The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-06-13

Can q big commission house in q city
find more markets, o. more buyers,
than the local dealer in the country
town? Can the life insurance specialist
tell you more about the insurance busi-
ness and write more policies than your
local agent who handles the agency as
a side line? Most assuredly.
"Not only can this be done, but 1t
can be done at an m 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 its
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 S15-a saving OF $85.
Let us suppose that it was necessary to
make this offer only once a week dur
ing the shipping season and that the
season lasted twelve weeks. It's simplei
twelve times $S5 or 81 ,020 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 tx
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 go
| there and buy land. Numbers Of our
| people have bought land hat 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
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:
"Mr. w. E. Henderson was in Brook
haven Thursday with q small wagon
load of onions amounting to severa'
bushels which he had no trouble in dis
posing of at 81 per bushel. Inquiry
elected the fact that Mr.. Henderson
had one acre in pearl or silver skin
onions, raised from the seed planted
last fall, which will produce 100 bushels.
Mr.. Henderson, who came from the
Northwest about two years ago, and
| lives on some of the old Keystone lands,
saws that he is new in the onions bust
ness, but expects to bring the yield up
in q rear 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 off,"
Experiments have proven that our
soil will produce onions in great guam
titles, the only trouble having been that
only a 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.
The bulletin from the department Of
will be largely devoted to road build.
ing and maintenance. While the larger
portion of this matter has already been
published, 1t should never grow old,
and is well worthy of reproduction.
Roads and their maintenance is one of
the important subjects before the peo-
pie of Mississippi. If you are interest
ed in the matter and have nelghbors
that should be, send for a few copies o
this bulletin and hand to them. In
this way it is possible to get their at
tentiOn attracted also.
c. H. 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.
A number of enterprising citizens OF
the western part of Carroll county have
organized a drainage district in that
section, which is one of the most fer
tile spots in the famous delta section,