The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1906-11-02

| their State were capable or ana what
| their real value was there would be no
more emigration to countries that have
been exploited as Eldorados and Prom
| ised Lands. Our own State offers more
to the husbandman than any in the
Union. Our lands are capable, with
intelligent handling, of bringing great
returns. There are no wornout lands
here. That is, lands that could not be
reclaimed and made to produce alum
dainty. We have no great areas aban-
doned like large sections of the East
where the people have moved away be-
cause they could no longer produce the
necessaries of life. With the use OF
common sense our lands get better as
they get older, and the following from
the Ripley Sentinel is reproduced as
evidence that land in constant cultiva-
ton for sixty years is still good and
growing more crop than that but re-
Gently placed in cultivation and handled
in slovenly manner:
"Mr. G. G. Jones of Dumas was sell
ing cotton in Ridley Monday and while
here he said in an interview with the
Sentinel, that the bale he sold Monday
was picked from one acre of ground and
that he would get another picking OF
six or seven hundred pounds from the
same patch. This acre of ground will
yield Mr.. Jones a little more than two
thousand pounds of seed cotton, and
some was lost during the recent wind
and rainstorm. On this acre of land,
which is an old field bench land, and
was put in cultivation about sixty years
ago, Mr.. Jones applied about fourteen
loads of ordinary barnyard manure.
This is what can be done in Tippah
county but is not the best that can be
accomplished. Who will be the first to
report two bales from one acre?
Our people generally look with sus-
picion and distrust upon the government
reports that show large average OF
corn yield to the acre in Iowa and other
corn States, or wonder how it is done.
Prof. Holden of the University of Iowa
was with the "Diversified Farming
Special" three days and told plainly
how it was done and went on to show
that with the same care and intelligent
handling Mississippi land would pro-
duce as much corn per acre as that of
Iowa or any other State. A proof of
this assertion is found in the last issue
of the Holmes County Times, where q
special correspondent, w. A. Harth-
cock, visited the farm of Abe Shep-
herd and investigated the raising of
$50 bushels of corn on an acre of ground
which Mr.. Shepherd accomplished with
out serious trouble. This enormous
yield was taken from ground that had
been in cultivation seventy years, and
according to the usual handling of our
land, would have been worn out more
than half century ago. Mr.. Shepherd
''gpt his head in the game" as well as
his muscle and cribbed $50 bushels
from an acre. That is all there is to it
and any body can do nearly so well if
they will try properly.
The Lafayette County Farmers Union
is very much in earnest concerning the
proposition to organize in each county
in the State company for the purpose
of taking all cotton seed off the market
when it is offered for less than SIS per
ton. G. r. Hightower, chairman of
+bo oyo,u+;xa oo,,,p,ittaa IF that oouo.
ty, has addressed a letter to each of the
unions throughout the State urging
them to action, and it will no doubt
have good effect. 1t is clearly shown
that with plan of this kind in force
the farmer can be sure of receiving the
limit of SIS per ton for his seed, what
they are certainly worth. Any surplus
that may be offered at less than that
amount is taken up by the company and
all interested profit by the organiza-
ton. 1t is nothing more than bust
ness proposition, and it is to be hoped
that the farmers will gladly cooperate
in the movement.
After long period of determined
effort, the Greenville Business; League
has succeeded in getting an additional
train over the Southern into that city.
The fight has been waged vigorously
from the beginning, it finally becoming
necessary to take the matter before the
railroad commission. The Greenwood
League also came in and assisted in the
good work. The success attending this
effort should be a cause of congratula-
ton to the officers and members of the
trade organizations, and make them
more appreciated at home than ever
before.
Virgins is experiencing something
of boom in general way. The citi-
zens are hustling, real estate is in de-
mand and business is good from every
standpoint. Virgins is real live
town and deserves good things.
Our Mississippi farmers might do
well to remember that not so much
strength is required to do things, but
that great deal is often necessary to
decide what is the best to do. Brains
are just as important in the handling OF
a farm as ordinary muscular exertion.
Yazoo City not. only scored success
with her carnival but is still in quest