The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-11-25

until Saturday OF next week. The dis
play of products from various portions
of the State are excellent and well
worth coming miles to see, even by
own people. Everything, commencing
with corr and cotton and or down the
long list of horticultural and other
products, is given a splendid showing.
The live stock exhibition is attracting
even more attention than the exhibits
in other sections of the fair. Several
hundred head of cattle, horses, hogs,
goats and other animals are in the
show ring and pronounced as good as
can be shown by any State in the Union.
Every feature of the Exposition has
been arranged SO that there will be no
hitch, and the managers expect to get
through without trouble of any kind.
1t is a great event for the State of Mis-
sissippi, and should be made perma.
nent, and under the direction of the
State itself.
The ST. Louis Republic in . splendid
article gave much credit to the work OF
the textile school at our A. & NJ. Col.
lege. This article has already been re-
produced in q large number Of the
State papers. That is well and good.
Mississippi has proven a pioneer in
more than one good work, and promises
to be a more pronounced leader in the
future. The textile school is along
the right lines. At the present time il
is necessary to send to New England
for experienced men to successfully
operate u cotton mills. This is nc:
right. We should and will educate
them here at home and give these good
salaries to u home boys. The cotton
manufacturing industry is in its in.
fancy as far as Mississippi is concerned,
but it will not always be thus. We
will eventually manufacture all of the
cotton we raise and then there will be
work for the young men who are now
learning the intricacies of the business.
Learn our young men to handle all
propositions arising and then it will not
be necessary to send away for men when
they are needed. This is what is meant
by a Greater Mississippi"
Prof. A. B. Mckay, ho~rticulturist al
tie A. & NJ. College, issues a warning
to the people Of the State, to beware OF
the fruit tree peddlers who are now
travelling about over the State and
lISCS DIV CIlOIJllOuS DI1CcS. L
says that many of these fellows are not
only selling trees for several times
their worth, but many are selling in
ferior stock. Agents sell Elberta peach
trees for 81 each when they can be
bought from home nurseries for 81. so
per dozen. Then, too, the spreading Of
the San Jose scale and other pests, is
attributed to foreign. nursery
U1hn,o ara ,,,r-or;oc T. NI,.,;-
with the facilities of furnishing
stock for home consumption, and they
certainly deserving of the business.
They offer stock that is acclimated and
if the tree should not prove true, the
nursery is nea and the trouble can be
corrected. Buy your trees from home
people if possible and thereby encourage
the keeping of our money in the chan
nels of trade at home.
Tippah county will likely have a fair
next year. The Ripley Sentinel, under
the able management of Hon. A. G..
has taken the matter up and
is pushing it. Expressions from prOmi-
nent citizens of the county favoring the
proposition are being received and pub
lished. There is no investment that
county could make that would
prove more remunerative. BY all
means have a fair next fall.
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The Yazoo City compress made a
record run of COMPRISING 1,210 bales
in less than ten hours. Compress man
ayers are invited to beat this splendid
record if possible.
Mississippi has enough idle land co
support three times the present popu-
Iation, and more than hat under the
improved methods of farming. What
need most is gCol farmers who will
buy small farms and cultivate them
This is the solution of the vexed labor
,oblem that is at present the o:
80 much worry to u land owners
Cut the large farms up into small farms
md sell to those who will till them.
D. E. McInnis, Hattiesburg's mil.
ionaire farmer and manufacturer, il
away up head on the sweet potato prop
He recently sent one to Pop
arville that weighed more than six
OuInOos liz SIOP oiA OfOA ~ poI II
4 bumper one, and thousands of bushels
will be canned for use in the future. Ii
IS an especially profitable crop.
Yazoo City records the sale of III
bales of cotton by one planter for Il
per pound. That is a good price,
Notwithstanding the fact that the cot
on was long staple. Yazoo City is ar
excellent market for long staple cotton.
for that reason should have a fac.
DRY for working this excellent cotton
nto the manufactured article ready fu
Use.
Contributions to the silver service t,
De presented to the battleship Missis
ippi are not coming as fast as they
and the people are urged tu
come forward and contribute literally.
e will never do for our State to fall
in the matter.
Mendenhall announces the location oil
large woodworking plant fol
hat e~nterprising little city. Twenty
acres of ground have been secured and
he work of construction will begin a.
,nce. The new plant will likely be II
nv February /, and will Clff