The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-05-16
DEMONSTRATION FARM OF FINK
BINE LUMBER COMPANY
QUITE INTERESTING.
The WORK BEING DONE THERE
Railroad Officials and Others Pleased
With Progress Being Made-choice
Vegetables Raised-Another Proof
of Fertility of South Mississippi Soil.

| Naturally interester in broad
sense in the development of South
Mississippi and especially inter-
ested in its agricultural de-
velopment, the officials and directors
of the Mississippi Central Railway
and the Newman Milling Company,
take advantage of every opportunity
to study and investigate work done in
this section of the state along de-
velopment lines. With this end in
view, party of officials and others
went by special train Monday morn
ing to inspect the experimental farm
established only few months ago
by the Mississippi Farms Company,
which has charge of the cut-over lands
of the Finkbine Lumber Company.
Included in the party were President
F. L. Peck of the Mississippi Central
and Newman Co., General Manager
R. K. Smith of the Mississippi Cen
tral; General Manager E. S. Peck of
the Newman mills; Lamar Henning-
ton, land agent of the Newman mills;
Purchasing Agent Drane of the Mis-
sissippi Central and his father, DR..
Drane; Trainmaster J. R. Mason of
the G. & s. I. and E. R. Farrell of The
News. The party was met at Virgins
by the officials of the Mississippi
Farms Company and by Editor Bond
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perimental farm is only about one
half mile from Virgins, and the party
was escorted over the place and the
splendid work accomplished was ex-
planned by Mr., V. L. Buyers, manager
of the farm.
Products of Farm.
The Finkbine Lumber Company
owns about 10000 acres of land about
Virgins, half of which has been cut
over. This land comprises some of
the most fertile in South Mississippi,
and while individual effort had shown
that it would produce in abundance
practically all of the crops of the
temperate zone and was also adapted
to the growing of Satsuma
oranges, California grapes, figs
and pecans of finest uuali-
| ty in abundance, the Finkbine off.
cials realized that scientific work
would give better results and that an
experimental farm within easy reach
of their Virgins Offices would give
investors and homeseekers a better
! idea of what could be ACCOMPLISHED
and would prove an especially good
advertisement also, so they sought
out first-class man to manage the
farm and set aside a generous sum to
clear and fence the lands, erect nee
essary buildings, purchase fine stock
and make the necessary agricultural
improvements. This work was start
ed last November, but it was not until
January 1st that work was really well
under way. The result in so brief a
time has been wonderfully good, and
the Mississippi Farms Company al
ready has something to show the
homeseeker, and as a result many
purchases of land in small bodies has
already been made by settlers and
investors and some of this is already
being developed. Monday the farms
had snap beans, cucumpers and Irish
patotaes ready for the table, and in
abundance, too.
Laid OF in Sections.
The farm is laid off in four sections.
section one, in which there are eleven
acres, they have set out 1SO grated
pecan trees and 100 Satsuma orange
trees. The pecan trees are set 50
feet apart with the orange trees be-
tween, and between these rows there
are planted 10000 pecan nuts now
coming up, which will be grated two
and three years hence, so as to pro-
duce the finest of paper-shell pecans.
These grated trees they will sell in
the planting season of 1894 and Is.
Citrus Nursery.
Adjoining the pecan nursery we
come to the citrus nursery. This
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