The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1909-11-07

hePpcrs- ehineh bugs, potato bugs o.
bell weevils to rob them of their farms
andzsAard earnings. when by an inteInr
gent 1versifeatien of crops and the
growing of such products as these pests
have 10 affinity fer, they may year by
year make competence and surround
themselves with all the comforts of a
modern farm home.
eQ4iy "a few days since it was an
nonneed tnrough the ,laily press that a
syndicate. with SO 900 capital had
been organized TO construct boats, inn
prove wharf landings and operate be-
tween St Paul and New. Orleans
h. Eastern Mississippi. IN the consider
alton of Mississippi Opportunities,
is entitled to her full share of favor
able mention.
Some of our Mississippi friends left
their native state for Colorado a dozen
or more years ago, giving as a reason
that they wanted to live where they
could grow alfalfa. What must have
been their chagrin when they learned
that Eastern Mississippi, in competi-
ton with colorado, Nebraska and Cali
fernia, carried off the gold medal prize
fer the best bale of alfalfa exhibited
at Thea st. Louis exposition2 Mr., Il.
e. Harseim, an Illinois man now 10
Gated At West Point, Miss, and who fur
nished some fine exhibits for our car,
writes as follows: 8 formerly lived
in illinois and am still Interested III
some Of the 5000 per acre lands IN the
central part OF the state that is paying
me but p. to } per cent. | came te
Mississippi and bought lands at $50 10
S35 per acre that net me from 10 to ID
per cent J. nave over 300 acres IN al
falfa,-. Lass year L made five cuttings
that made total of -. tons per acre
that sold at SIS to $3.50 per ton.
rOppeEtunities III Mississippi Sure
Iv no sHe who weAld engage in the
growing of alfalfa need go outside OF
the state.
Another opportunity that Mississippi
enjoys to greater extent than amy
other Southern state is the number OF
counties that are served by the Illinois
Central and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley
railroads No other lines do can
furnish such splendid transportation fa-
cilitie to Chicago, the world S greatest
distributing point of farm products. If
any of the readers of this article are
skepticaI as to the statement that en-
cago is the greatest distributing mar
ket in the world let them spend few
days when next in that city visiting
the outgoing freight houses and fruit
sheds of the many railroads centering
at that point and note the thousands OF
ears loaded with farm products destine |
for-,the markets of the United States
and Canada. When we read some OF
the measures introduced by members OF
the Legislature urging reduction o
tariffs or some restriction OF traffic, He
stand that the Illinois Central and va
zoos Mississippi Valley Railroad com
panies are among the most potent fac
tors in making Opportunities in Mis-
Sissippi at least the equal OF any state
in the Union. Years ago when Crystal
Springs engaged in the growing of vege
tables and the lamented DR.. McKaf
of Madison. in growing straw berries.
such a thing as refri gerator cars were
unknown and some of their first ship
ments to Chicago reached their desti-
ma ton in bad order.
No sooner had the Illinois Contra
Railroad company been convinced a.
the adaptabiGty Of the soil betweeu
Durant and Magnolia to the successful!
growing of Strawberries and vegetables
than it began the construction of re
frigerator cars, which have increased
and multiplied until it now owns and
mas in operation nearly 5000 of the best
refrigerator ears known to the service
Very early IN the history of this truck
ing business it was found that during
extremely warm weather ears iced a.
MeCoInb City must be re-iced EN- route
70 Chicago This necessitated the es-
tahlishing of large ice houses at proper
intervals between New Orleans and Chi
cago, where cars containing perishablt
farm products are re-ieed as may be
necessary. not at the expense OF the
shipper. as is the case in some iocalr
ties. but at the expense of the com
pany. For thirty years the Illinois
Central Railroad company has persist
entity advertised the Opportunities III
Mississippi. During the year 1908 this
company through its immigration de-
partments sent on. 100000 pamphlets,
leaflets and circulars, not one of whic h
did not In some way emphasize the sop
partunities ia Mississippi This lit
erature reached nearly every nation I'M
der the sum Communications from
Japan and South America inquiring for
Southern printed matter no longer oc-
cas- fDn sany surprise at the office of the
general immigration agent of the Hi