
his nountry AZ heart IS urged TO aid
In Hader-akinE
S~sessi nundrei of the he<. ciri-
= nx of TIE state have invested dol
lar n a Eezo@rship card 1zd thereby
helpe1 furnish the Sinews BY which
the war Of progress has hesn kept up
Al are cordially invited 20 join IN this
vo-k aa1 lend every aid possible
4 tris7d fro- Copiah county sends
the writer = clipping froz PhiIa1el-
rhia agricultural paper. warning ths
farmers 10 let ginseng aioCe- The
writer soss OF 70 state that those xho
are ssilin< the seed and young roots
a. a fancy price are the Oaly ones
making money oat OF Il. and thar
farmers should be slow in experiment
ing with something unknown 70 the
detrimsrt Of ! tried nsore- crop
" 1A4E t-r E-4L@ A444 hay -
right as far as his section Is coz
cerred as TO il being an experiment.
that would hardly apply TO the north
ern section OF Mississippi. for the
plant grows Wild up there and has
been gathered and sold for a great
many years Then. too. il has lot
been Advocated that any known money
crop should Be neglected in expert
k~~~
small. beds be planted TO test the
adaptability OF the soil and climatic
conditions TO its successful eultiya-
ton Plant just as much corn. cot
ton and truck as heretofore. but give
this trial TO ascertain what can be
done with IL on 4 larger scale Many
people are raising IL with profit and
Why not do the same right here in
Mississippi. where the plant grows
Wild and is gathered and marketed
with profit,
There 10 a movement on foot 20 or
sanize a company along with the in
dependent oil mills Of the State for
erecting a $500. 900 refinery Al some
central point. probably Jackson, where
the crude product can be refined be-
fore being placed on the market At
present the independent mills, some
seventy-fye in number. are at the
mercy of the Standard Oil Company.
which owns and controls the reineries
and is empowered TO say point blank
what they will pay the small pro
dueer for his oil The project IS along
exaetiy the right line When this
plan is put into successful operation
the mills can tell the trust TO go
hence. or any old direction IL is
high time that We were beginning to
break away from trust influences. for
the longer they are tolerated. the
harder II will be to break the mighty
barrier being thrown around their in
terests-
w. H Richardson. of Louisville
killed three six-months-oid pigs that
netted him 472 pounds OF nice pork
II Is safe to say that Mr. Richardson
never missed the feed necessary to
raise and fatten these three pigs and
that the meat saved was almost like
drawing q pension from Uncle Sam
There Is money In the pig. and the
quicker he will grow to a marketable
weight, the more money there Is in
him
In substantiation of the writer's
oft-repeated statements that hogs will
pay in Mississippi. the following rec
ord Of big ones killed at Nafhisron is
produced: Prof A. Graves slaugh-
tered a Berkshire hog two years old
that weighed GA pounds On account
Of the size and smallness of his steel
yards he had 10 cut the pig into pieces
to be weighed and the different pieces
tipped the beam as follows: Head.
70: backbone. IL: leaf fat. IS: one
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