The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-11-24
Big Creek. Miss. Nov. 81. 1916

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Editor Sontinel:-
As a regular reader Of your good
paper, | want to ask space to make
"A few suggestions that / regard as
peculiarly important to the farmers
as well as the merchants of the
comfy at this time.
There is hardly any use of going
over again the ruinous work of the
boil weevil-most Of your readers
realize this, yet out of this adversely
we are learning a lesson and ought
TO rise triumphant and be in a better
condition than We were before this
pest came. History shows that ev-
cry intelligent race has made of its
calamit:es and misfortunes means for
greater progress and greater achieve
merits. Can we of Mississippi, we
Of Grenada county. afford to fall be-
low the standards in this regard made
by other peoples?
] have in mind now. Mr.. Editor. q
Truck Growers Association for Gre
NADIA county. We are told that other
communities find such associations in
~dispensible in turning from all cotton
to diversified farming. These $3.50
Citations simplify problems. Then,
it seems to me-, we ought to profit,
at least in this particular, by the eX-
perience and the success of others.
With the Truck Growers Associa-
ton comes a Cold Storage Plant.
This is Il necessity if we are to sue
cessfully raise much truck and turn
, our serious attention to stock rails
ing. | saw some months ago some
tim ely articles in The Sentinel about
a Cold Storage Plant for Grenada.
and was very much in hopes it would
m~ateriali2e. Why was it not push
ed? | am sure that there is hardly
one of IL leading citizens that will
not agree at once that a plant of this
kind would be valuable in many ways.
and | am also sure that it would be
a paying investment. Why not start
the agitation again? 1t is never too
late. | noted in The Sentinel of last
week the account of the sales of some
fine Grenada county beeves in St.
Louis. This was good. Was glad to
note the success of a Grenada county
cattle raiser, and what he did can be
done by scores and scores of others.
A cold storage plant will help find d
market for both cattle and hogs at
hom.e-that is for a great number of
them.
There is another thing, Mr.. Edi-
tor, that | wish to speak of, and that
is the Southern Railroad, which for
several years has had its terminus
at Calhoun City. | really have been
surprised not to have seen something
about the extension of this road to
Grenada in The Sentinel. 1t is the
opinion of many people in this vi
entity that this road is going TO be
extended somewhere further west,
and Grenada is the logical point.
The impression about the extension
of this road in the very near future
is emphasized by the fact that Mr..
r. n. Provinc, who lives just over
the Calhoun county line, has sold
some several thousand acres of val
liable timber to II concern, and II
of the conditions of the sale was that
q railroad should be built to move it.
Mr.. Provine lives about 10 miles west
Of where the road now stops. When
work is started on the extension Of
this road, many believe it Will be car
ried even further west.
Our section Is IN u Dau ih III iAbh!
respects. yet | hardly know of a time
for years back that We would have
been in "a better position than We are
to have faced just such a situation
as now c~onfronts us. AS for myself,
have been planting but little cotton
I for several years. | have been rails
ing Irish potatoes, corn and other
kinds of produce.
hope somebody will get busy
about the Cold Storage Plant and
then let the Truck Growers Asso-
citation follow it.
Yours very truly,
j. n. ROBERTS.