The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-04-18

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wealth is what Mississippians are en-
gagged in just now. The ground work
Is being laid and development is COM
ing at slow but sure PAGES. Our tim
Der wealth is something enormous and
che cutting Of its adds thousands Of
dollars daily to the circulating me-
dunn. With the building Of the Pan
anna canal and the diversion Of ocean
traffic through our section, Mississip-
pi has two excellently located deep
water ports that are bound to become
Of great Importance. Pascagoula and
Gulfport are of course, referred to.
AS an evidence Of what Gulfport is
doing the following is taken from an
exchange: "The Gulfport harbor es-
tablished q new record for lumber
exports during the month Of March,
che shipments amounting to 33,287,-
900 feet board measure, valued at
SOL 500. The shipments for the first
three months Of this year amount to
Dc, 291, 900 feet, and if this average
Is maintained during the remaining
nine months the total lumber exports
for 1907 will be approximately $780,
100000 feet. Last years record was
296, 125,000 feet, as compared with
07614,000 feet for the previous year.
1t will thus be seen that the business
of the harbor is increasing at a rate
Of about thirty per cent. per annum.
In reality, Gulfport's export business
Is limited only by the capacity Of the
harbor and loading facilities. More
vessels are applying for anchorage
each week than can find room in the
basin. During the month of March
thirty-four vessels cleared from the
harbor, their net registered tonnage In
the aggregate being $3.50 tons. Five
Of the number carried cargoes consid-
erably In excess Of one million feet.
The vessels clearing were Russian,
British, German, American, Norwe-
gian, Dutch and Italian and the bulk
Of the shipments went to South Amer
lean ports, with goodly number of
cargoes to Havana, Colon, Hamburg,
and Rotterdam. The harbor is now
Glled to the limit with vessels taking
on cargoes, and the export trade is
so heavy that it has been necessary for
the ship Island road to adopt strin-
gent rules relative to acquisitions for
cars to carry export shipments. Now
rules regarding the unloading of cars
on the piers have also been adopted"
This is a very satisfactory state Of
affairs indeed, but how much better
would it have been if our own people
could have been induced to cut and
market this lumber than to have
awaited outsiders to come in and do
it. There are still hundreds Of op-
portunities lying around awaiting the
coming Of some man to take advant-
age Of them. Mississippians wake
up. Now is the time to get to doing
something.
There is nothing that offers better
returns for the investment than a
properly managed barn yard Of poul-
try Chickens pay well under al
most any existing conditions, but of
course better if handled in an intel
hgent manner. A friend in Simpson
county writes than neighbor Of his
with only twenty laying hens sold In
three months So dozen eggs, used all
needed at home for the table and
matching. The eggs sold brought him
1892 and the cost Of feeding the hens
was practically nothing. These twenty
hens made as much clear mony for the
owner In three months as they were
worth on the market. In what other
line is there so much profit? The en-
ergetic house wife has for years kept
q few hens for pin money and it is
safe, to assert that the returns she
received equaled any thing her hus-
band had that cost ten times as
much. Mississippi is peculiarly adapt
ed to the raising of chickens Of all
kinds, and those handling them profit
ably find the investment excellent.
Mr.. L. q. Hutchinson at Crystal
Springs is a successful raiser Of fine
poultry and derives good profits from
the sale of birds as well as eggs for
setting. Will Taylor at Jackson is
another breeder that is making money
and there are dozens of others that
can be named in support of the con-
tention.
Although the Lafayette county corn
club was little late in getting a start
more than fifty boys have planted for
prize winning fields and they evidence
a spirit of Suitability that means all
of them will be in at the finish. Prof.
Hurst and Odom deserve the encour-
agement and cooperation of the good
people Of that section in this com
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