Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-06-12
nth. $3.50. For best Individual dis

best five ears of any named varieties
two or more competitions on each va
riety, 81.
The poultry show will be encouraged
by increased premiums and it is co-f
IDENTIFY expected that the six hundred
birds displayed last year will be more
than doubled this year. A comfortable
and commodious building will be pro
vided for their accommodation. This
Ia one industry that will be featured
all along the line. Mississippi is q
poultry State, and must be developed
into such. Live stock premiums will
also be greatly enlarged and an effort
made to bring good showing into the
ring of our cattle, hogs, horses, sheep.
j. Il. Richardson of Port Gibson pro-
poses the organization of an association
OF truckers and offers the following In
support OF his suggestions: 81
Zone of the first objects of the State
truckers association is the marketing
OF our produce. The immense amount
that can be saved and the numerous
ways In which this saving can be done
are almost countless. How many OF
our communities, especially the newer
ones, have invested their time and
money in plantin and cultivating and
preparing their produce only to find
the available markets overloaded and
hn off 70 h1f ~
product of their hard labor, too low 10
pay the expense of packing and ship
ping? 1t would be the purpose of the
central Office to seek out new markets,
to broaden our field, to reach larger
/ number of consumers. Can it do thatf
Can big commission house in a city
find more markets, or more buyers,
than the local dealer in the country
town? Can the life insurance specialist
tell you more about the insurance BUSH
ness and write more policies than your
local agent who handles the agency as
side line? Most assuredly.
"Not only can this be done, but it
can be done at an enormous saving.
Just an instance: Let us say for illus
tratiOn that there are twenty commun-
tiles interested in trucking and that
there are ten available markets for
their produce. Say that each of these
twenty communities offers its produce
by wire to each of the ten markets,
there you have 200 kilograms at an
average cost of SOC each. or 800. Now
let the State association handle the
matter. Each community wires its
Offering to the central. That's twenty
kilograms. The central Office wires it's
offerings to each of the ten markets.
That's ten kilograms more, or thirty in
all which at the average of SOC each
would amount to Sl5-a saving of S85.
Let us suppose that it was necessary to
make this offer only once week dur
ing the shipping season and that the
season lasted twelve weeks. It's simple;
twelve times $S5 or 81 ,O2O saved. This
much on the one item alone" -,
The suggestion of Mr. Richardson is
worthy of consideration by those inter-
ested in trucking. Something of the
kind has been tried at Laurel and pos
sibly other points. Let's have the ex-
perience of these points.
A number of times recently the sub
ject of raising onions in Mississippi has
been preached and discussed to some
extent. This has been suggested prob
ably by the advertising matter being
sent out from portions of Texas calling
attention to the success of onion raisers
out there and inducing farmers to 60
there and buy land. Numbers of our
people have bought land that has to be
irrigated, and paid as much as 800
per acre for it when they could have
had just as good land for the same pur-
pose right here at home for ten dollars
per acre. and ample seasons. Onion r.
growing is profitable where facilities
are sufficient to get the crop to market
in quick time, and in that respect we
are much nearer the market than any
portion of Texas. The Brookhaven
Leader recently contained an expert
ence in growing onions that will tend
to verify the fact that the crop is a
profitable one for Mississippi. Here it
is: 49,
"Mr.. W. E. Henderson was in Brook
haven Thursday with a small wagon
load of onions amounting to several
bushels which he had no trouble In dis
posing of at 81 per bushel. Inquiry
aEn hn 20 fhoE
had one acre in pearl or silver skin
onions, raised from the seed planted
last fall, which viii produce 100 bushels.
Mr. Henderson, who came from the
Northwest about two years ago, and
lives on some of the old Keystone lands,
says that he is new in the onions bust
ness, but expects to bring the yield up
In a year or two more to three or even
four hundred bushels to the acre. Even
at 100 bushels at 81 per bushel it beats
cotton raising, most of the work being
done in cool weather with time to make
a good crop of something else on the
same ground when the onions are of. :"
Experiments have proven that our
soil will produce onions in great guam
titles, the only trouble having been that
only few have engaged in the bust
ness, the facilities for handling were
not sufficient. If any considerable num-
Der of parties would organize and make
the industry worth while, the railroads
would furnish the facilities necessary &
to get the crop on the market in good
shape.
c. Fl. Afford, author of the law pro-
vid'ng for agricultural high schools in
Mississippi, delivered a very instructive
and interesting address at Walkers
Bridge, Pike county, on the subject of
agricultural high schools.