The Tupelo journal., 1905-03-17
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 one car 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 man with
limited means who desires to begin
farming. Lands are still very low in
price considering their rea 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 w~aterworks. 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 p~rospectors are well
pleased with the lands near Pasca-
goula n will locate a colony of CON
siderable numbers on ONE 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 n 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 a
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.
TL>o .-n;+oo Io- Loo~ -;
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 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
s~istance given in every way possible,
The Mississippi Pearl Button Com
pany has just beer 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 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.
II. b. Ford. of Centreyille. 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 900
pounds of meat and the cost was not
appreciate. 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 big
yellow cars" as far as Mississippi is
concerned? 1t could easily be done,
and is done, by a large number Of our
best and most successful citizens.
The outlook for a good year is es-
pecially propitious, and a writer in
n 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 a 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 hen look well after his
hogs, and then all the cotton he a
grow. The cotton growers o~rganiEa-
ton 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 it will be to your interest
to be sure and fill your crib with corn
and fatten your own meat so that you
will be safe whether you get seven or
ten cents per pound for the cotton.
There is an opening in Mississippi
for every mar who is willing and
anxious to fill such an opening and
earn a nice livelihood. This is the
accepted time to come and take adj