Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-08-29

%Sk<@kys everywhere and going toward q
MSYEE@s- higher point every year. The ex-
/ pE|S@2 perience OF those fortunate enough
to purchase land in the last the last three years
ifes assertion.
II an individual wants land, he should buy it
while he has chance to do at low prices and on
easy terms. Land everywhere Is becoming dearer
every year. Many thought it was too high five and
ten years ago. and on that account refused to buy
home, thinking land would become cheaper Now
J they see their error.
1t is not too late, however for there are still
few oppo1tunit es left-and only a few-to buy good
land cheap, and Get in on the rapid rise of land val
J ues in the next few years.
Did you ever stop to think that the population of
the United States Is increasing at the rate of 900
daily, and that we have doubled in population ev-
cry forty years OF our historyf Where are all of
these people goiDgi Are they emigratingf No.
Are preventing the people of other nations from
coming to our shOresf No. Are sending our
population awayi Mo- we are taking Of them
at home
Where will this 1900, 900 increased annual pop
ulation got To the citieei No Where but into
the new, undevelOped lands Of the South and West,
where good climate water fertile soil and favorable
market conditions exist Where else can they 60
where opportunity is awaiting them to make in the
future In the past high rates Of interest their
investmentsi
Nothing can check the upward march of land
valnes. All products that eHstain life must grow.
The more people to be fed, the greater will be the
demand for the place on which to raise the prod ucts
to feed them The wise investor is the fellow who
looks ahead, and studies the conntry's problems
and plans for the future.
Cheap land under cultivation, in many in Instances,
is paying from 20 to 80 per cent annually on the
investment from crops alone, aDd fully as much on
the rapid rise in land value. Thirty years ago q
farmer considered snccessful if he cleared per
cent his investment; but today the modern farm
er, with his modem methods, frequently clears from
20 to 80 per cent, and sometimes even more than
this.
The telephone, rural free delivery and better
roads have brought the farmer out Of isolation, and
placed m in close contact with the outside world,
making farm life attractive
Our idea in urging our readers to buy land now
is to get them to reach mp to their opportunities
and invest in business about which they are famil-
lar II it has proved profitable for capitalists, men
engaged in varioue enterprises, to buy land, why
should it not be profitable for the farmeri "Farm
lands for farmers" should be the slogan for where
the profit lies there he should invest Stick to land.
Many farmers 60 to the wall through engaging in
terpriHAs outside OF their line.
No line Of business can stand financial depres-
sion better than farming. Financial institutions Of
all kinds are ready to to the relief Of the farm
because the security that be furnished is gilt
edged. When we consider that often farm crops
are cut of 30 per cent? and that frequently losses
occur IN stock and property that would bankrupt
any other line Of business, there should be diff
Guilty in understanding why the capitalists Of the
country cOneider farm lands the best collateral they
handle. The liquidation Of farm mortgages in the
last ten years has shown to the world the prosper
ity Of the farmer and the value Of farm land as an
asset
The possibilities Of avertiDg financial disaster by
the farmer is overcome through the practice Of
mixed farming, where the eggs are put into more
than one basket and partial failure Of one crop
product is offset by success In another. We want
those Of our readers who do 90 to buy land now
Get all that yOu while it may be bought cheap.
Buy as much as your funds will permit, but get
some, i only small farm. In buying for home
or as an investment the buyer should lay stress on
six things good climate, fertile SOIL water supply,
available markets, land suited for special or mixed
farming
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have mutinied and attacked their officers. That is