The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-03-18
BY H. E. BLAKEsLEE, Jackson.

Farming is the most convenient &C.
| cupation for one 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. 1t is about the
only vocation in which n a 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 a profitable success
Mississippi offers the greatest induce
ments at present to the nan 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 OF 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 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 pc.
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.
ton with an agency that proposes to
furnish any quantity of Italian labor
to farmers who desire them. While
it is still a matter of conjecture as tc
the success of this labor, some OF
those who have tried them find 1t 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 tc
Jackson. This enterprise will be
worth much to the city and surround
ing country, affording, as it does,
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 ar article
of staple value from material that has
been considered of no value.
H. B. Ford, of Centreville, killed
hog recently that netted him 40t
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 no
appreciate. He knew that it was
good and wholesome, something yo,
cannot know if it is butchered in thu
Northwest. Then, the question
arises, why does not every farmer
raise his meat and get rid of the "bis
yellow cars" as far as Mississippi |:
concerned? 1t could easily be done
and is done, by a large number of ouI
best and most successful citizens.
The outlook for a good year is es
pecially propitious, and a writer il
che of the bright country weeklie!
says this of the prospect:
1.-THE farmers of the South are IL
better condition this spring than the.
have been since the war. and there
never has been a time when his pcssi
bilities were greater. Ali that seems
to us to be necessary to stay in goot
shape, is to provide in the presen
crop for plenty of corn, potatoes, mo
lasses, and then look well after hi
hogs. and then all the cotton he cal
grow. The cotton growers organiza
ton has, and will, help some, but WI
cannot think, from all reports that w
have read, that this organization vii
be universal, or ever hardly general
hence you cannot afford to plant you
whole crop to cotton for fear that s.
many more will do likewise that tn
price will be forced below the prom
line. The Eastern war will keep tn
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