The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-08-02

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. I. Howerton furnishes
the following article on small can
merry to care for fruit that is not fit
for shipping and also to take care OK
the crop should the market fall so
low that shipments might not prove
profitable: "Having found good
thing we desire that others may
know about it. Ever since We nave
been growing peaches, we have been
desirous Of trying canning in 4 small
way that we might take care OF TIE
surplus ami save ourselves from a
ruinous market. 1t has not hereto
fcre 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 the ven
ture on a 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 small sum, $50 to $50, 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 AID
We do not know that the fruit was
good and fresh when canned. But
with the 'home canner,' in your or
chard, you can know both tcese
things. Now / say, let's can all thai
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 them:
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 ST. per bushel
for your peaches. So plant you 5Ol
or 1000 Elberta peach trees and II
you cannot ship them, can them
Georgia is selling us canned peaches
now, yet there are thousands of acres
in Mississippi well adapted to thell
propagation. Another thing; wher
you get them in the cans you can cal
them at your leisure and convenience
Few families in Mississippi have evel
had as much as one ca2 of peaches to
open each day in the y ar. Yet, mos
of them would eat thre cans in day
and better off. Yes sir! it's worth In
stalling a small Gamer to see eact
and all the children eat all the peaches
they want each day in the year. But
peaches are not all. There are black
berries wasting on the briers. Save
them in the can. No farmer need hunt
far to find a market or customers fol
his home canned 9cnds. Let's not ie!
the North ship all of these goods here
any longer. Let's can all we use ant
a surplus to SELL" There is gooc
reading in the above. Too often there
is fruit that will not do to ship, this
little canning outfit will take care ol
it. At times the market drops unit
there is nothing left after paying
freight and other expenses, put it uI
in cans and either use or sci! wher
there is a 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 ane
male them produce something OF the
worlds needs comes word that ;ht
j. J. Newman Lumber Co., of Hattes-
burg has also organized a company fol
a similar purpose and will begin The
active WORK Of peopling the section
tributary 20 their mills right away
These concerns are to commended for
this move. 1t is necessary that induce.
ments be offered good people to take
up this land and make it of produc-
tive value, and none are more able tc
offer these induceInent than the bis
numbering concerns that own it. 1t il
expected that within a few years tnt
population Of South Mississippi vii
be more than doubled and the pro.luc-
ton Of crops many times increased:
that the lands down there can be rladt
to yield liberaily, has been demon
strated time and again, the only trouble
likely to be encountered being in find
ing tie tight kind Of citizens to maki
it do so.
O. D. Anderson of Monroe county
recently shipped 325 pounds of fnt
honey from his melilotus bee ranch
The honey went to points in Alabams
and Mississippi, and brought hand
some prices.
D. A. Owen, of Utica, foreman on
the railroad, reports that he made five
acres of land last year bring in S335
That is not bad farming at all. There
is no place under the sun where mar
can get greater returns for the expcn
diture Of energy directed by tae usi
Of common sense than in Mississippi
Grumblers and GROWERS would accom-
plish the same anywhere, and it ig be-.