The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-18
CITY 10 YEARS OLD HAS ..G@
over $4,000 POPULATION

ern Baptist convention met less than
two weeks ago and established at
Hattiesburg a Baptist Woman's Col
legs.
Ideal Public School System.
There is no city in the United States
having a better public school system
than has this Southern city OF 10000
people. It is located right in the
midst Of the J. J. Newman Lumber
Company's lands, which have recently
been purchased by E. A. Cummings 4 |
Co.. Of Chicago, and are being sold to |
Northern farmers for farming pur-
poses
The first excursion of Northern peo-
pie to visit these lands was few days |
ago, and they agreed that If these |
same farms which they were buying
were in any of the Central Western
states they could not be purchased in
a single instance for less than $3.50
an acre. They also expressed the |
belief that it would be but few years /
until they would be even more valua- ,
BILE than Northern farms. They
showed their sincerity in this belief
when every person in the delegation
purchased a good sized piece of the
earth and commenced making ar
rangements Immediately to develop
farms. Several of the eXcursionists
changed their plans and did not re-
turn North, but already have their
houses building and fences rapidly
marking the lines Of their farms, and
before the first of January many will
have their first crops planted.
Their faith in the certain increased
value of lands is based upon several
things. In the first place the statis-
tics of the United States Weather
Bureau for ten years, shows an aver
age annual rainfall of about sixty
inches equally distributed throughout
the twelve months of each year.
The temperature shows for same
ten years, as contrasted with the hot
waves of the North, is ten to fifteen
degrees cooler, and they have not yet
known a blizzard and have their first
record in South Mississippi of a crop
failure from drought or drowning with
too much rain.
Crops Always Growing.
There is not a month in the year
when some crop is not growing. Three
mature crops. such as corn, oats,
sweet or Irish potatoes, cabbage, or
any of the standard crops grown any
place in the country, are being gath
cred each of the twelve months. The
truck farmers produce five crops for
the market each year.
At the present time in the truck
gardens lettuce, cabbage, turnips,
onions and such things are in all
stages of development. Some of the
cabbage just planted will be harvested
in the middle of January. An espe-
cial advantage in farming in this par
ticular territory, which is just seven
ty miles from the gulf, is that a farm
err may plant his crops just as a mer-
chant buys his stock. 1t is not a
question with the farmer when he
must plant his crops; it is a question
when he wishes to harvest and mar
ket.
For instance, if a farmer wishes to
raise tomatoes or cucumbers he will
figure when he is most likely to have
the best market in the North. Then
he calculates how long it takes to de-
velop a cucumber or tomato crop, and
he goes back from the marketing
time the necessary number of days or
weeks and does his planting There
is no weather that will interfere and
with proper care he is sure to have
his stuff ready when the market is
hungering for it. 1t is in this way
that the farmers in this section have
grown rich on cucumbers and toma-
toes.
Rival The Bermuda Onion.
1t is only within the last two years
that the farmers about Hattiesburg
have discovered by planting large
acreage that they can compete with
the Bermuda onions in quantity and
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