The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-18

| II there is a plenty of cheap corn in
a country we will see a decline in the
price of living. 1t is necessary to
have a good corn crop to carry on the
dairy business successfully. The
South, instead of importing dairy and
poultry products, should be shipping
large amounts to other countries, and
II predict that the time will come
when such will be the fact"
Youngster Prize Corn Grower.
! naturally looked into the Missis-
sippi corn crop after reading this
statement from the Secretary of Agri-
culture, and | found that the prize
corn grower was a youngster living
not far from Hattiesburg, Mississippi,
who produced 227 IL bushels of corn
to an acre. The year before the
prize crop in the same neighborhood
was 226 bushels to the acre, and Of
ficially measured, attested and report
ed. | found a man named Jones,
whose first name and initial are Eastin
C had three large farms on which he
grows three varieties of corn in large
acreage. OF one variety his average
per acre was 151 bushels, of another
it was 40 bushels. of another it was
125 bushels. He has one stalk of corn
carrying fifteen fully developed ears
} The danger of telling the truth
about what one finds among these
South Mississippi farms is that peo-
jpe will hardly believe it. Tell them
half of it and that will be so much
more than the Northern farmer is
used to that it will satisfy him." said
one former bank president with whom
| discussed the conditions.
Northern farmers who have invaded
this territory, and they are as yet
comparatively few in number, have
been most successful and have take
advantage of cheap productive lands
There is no part of the United States
where a man of small means with
family of boys, or even if he be alone,
can so easily place himself in a posi-
ton of independence.
Story Is Most AIIurng
This new story of South Mississippi
being told today seems so alluring it
appears almost impossible. 1t is the
man travelling from the North who
first recognizes in its full force what
the South really has to offer in the
way of undeveloped resources. Dur
ing my travels and driving about this
"piney woods" country. noticing what
some enterprising farmers have ac-
complished, one meets here and there
men who have been associated with
enterprising movements in the North
Usually the first visit was made with
some reluctance, anticipating very
little. They have finally gone to
South Mississippi to remain. and their
ability to see opportunities and prop
erly develop them is going to play a
most important part in the things that
are bound to happen and are even now
happening.
A few live companies engaged in
work OF colonization have entered the
field and their work has already re-
suited in a great Transformation of
the country. The lands which have
only recently been offered to the peo-
pie of the North were most OF them
secured from the federal government
in homesteads and Immediately be-
came the property OF large and
wealthy companies.
Where Lands Are Located.
"The Mississippi Farms, which were
the first to be offered, are located at
Virgins, Miss, on the Gulf & Ship
Island Railroad, being owned by the
Finkbine Lumber Company Of Des
Moines, Iowa.
The second tract offered embraced
"The Hampton Lands" on the New
Orleans, Mobile & Chicago Railroad,
owned by Hampton Bros, strong
Mississippi concern.
The third tract, but recently placed
on sale, comprises the Newman lands
at Hattiesburg, Miss, Owned BY the
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