Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-12-30

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Immediate danger " evsfdOlnG
, daifyInE A scientific application o
! This business has been ths means %
making certain sections ~ our o0un
~. ones poverty stricken, the mos
prosperous and progressive 10 b,
found They have built up their soil
10 richness almost ~ great M h,
nnsat aiiuviai lands. Success Ia doub
~ sure In this business n all the
rouShase and n large part Of the con
cenifated foods are grown on the farm
where consumed Win our long Eras
Ing season. and the numerous green
crops that can be grown during the
winter. there II no reason why va
have not got The ldeal dairy country
Of the world With milk NJ 40 cents
gallon and good butter from % 10
81 cents per pound all over our couil.
try. we see no reason why any one
with application and u natural ten.
dency In his direction could not find
II profitable
Stock Raising.
Horse and mule farming Is very
profitable 10 all who have given II a
trial II Is useless, and crying
shame TO see the thousands and thou
sands Of dollars going ont of the cot
ton states ecch year for horses and
mules. which we could grow more
cheaply, and of a much more durable
quality than any we buy.
We know both horses and mules
raised in this community with the very
minimum amount of attention, are
more hardy, fully as large, and much
better adapted to our uses than stock
from other sections. When we cen
raise colt that is worth, and can be
sold, for from $75 to $3.50 at three
years old at a total cost not counting
pasturage of $25, 1t strikes US more
like money making proposition than
a Is CD month cotton crop.
We have found oat growing for feed
and seed very protitable-always fol-
lowing with lespedeza or peas for hay.
This gives two money crops on same
land each year with the least expen-
diture of labor of anything we have
ever grown. 1t protects the land from
washing rains, furnishes 1t with plenty
Of vegetable matter, and in every re-
spect surpasses cotton farming both
as to profit and pleasure. We get
from IS cents to 81 for oats, and $3.50
% $18 per ton for hay and have never
been able to supply the local demand
for good quality of either. Hogs in
with the oat and hay BUSH
ness, are quite remunerative. We
have nearly 100 acres fenced hog
proof, and turn the hogs on the oats
from the time they are large enough
10 Craze until the oats begin to head.
They only Craze in spots and the pork
you make and the weeds you lose
make up for all loss in oats. When
he oats begin heading take the hogs
IF and turn on again after harvesting
Ind let them clean up the scattered
grain and continue the weed eating
Until you SOW peas; If in lespedeza, let
hem run all season. Hogs grown
his way and fattened with corn, peas,
potatoes, ETC., and sold for IL cents
md 6 cents on foot, look good and
eel better to one who has been
jumped by the cotton proposition as
We.
Sugar Cane as a Money-Maker. .
No crop will surpass pure sugar
ane for money maker on any of our !,
outhern soils where it will grow sue
essrully. Any old field will make
rom $50 to 500 gallons of syrup per
ere with a liberal supply of fertilizer
not less than one-half tone per acre).
The cultivation of the crop is no
nore difficult than corn, and the
eavy work of taking off the crop
ONES at time when you can COM
land the best labor to be had, and
lasts but short while.
The possibilities for the south in this
ldustry are practically unlimited. A
tile more energetic pushing of syrup
n the markets would create a de-
land that the whole available cane
reducing lands could not supply.
When people once eat pure sugar
ane nothing else will fill its place.
The most satisfactory mode of hand
ng is In one quart, one-half gallon
nd one gallon tin cans, sealed while
OF. from the pans. Put up in this
hape It will sell at wholesale at from
D to so cents per gallon, f. o. b.
We hope that out of the number OF
lings mentioned above each and
very man who farms will select one
r more and try in connection with
is cotton for few years at least.
.eep honest records of both cotton
nd other crops, expenses and pro-
eeds, and II he is not better satisfied
18th his country than before we will
romise not to write on diversification
gain.-W. B. Mercier, in Atlanta Con-
Ever tried wrapping choice winter
l.