McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-08-01

big prices for good bulls. Sometimes
a club will be formed of several farm
ers to buy one good animal and then
divide the profits. That has worked
badly in the case Of the big imported
stations, whose offsprlngs in the
South were mostly failures, but in the
case of cattle believe it would pay
in McNairy. One good male, of the
| big Polled Angus or Holstein breeds,
crossed with good native cows, would
soon bring up a valuable strain of beef
cattle.
In a future letter | may have Some
thing to say about the dairy industry
here, and of the creameries and
cheese factories | have seen: also
some other facts concerning the great
cattle industry here, prices Of stock,
etc. have been invited to- visit
big dairy near Herkimer. and may do
so before leaving this rich and pros
porous country.
Another good hog food is the Span
ish chufa, or ground almond, which
we used to grow in McNairy. 1t is
delicious for man as we'll as beast. It
is mentioned in the Government bulle-
tin on Hog Raising in the South,
which should be in the hands of every
Tennessee farmer.
What splendid thing it would be
if one could take trip to Washing
ton and there find his own and all
other states and foreign countries
represented by permanent exposition
buildings; each in a beautiful park
reservation Of it's own, furnished by a
wise and paternal government. and
showing forth for all time, to all men,
what those states and nations have to
offer of wealth and opportunity!
Could we see a magnificent structure,
finished in Tennessee marbles and
native woods, devoted to our state, in
which each county had room, with
special exhibition rooms for grain,
cotton, ETC.. with maps of land for
sale, prices stated, and specimens of
the actual soil and its products given;
where the world might learn in truth |
all that Tennessee has to offer the
home-seeker and the investor; where
all Tennesseans on arriving at Wash
ington might register and hope to
meet their Congressman and home
friends; halls in which could be seen
the portraits and statues of those
whose deeds have given glory to their |
state, and libraries in which the his
tory of Tennessee, past and present,
is written; where you can find your
own home paper, and feel at home
that would be worth while. Since
your correspondent began to agitate
this matter seven years ago, three
bills have been introduced in Congress
to favor it's establishment, and a doz-
en- foreign countries have taken an
interest in the scheme. Long ago it
was proposed to erect state buildings
at Washington, but the idea Of main
tanning a permanent international
exposition there is but seven or eight
years old, and yet so great has been
its Endorsement by the leading bust
ness bodies of this and other coun-
tries, that the practical common
sense and desirability of the PROPOSE
tion have been abundantly proved.
The latest bill was introduced on the
10th of last April by Representative
Collier. of Mississippi, amember of the
on Ways and Means, and
he says he will fight for it until some
thing is done with it.
This, and the proposed system of
farm credits, now being looked after
by commission in Europe of which
my neighbor, DR.. Owens Of Maryland,
is a member, offers the greatest pros
pect Of advancement that the South
has ever seen. When farmers can
borrow all the money they need from
the Government at three per cent a
year on long time to carry on their
business, and when they can make
known their wares to all the world
through State Building and COM
mercial agency at Washington, every
acre in McNairy that can be used will
be in demand. Even the gullies will
be filled up, the swamps drained and
the turned-out fields made fat with
fine crops and cattle, and everybody
hard at work but the undertaken.