The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-10

I plenty of moisture, and most favor
| able weather for growing and harvest
ing crops
1.-The great hot waves, as well as the
dreaded cold waves of the North and
Northwest, are unknown here. We
have pleasant summers with a tenn
perature scarcely going over 80 de-
grees, and never reaching 100 degrees
except ON the rarest of occasions. Our
winters are so mild that the flowers
always bloom and the days are bright
and sunny.
Live stock finds pasturage all the
winter, and do not have to be housed
and fed most of the year as in the
North. Therefore ~stockraising has
proven YER profitable.
LAS a hay%-produci1g State Missis-
sippi exceeds in natural advantages
any State in the North. She is equal
to any of them as a producer of any
kind of grass, and can produce a
greater hay crop than any of them in
her COW peas, which at the same time
cnriches the soil.
"She had bigger ears of corn at the
great st. Louis fair than the renowned
corn State of Missouri.
"She is more peculiarly adapted to
the raising of vegetables and small
fruits than almost any other State,
and she has the advantages of being
| able to put them on the earliest mark
cts and get the best prices.
"She is fast becoming the rival of
Georgia in her peaches, and her APP
pies are of the best quality and a be
grown in great abundance.
"In cotton she outranks any other
State.
1T is then no wonder that her lands
are increasing in value. She would
have long ago been the richest and
most prosperous agricultural State had
it been generally known that her re-
sources and advantages are 60 much
superior to those of the West.
Great is Mississippi.
Greater she is to be in the future"
Alfalfa hay is attracting more at
tention as it's splendid qualities be-
come better known. The fact OF
Mississippi having received a gold
medal on the few bales of this hay
which was on exhibition at st. Louis.
has opened the res of a great number
of our people to the possibilities in its
culture. The prairie regions in the
Eastern portion of the State are espe-
cially adapted to alfalfa and much
more will be planted this year than
last. B. II. Strong, of West Point, is
the largest producer at present, and
the excellent success attending his
efforts will encourage others to follow
his example. There seems to be suf-
ficient reason that Mississippi should
at least produce the hay consumed in
the State, and qualification is found in
the fact that its growing is attracting
increased attention at the hands or
farmers who are in a position to give
it a thorough trial.
Thousands of good people would
come to Mississippi if they only knew
of the many advantages offered by the
State.
w. F. Smith. of Waynesboro, last
year planted eight acres in Irish pota-
toes and pocketed the handsome sun.
of S612.04 from the crop. Other
farmers in the neighborhOod will plant
potatoes and try to reap some of the
rich harvest. also. Wayne county Is
especially adapted to the successful
growing of crops of that nature, and
the acreage is being steadily increased
from year to year.
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The $4,000 plant at Hattiesburg
to distill wood alcohol and other by
products from pine saw dust and slabs.
has been completed and is now in
operation. 1t will prove a great help
to that enterprising city in furnishing
employment for labor and getting
something valuable from a refuse that
has, always been burned or otherwise
thrown away. These are the kind OF
industries that are benefactOrs to the
people, as well as profitable to the
owners. The nan who can get m
thing with a market value out OF the
refuse generally considered OF no
value at all, is doing a great deal for
his country. Enough valuable material!
has been destroyed already in MiSsis-
sippi to make hundreds of m~illionaires
if it had only been utilized. 1t is
gratifying to realize that this state OF
affairs is fast passing, and that in a
few more years our people will awaken
to the great possibilities that are IN
store for them.
Have you done anything for Missia'
sippi today? If not. do it before ge'
ing to bed. Help yourself as well as
others.
Speak that good word for Missis'
sippi right now, for fear you forget.
If every citizen would do something
every week, the result would far sur
pass the expectations of the most san
guine. .aA
Again has Aberdeen voted to issue
bonds for the purpose of installing a
splendid waterworks and sewerage
system. All Mississippi towns are
falling into line on these improve
ments, and in a short time the town
of 1000 people without them will be
an exception instead of a rule. They
are latter-day utilities and necessities
that it is hard to do without after once
having had access to them.
Meridian has organized a
with half a million dollars capital, to
build the largest and most complete
cotton mill in the State. Meridian
has had several years experience in
cotton manufacturing and certainly
finds it profitable. or such a large
company could not be organized to
put in another mill. 1t is undoubtedly
the Yankee town of the State, and al.
ways goes after the good things that
are to be had.
New Albany again the or