The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-07-08

ready one, by any means. While the
syrup can be had in barrels at a less
price during the winter and spring, there
is, of course, little demand for the
higher-priced article. When the weather
gets hot and it cannot be handled in
barrels, then comes the market for the
canned goods.
The people are cautioned against GO
ing into the growing of cane on too large
a scale, but to plant some and develop
as the market grows. The Mississippi
Department of Agriculture has given a
great deal of time and attention to the
developing of this market, and regrets
that more funds for such purpose are
not available. The work will be prose-
cuted in the future, as in the past, as
the facilities at hand will permit. There
is great deal yet to be done and too
few to do it. The assistance of every
person interested in the future welfare
of the state is desired and expected.
Plant Hay and Food Crops.
Four weeks ago the department of
agriculture, through its official means of
communication with the people, gave 4
summary of crop conditions in Missis-
sippi that might have been termed rath-
er gloomy, and that was the only way
in which it could be sensibly viewed.
Three weeks of incessant-and, in many
localities, enormous-rains had fallen,
a nd tho IN llx, ha Il
condition. This was followed by few
days of good weather, and then cana
the rain again, not in such quantities
as before, but local showers that scarcely
missed a section of the state, which con-
dition prevails at the time this is writ
ten.
Crops are small today for the season
of the year where worked out and gen
orally grassy. A considerable portion
of the cotton has not been worked, and
will not be, having been necessarily aban-
doned. Some of the older corn has been
lost for lack of work, becoming hard
and round and beyond the stage where
it can recover and even make half a
crop. We are in a pretty bad shape, and
no amount of persistent work can or will
make good the losses sustained; then it
behooves our people to do that which
is next best. Mr.. R. L. Murdoch, of Car
roll county, gives some pertinent advice
along this line, which is here reproduced:
you ask me if 1 could suggest any
thing that would probably be of benefit
and interest for the general good of the
country. | think | can. We are having
one of the most disastrous years in the
history of the country for growing crops.
Rain, rain, and more rain. Crops are
choked up in the grass, and if we had
dry weather from now on there would
be no possibility of making and harvest
ing a full crop. What | want to say is
this: 1t seems that the day of cheap
| foodstuif for both man and beast has
gone by, never to return again, and that
you would be doing the country a serv-
ice to warn our people of the impending
! danger that threatens, and urge the PEG
pie, through the excellent means at YOU
command, to begin at once, the prepare
tion for sowing bumper crop of fall
oats and the gathering of all hay posi-
BILE. Also the putting up and caring fol
food crops for themselves. Give the
alarm and sound note of warming"
1t should not be necessary to add any
thing to the suggestion made by Mr.
Murdoch. The matters he proposes
should be taken care of every year, and
more especially this. If our regular
money crops are not up to the standard
more is the reason that every precaution
should be taken against the necessity OF
buying the following year. Mississip-
plans have always handled such propo
sitions in sensible manner, and it is
safe to predict that this will not be an
exception.