The leader., 1905-03-18

known as trusts. Here he can utilize |
his capital and executive experience |
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. |
1t is one Of the few remaining indus
tries not overcrowded which a man |
of moderate means can get into and |
feel sure Of 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 splendidly
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 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-
tfon with an agency that proposes to
furnish any quantity of Italian labor
to farmers who desire them. While
it is still matter of conjecture as to
the success of this labor, some Of
those who have tried them find it sat
isfactory. 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
pearl buttons from the mussel shells
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 a 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 a 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 'sbig
yellow cars" as far as Mississippi is
concerned? It 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 a 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 we'll after his
hogs, and then all the cotton he can
grow. The cotton growers organiza-
tion 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 1t will be to your interest
to be sure ald fill your crib with corn
and fatten your own meat so that you
win be safe whether you get seven or
len cents per pound for the cotton.
There is an opening in Mississippi
for every man who Is willing and
anxious to 1ili such an opening ana
earn 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 one-f0urth
finished This new man-of-war win
cost In the neighborhood Of eight mil
lion dollars. and win be something
akin 70 the Oregon. which took 8 lead
ing part in the great battle with
Ceryerass Spanish aeet just outside
the harbor Of Santiago While It will
bn some time yet before it is COM
pIctedy the people Of Mississippi might
begin the movement to present an
appropriate silver service, library or
something else useful. as is custom
airy. The best way to do this would be
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