The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-07-10

opportunity to get returns that are
startling to contemplate.
Some of the most noted Federal Au.
thorities whose attention has been d.
rected to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi
state that within the next ten years
this region, on account of its health
full conditions, It's wonderful soft Wa
ter. its abundant streams, and fine
drainage area, is destined to become
/ the most thickly settled country. in ali
Ameica and will hold the same rela-
ton to the United States that the
Nile holds to all Egypt and Africa.
Mississippi today, more than any
other state in the Union, needs a dem
onstration of it agricultural facili-
ties for the northern farmer who has
attempted to make worn out farm
pay, or who Is renting where lands
are priced too high to allow him to
purchase. Then the Mississippians
themselves realize that they need a
demonstration of the soil possibilities.
The state is seething with the in.
terest in bumper crops of every var.
iety. Boys corn clubs have been form.
ed and prizes offered by railroads, by
the state, by individuals and corpora.
tons.
In Harrison county, Mississippi, ono
of the wide-awake lads produced 1882
bushels of fine corn from one acre.
The Agricultural Department at
Washington has taken up the move.
ment, adding tomato competition foi
girls to the corn competition for boys
But with all that has been done,
only beginning has ben made, for
today Mississippi has hundreds of
thousands of acres of cut-over timber
lands not yet under cultivation.
By the new plan $4,000 acres will
be put into corn, potatoes, melons,
oranges, cane, ETC., and the increase
in the output of other farms in the
state that will follow this educational
demonstration is estimated at from
500 per cent to 800 per cent
That will be only on the lands now
under cultivation. The cut-over areas
as yet unsettled will begin to be rapid
ly populated, for already the tide OF
immigration to Canada and the far
west is being rapidly diverted to Mis-
sissppi, annd with the $4,000 acre
demonstration farm in operation the
{ nfux of settlers is expected to outdc
Part Of the farm, it has not been
decided Just HON much, will be de
. voted entirely to stock raising. This
has already proved startling success
flu in Mississippi The Bermuda grass
and lespedeza are noted fatteners
The early season beginning in March
2 or April enables cattle 10 be fattenet
{ for market with little OF no grain. As
= an instance of intensive work of this
KIM, in. II. HreStOn Oh JdChSch idt
: tened eight steers year on four acre:
S for the last five years, using manure
$ as the only fertilizer, and DR.. d. :,
f Saunders of Starkville fattened To-
4 steers on 800 acres with 10 o'he,
+ feed, adding 1924 pounds bctweei
a March and October, netting $1,415.0o
o This is only a good average Of wba
/ he has done for FIVE years.
e The grazing part of the farm vii
: be a good profit maker, but truck gai
/. dcning, though 1t will not be given It
t great an area, will return lar create
l. profits per acre. The three aud fod
crop per year plan has given returns
e as high as $4,000 in ten months, on III
t. Hall brothers garden at Virgins, Mis-
e sissippi.
l. And of course regular diversifie'
n farming will be given its share OF al