The Jones County news. (Ellisville, Miss.) 1909-1924, 1913-07-24
ABOUT JONES co.
Helping Farmers by Leaning
Money on Easy Terms.
Tick Fight Won.


the Tallahala bridge with Supervisor
B. DuBose, we travelling In Waldo's
automobile Mr.. DuBose owns a
very fine farm there that is worked by
Mr.. Wommack They did not this
year cultivate all the land cleared,
but will next year take in every acre
and open up more. There are so
acres of rich bottom land ia tim Der,
and which can be cleared and brought
into cultivation at small cost. There
is not richer farming land in our
State than on the creeks, and Mr..
Dubose says il has overlooked only
once in 80 years, and which Hood was
beneficial, it left rich sediment
over the fields. MIR, Wommack has
this year planted some eight acres in
watermelons, but intends next year to
grow number of different crops.
He has also some extra fine corn.
Mr.. DuBose contemplates fencing in
the swamp land next to the creek and
using it as pasture for his hogs,
and he will buy some improved
breeds, probably the Berkshire.
| Mr.. DuBose says when he moved TO
Jones county young man, where the
city of Ellisville now stands was a
pine forest, and he merchandised at
| the old town, which was then a small
place, with some half dozen families
living there. They had to wagon
goods some IS miles, as the railroad
was not built. The country was then
| covered with magnificent forest pines,
| but the owners did not consider tim
| Der of any value and sold their stump
| age for nominal sum. The woods
and swamps were full of deer, wild
turkeys and smaller game. He killed
| his first squirrel one morning near
where the iron bridge stands across
the Tallahala creek, and after going
not over quarter of mile had shot
seventeen sqirrels, all he could carry
| back home.
In reply to an inquiry, Mr.. DuBose
said that the Supervisors of Jones
county had loaned on farming lands
| about $50, 000from the sinking fund on
ten years time if desired, but the
| borrowers had the privilege of paying
| the money back any time. They
charge six per cent. interest, and no
other expense is necessary in making
a loan. They do not let out money on
town property, as the banks will
negotiate such loans, but only on
farm lands to help out the country
people. They loan half the taxable
value of land. MIR. DuBose says that
our county has never lost dollar,
for these loans are absolutely secure.
| They enable many a man to buy and
pay for a farm who would otherwise
| remain renter. Some of them wilI
| borrow say $500, and besides thu
| interest pay $50 year on the debl.
| They do not feel this much, and 10
| ten years have their land paid for.
This is a sensible and wise deposit
| ton of the sinking fund and too much
praise cannot be accorded our Board
OF Supervisors for their kindness in
assisting struggling farmers to get at
home OF their own.
| In discussing the dipping of cattle,
Mr.. DuBose said the fight was
whipped and the few who so violently
| fought the dipping OF cattle are now
falling into line. He says every dis
corning man who travels over the
county can see the great Improvement
made in stock since we began dipping.
, He thinks the tick will be about eradi-
Gated this year, but there may be
few herds next spring with ticks.
The United States government will
then take the matter in hand, and
have men here to inspect every herd
of cattle and if ticks are found on
any animal they must be dipped.
There are now two men connected
with the AgricultuI al Department
going over Jones county inspecting
cattle. They will keep the watts ready,
in case the tick reappers, but Mr..
DuBose thinks this year will clean
them up.
Mr.. DuBose says when he gets rid
3nIx hrl la will hfa
brought in and by crossing them with
our common stock we can greatly
improve the breed OF cattle. Mr..
Mr.. DuBose called our attention to
an instance in Benton county, Miss,
where they had eradicated the cattle
tick and Texas fever. Mr.. j. M.
| Aldrich, stock raiser, bred calf
from an ordinary scrub COW, from a
pure bred Angus sire. The COW
weighed about $50 pounds. At
| thirteen months of age, the calf
weighed $50 pounds. At eight months
of aye the calf weighed as much as
the COW That yearling would sell
for about $75 in the Chicago market,
as much as bale of cotton and the
seed thrown in.
Mr.. DuBose says the Supervisors
do not desire to unjustly Cypress or
persecute any one, but they see til g
necessity of getting rid of the Texas
fever, that suock-raising may sup
plant boil weevil cotton. They can
not let few kickers put stop to
this great and important work
MANY who first refused to have their
Ieattle dipped are now falling in line
and see the beneficial results. The
Supervisors are determined to have
the law enforced, and to this end
every man who has not had his cattle
dipped. and permitted them TO run al
large on the public range, will be
prosecuted and punished. This step
hae haar, decided on The naiQhh Dor.