The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1915-06-24
Madison Makes Record.
Imported Foodstuffs In 1907
Shipped 1t Away In 1914
Good Roads Built 1912

JACKSON, MISS, June ZU-ft. T.
Blakeslee, commissioner of agri
culture and chief promoter of the
Grown In Mississippi campaign,
which after one year has shown
that 1t was a slogan which stood
for something. has the following
comment on the remarkable record
shown to have been made by one
county, that Of Madison, as an in
cident of Wednesdays meeting:
AT the Grown In Mississippi"
meeting held at Jackson on June
10 and IL, there were many good
and true sayings by the able men
on the programme. Ideas really
worth while were advanced and
definite action on several impor-
tant subjects taken. 1t was a
great meeting in so far as the
future OF the State of Mississippi
was concerned.
But when it came to an actual
record of accomplishment, the
good County of Madison must be
unanimously voted the winner.
In a carefully prepared paper by
] F Flournoy Jr., of Canton, a
statement of actual accomplish
ment was made that should be told
in every part of the state and held
up to all as an example worthy of
emulation.
Madison County imported in
1907 the following: Oats, II cars,
hay IS cars, corn, "a cars, meal
SO cars, chops cars, or a total OF
27o cars. whereas in 1914 this
county shipped out a surplus OF
Oats 81 cars, hay 26S cars, corn
161 cars, cattle ia cars, hogs 16
cars, cotton ginned, 1887 bales,
lespedeza seed sold, 1900 bush
els.
Taking the figures Of the cattle
inspectors, we have about 10. 900
head of good cattle, having inn
ported IN 1914 156 pure bred and
and high-gradc bulls and l, 100
COWS, principally Shorthorns and
Herefords.
Readers, can you realize what
this meansl 1t is a most wonder
full exemplifcation of Grown In
Mississippi" Suppose that every
county in the state could say as
much, or even one half as much,
what would it mean to our people?
Good cotton dollars we're sent
out of Madison County in 1907 to
buy 279 cars of oats, hay, corn,
meal and chops, items that could
have been produced in that identi-
cal section for less than the man
up north, who grew them and
sold them at profit, to say
nothing of middlemen and the
transportation companies that
must make a profit.
In 1914, just seven years later,
this demand has been supplied by
home production and 400 cars oil
oats, hay and corn produced tc
supply the needs of the other fell
low. Instead of sending out per-
fectly good dollars to buy these
things that should have been
Grown In Mississippi" the
needs of home we're literally sup.
piled and real dollars COTTON from
the fellow on the outside for sur
plus of 400 cars.
There is more to tell. Only a
limited number of cars of cattle
were shipped out in 1907, but in
1914 ia cars of cattle and Ii cars
of hogs were exported. Look al
the good bulls and cows bought in
that county last year. 1t means
that in another year or two Madi-
son will ship hundreds of cars OF
cattle each year, and class OF
cattle that will command the high
est market price.
And lespedeza seed! Look at
the record. Who would have
thought of trying to market this
seed seven years ago2 Approx
mately $50, 900 of the other mans
money brought into the county Tor
a product that only a few years
ago would not have been seriously
considered. And while these
crops were growing the land was
getting better every year, instead
of poorer as it did under the one
crop system.
What Madison County has ac.
complished practically every
county in Mississippi can equal Il
they only will. This system will
quickly rebuild the tired cotton
lands and make them as valuable
as any acres in the whole country
and at the same time make our
people the most prosperous in the
civilized world.
This is the greatest exemp1ifica-
ton of Grown In Mississippi
that has come to the writer's at.
tention as yet. There are possibly
Others almost if not quite so good
Would be only too glad to heal
from them and will endeavor tc
give their example to the Missis
sippi farmers.