The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-03-18

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cnpation for n whose business has
been made improbable through the
amalgamation of industries commonly
known as trusts. Here he can utilize
his capital and executive experience
TO best advantage. II is about the
only vocation in which one can start
without years Of apprenticeship or
spending q number of years in study.
IL Is one OF the few remaining indus
tries not overcrowded which a 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 il
price considering their real worth,
n 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.
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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.
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Michigan prospectors are well
pleased with the lands neat 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 a matter of conjecture as to
the success of this labor, some of
those who have tried them find it sat
i%sfactory. 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 hay
ing been established at Aberdeen
something over a year ago. This Is
the kind Of factories we medicines
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
of meat and the cost was not
a~ppreciable. He knew that 1t was
good and wholesome, something you
cannot know il it is %butchered in the
Then, the question
why does not every farmer
his meat and get rid Of the big
cars" as far as Mississippi is
concerned? 1t could easily be done, ;
ind is done, by a large number of our
oest and most successful citizens.
The outlook for a good year is es. /
propitious, and a writer In {
me of the bright country weeklies {
this Of the prospect:
"The farmers of the South are in
,etter condition this spring than they
AVE been since the war, and there q
lever has been a time when his posi- 6
Utilities were greater. All that seems
0 us to be necessary to stay In good
hape, Is to provide in the present
rop for plenty Of corn, potatoes, mo-
and then look well after his II
logs, and then all the cotton he can \
row. The cotton growers ~organiza q
ion has, and win, help some, but we i
annot think, from all reports that we q
ave read, that this organization will a
q universal, or even hardly general, n
You cannot afford to plant your +
crop to cotton for fear that so .
lany more will do likewise that the r
rice will be forced below the profit q
ne. The Eastern wal will keep the 4
rice Of grain high for some time to r
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