The Tupelo journal., 1908-06-12

made to bringa good luz 'A0
ring Of our cattle, hogs, horses, sheep'
J.. H. Richardson of Port Gibson pro-
poses the organization OF an association
OF truckers and offers the following In
support Of his suggestions:
zone of the first objects OF the state
truckers association Es the arketing
of our produce. The immense amount
that can be saved and che numerous
ways in which this saving kan be lone
are almost countless. How Eany Oh
our communities, especially theN newer
ones, have invested their time ana
money in planting and cultivating ay1o
preparing their produce only to fifo
the available markets overloaded anad
the prices offered for their crop, thS
product Of their hard labor, too low to
pay the expense OF packing and ship
ping? 1t would be the purpose OF the
central Office to seek out new markets,
% broaden u field, to reach a larger
number Of consumers. Can 1t do that!
Can a 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 bust
ness and write more policies than your
local agent who handles the agency as
a side line? Most assuredly.
Not only a 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 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 S85.
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 simple;
twelve times sS5 or 81, O2O saved. This
much On the one item alone"
The suggestion of Nh. 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 go
there and buy land. Numbers Of ur
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
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 hat the crop is a
profitable one for Mississippi. Here it
is:
"Mr. ". 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
ELECTED the fact hat Mr.. Henderson
had n 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,
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 off,"
Experiments have proven that u
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
agriculture and m this month
will be largely devoted to road build
ing and maintenance. While the larger
portion of this matter has already been
published, it should never grow old,
and is we'll worthy Of reproduction.
Roads and their maintenance is one OF
the important subjects before the PEG.
pie of Mississippi. If you are interest
ed in the matter and have neighbors
that should be, send for q few copies OF