The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-06-09

Farms properly conducted should
grow stronger in productive power as
they grow older. In the abandoned
who are now fast populating the South
and West should find a lesson. These
lands we're once rich and prolific, but
their fertility was filched from them by
greedy and near-sighted methods of cul-
tivatIon. 1t is to be hoped that the
same practices will not bring about like
results in Mississippi. There should be
not belong to the farmer who wears out
half a dozen homesteads in his lifetime,
though he may become rich and pros
porous. Only a useless waste has he
left for future generations. But the
man who uses his intelligence to per-
petuate the soil builds a monument that
will live after him and cause him to be
blessed when boarded wealth has IN
ished. The world owes every man q
living, but in return he should give some
recompense, and in the farmers case it
means that he should manage his crops
so as to not starve the soil. When
profit is taken some payment should be
made. Manure is legal tender in this
cancellation of a moral debt. Crop rota-
ton lessons liability and the growing
legumes increases the commercial rating
of the debtor. Let us have no aband-
med farms in Mississippi. There will
be lone if we do not abuse the soil and
take from it year by year and repay
nothing.
In 1905 the South took 2,116,31S bales
of cotton for their mills against $780,
937 bales for the New England mills.
This looks pretty good from a stand
point of bales consumed and makes it
appear that the South will soon assume
preponderance in the manufacture of
One matter, though, is not
taken into consideration. The Southern
mills largely manufacture a coarse grade
of goods, for which a minimum price is
received, while the others makedthe finer
article and realize much more for the
1t is safe to venture the asser-
ton that the cotton consumed by the
New England mills brought the manu-
facturer for the product many times
was received by the Southern man
ufacturer, although the number of bales
consumed were practically the same.
Cotton woven into Osnaburg brings the
only 80 cents per pound,
while that woven into fine laces bring
as high as $1,000 per pound. What we
must do down here is to make the finer
and reap the corresponding
higher rate for the finished article. We
iave hewed stone and drawn water long
enough for our brethren in New England
it is now high time that we were
the true benefit of u labors.
Aberdeen started a sandlime brick fac
,ory a short time since and the stock is
worth a great deal more than par al
'eady. Shipments have recently been
made to Tennessee and Alabama points.
That is one of the benefits to be derived
rom such an industry. 1t gives employ
lent to labor and a market for some
hing that has not heretofore been of
profit. Then, too, the product sells
INTO the city and community for distri-
NteSL IOluU Will COIuuIcIlOld LILO
memory of her Confederate dead by the
of a handsome monument to
heir memory. At the present rate it
will not be long until every courtyard
n the State will have a remembrance of
he valiant deeds of these revered heroes.
The present generation could do no more
o~mmendable piece of work than to see
hat these monuments decorated the
ard of every courthouse in the State.
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A fair wool producing sheep and a
mutton animal might be bred
n one, but you would not get the best of
ither, no more than you could combine
he best butter and beef animal in one
ow. The best mutton sheep does not
'roduce the best quality or the greatest
uantity of wool, and the best wool pro-
.ucer is a poor mutton sheep.
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Newton has secured an abundance of
x~cellent artesian water after a number
f attempts. While the depth of the
veil is not known to the public, it was
rilled in something like a week, and it
5 known from that that it is of no
Uncommon depth. No greater blessing
be had than that of good and whole
ONE water in sufficient quantities. We
re glad with the enterprising people of
in the securing of artesia1
Speaking of old people, a friend at
Vail Hill, Marshall county, writes that
his neighborhood there lives an old
egro by the name of John Jeffries that
to be 116 years of age, and his
ppearance bears out the assertion. His
istinct memory of matters in the past
) another verifcation of his claim to
e more than 100 years of age. Would
Ike to lave information concerning
Their ~centenarians in the State.
Cool nights last week again set the
otton crop back. The plant was just
covering from such a spell when the
came. However, we should feel
thankful that the weather was not such
s that handed out to the people of st.
ouis, where it showed for five full min
tes. We have a great deal to be thank
III for down here in Mississippi.
The combing cotton gin which has
cen in the experimental stage for a
umber of years, has been perfected, and
large factory for its manufacture will
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