East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1910-03-18
Delightful Climate.

Again, where else is found a
more delightful climates We have
some winter, to be sure, as those
who have just shaken the snow off
of themselves will admit, but cold
has its decided advantages. And
cheap fue. enables one to defy it
and bask i'll comfort before a glow
ing CRATE, even if Jack Frost does
peer in at the windows, On the
contrary in the so-called winterless
climates, there is a penetrating
chill that makes ones marrow shiv-
er escape from which is blocked by
the fuel Dealers $15. 90 for a cord
of wood or $l3 90 for a ton of coal
Our sunny winter days are as near
ly ideal as this land affords, and
even our rains are honest and bark
in warning before they begin to
fall, We hear a good deal about
the unbearable heat of our sum
mers. 1t is true that we do have
perhaps Il half dozen pretty nearly
intolerable days, and about the
same number Of insufferable nights,
but it is because we have not arm
cd ourselves against them. We
might easily obviate their discom-
fort. Cod sout of doors is cool
enough, the prairies wave with a
grateful breeze and the forests af-
lord delicious shade. But where,
oh where is the spot in Uncle
Sans domain which knows no
heated term! When found, if it
existent at all, you will find either
a sand dune or a rugged and rocky
mountain, or a place adapted sole
ly to summer residence and beastly
beyond bearing for nine months in
the year. Mississippi has as good
an all all-lhe-year-round climate as
can be found, certainly consider
ing its m1uy other advantages.
Another fact that we do not
realize is that we have as versatile
Il soil as can be found. We can
raise cotton for the world. The
granaly of the Confederacy was in
Mississippi, and we could still feed
the country if we would restore our
soils as once they were. AS fine al
faifa fields as can be found in the
MUCH boosted West are on Miss
issippi prairies, and yet, in spite of
this fact, land which will grow al
falfa successfully there is rated at
$500 per acre, when the same land
could be bought in our state for
one-siXth of that sum with no ex-
orbltant water right and annual
water tax added, as is the case
there. Very nearly the largest hog
the world ever saw was raised in
Noxubee county Mississippi, before
the war, by Simeon Orr. We can
raise them yet, and blooded COWS
and horses and sheep, and every
thing else the world demands.
Pontotoc's Fruit Soil.
No better fruit soil exists than
is found on the red hills of the
Pontotoc ridge section. The state
ment that We cannot raise fruit is
frequently made, with the added
complaint that the trees blight or
die or meet some other such fate.
OF course they do. And they do
everywhere. In California it is a
perpetual warfare against scale and
pest in which their widely famed
fruit is produced. A fruit farmer
in the famous Yakima Valley Of
Washington, where the finest ap.
Pies in the world are produced,
told rue that O state law made
/ spraying mandatory, and if an or.
chardist did not spray his trees
and Keep them pest free the STATE
did it and charged him with it
The same is done in the citrus
groves of Southern California
No kind 'oGfruit growing is quit,
so precarigus as that of raising or
anges, and yet good money i
} made in it by vigilant attention t,