Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-10-02
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middle West, lands are valued at from three to SIX
Mississippi! and Alabama.
The yield of oats in money returns is less in
Illinois than is of wheat, probably 50 per cent less,
and yet wheat is. it is claimed, the least profitable
grain crop grown in that state. and would scarce
ly be grown atall but for the valuable place it holds
for rotation purposes.
The land up there is valued around $125.W per
acre, and the net profit from growing oats. there
is less than $2.10 per acre. Grating oats at Sc cents
per bushel metz the net profit including, Of course,
interest on the investment in land.
The average yield of wheat in Illinois was for
1909 1--WE have figures of no other year at hand at
this writing) was 1871 bushels per acre.
The wheat is sold off the farm.
Oats are chiefly fed on the farm, and are val
ued most for home consumption-for feed for stock
in winter. and the return to be had in the value OF
the fertilizer it enables the grower to make, and
save, and spread upon his land.
But the great crop of Illinois is now neither
wheat nor oats.
1t is corn.
When in rotation, corn follows wheat, the yield
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er makes bring a big cash return.
This is done by not selling the corn on the mar
ket as grain, but consuming it at home-on the
farm-in the production of meat. by feeding it to
cattle and to hogs.
And now. those being facts, the question comes
up, and is pertinent, if the Illinois farmer can find
it profitable to grow 40 to so bushels of corr per
acre on land valued at $120.0 90 to $130. 90, and up
wards, per acre, and turn that corn into a bigger
profit by converting IT into meat, by feeding it to
cattle and hogs, why cannot the same thing be
done, and, at a yet greater profit, in Noxubee coun-
ty where lands. with the same degree of care in
its tillage, will produce an equal number of bushels
of corn or other grain, can be had at $4,000 to
$751; 90 per acre, and farm labor can be had at so
per cent less in wages in Mississippi than in ILL
nois?
In other words, the BEACON wants to know why
is it, that Noxubee County with a more genial eli
nate and, to state it mildly, as good water, as good
health, as fertile soil, and in an isothermal belt
as we'll adopted to the growth and harvesting of
cereal crops, and Of grasses for grazing or cutting
and curing for hay, and to the production of the
highest and best type of animal life, whether of
man or bird or beast, as any county Of Illinois or
of the great middle West or any other country UNI
der the sun, that Noxubee County cannot produce
as great, and as certain, crop of oats, of wheat,
and of corn, and raise as much, and as excellent,
meat from feeding cattle and hogs as is done in
Illinois or any where else in the country.
Answering the question, for itself, the BEACON
declares it's belief that Noxubee can do it; that
Noxubee ought to do it; and that, in the coming
years and at no great distance in the future at that
NoXubee will do it.
More than that, and above all that. the BEACON
believes, and is prepared to give the reasons for its
faith, that the limits of Noxubee are in a region
where love of truth and justice. of honor and fdel-
ity-in a word. it believes.
Noxubee is part and parcel of a region where
patriotism is indigenous to the soil; where we'll
bred men all are %virtuous, %valorous, and valiant;
and where the women, God bless and defend them!
are pure, chaste, and ever loyal to love and duty.
There's no place like homeland no place for
a home, like Noxubee County and her neigbbors,
LoWndes, Clay, Monroe and Oktibbeha.