The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-10-07

grees and that the coolest winter per
iods eve see the mercury below 20
The rainfall is about 60 inches pei
year and is well distributed. Artesiar
wells can be had at a depth of from
500 to 1000 feet.
"These lands show that they grow
very satisfactorily bermuda, the finest
pasture grass known in the South,
Crab grass hourishcs, and as one
proceeds northward from the coast,
springs and running brooks and small
creeks and rivers furnish a guarantee
to the stock raisers and settlers that
something more than is known today
is in store for this section. But it
does seem that with the abundant
water, and the fact that the lands
can be converted SO cheaply into fine
pastures, that some easy way would
suggest itself to the now owners who
have only thought of mills and logs
and lumber and lumber prices. l be-
lieve the raising of sheep would be
one Of the easy and most profitable
ways to utilize much Of these lands.
There is perhaps 8,O00,O 900 acres of
land south of the A. & V. railroad
which has lever had a ploW7 stuck in
to it.
Residence property on the coast is
high. Rents are high. Everybody
appears to be on the lookout for the
man with big money who is seeking
either an easy retreat or an invest
ment for his moneys sake. There
are lots of Mr.. Micawbers on the
coast, but they are found more or less
everywhere, still l believe they thrive
here in greater numbers. But I re-
peat, these are a great people. They
are just good Mississippians and want
to be courteous and obliging to ev-
erybody. The mar who fails to get
exceptional >cOurteSies on the coast
can blame only himself.
But while this section has its very
full place in which to live, still in my
judgment it is not in the class with
the best section of middle and north
Mississippi when it to farming
and having the greatest blessings and
comforts of home. There is nothing
IN the way of a crop that is prettier
than a cotton or a cor field of a few
hundred acres. Nature smiled in
making and in doing for the coast,
hut it just laughed u real loud in
what it did for our beautiful section
in its SlOping hill sides and immense
acres of level lands which was seem
almost laid out by the carpen-
ter'S level.
In passing through different sec
of the state, One cannot escape
he conviction that a very large per
cent of u farms are not well kept
and that We need more real farmers
and more money invested in caring
our farm lands. The delta X
.cls in properly cared for lands.
There the bushes are kept down and
he briarS and other growth are cut
the ends of the rows. 1t is in
delta and in east Mississippi, too.
especially. that we see good farm
houses and well built barns. ! am
than gratitied to say hat there
las been ! most remarkable improve
IN our Own Grenada County dur
ny the last ten years in this respect.
Grenada and Grenada County are
where they can if they will
.atch the richest fruits that fall from
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eminent. There are no people on
he globe who excel our citizenship. ,
Ihe best in life is ours if we but show
ourselves ready for it and capable of
it. In passing and while speak /
no of u farms and what our great
has and particularly our sec
| ever anon think that we shall
ever attain that degree Of stable
rogress and prosperity and content ,
lent that we should. until our big c
are cut up into smaller tracts