Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-08-03

those who can only advance theories.
The writer has noted for years the
success that has attended the efforts
of Howerton Bros, of Guntown, Miss,
in the line of profitable fruit raising.
By request, G. 7. Howerton furnishes
the following article on a small can
merry to care for fruit that is not fit
for shipping and also to take care of
the crop should the market fall so
low that shipments might not prove
profitable: Having found a good
thing We desire that others may
know about it. Ever since we aave
been growing peaches, we have been
desirous of trying canning in small
way that we might take care Of !he
surplus and save ourselves from a
ruinous market. 1t has not hereto
fore been safe to make this trial, as
at least We were not certain that such
an effort would be attended with sue
cess, This season We made tle ven
ture on small home cannery and it's
so easy, as the boys would say, dead
easy. An intelligent eighteen year old
boy can run it. For the expenditure
of a small sum, $50 to $50, a farmer
can install little plant in his orchard
that will can from 800 to 1000 three
pound cans per day. Now [ mean to
preach the homemade canned goods.
When we buy from the large concerns
we are not sure that it is clean a1d
We do not know that the fruit vas
good and fresh when canned. Sui
with the 'home canner,' in your Or
chard, you can know both teese
things. Now 1 say, let's can all tiat
we can. There is no need to can of
course when the market for oul
peaches is good. Often there are
peaches that will not ship, can themi
if the price runs down, can them. a
bushel Of good peaches will make one
and half dozen three pound cans
No trouble to sell this one and hall
dozen cans for $500. If half the in
come is profit, you have 81 per bushel
for your peaches. So plant you SOC
or 1000 Elberta peach trees and il
you cannot ship them, can them
Georgia is selling us canned peaches
now, yet there are thousands of acres
In Mississippi well adapted to then
propagation. Another thing; wher
you get them in the cans you can eat
them at your leisure and convenience
Few families in Mississippi have ever
had as much as one can of peaches to
open each day in the year Yet, mos
of them would eat three cans in a day
and better off. Yes sir! it s worth in
stalling a small canner to see eacE
and all the children eat all the peaches
they want each Gay~in the year. But
peaches are not all. There are black
berries wasting on the briers. Save
them in the can. No farmer need huai
FAR to find a market or customers fol
his home canned goods Let's not iel
the North ship all Of these goods here
any longer. Let's can all we use anj
a surplus to sell" +" There is good
reading IN the above. Too often there
is fruit that will not do to ship, this
little canning outfit will take care OF
1t. At times the market drops unit !
there is nothing left after paying
freight and other expenses, put it ur
in cans and either use or sci! when
there is market. Read and conside.
carefully what Mr.. Howerton says.
Closely following the announcement
that the Finkbine Lumber Co., OF Wig
gins had put in operation a plan tt
people the cut-over pine lands and
male them produce something Of the
worlds needs comes word that ;he
J. j. Newman Lumber Co., Of HIATT es-
burg has also organized a company fol-
a similar purpose and will begin The
active WORK of popping the section
tributary 20 their mills right away
These concerns ara t. commended fol |
this move. 1t is necessary that induce
ments be offered good people to tax.
up this land and make it Of produc.
tive value, and none are more able 10
offer these inducelnent than the bie |
numbering concerns that own it. It is
expected that within few years tns
of South Mississippi will I
be more than doubled and the pro1uc-
ton of crops many times increased,
that the lands down there can be rnadt
to yield Literally, has been demon.
strated time and again, the only troubl,
likely to be encountered being in find.
ing tie right kind Of citizens to max;
it do so.
0. D. Anderson Of Monroe county
recently shipped 325 pounds of fnt
honey from his mellilotus bee ranch
The honey went to points in Alabams
and Mississippi, and brought haad.
some prices.
Brookhaven has recently experience
I'd cleaning out Of the blind tige1
element and the good citizens are cor
respondingly happy. 1t is to be hopef,,
hat the beast will not again be al
owed to find hiding place in thai
excellent city. A strict enforcement
Of the laws is generally being de
nandad thrnnohnr1t the state aud th4