The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-13
ARTESIA.

ed.
/ There is the best fruit crop
throughout the county that we have
had in many years.
The meadows all over the county
are four to six weeks earlier than
usual, and the grass is of a fine
| quality.
| The first crop of alfalfa has been
cut and is estimated at over a ton
per acre, with three or four more cut
| tings to be heard from.
/ The hay crop on General Billups'
farm, under the management of Mr..
Bat Williams. made last year IT'S
Bermuda and $500 for alfalfa. Mr..
| Williams Bermuda averaged two
tons and the alfalfa three tons per
acre, ranging from one to five tons,
according to the quality of land.
Think of this: Five tons on an acre
at s18.00-$90.00 an acre-less cost
of cutting, baling and loading on
cars.
| The best news | have heard in
many moons is that alfalfa will grow
| to perfection on the Caledonia lands.
Mr.. V A. Nickles has a patch as an
experiment and he is highly pleased
| with results. He will plant a large
| plot this fall. If any man east of the
| river succeeds with this best of all
| forage plants w. A. Nickles will be
| that man. He made last year on
eight acres corn enough to feed ten
head of horses and mules for a year.
He made this crop by using no other
plow than a side harrow.
Mr.. Nickles has pair of four-year-
old mules of his own raising that
weigh $50 pounds and 1,040 pounds,
respectively.
Mr.. Tom Walters. of Caledonia,
has the finest crop of oats in the
county.
The fall oats crop of the county is
extra fine and the Hillbillies have
binding machines to harvest the crop.
There was d short corn crop made
in Lowndes last year but the boys in
beat one have corn to sell. J. A Rob-
inson, Sam Dodson, Charlie Belts and
others along Military and Seedtick
roads have corn for sale
Mr.. James Curtis, of Lone Oak, is
building for Mr.. Jamie Billups one
of the best hay and stock barns in
the county.
Mr.. c. r. Smith has the most con-
venient barn in the prairie and Mr.
w G. Evans has the largest barn in
Eastern Mississippi, measuring $50
feet long and width proportionately
The honey bee is cutting quite a
figure throughout the prairie. Dr.
Chandler, Mr.. w. P. Smith, Mr.. E.
Askew, Mr.. Bat Williams and others
have gone into this industry on an
extensive scale and the average yield
last year per stand was so pounds of
honey, which brought a ready sale at
1212 cents per pound; SO pounds, |
$3.50; 100 stands, $4,000. No
plowing, no hoeing, no ginning; rs
per cent clear profit. Honey made |
from mellilotus blooms is the best IN |
the world for color and flavor and the |
prairie is the natural home of the |
mellilotus
There is a tremendous amount of |
railroad work done in Artesia Two |
switch crews, one day and one night |
shift, being kept busy handling cars
and making up trains, and the public |
note with pleasure that there has |
been fewer accidents and fewer men !
hurt in the switch yard since Messrs
Charlie and Will Cook have been
masters of the yard than since the
building of the Montgomery division.
These gentlemen, with their careful |
and efficient foremen and switchmen,
are doing good service for the "Old |
Reliable"
The Prairie Cotton Oil Company
of Bent Oak has received five car
loads of material and the plant will
soon be under course of construction.
This is the best stand in the county
for public gin and 1t will prove a
bonanza for the promoters if prop
erly conducted.
There are four shipping points on
the Mobile and Ohio in beat five, and
since September 1st last there has
been shipped from Bent Oak six cars
of hay, thirty-five cars of cotton,
thirty cars of cotton seed and eight
cars OF slaves. From Billups Gate
there were shipments OF thirty cars
of cotton, ten cars of cotton seed and
cars OF hay. From Arte-
sia the shipments were as follows:
Cotton. fifty cars; cotton seed, twen-
ty-eight cars; hay, 140 cars.