Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1920-07-30
CONTEMPLATION WoRTHIIY
BESTOWED.

Editor Beacon:
thinking that a few THOUGHTS ON
the present outlook for a great many
OF our farmers and dairymen in Nov
ubee might be of interest, and even a
ooeneht to some, | am giving you
few of the conclusions reached on the
subject after many years of actual ex-
perlence. The problems that confront
a great many of our farmers TODAY
are quite serious, and while | shall
not attempt at this time to enter into
all the vital questions that confronts
nm. merely wish to offer a few
thoughts on the facts as they actually
exist 'N"'i'
/ The advent of the pestiferous bol
WeeylI INTO our midst has greatly in.
tensltied our problems and If Is n
meet and overcome this very serious
/ condition among we farmers that 7
am writing today. Under old condi-
tons, before the advent of this most
destructive insect pest the boil weevil |
the southern farmer managed under
TINS old system of our fathers-that
OF planting corn and cotton one wear
ana cotton and corn the next, to lust
about make ends meet. If he failed
IN one of these crops, he generally
succeeded with the other. If the first
part of the season were unfavorable
for the growth of his main money crop
most generally, the latter months
would be propitious, and for this rea-
son, he generally made an average 4
cotton crop, but not so now, the mon 4
ey crop-the cotton crop-has to be
made in the first part of the season.
June and July, if he fails in these two
months by reason of adverse weather
conditions, his prospects are blighted
his hopes destroyed. Such a condi-
ton has forced him to change his pol
icy.
In seeking to properly solve this vi
tai question: the. writer has for the
past 20 years urged stock growing
and especially dairying in this prairie
section of Mississippi.
This beautiful and fertil section of
and Noxubee county, with
its magnificent roofing pastures of
bermuda grass mixed with white clo-
YER lespedesia and melilotus is the
place for dairying.
| assert with no fear of successful
that the prairie section
If NoXubee furnishes the most ideal
larry conditions of any section of our
great commonwealth-these pasture
ands growing these legumneous crops
without which successful dairying is
furnishes almost perfect
larry conditions.
Then the second important factor in
his dairy business, is profitable mar
,et, this the South furnishes to the
ullest degree.
In our own section the Macon Cream
Try Co., furnishes a market, better
han the best in square dealing and
treatment, | am sure they \
annot be eXcelled, and in practicing
he policy of dividing the profits with =
he dairy farmers-the men who pro-
luce the goods, they strike the key
tote of a far, just and equitable sys- B
EN-, that spells permanent and lasting .
uccess to all concerned, it is a policy Z
worthy of emulation, and were it per
urng interest of our entire country, =
would bring prosperity and content
nent to the working millions of earth
would insure to us, and our posterity
table conditions in government, pros
erty and contentment in the home
fe. strife and unrest would virtually IT
ease among men, and we would have
ttained to the highest ideals of all al
God men.
While it is not my purpose to be :
verify aulogistic in commencing the m
Of the Macon Creamery or
o.. | feel that no language is too
trong in commencing their policy of al
ividing their profits with. their pa
.ons, and that such policy can only a
acure permanent and lasting success
Or them. That the dairy interest VI
nth this liberal treatment will con hi
nue. to grow and prosper in our sec CT
ion and be a vital factor in the per n,
lament upbuilding of this part of the "
tate. "ClNlS."