The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-11-17

clover, alfalfa or other grasses. and
usually there are fine cattle grazing,
LABOR on these farms is nearly all
provided by the owner and his fam
lly; there is practically no negro or
fioating population. These people
are WIDE awake, thrifty and resource
fui, and it would be difficult to find a
section anywhere with a more active
| cltiZenship or where the people as a
whole are in better financial condi-
ton.
Bank Deposits Show Prosperity.
About eighty-five per cent of the
farm land of Pendleton County is
sown to alfalfa, clover, timothy or
other such crops. A large part of
TINS Is grazed sometime during the
year. Of the rest of the land, about
ten per cent is planted to corn and
five per cent to other cultivated
crops. There are about 10000 acres
Of alfalfa, $4,000 acres of sweet
clover and 6O,00 acres of mixed
grasses and clovers. Alfalfa and
sweet clover are the principal hay
crops. The alfalfa is cut four times
q year and averages about a ton To
the acre at each cutting. or four tons
an acre year.
The financial condition is shown
by the bank statements. Fifteen
years ago the two banks in the county
showed total deposits of $298,OOO.
Now there are four banks in which
the statements of June /, 1916.
showed combined deposits of S1.lS3.-
519.S4. Also now there is a flourish
ing local building and loan company
capitalized at 100000 in which sub
stantial savings are placed
F1fteen years ago the mortgages
|on farm lands in the county amount
cd to $52, ,613-this small amount be-
ine. due to the fact that the lands
were so poor the banks would not
accept them as security. Now the
farm mortgages total $127,491, and
IN nearly every case this money was
borrowed to buy land or to build
medern dairy barns or other SUBJ
sts 30 improvements. Farm lands
are now prime security, but the
farmers are so well supplied with
cash that the banks are not able to
lend AL the money they have and are
advertising for borrowers.
The largest single industry in the
county is dairying; through this chan
mel alone $660,0OO comes to the
farmers annually. There are three
creameries in the county, all of them
doing capacity business. Yet they
handle less than half the milk and
cream, the rest going to Cincinnati
and other markets. In 1915 the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad re-
ceived $4,000 for transportation of
cream. Six motor-truck routes from
Cincinnati. Covington and Newport
took out great quantities, and still
more went over the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad and by Ohio River
steamers. A great many of the
farmers sell only their cream and |
feed the skinned milk to hogs.
There are not less than 10000 |
dairy cows in the county and conser-
vative figures place the annual in
come from each COW at 500, exclu-
sive Of the calf. These herds, as we'll
as the increasing number of beef cat
tie, are pastured on hill lands valued
at fifteen dollars to fifty dollars an
acre, with sweet clover and blue
grass the chief forage. An acre of
good sweet-clover pasture will Craze
three dairy cows, according to the
Pendleton County standard, from
early spring until the hard freezes
come. Winter feed is largely corn
'ilage and alfalfa or sweet-clover
lay, but where no silage is provided
he hay ration is supplemented by
ground corn and mill feeds.
MANY dairy fa,,,,are ,t;n |
mail patches of tobacco, but instead
If the former 700 pounds to the acre
hey are now getting 1000 to $500
pounds Corn has jumped from fif-
cen bushels to forty bushels an acre,
md wheat, when planted, shows cor
espondingly increased yields.
There are upward of 5000 colonies
II honey bees, all handled in the most
manner, and these yield ap-
'roximately 100000 pounds of honey
year. From May / to December ,
i, 1915, 134.227 pounds of honey
'ere shipped from Falmouth alone. .
Inc man shipped 45,225 pounds. ,
)ther shipping points and individuals :
ent out large amounts. The aver {
ge selling price is about ten cents /
pound. Nowhere is there clearer,
urer or more delightfully."- favored r
oney than that made by the bees s
rom the sweet-clover blossoms of !,
endleton County. r
The county is also recognized |
,urce of supply for sweet-clover c
eed, which is grown for market at v
lie rate of about 100000 pounds a $
ear. For this at harvesting time. r
efore it is recleaned or hulled, the
srmers get from nine to ten cents a
ound. The dealers sell it unhulled,
alled and scarified. Pendleton
'unty seed is shipped to practically O
very county in the United States. Il
al also to Australia, New Zealand, o
nd the Philippine Islands. 4
After all, however. the chief finan- h
al betterment of the people has !,
'me from increased land values. A l,
w figures taken from the official 7
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