The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1909-01-08

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nov on is " "get busy" and help boost
your town. strange a. II fnsy seem.
,hsrs are people rho VII ,s,i y ou any
Ia no good for farming. They say the
sand will not hold the fertilizer. There
Ia no land this aide 81 Kalamazoo that
will hold commercial fertilizer longer
than for one crop, because oil OF IT,
properties are taken up by the plants.
BARNARD. stable or cotton seed festii.
izer will show its effects here - well ~
elsewhere for three years N applied In
sufficient quantities Recently ] have
| been told by two men that they have
raised about twenty. fve bushels Of corn
10 the acre without any fertilizer At all.
Again, one IL told the land gets wet and
stavs so. Did u ever occur 70 these peo-
pie that there Ii no land under the shin.
ing sun that can be more easily ditchsd
than the hundreds OF acres now lying
idle around Pascagouls In fact, II
wouldn't be . very great hardship TO
tile this land, - you could easily get In
one year twice the amount the filing
cost by raising trnck. ! heard an old
timer, who owns large interests around
Gulfport, say that II took atty cents
worth offertilizer to make . bnshel Of
corn and yet he has great confidence In
the future OF his town and the surround.
ing country. Mr.. Inglis, who cult
last year eighty acres 1t Long Beach,
told me he made no money except on
three cars Of stable manure on one acre
for lettuce. This year he hopes 70 Quilt
, vate 100 acres in truck. Mr.. Joe Wilson,
, who has an eighty acre farm six miles
above Gulfport, on the g. Il 8. I. r. r.,
told me nearly everything failed last
dalton. On this place twice as much
corn wss made to the acre - Mr.. Wilson
, made. II Mr.. Wilson had raised cotton
/ feel sure he would not have gotten
half as good results rs Mr.. Lewis did or
. this place. Sweet potatoes here were
, much Amer than those Mr.. Wilson
raised. feel sure, as I have stated be
fore, that you have the Gulf Coast. al
. the way to Bay st. Louis, "tied ouW 81
to superiority In every way. Just thint
Of cattle keeping fat here the yesi
D round without nything handed out t.
them but = few pounds Of salt. To rails
fine fat hogs eli you have to do Is t
peas, choofss, potatoes and cassava
You will not even have to gather tn
: stun. as the hogs will save you the trou
\ BILE II you will have the planted grount
. properly fenced. Sheep and goats SHOULD
do as we'll % anywhere In the Wild
be gotten out of fresh eggs and.chicken
! take trip to Orange Grove. Then thinl
g OF fine fresh oysters slmost given away
). ~ we'll ~ fish OF every kind. Wouldn'
it"freexe" even tho people around Jack
9 son 10 see green tomato vines with gree
q and ripe tomatoes on them during til
holidays? What would the people u
. there think II they were to see worlds o
tomato plants which have come u
:, where hogs were thrown the ripe fruit
last falls Many think the aplfport rea
estate people have had to deooy man,
= OF the shorn lambs. There 10 no need o
that when you tell people OF this fertil
kicking, no matter how the cat hops
Most or the coast people remind me O
the frog that fell IN the isr Of milk an
seeing no way out gave up and "shuffie
> of this mortal coil" Its partner whic
: tum bled In at the same time reminds m
! Of the Gulfport real estate man or hi
q runner who goes about "as roaming
!. lion seeking whom he may. devour.
q The gritty frog never stopped kicktn
( until 1t churned big roll Of butter. o.
q which 1t climbed and sprang out TIL
!. scheme take 1t Ia for all Of rs to pull
together and whoop things up at tn
n | State Fair. 7 am here to stay and i
helping advance my own interest
should advance every bpdy's interests
n drops fail I will still remsin. Iohnni
III Westfall says he caught four reddish o.
II lone line that had four hooks on l
III Surely twill be difficult to stArve
N fellow out when there are 20 man
" hungry fish.