The Tupelo journal., 1906-11-09

The citizens of Yazoo county were 90
well pleased with the result of their re-
cent carnival that active steps are be-
ing taken to organize a permanent fair
association and make the event an a n
nual one. The immensely fertile delta
section is capable of making an cxposi-
ton of products that could not be ex-
celled by any section of the world, and
Yazoo City is in the heart of this dis
trict. Brookhaven is also arranging for
a permanent fair, stimulated by the sue
cess of the carnival week held this fall.
Hazlehurst has already decided on a fair
next year. Mount Olive had a three
days meeting and display and will en-
deavor to make it larger next season.
New Albany is making preliminary in
~vestigations with the view of holding n
fair, and the whole State is waking up
to the great benefits to be thus derived.
Mississippi has long been behind in this
good work, but promises great strides
forward in the immediate future. In our
sister State of Louisiana the Legislature
makes an appropriation of ten thousand
dollars per annum for the benefit of the
State fair and five thousand for the en-
CouioSciISh Va P"Aioh i"h" hAeSSh ~
which are made annual events. The
investment has been found a good one
and there is now no opposition to the
measure, but besides the agricultural
people appreciate the good being done
and are strongest in the demand that l
be continued. The Mississippi Legisla-
ture could very well afford to encour-
age these splendid educational institu-
tions.
The writer recently spent three days
in Wilkinson and Amite counties in the
interest of organizations for handling
cane syrup. The good people of those
counties have shown that they desired to
try the business and some of them have
been canning on a small scale for some
time. Two organizations were perfected,
the Amite County Association e~lecting as
! officers c. l.. Dewey, president; I. n.
Cox, vice-president, and w. B. MERCER,
secretary. The Wilkinson County Asso-
! citation starts off with w. S. Gallman
| president and j. A. Redhead secretary. In
both are a number of especially lntelll-
gent and progressive farmers, who will
no doubt keep the organizations intact
and see that interest does not lag. Be
tween six and ten thousand gallons of
syrup will be canned this season and
| the probabilities are that much more will
be made next year. This Is a step IN
the right direction toward placing the
syrup on the market II establishing a
sale for it. When its excellence is gen.
orally known there is every reason to
believe that all that can be made will be
eagerly bought by people who appreciate
a good article and are willing to pay
for it.
1t was the writer's pleasure to VISIT
the homes and farms of w. b. MERCER
and G.. l.. Dewey while on a recent trip
to Amite county. Both of these gentle
men nave splendid places, with all con
veniences and improvements. Each has
his waterworks plant with water III the
home and outside for stock. 1t is need
less to say that they are contented and
firmly fixed in the belief that Missis-
sippi is the greatest State in the Union.
MIR. MERCER is a Missisippian and a grad
uate of the A. & NJ, while Mr.. Dewey
is an Iowan who sought a milder eli
mate and settled in Amite county. Such
men are to be desired in every commu'
nity and the effect of their progressive
ness is like the measles-catchlng. 9th
ers see what they are doing and follow.
The entire community is helped by their
example and the good they will do will
live for years after they have passed
away.
Some counties in the State are expend-
ing large amounts of money for better
- +ho ropnraI x-arItpt IC that
it is well spent. Reports coming to this
office now from boards OF supervisors
give the gratifying information that more
interest is being shown in the road
question than many imagine. a large
number of counties arc working by CON
tract. and some of them have spent rs
much as s. 5000 per mile on exceptionally
bad stretches of road for its improve
ment, grading and graveling. Some OF
the counties own woodworking machin-
ery that is very valuable, one reporting
as much as $4,000 invested. Others are
still using the old system of oversecrs
and ten days, but are unanimous IN the
comment that before their roads are I'M
proved some change must be made. 1t
is the greatest need of Mississippi today.
It is often remarked that our Missis-
sippi people are good average citizens. 1t
i we'll that this assertion is true. The
average man is the fellow upon whom
this world depends for success. we arc
well fixed in the way of good average
people that 90 to make up more than an
average State, with opportunities uneX-
celled.
Intelligent handling of the farm IS
inst as necessary to success as the man
acement of any other business. Brains
count in farming, as in other avocatlons
of life. Mississippi is developing a re-
markable number of the most intelligent
and progressive farmers and the example
beinG set bv them will bear fruit that
will be of great value in the future.
The Starkville Times truthfully says:
"When you pull down the town in which
is your own home, you are pulling down
yourself, and when you build up yourself
YOU are helping to build up your neigh
bor. TRY and Danish from your mind
the mistaken idea that all good things
are away off in some other locality. Give
your town all the praise it can legiti-
mately bear. 1t certainly can do you
no harm and will cost you nothing, and
above all, %patronize your home lnstitu-
| tions, including the printing office"
The more pleasing and pleasant our
government can make farm life, the net
Ter it is for the government. Our cities
arc oyercrowded with worthless loafers
tba+ MIGHT he honorable and respectable
farmers' The rural route is one of the