Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-09-29
PEOPLES FORUM
To The Editor of the Eagle;
Read this advertisement:

To The Editor of the Eagle;
Read this advertisement:
1t is copied from the Commercial
Appeal of the 21st inst.
A Car of high grade Jersey Heifers,
6 months to years old, Clyde S. Hes
ter, Market Agent, Attala County,
kosciusko, Miss.
To read between the lines as the
Editor of the Eagle suggests we note,
that after the arrival of the boil weevli
in Attala County with two years OF
depredations, when there was nothing
left but the brick chimneys for the
weevil to feed on, the people through
the nistrumentality of the Demonstra-
tor were induced to take up the Jer-
sey cow and dairying with the results,
that we are now offering registered
aud grade heifers from suplus, they
nave an up to date creamery that paid
on, last wear, over thre hundred thou
sand dollars to the farmers and dairy
men fAttala county. Now, we be-
gun to employ demonstrators about
the same time.
Now Mr.. Editor, read again from
the columns of the Commercial APP
neal of the same date. 1t happened
a little closer home, in Tate County,
with Senatobia the county site. where
a county fair was in progress.
The Dairy business of the county
will be one of the principal features.
The Senatobia Democrat, the ctunty
paper, will give cream Separator to
the person exhibiting the pest dairy
cow.-The farmers are taking advan-
tage of the lioeral proposition of the
Peoples Bank of Senatobia for any
farmer who has COW or two and an
average ia dozen separtors are being
placed. The Farm Agents say the poul-
try exhibit will be better than ever
The taxpayers of Tate County are
getting returns from the Demonstra-
tor This man is making a friend of
the banker merchants and farmer, he
has brought them close together and
the banker is backing up the Judge
ment of the Demonstration for it is an
established fact, in many sections of
the state that darying has carried and
lifted more deed of trusts. built more
creameries and good homes, than any
other industry yet taken up in the
State. The bankers know these things.
In addition to the dairy work of the
Demonstration in Tate county, about
500 acres of strawberries have been
pledged for another year.
This man knows, that cooperation
instead estrangement, between the busi-
ness elements and the farmers is the
only foundation upon which TO reach
permanent prosperity.
Mr.. Editor, you have creamery at
Water Valley, the county south of you,
another at Sardis west of you and by
the bye, the demonstrators of this coun-
ty has few hundred acres in straw
berries for next year.
The measue of other peoples sue
cess is the measure of our failure. We
have been at it long enough, about
seven wears and we have had all the
higher ups from Jackson to Washing
ton to cal land advise us and the sup
ervisors how to run the affair, and
they are still calling and running the
affai runtil we are plastered two deep
with deeds of trusts and the net re-
suits, are, one Bureau that has at
tempted to run all legitimate business
otu of the county, selling silk socks
and automobiles has built wall of
prejudice between the merchants, ban
kers and the farmers, until we have
reached the point where cooperation
between all interests is impossible.
Another advertisement appears in
the Progressive Farmer from one of
the Carolinas, where the County Dem
onstrator wants car load of Holstein
or Jersey cwos, that will freshen this
fall and the bankers will paw for the
cows. Strange after years of demon
strating, that this county can't get to-
gether on a movement of this kind. 1t
depends or the Demonstration. Stone