Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1907-11-28

low, goes 10 show what Mr. w. Jenner
Brown, OF Water Valley, has done. and
Is encouraging indeed:
This year have made and sold 200
gallons OF syrup at 80 cents per gallon.
! could easily have sold 800 gallons by
the present date, Nov. II. IL had had
1t. BY this time last year had sold all
Of my syrup, 800 gallons. ~ 20 cents
per gallon, and believe that | could
easily have sold 1000 gallons before
the crop this year was ready TO make.
and am confident that II bad IL I
could sell 90 gallons more before the
nett crup Is ready for use. find
better sale for sorghum syrup ever
year, though as yet have only sold
the syrup at my home to-n. Coffee
vile, and to the people in the adjoining
neighborhood. | found as ready sale
this year for syrup al so cents per gal
Ion as did two years ago at 20 cents
and last year AZ 10 cents, these being
the prices | asked and obtained the
last three years respectively. There
seems to he an increasing demand for
the pure country-made sorghum in
preference TO the manufactured stun
that is put on the market under the va
rious names. As to the putting up OF
syrup in cans as you suggest, have
never put up any yet in that way. !
use jugs, one-gallon preferably, but
sometimes use two and three gallon
jugs. The smaller jugs are easier
handled aud are not as easily broken as
the larger ones, and the most OF my
customers would rather have the syrup
in the smaller jugs because they can
use the syrup before ii can undergo any
change. My reason for using jugs in
preference to cans Is that can get
them very much cheaper than cans,
and by exercising a small amount of
care the jugs are seldom broken. Very
probably you will wonder why, IL can
get good prices and find ready sale for
it, do not raise more OF the syrup. IL
was not until last year that began Ia
realize the profit in syrup-making, and
this year on account of the weather
early in the spring and the drouth later
at least 5 per cent. of my crop was un-
fit for making and was cut for hay.
My intention is to raise l,000 or prohs
bly, l,5O0 gallons next year, and | am
expecting to find sale for all or the
most OF il at home or at INV neares,
,own WHARF ono will mako GOOD
~.
syrup anu i've up I" guarantee !"
make good IN cash any that IS not good
and does not stay good, he will find no
trouble whatever In selling sorghum
svr,n ,yh.r ,bara IL {, don,pd To-. s,,,.,,,,
OF any kind
This letter from Mr.. Brown should
be worth one hundred thousand dollars
to the people OF North Mississippi dur,
ing the year 1908. II two hundred
farmers in the forty counties interest
ed, or only five to the county, would
make 1000 gallons of sorghum syrup
and handle it properly, it would mean
Just slO0, 900 saved at home that now
goes ont of the State for glucose COM
nourds !, rho cuiso ~ svr,ns and mo.
f,rmor2 Eigur. :, an, for voursoIt I,
IA ;us, such movements os This tba, m.
D.,n..,r,a,, 30 Ao-,.,,l,,ra a,d cor
r.rcs des;res m baln oIona Fyarv
aid noss;h,a w;,, ha g;vap sncb r,der-
takinps. and the people are urged to
call on the Commissioner without hesi-
tatlon when service can be rendered.
heep our money d. ,elne y! sais'hg
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f-or others along This line
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Tho Tocsin saws that the burn, road
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suoeesS a"a W. p'eu-s',o" w = 80
maae that IL Is the roau ior Tue ueita
and buckshot and wood is available for
the burning. The United States de-
partment of agriculture is doing a
splendid work in exploiting this and
other methods OF road building In Mis-
sissippi.
ihe o'a'e meeting VI '"e FARMERS
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