The Kemper herald., 1908-06-11

pose become available. The stock
holders are not to be paid cent in
the way Of dividends on their stock,
bat every cent received is put into
permanent buildings and premiums
from year to year. Mississippi must,
and will have, the greatest agricul-
tural fair in the south. The General
sweepstakes premiums are as follows
For the best and greatest variety Of
farm products from single farm,
$4,000; second best, $4,000; third
$4,000. For the best county exhibit,
$4,000; second best, $4,000, third,
$4,000.
The boys corn clubs will be fea-
tured more strongly this year than
last. Besides the special premiums
that will be offered by individuals
and corporations the following cash
prizes are offered by the fair man
agement: For the best general ex-
hibit of corn made by a boys corn
club, $4,000; second best, $500; best
ten ears of seed corn, $25.00; second
best, $500; third, $1,000; fourth,
$500; fifth, $500; sixth, $3.50. For
best individual display of named va
rieties, $1,000; best ear Of corn, any
variety, $500; largest ear by weight,
$1.0O; largest yield per single stalk,
$500; best ten stalks, $500; greatest
number of perfect ears to the stalk,
$3.50; best five ears of any named va
rieties, two or more competitions on
each variety, $500.
The poultry show win be encourag.
ed by increased premiums and it is
confidently expected that the six hun
dred birds displayed last year will be
more than doubled this year. A COM
Portable and commodious building
will be provided for their accommoda.
ton. This is one industry that will
be featured all along the line. Mis-
sissippi is poultry state, and must
be developed into such. Live stock
premiums will also be greatly enlarg.
ed and an effort made to bring a good
showing into the ring of our cattle,
hogs, horses, sheep etc.
j. H. Richardson of Port Gibson
proposes the organization of an asso.
ciation of truckers and offers the fol
lowing in support Of his suggestion:
"One of the first objects of the
state truckers association is the mar
keting 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, es-
pecially the newer ones, have invest
ed their time and money in planting
and cultivating and repairing their
produce, only to find the available
markets overloaded and the prices of
fered for their crop, the product of
their hard labor, too low to pay the
expense. of packing and shipping? 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
that? Can big commission house in
city find more markets, or more
buyers, than the local dealer in the
country townf Can the life insur-
ance specialist tell you more about
the insurance business and write
more policies than your local agent
who handles the agency as a side
linef Most assuredly.
'Not only can this be done, but it
can be done at an enormous saving.
Just an istance: Let us say for Illus
tration that there are twenty COM
muaities 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 these ten
markets, there you have 200 tele-
grams at an average cost of so cents
each, or $780, Now let the state asso-
citation handle the matter. Each com
munity wires its offering to the GEN.
trail Office. That's twenty kilograms.
The cetnral office wires its offerings
to each of the ten markets. That's
ten kilograms more, or thirty, in all,
which at the same average of so
cents each would amount to $15. A
saving of $50. Let us suppose that it
was necessary to make this offer only
once a week during the shipping
season and that the season lasted
twelve weeks. Its simple; twelve
$S5 or $1,020 saved. This much on
the one time alone =
The suggestion of Mr.. Richardson
is worthy of consideration by those
in trucking. Something of
the kind has been tried at Laurel
and possibly other points. Let's have
the experience of these points.