The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-08
FARM CONDITIONS
BEST IN YEARS
Northern Mississippi Is MAX
ing a Fine Showing
GOOD TIMES ARE COMING
small Towns Are Growing Fast In This
Section of the state and Larger
Towns Have Grown to
BE Big Cities

Towns Have Grown to
he Big Cities
Columbus, Miss, JUNE From Column
bus to Greenville. Miss, 167 miles, on the
direct line of the Southern railway In
Mississippi, farm conditions OF all sorts
are said to be the best in many years.
It's a conservative estimate to say this
section is 80 per cent improved In every
way than it was two years ago. Making
a journey over this line, which traverses
the whole state, commencing at Lowndes
county, one bisects Clay, Webster, Mont
gomery, Carroll, Leflore, Sunfiower and
Washington In the order mentioned.
From Columbus to Winona, so and few
more miles, cotton is in excellent shape;
corn is high and looks very healthy and
green, many fields of oats and other
edible products are seen. The lands are
clean and people present a prosperous
appearance. From Winona to Greenville
one is impressed even more with the
prosperous condition of that section. Cot
ton and corn, while not as high as in
the eastern part Of Mississippi, are in
ask about crops will give you a pessi-
mistic kind of answer. There is the one
acclaim of Good times ahead
The stations along the line are booming.
Guide, Miss, a place hardly recognized as
being on the map, about 20 miles west of
Greenwood, boasts Of lumber mill worth
a million dollars. The owners, not con-
tent with their lumber profits. have
bought thousands of acres of that good
old delta black land and are offering it,
cleared and ready for cultivation, at
fair price. Eight or ten substantial brick
stores are visible. Berclair Miss, an
other stop, which two years ago was just
a crossing, has three or four blocks of
streets laid off, and the growth of this
hamlet is phenomenal.
Towns Growing Fnst
Greenwood and Indianola are surpris-
ing. The former. the city that claims
about 1900 inhabitants, will nearly touch
1880. This is a Implication of population
since 1890 Greenwood is known as the
possess 165 cars in that place. They all
bear city license tags. 1t simply denotes
a thrifty and prosperous class of citizens.
From a business standpoint Greenwood
runs heads and shoulders above anything
in that section or near to It. They have
hardware firm with 100000 of capitali-
cation and their annual business exceeds
baff r,arir T-l,aJr
streets and homes are beautiful. They
have-rather. it soon will be completed
a $4,000 theatre They handle 10000 bales
of cotton year.
The Illinois Central railroad has made
that section of Mississippi between Wi
mona and Greenville. This line. or the
branches controlled by the same manage
ment, have absolute monopoly of that
section. They cross the Southern in Mis-
sissippi six times between Winona and
Greenville. They act as a regular flood
gate to that whole territory. Their serv-
Ice is of the kind calculated to boost a
section. Their trains and schedules are
the outcome of study and many expert
ments.
At Dunleith, Miss. about IS miles this
side of Greenville, one is impressed with
Dunleith farms. Many large buildings,
several stores and an immense cotton
gin, which looks al If It was built to
be a fixture and not temporary struc-
ture tell of more money being made
on the farms. A Gifted residence Is there
and it's a safe prediction that town will
soon be heard from.
Oats Being Planted
From Macon, Miss, county seat of
Noxubee county. about 30 miles south
of Columbus. Lowndes county. comes a
port. very reliable, too, that special at
tention has been paid In that locality 10
oats. northern expert from an oat-
growing state was in Noxubee last week
and. after examining several fields, said
many acres would produce rs bushels.
His comment on the crop was ut Is
phenomenal" More than ten of the big
best planters in that county agreed to
plant so many acres in oats and the
results are more than satisfying. One
of the best fields, taking the entire field
as a whole, belongs to j. B. Cunning
ham, a wealthy planter, who will reap
not less than 40 bushels to every acre
he has planted. A man from Macon
in Columbus Today, said: Considering
the price of oats and wheat and the cost
of cultivation, there is much money In
such crops. If the boil weevil ruins
Noxubee 1t will be Noxubees own fault
Messrs. Binion and Douglass, planters
near Macon. last week cut their first
cutting of 100 acres of alfalfa. some three
years old and some less, for which they
received sA or 81 so per acre. This years
expenses were only for cutting. harvest
ing and baling. They expect three more
cuttings. This shows to soma extent
what can be done with alfalfa in Noxu
bee and the same thing is true of all
land between Okolona, Miss, and shu-
oualak, Miss, (the black belt. Lowndes
county is making just as fine a showing
an6 from West Point, Miss. Clay coun-
ty, just as good reports of their al
falfa are learned.
The experimental wheat planting In
Lowndes county has inspired the farmers
of adjoining counties to try 1t, and ere
long this product will be thoroughly test
ed in this belt