Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1909-09-30
DISCUSSES AGRICULTURE
Major Dockery DweIIs Upon Diversified.
tion and Kindred Subjects.

did, large, brick academy on top of
one of the highest hills in the town.
There are about seven hundred enroll
ed for the town school and fine
building is nearly completed at the
quarry, where half as many more will
be taught. There is no race suicide
in these parts and the voters are not
all Roosevelt men, either.
/ am glad to know of the agricultu-
raj school at Pleasant Hill and hope
poor old worn-out DeSoto will be
stimulated to keep step with the prog
ress of other worn-out lands.
There is no good reason why Desc
to, with it's advantage of a market
right at her door and her facilities for
getting to it, and above all her intel
ligent yoemanry, should not abound
with abundance and prosperity.
/ know we can't control the season,
but by different system we can
make good living and lap something
over every year. Mr.. Pink Dodson,
of Horn Lake, took a poor, old place
a few years ago and has brought it up
to two bales and from forty to sixty
bushels of corn to the acre and his
example, if Others would heed it, is
worth more to the country than all
politicians, orators and lawyers in it,
and we need not all be dairymen,
either. Deep plowing, thorough TIL
lage and COW peas in a proper rotation
will make our worn and quilted places
blossom like the rose.
/ heartily endorse the selection of
Williamson and Myers by the board
of supervisors to manage the. school.
They are the right men in the right
place, and I hope they will teach Us
by practical lessons Ssat there there,
is life in the old LAND YETI
J. j. Hill, the biggest railroad man,
after Harriman's death, and clear
headed business man says: "We will
be importing the wheat for our bis
cults before ten years. am not an
alarmist, but / believe that two years
from now we shall have the boil We
vii to contend with in our country and
if they are as destructive as we hear
they are in Texas and Louisiana what
then?
Draw circle around Memphis, max
ing the diameter one hundred miles,
and you have in that circle everything
that mortal man needs for. good,
comfortable living. You won't have
cranberries and Goldfish, but ask R. E.
Bell If we can't get along without
them.
We can't quit cotton but we should
diversify-make bread and meat first,
then all the cotton we can.
But I didn't start this letter to ha-
rangue the people, but to endorse the
school and the managers and to hope
good will come to the people from it.
A continuous procession of wagons
come and go every day from among
and beyond the mountains, loaded
with the finest cabbage and besS APP
pies I ever saw, and new article of
commerce is coming in chinquepins.
A merchant bought fifteen bushels to-
day. If my little friends, the boys and
girls, were here they would have fun
playing hull gull, as I used to do in
the long ago.
Everybody should attend the Tri-
State fair, especially the farmers with
their wives, boys and girls, who have
not the time or means to travel from
home and see what is going on in this
big world of ours.
Fairs are educational. How can we
keep abreast Of the times unless we
see and know what Others are doing?f
Let's all go to the fair and forget the
floods of last spring and the drought
Of the summer and the consequent
hard times, the debts unpaid and the
scant larder for one day at least. Who
will care hundred years from now?
How would we get along without
something to talk about? Now we
have the north pole. Mrs. Peary says:
.'That nasty old Cook is trying to
take her husbands pole away"
The pellagra is creating deal Of
talk, and last, but not the least, is
Taft's swinging around his $4,000 mile
trip and the people shouting them