The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-07-28
By IL. E. BLAKESLEE. Jackson.

very mucn grained at the success that
has attended the movement, and it would
not be surprising to see the number of
admissions swelled to $4,000 this fall.
Applications for space by exhibitors al
ready take all available room in the old
buildings, and the new che will be filled
long before completion, hence the Ieces-
sity of tents for temporary shelter. Man
ager Mckay is busily engaged every day
in making preparations for the eXposi-
iton. and everything will be in readiness
for the opening the last of October.
The matter of handling the excellent
syrup crop of the State to the best ad-
vantage is attracting a great deal of at
t%ention. A number of gentlemen with
experience have contributed articles on
the means of putting it up, and dozens
of letters have been received from those
who desire to assist in the movement to
place it on the market in a systematic
manner. Hotels and large consumers
throughout the country have expressed a
desire to secure the syrup for their Gus
toners, and if it is exactly right are will
ing to pay q handsome price for it. The
following letter from w. Z. Camp, of the
Camp Agricultural Experiment Station,
Sentinel, Okla, is a fair sample of many
that have come to hand, and show some
thing of the interest that is being Gre
ated:
Il notice in one of your articles that
you call attention to a method of put
ting up syrup without the usual pro-
cessing. Such n syrup would find ready
sales here in Oklahoma. | will volun-
teer my services in helping to place it
properly on the Oklahoma market. Most
of the syrup that we get here is a thick,
black sorghum or compound, containing
a very small per cent. of pure syrup. 1t
is not an unusual thing to find a pint or
more of thick sediment, composed of
lime and dirt, in a bucket of this syrup.
| nave heard much complaint against the
syrups sold here, but it doesn't seem to
do any good, as the merchants claim
that they are unable to do better. Very
few people in Oklahoma have ever seen
any pure ribbon cane syrup. [ have been
living here and in Indian Territory for
nearly eighteen Yeas, and have never
seen any pure ribbon cane syrup but
once, and that was not pure in one sense
of the word, for it contained much dirt
and trash. If there is a farm paper pub
lished at Jackson, | would be pleased to
nave a copy of the same. i read your
article in the Carroll News, a paper pub
lished at Walden, Miss.) Very truly
yours"
Mississipphns, think what it would
be to live in a country where they never
tasted of the splendid syrup that we
make. This is missing one of the pleas
ures of life with o vengeance. However,
Mr.. Camps letter is highly appreciated,
especially the kind offer contained there
in.
An industry that is unique, and one
that is proving successful in every way,
has headquarters az Buckatunna, Miss,
and branches at Fruitdale and Fairhope,
Ala. 1t is the Southern Floral Nursery
Company, and is owned and operated by
a number of the bese citizens in that Sec
ton of the State. The concern is en-
gagged in the planting and propagation of
all kinds of Towering plants, bulbs and
Shrubs, and is working up a business that
extends to a number of States besides
Mississippi and Alabama. Quantities of
these plants have always been imported
from Europe, and it is the purpose of the
gentlemen engaged in this enterprise to
grow what we demand right here at
home. They nave so far made.a special
ty of cannas and roses, but are branch
ing out to cover the whole field in the
future. The product per acre often goes
to ST 1000, and even more. Roses and
s~hrubbery will grow larger here in one
year than in two up North, which gives
a great advantage to the man with his
nursery down here. The quality is also
far superior to the imported stock. The
success of those interested will be the
pleasure of all our people. The day is
fast coming when our beloved State will
be one of the leaders in this line and all
industries of a kindred nature.
The Laurel Ledger notes with pride a
revival of the wool growing interests in
Jones county, and recently published the
following:
"For the past year or so the wool in
dustrv around Laurel has revived Won
/ derfully. Wool is seen on the streets
everv few days now. Three fine loads
were in town Monday, weighing about
1000 pounds. This will bring near
5000. A week or so ago one wagon came
in with about 800 pounds, which, at the
price then prevailing, brought in the
neighborhood of $3.50. This is only a
few examples of the many to show that
the industry is coming to the front again.
That looks like business when the farm
ers at this time of the year begin to add
from 5000 to $500 to their bank ac-
counts from the sale of wool, which costs
so LITTLE to produce"
T. ]. Decell, of Brookhaven, recently
sold q pair of home-raised mules for $500,
and thereby proved that good mules can
and are raised in Mississippi, and that
they bring as good price as those from
Kentucky or anywhere else. Lincoln
county could raise 100000 worth of
mules every year, and the cost would not
be one-ifth of that amount, so those in a
position to know say. Nick Lewis, on
tie Fourth, won a cash prize at the
Booue Chitto celebration with another
Lincoln county mule which was only
thirteen months old and nearly large
enough to plow. More attention should
be given this promising industry by the
people of our State.