The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-20

mud and water, hauling only o%ne-fourth
| of what should be a load for his team,
and who has never seen or had the OPP
portunity of using a piece of good road,
does not appreciate the value OF same.
If every man In Mississippi could use
for one week the good roads around
Jackson, Tenn, for instance, there
would be no trouble whatever in find
ing some means whereby our roads
could be made better at a reasonable
cost. The county with a piece OF good
road is in q fair way to have better
roads to all portions of it. Example
and experience will work wonders.
AS Is well known, the department OF
agriculture and commerce is one OF h
youngest of Mississippi's state depart
ments. The work was entirely new here
and it was created more as an expert
ment than otherwise, although Missis-
sippi was the last State in the South to
do this for the agricultural and stock
raising interests. 1t is gratifying in
deed to the commissioner to note the
interest being shown by the receipt OF
hundreds of letters from all parts of tho
State commencing or recommending
action for the relief and benefit of the
farmers. A Tunica county planter asks
for bulletins and says: 81 am cultivat-
ing, and have been for many years,
1000 acres in corn and cotton and on
account of the growing scarcity of no
gro labor concluded to change my plan
tation from a cotton farm to stock and
hay. Some ten years ago began with
alfalfa and have not had the success L
hoped for, but am sure that it will do
we'll here if handled right. l hope to
let the advice of Prof. Fox at the Delta
experiment station. Will put in fifty
acres this August and September and
increase the acreage every year" An
Amite farmer says: Il could not Ill
the last order for syrup because L am
out. Sold all at a good price. We
want to thank you for your interest ID
syrup growing and valuable assistance
in marketing. Will want more labels
next year as l will plant three acres
more in cane" A Noxubee bee-keeper
writes: 1--WE appreciate the sugges-
ions made in yorE letter and L will seq
the men in this section who have bees
and will let you hear from me as soon
as possible. We have kept track OF
your work and are proud to know that
you are doing SO much for the people"
A Clay county friend says: My family
looks for your column every week and
reads it all. 1t is one of the best parts
of the Leader and makes a man feel
more like sticking to Mississippi"
More could be quoted, but this will do.
The work is appreciated by lots of good
people and that is encouragement for
renewed efforts in the future.
A suggestion has been made, and is
being generally commended, that in
the future appropriations for the sup
port of state institutions be made avail.
able only as demanded by the month.
This matter has been brought to the
attention of legislators and the public
by the practice of some of the institu-
tions Of drawing all of the moneys
available and placing in a local bank
until used. 1t is frequently the case
that the state treasury is empty and
important bills must go without being
paid promptly when some of the insti-
buttons have large sums of money in
local banks doing nobody any good ex-
cept the bank holding the deposit. For
two years the writer was secretary and
treasurer of the Alcorn A. and NJ. col
lege, and the draft for money on the
state treasurer was not made until the
end of the month when all bills had
been audited, and only enough drawn
from each fund to pay the outstanding
bills against it. Captain Burkitt could
get in another splendid rider right
along this line and save money for the
taxpayers again.
The work of tick eradication has been
actively commenced by the State Live
Stock Sanitary Board and the United
States department of agriculture in a
number of counties bordering on Ten
nessee. This is a great work and n
that will save to the people of Missis-
sippi millions of dollars when the whole
State can be placed above the quaran-
tine line. The rules and regulations
will be made as reasonable as possible,
there being no desire to work hard
ships or inconvenience on any e 1t
is a movement that demands the hearty
cooperation of the people to make it
effective at a rapid rate. DR.. W. j.
Murphy is in active charge of the work
with headquarters at Holly Springs.
He has been successful in bringing the
line down to Mississippi and now hopes
within the next few years to carry
it down through this State to the
waters of the Gulf.
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