The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

damaged less by rust and llSeclS.
Wheat will be less liable to rust on
we'll drained land Lancaster, Fultz,
Fulcaster, Red Wonder, and Purple
Straw are some of the best varieties
for This section.
Harvesting.
| The harvesting should begin when
the grain is fully in the dough stage.
lif harvesting is put off until tine
wheat is dead ripe much grain is lost
by shattering and the straw will be
worth little for feed The wheat
should be bound into. bundles and
from 12 to Is bundles put I'M shock
and two or more bundles spread on
top of the shock to keep out water.
After the wheat has stood i'm the
shock for few days the crop may be
stacked i'm the barn or threshed. II
the weather lis damp or the wheat not
thoroughly cured when threshed, 1T
is not safe to bulk the grain i'm large
quantities, it should be spread out
on tight floors or sacked and put In
the sun.
1t is a easy matter to raise 20 bush
els of wheat per acre and ON the
same land the same season produce
from one to two tons of peavine hay
| per acre There is from $4,000 to $40.
90 worth of farm products per acre
and practically all of the work
done with machinery. 1t seems to ms
that lis at least as good as from 1-3
to IL bale of cotton per acre with
practically all the work done with hui
man labor
The above and foregoing article
seems to cover the ground so ful-
ly and intelligently that further COM
ment on the part of the writer would
appear to be superfluous. In conclu-
sion might state that in another col
umn of this issue of the News ap-
pears a notice of meeting OF the
Wheat Growers Association in Pela-
hatchie on the 18th of Sept. This
meeting is open to all, and the AS
sociation extends cordial invitation
to farmers and others interested.
There has already been pledged ap-
proximately' one hundred acres and
this ought to be increased to five
hundred acres the first year. This
is the result of two meetings. Re-
member, there is no one in this AS
isociation who has "an ak to grind.
The movement has been discussed
and advised by the press all over the
/ State and it has found response
with farmers everywhere who must
face in another year or two the Sc
rious problem of making living on
the farm practically without cotton,
or at best with much reduced acre
age.
The cost of seed wheat for planting
this autum for planting would be
about $1.75 per bushel. This prace
NAV be somewhat more or less as the
market on wheat varies the same as
it does on cotton. The idea OF the
Association is to order minimum
car. or as much more as the acreage
pledged would justi fly. All farmers
who are seriously interested are re-
m1ested to attend this meeting ana
he prepared to pay the Treasurer for
whatever amount of wheat is order
/ ed.
IT might. not be out of place TO
/ mention here that two different par
ties i'm this county have already
agreed to erect FIGURING mills, and In
time as this acreage would be increas
ed there would be nothing to hinder
! the operators of cotton gins all over
the county from erecting small flour
ing mills in connection with their GIN
ming plant -
Where the writer lived in Pennsyi-
yania lit was never necessary for any
4 farmer to haul his wheat over about
four miles to a mill It should not
be a very long step to the sef-binder
and steam thresher. Is 1t not pos
Isible dn the near future that the busy
hum of the steam thresher may be. as
familiar to our ears as that OF the
saw mill or the cotton gin? Let us
at least hope so. 3 -
Editor of Brandon News, Brandon,
Miss. Dear Sir:-Will you be hnq
enough to- announce through the col
umn s. Of your paper the fact tnat.
there will be meeting of the Wneal
Growers Association OF Rankin. count
/ at the knights of Pythias Hah, Pela-
hatchie, Miss, Friday, Sept. lItn, at
1880 p. M. This is the same meetlhG
that was scheduled to take place at
Shiloh ON October 1st..
/ The Association will endeaver 70
have present State Commissioner oI
Agriculture, and possibly several m.
rfif11fn snra kprs ALL DersOnS interest,"