Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1913-11-27
5 900 DAILY VISITED
A. 8 N. FARM TRAIN
END OF TOUR THROUGH MISSISSIP-
PI SHOWS GREAT SUCCESS.
Those Aboard Declare Mississippi Train
the Equal Of Any They Had Ever
Seen and Most Effective Means
Of Instructing Farmers.

Greenwood.-The big live stock train
that has been over the lines of the Y.
& NJ. V. and Illinois Central railroad
lines has exhibited to an average of g.
600 people a day. The college has fur
nished the men and equipment and the
railroad company the transportation. Mr..
Claire, industrial commissioner of the
lines, stated at Clarksdale that the two
greatest factors of modern civilization
are agriculture and transportation AMI
that each is dependent upon the other
for existence. His company recognizes
that few farmers can visit the college
in person and must depend upon the
college Or a part of it being wheeled out
to the farmer in order that he may get
identified with its teachings and see for
himself just what can be done on Mis-
sissippi soil.
The federal experts who have accom-
panied the train have given fine support
to the work and have pronounced the
train equal to the finest and best equip
ped ever operated in this country. 1t is
by far the most effective means of
reaching the farmer and inspiring conf
dence in the future agricultural develop
ment of the state that has ever yet been
devised.
The efforts of President Hightower to
carry the work of the college to the
people of the state has met with the
most cordial approval of the thousands
of farmers who have visited the train
and expressed themselves as being great.
ly benefited by the exhibits and the in
formation impaired by the experts in
charge.
The enormous earning capacity of
Mississippi lands as demonstrated by
the Results of the work of the station
in its exhibits on the train, has been a
revelation to the people of the state. If
this train could have operated in the
state four or five years ago, when the
farmers first began to feel the effects
of the ravages of the boil weevil, mil
lions of dollars could have been saved IL
the farmers by preventing the deprecia-
tion in the values of lands and reduced
rvenue received from them, together
with a lack of confidence of the mon-
eyed interests of the state and of Tho
farmers who have tried so hard to low
cotton in boil weevil conditions.
At Nearly every stop in South Missis
sippi many farmers unhesitatingly de
clared if they could have obtained infor
nation and assistance from the men il
charge of the train at an earlier datt
the price of their lands and the income
revenue received from them, together
from them would never have decrease;
and thy would still have enjoyed thu
prosperity of former years.
In many parts of the delta wher,
farmers live on their own lands ant
control their WI labor a new impetus
has been given in growing forage crop
n raising 1--we STOCK.
The experiments conducted at the sta
ton have clearly shown that pork cal
be produced economical" in Mississippi
and that an excellent market is right a
home for both pork and high price,
mules. To the men owning large tract
of land which must be used profitabl,
with a minimum amount of labor tn
results of crossing our own native COW
with pure bred beef sires has BEEF
shown at every stop Of the train. Thes
cows with their calves to consume tn
food products grown on land will pa,
a higher price rent per acre with les
labor and expense involved than an,
other crop that we are now growing.
The message of hope and practical in
formation impartd and the earnest Ell
forts of the men in charge to help farm
ers improve their present condition !
well worth all the expense and labor in
tolved in this splendid undertaking.
This is the first time that the farm
ers of the state have had opportunity o
seeing at first hand the splendid wor
of the experiment station and it is fel
that the work of the college and tn
station will be better appreciated in tn
fuure and the fact that the great raj
road sysems are lending their assistanc
to disseminate the work of the colleg
along their lines is deserving of tn
highest commentator.
1t is a full guarantee to the farmer
that the extension work now in charg
of Prof. Smith is OH such a basis as t
render them efficient service in ever
line of farm work.
Snowman Kills Self.
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