The Tupelo journal., 1908-09-18
Ind locate. AT . meeting recently held

and locate. At q meeting recently held
in Columbia, some three hundred
acres were offered rent free for one and
two years to experienced truckers who
would come and work it. The object is
to make it a trucking center, first, by
planting aconsiderable acreage by those
experienced in the business, and then
inducing others to fall into line and
raise truck. The plan is an excellent
one and should be productive Of good
results. BY concerted effort it may be
possible to induce. the Gulf & Ship
Island railroad to supply refrigerator
cars for the handling OF these crops,
in which event the people along that
line would be afforded like facilities
with those along the line OF the Illinois
Central. Transportation at reasonable
rates is necessary to the success OF such
a venture and by proper effort, such
can no doubt be arranged.
The demonstration of road building
and maintaining machinery at the
State Fair next month promises to be
excellent. A number of manufacturers
have expressed a willingness to exhibit
their machines, and some of them are
already on the ground. 1t is to be
sincerely hoped that a majority of the
supervisors will be present on the 2sth
and 10Th to witness these tests and de-
termine for themselves what will build
a road cheaply and permanently. 1t is
a matter deserving of the closest in
vestigation on the part of all interested
in the welfare of Mississippi, and more
especially those on whom the RESPONSE
bility falls for providing reasonable
roads at a cost commensurate with the
ability Of the people to pay. The
writer has recently seen roads built of
common earth in Texas that were a
long way better than most of those in
our own state, that did not cost an ex-
orbitant price at all. II one state can
have roads that prove profitable to the
people who use them, so can another.
We are behind many of the states OF
The union in road building, but that is
no reason why we should continue so.
Interest is increasing in this matter,
and it should. The Democrat, pub
lished at Philadelphia, has opened a
column for discussing road propositions
and calls for the people to contribute
articles on that subject. Other papeps
might find this plan worthy of consid-
Grafton. Agitation will bring results
OF some kind, and the chances are that
they will be for the good. Get the
people to trying for something better
and a plan will be evolved eventually
that will be an improvement over what
we have at present. This is one of
Miss!ssippi's greatest needs, and is de-
serving of attention at the hands of
everybody.
Reports from the corn club boys over
the state are encouraging, and the
prospects for a successful year could
not be better. This work has been
given a permanent place in our great
educational system and one that it will
maintain. A number of the counties
have correctly given the girls a part in
this work. Superintendent Waldrup OF
Jones county reports that he has IS
girls in the sewing and cooking contest.
He is not only equipping the boys for a
success in agricultural pursuits, but is
preparing the girls as we'll for an intel
ligent handling OF their work through
life. This movement should show a
satisfactory increase next year, and
the number of counties that have not
as yet taken it up should by all means
begin right 0 to fall into line.
The subject of proper drainage for
farm lands has been brought promi-
nently to the front by the action of our
last legislature in authorizing any Sec
ton to organize a drainage district,
taxing the land benefited to pay for the
work. BY this means thousands upon
thousands of acres of rich land will be
brought into cultivation.
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This is the season for fairs and the
fair spirit is abroad in the land. Mis-
sissippi is growing the fair habit, and
it means a great deal for the future
prosperity of the state. Nothing tends
to encourage the proper development
of agriculture, horticulture and live
stock like the fairs.