Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-03-18

to best advantage. 1t is about the
only vocation in which one can start
without years of apprenticeship or
spending a number of years in study.
Ii Is one of the few remaining indus
tries not overcrowded which man
of moderate means can get into and
feel sure Of a profitable success.
Mississippi offers the greatest induce
ments at present to the man with
limited means who desires to begin
farming Lands are still very low in
price considering their real worth,
and the necessary number Of acres
can be secured on advantageous
terms, Our people are hospitable,
kind and ever ready to help the novice
in every way possible. All conditions
are favorable, and we hope to see
several thousand families of good peo-
pie added to our citizenship during
the present year Do something to
help get them here
Houston has voted ten to one to
have waterworks, and the proposed
plant will be pushed through to com
pletion. The Aberdeen vote on sewer.
age was even greater than this These
towns are both doing spendidly
and are among the leaders as progress
sive and lively places.
Michigan prospectors are well
pleased with the lands near Pasca-
goula and will locate a colony of con
siderable numbers on some recent
purchases. The colonists will engage
in fruit raising and trucking. They
are an energetic and economical peo.
pie and will make good citizens We
need just as many people of this kind
as we can get.
New Albany and Ripley are both
to build canning factories, and expect
to have them in operation for the
coming season. While the factories
in both instances will be of moderate
size, they will be worth thousands Of
dollars to the people of the surround
ing country in aiding to furnish a
market for all the products that can
be raised. The canning of sweet po-
tatoes is becoming an important in
dustry, and the section in which these
towns are situated will prove the very
home of the sweet potato Other
vegetables will be used and the
trucking industry will before long,
be an important one in North Missis-
sippi.
The writer has been in communica-
tion with an agency that proposes to
furnish any quantity of Italian labor
to farmers who desire them While
1t is still matter Of conjecture as to
the success of this labor, some Of
those who have tried them find it sat
lsfactory. Parties desiring Italians
will be furnished with the address Of
this agency upon application and as
sistance given in every way possible.
The Mississippi Pearl Button Com
pany has just been chartered at Jack
son with a capital stock Of $4,000,
The object of The concern is to make
found in great quantities in Pearl
river and other streams contiguous to
Jackson This enterprise will be
worth much to the city and surround
ing country, affording, as it does a
market for the shells which hereto
fore have had no value. This is the
second factory of this character to be
put in operation in the State, one hav-
ing been established at Aberdeen
something over year ago. This is
the kind of factories we need-ones
that will give employment to labor
and at the same time make an article
of staple value from material that has
been considered of no value
H. B. Ford, of Centreville, killed a
hog recently that netted him 400
pounds; was raised in small lot, fat
tened on slop and refuse from the
kitchen, and did not know the taste
of corn. Mr. Ford raised about 1000
pounds of meat and the cost was not
nppreciable He knew that it was
good and wholesome, something you
cannot know if it is butchered in the
Northwest Then, the question
arises, why does not every farmer
raise his meat and get rid of the big
yellow cars" as far as Mississippi Is
concerned? II could easily be done,
and is done, by large number of our
best and most successful citizens.
The outlook for good year Is es'
pecially propitious, and writer in
one of the bright country weeklies
says this OF the prospect:
"The farmers of the South are in
better condition this spring than they
have been since the war, and there
never has been time when his posi-
bilities were greater, All that seems
to us to be necessary to stay in good
shape Is to provide in the present
crop for plenty Of corn, potatoes, mo-
lasses, and then look well after his
hogs, and then all the cotton he can
grow. The cotton growers organiza'
ton has, and will, help some, but we
cannot think, from all reports that we
have read, that this organization will
be universal, or even hardly general,
hence you cannot afford to plant your
whole crop to cotton for fear that so
many more will do likewise that the
price will be forced below the profit
line. The Eastern war will keep the
price of grain high for some time to
come, so it will be to your interest
to be sure and fill your crib with corn
and fatten your own meat so that you
will be safe whether you get seven or
ten cents per pound for the cotton
There is an opening in Mississippi
for every man who is willing and
anxious to fiji such an opening and
earn a nice livelihood. This is the
accepted time to come and take ad-
vantage of these openings.
Intelligence comes from Washing
ton to the effect that the new battle
ship, Mississippi, is about onefourth
finished This new man-of-war will
cost in the neighborhood of eight mil
lion dollars, and will be something
akin to the Oregon which took a lead
ing part in the great battle with
Cervera's Spanish fleet Just outside
the harbor of Santiago While it will
be some time yet before It is COM
pIeted, the people Of Mississippi might
begin the movement to present an