The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-06-11

holders are not to be paid cent ia
the way Of dividends on their stock,
but every cent received is put into
permanent buildings and premiums
from year to year. Mississippi rust,
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 q boys corn
club, $4,000; second best, $25.OO; best
ten ears of seed corn, $500; second
best, $500; third, $1,000; fourth,
$500; fifth, $500; sixth, $3.50 For
best individual display of named va
rieties, $1,000; best car Of corn, any
variety, $500; largest ear by weight,
$l.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 will be encourag.
ed by increased premiums and it is
confidently expected that the six hun
dped birds displayed last year will be
more than doubled this year. A COM
Portable and commodious building
will be provided for their aceommoda.
ton. This is one industry that will
be featured all along the line. Mis-
sissippi is a poultry state, and must
be developed into such. Live stock
premiums will also be greatly enlarg-
ed and an effort made to bring good
showing into the ring of our cattle,
hogs, horses, sheep etc.
J. Ell. Richardson of Port Gibson
proposes the organization of an asso-
citation of truckers and offers the fol-
lowing in support of his suggestion:
Zone of the first objects of the
state truckers association is the mar
lketing of cur 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, cs-
peeially 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? u
would be the purpose Of the central
office to seek out new markets, to
broaden our field, to reach a larger
| number of consumers. Can it do
that? Can big commission house in
a city find more markets, or more
buyers, than the local dealer in the
country town. Can the life insur-
tance specialist tell you more about
| the insurance business and write
more policies than your local agent
who handles the agency as a sido
line? Most assuredly.
sNot 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
munities interested in trucking and
I, 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 800. Now let the state asso-
citation handle the matter. Each com
munity wires its offering to the CEN
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 SIS. A
saving of $50. Let US suppose that it
was necessary to make this offer only
once week during the shipping
season and that the season lasted
twelve weeks. It's simple; twelve
$50 or $1,000 saved This much on
the one time alone. -
The suggestion Of Mr.. Richardson
lis worthy Of consideration by those
interested in trucking. Something of
the kind has been tried at Laurel
and possibly other points. Let's have