Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-08-18
Agricultural Day a Big Success.

done 80 mGCu 70 ut-p Inc SOulu III Ink
orderly marketing Of cotton during
the past few months, gives this deli
milton OF credit, Great Is just like
morphine. In the hands OF those VINO
Understand its dangers as well as Its
benefits, IN the time of an emergency
it is the most helpful, sooshIng and
beneficial invention OF mankind; but
credit, like morphine, used habltually,
leads but to the gutter
Now, gentlemen, / submit to you
that as the leaders IN the community,
as the men who have your hands on
the throttle of m that one Of
your responsibilities is to see that
the people in your territory learn INC
understand something about the con-
Structlve use Of credit. In the time
of an emergency it is the most help
full, soothing and beneficial invention
Of mankind 1t will help over many
a rough place and when It Is used
properly it is a most helpful and sooth
my remedy, but when it is used just
to get by on, the answer is-the gut
ter,
We hear a lot about there being
no markets for this or that-but jus
lately at the Illinois Central sta
tion | saw an express car loaded with
milk and ice cream en- route from Hi
nois to Greenwood, Greensille and
C~larksdale, Mississippi. also saw
several truck loads of eggs being
: a., 40 s. rnnJ "a =, ,nnt. frnnn Miscnnr1
to Mississippi points.
| likewise saw over a thousand sacks
Several solid car loads) of parcel
post packages and express matter
going to Mississippi direct from Sears
Roebuck & Company, and the reason
why for this is that our city and
town merchants are not giving the
, right sort Of service.
The station master informed me
that these shipments go through every
, day and every night-the volume
saw being below, rather than above,
the average.
Oh, my friends. just drop in to your
, local stores and see what is offered
that is the product of your state and
then estimate what part of the stock
might have been raised at home.
Think what happens when the
;, farmers-who can raise as good arf
4 as cheap hogs in Mississippi as car
| be raised anywhere on earth-buy
0 side meat on credit. First, the farm.
: err in say Iowa makes a profit in rails.
e ing the hogs; second, the man whC
goes around the country and buys VI
e hogs from the farmer; third, the rail
" road that hauIs the hogs to Chicago
n fourth. tn stockyard where the hog
are unloaded-thcy have a charge 70
n the service; fifth, the commission MAJ
who sells the hogs at the st~ockyards-
he gets paid; sixth, y packers
% everyone knows they have prospered
v seventh, the railroad hauling the sid
v meat to Memphis or Greenville o
: Grenada, or some other distributin
point; eigth, the wholesale groce;
:. who must get some little profit; nine
tn, the local haul from the wholesale
u to the country store; tenth, the locs
4. supply merchant. Just think of it
, ten profits, and our farmers wonde
~ why they make no money!
~ When you go home, sit down to you
~ table, look around and make a littI
~ ~ Inventory Of the things you have O
~ it and see how much of your meal wa
~ produced in Mississippi and how niue
y. somewhere else. You will find tn;
Is per cent comes under the head {
Oa being producable in Mississippi, bl
", only a very small part IS proklced
~ your state.
ny Do you think it is an exaggeratic
:" for me to say that the average persc
, in Mississippi eats ten cents wort
ny Of food every day that is raised on
side Of the state? | think it is a ven
as conservative figure. With two nj
". lion people living in the state tn.
" would be 5000, 100000 a day going O.
u of the state for food. Here is
chance to save or increase an amou.
o. equal to 80 per cent Of all the ban
deposits in the state of Mississippi
9W 80 per cent annually! Why don't y,
ne fellows get busy and see if you ca
NJ, not double your deposits?
t" Now | have been around a who
lot with your school authorities, 70
jill county agents ard demonstrate
agents and have visited many schot
and have attended many meeting
pie Often the question has been ask
Jay how many children out of any fam
the are furnished one quart of milk r
day. The medicbl profession sa
the that every growing child not only
hat entitled TO. hut needs p mart of m
the per day. but from what | can S
9oo and learn | do not believe that t
be- per cent of the children in MississiI
W have that supply.
her A grown man or woman is EMIT
to and needs a pint of milk a d.
How many of you folks have a p
the of milk a day? There is a pretty &C
'he market for it without going very f
anu ard there is plenty of pasture, so W
not get busy with the dairy game
an Nature has done everything
t,,t Mississippi that could possibly
~ done. The people have not done tn
IN part. They have been too satura
Vii with the morphine of credit.
who Not very long ago, in the late 81
sell mer, was over at meeting Oh la
ers and their families at Marietta
hev Prentiss County. We had a V
delightful afternoon and after
INST meeting was over | drove over
# it Bonneville to catch the train for M
-, nbiS Inst before we pOt into Il