The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1906-10-05

greatest need is better roads, and t 9
sooner agitation looking to this end Is
started, the sooner something definite
will be decided upon to give the relief
needed.
The Silver Creek Star sees bright
future for the farmers of that section
and publishes the following: There is
no denying the fact that the farmers OF
south Mississippi are more prosperous
than ever before. In the first place
their lands have greatly increased in
value, and where land twenty years ago
could not be sold for $3.50 per acre
there is ready market for it now at
from $40 to $40 per acre. These land
values alone have added greatly to the
wealth of our farmers. Added to the
increase in land values is the increase
and quality of the live stock. Twenty
years ago this country was filled up
with scrub stock, today every farmer
has his farm stocked with one or more
fine brood mares, fine Jersey or other
good breeds of cattle; Berkshire pigs
have taken the place of razor-backs,
Plymouth Rocks and Leghorns have
taken the place of the old blue hen or
dunghill, the old-fashioned one-horse
turning pillow or half shovel has been
supplanted with riding plows, ETC."
A recent visit to Centerville disclosed
the fact that the Red Snapper Sauce
Company of that place had rebuilt their
factory destroyed by fire something like
year ago, larger and better than ever.
A magnificent two-storied concrete
building has been erected and fitted
with modern machinery for the manu-
facture of pepper sauce and condi-
ments. Thirty acres of pepper was
raised this year and the crop will be
increased next season. The people in
the surrounding country are encour-
aged to raise pepper and onions for use
in this factory, and it not only fur
nishes employment for labor in the fac
tory proper, but provides market for
large quantities of these two products.
1t is great institution and one that
should be- and is appreciated by the
people of that section.
Our good newspaper brethren, An
derson of the Ripley Sentinel and
Brown of the Guntown Hot Times,
have rather spirited contention that
is attracting attention in that section
of the State. Politics does not figure
in this good-natured difference, but the
ability of their respective counties to
raise corn, melons, pumpkins, beets,
etc. Anderson exhibited corn that
weighed almost two pounds to the ear
and beet that weighed seven pounds
and two ounces, being 26 inches in cir
conference. Brown has corn that
weighs as much and contains 1926 grains
to the ear, load of watermelons that
weighed from Sc to 80 pounds, and other
products in proportion. The differ
ences of these editorial gentlemen are
to be commended. Pity tits there are
not more of such.
A prominent gentleman in Memphis
writing concerning the educational
work of this department concerning
the boil weevil has this to say: II am
glad to notice in the papers that you
have arranged with the Department of
Agriculture to have boil weevil lectures
given in the State of Mississippi. If
you should publish anything on the
subject please send me several copies of
each publication, and will put them
where they will do most good. This
work you are doing will, in my judg-
ment, save the State of Mississippi from
the surprise which cost the Texas
farmers so much. The boil weevil will
be bad enough anyway but not nearly
SO bad as in Texas"
The Register at Clarksdale will issue
a handsome fall trade edition early in
this month. Five thousand copies will
be distributed in the territory adjacent
to Clarksdale, and it will be worth a
great deal to the business men of that
thriving Delta metropolis.
On Tuesday of this week the "Di-
versified Farming Special" left Mem
phis for trip over the entire lines of
the Illinois Central and Y. and M. V.
roads. This train is an innovation in
this section, but is the forerunner of a
movement that has done untold good
for the farmers of the Northern and
Western States. 1t is to be hoped that
the agricultural people will accord it a
hearty welcome and that others will be
made feasible by the success attending
this initial movement.
The surveyors of the Edward Hines
Lumber Company are at work on a
road from Poplarville to the south, with
it's objective point at Gulfport. The
road will open up splendid section of
country and prove of great benefit to
those living along the line. Announce
ment is made that it will be pushed to
an early completion.
Brother Ellis of the Walnut Grove
Dawn of Light has struck oil-or rather
he has well on his place that has been
declared by the State chemist to be one
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