Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1916-09-28

OF course. some years must pass
until people become aecustom TO the
change. but you will see our farmers
bring in turkeys in December. you
will see them shipping car loads Of
cattle and hogs from Oxford and the
time is not far distant when you will
see in Oxford a grain elevator. But
the thing | most want to see pushed
IS the chicken and turkey industry.
The average farmer Of Lafayette
county can raise 5000 lbs of turkeys
at a cost Of 3e per pound The lowest
price | have known them sold for in
the past five years is 15c per pound
Chickens on the local market today
bring Is cents per pound and can be
raised for cents per pound | have
seen in Oxford in the past five years
hens 90 from 25 cents per hen to
SLIP cents per hen
Why can't we farmers make
money. There are many ways to
prosper we have not thought Of until
the piskie boil weevil came TO show
them TO US.
have heard many ways and
schems suggested for one know nc
other way than the ways | have seer
work
In my younger days. in fact the
second position I ever held. was with
a relative Of mine in West Virginia
who owned a very large mercantile es-
tzblishment and bought the produce
Of the Haehers Greek Valley, and to
this day he is in business there.
vent with him in September Is9s,
the produce season was just COM
mencing. l had never seen chickens
and turkeys sold BY car lots
do not call to memory the number
Of cars shipped that winter. Of live
and dressed poultry. bot they wers
many. Our markets were PhilaSelp-
ala. Baltimore. Washington and Ne~
York
IL Is true. we have not the markets
TO ship TO here. bat we can n&rks'
all Of the produce that Lafayerts
e0uaty can proiaee az three times IN
price that we got on Eastern markets
/ II eur farmers can prod1ee thess
commodities at cost of eents PEI
pound ard market them here On ieea
markets at Is cents. casa. Is ther'
not money in it, Why. we farmer,
shczld BE pleased a. the ext look
7 II xe look 1t the present coalition
lust stop and think Of cur Northe1
farmers who feed their cattle min
months out Of the year. sell At n
same price we do; raises chickens
/ hogs. horses, mules and get the sam'
price Ne get st q cost Of Is per cen
/ more than IL costs Us We can fee
three months OUT Of the year, rais'
just as good COWS. just as good mules
Just as good horses as can be raise
in any part Of the United States
Does II occur TO You the nztura
advantage we have over any sertio'
Of the United States and that We hay
been wasting our time these man
years robbing cur soil with eottor
Nov we have to redeam our soil i
order to grass IL
Lafayette county viii prodnc
lIespadeser. and Bermuda Virgin
and Kentnekes produces blue gras
supposed to be the best pasture
But Bermuda Is supe
grass for pasture Of that Of blu
grass. one acre Of bermuda WI
pasture under ordinary condition
three head Of cows. while blue gras
viii only pasture one head to the aer'
Ts@ sir-e Is now At hand when Il
Iznd owners mast act and that
once Tariff viii overcome any d
stzele and il we clear up our bras
patch. get our lands In first class eci
dition for pasture. and the corn l2nS
for the coming years properly pr
pared; get plenty Of chickens, pleni
Of hogs, start cur heards Of catti
; Quit iuquring about the boil weevil, ]
him 20. He has come to stay. l Il
= one mean to starve him, cam
afford TO feed him
NJ. DENNISoN-