The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-09-29


show tangible results within twelve or
eighteen months time.
"Eac1 county in the state is to be re-
quested to provide, through the county
organization or through commercial
body of some enterprising town in the
county or through the interest of some
private citizen, two farms of forty acres
each, these farms to be selected in such
way as to as nearly as possible an av-
erage of the land which each county has
available to offer to homeseekers. These
two torties are to be provided with the
necessary Improvements and the numbers
and description OF the same are 10 De
furnished to the executive committee, to-
getner with a fixed price at which the
executive committee is authorized to sell
the same. Ii was the opinion of this body
that this price should cover the actuai
cost OF Improvements and as low
price per acre as similar land could be
bought. in the county.
arrangements are to be made. either
with the owners of this land or with
some financial institution in the county,
to agree to carry the purchase monev notes
for considerable length of time, the
length of time to be governed by the pro-
ductivity of the soil and the total cost
price, it being the desire TO make it pos
sible for an industrious farmer to pay
for this place from the returns which
the place yields to his labor.
an the second place, after number
of counties have indicated to the execu-
tive committee that they are prepared
to place at their disposal at fixed price
two farms as indicated, the president or
secretary or some of the committee will
open up communication with the heads
of the agricultural college in Iowa, Wis
consin, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and
other states, from which, according to the
information put out by the Department
of Commerce at Washington, set
tiers are now moving to Canada and 9TH
er points.
"The plan as outlined above, is to be
explained to the heads of these schools.
and they will be requested to recommend
two, four or more young men, the sons
of intelligent farmers, who have taken
the agricultural course and returned to
the farm, but have not been able to pur-
chase a home on account of the high
prices of the lands where they live.
"It is believed that when this matter
is fully explained to the heads of these
schools that they will at once become in
terested in the plan and will put the
committee in close touch with the most
desirable class of young farmers. These
will be visited at their homes and the
plan of this committee set forth, and two
young men from the same community will
be invited to come and purchase on easy
terms at per cent. the two farms pro-
vided in this couDv.
at is believed that the semi-offcial
and public invitation which this COM
nfttee can make will assure the home
seeker that he will be properly re-
ceived in the community and that two
coming together will prevent homesick-
ness, which is a disease that doctors
have to reckon with, as we'll as industrial
agents, and that the committee will be
able to secure the most desirable purchas-
ers for two farms in as many counties
as decided to make the experiment
/, 'It is believed, on the other hand, that
these vigorous young farmers, well trained
in the best agricultural schools in the
country, coming into the community un-
der these auspices, will set vigorously to
work and make a decided success.
'In this case they will act as agents
In the country and state from which
they came for their new homes, advertis-
ing the lands and the opportunities of
Mississippi in such personal way that
they must be believed.
"This being movement to develop
our agricultural resources, the committee
decided to use the best agricultural meth
ods. We have, so to speak, decided to
plant wherever possible through the state
two selected grains or farm developers
from desirable community, with the
belief that the success of this planting
will bring into the state many others
from the same community. The commits
tee believes that this is a simple and in
expensive method, and that no county
which desires worthy homeseekers can
afford to neglect this opportunity of CO
tablishing two small homeseekers' experi-