Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-02-16
CANNING FACTORY. WOULD Be
PAYING INDUSTRY IN OXFORD

kick at this.
Go in to your grocery store, look
over the can goods; then think how
many different kinds of the stuff your
own groceryman is selling can be put
up right here in Oxford, and the quail
ity just as good. Think of the amount
of freight that would be saved on these
goods which are put up in Ohio, Illi-
nois, Indiana, and other northern
states.
We can do it here in Oxford. We
can find ready demand for hundreds of
tons of canned goods here in the south
We can place with two or thre differ
ent jobbers the entire output OF the
plant, let it be much or little. In case
the market is off, staple stuff of this
character can be placed in warehouses
and banks will advance money on the
certificates, if need be.
If you are interested in making Ok
ford a truck growing and canning
factory town, signifng your readiness
and willingness to boost a proposition
of this kind by writing us, stating that
YOU are ready to subscribe to the limit,
which will be only $4,000 to any one
person. If you are farmer, want to
see such an industry located here, let
us know it by saying that you are
ready to subscribe to the limit, and
that you will pay so per cent in truck
this summer and fall.
Remember that the factory will not
be the only outlet or market for your
produce. Not by any means. 1t will
serve as protector for you in the
growing of truck. For instance. if
the market on cabbage or tomatoes
| is off to the extent that you cannot
realize freight on them, then you
would sell TO the factory; or have
your stuff canned on the toll basis,
| Just as you preferred. You would not
lose what you had grown, but would
realize a good profit on everything.
The factory mentioned would not
attempt to take care of all truck that
would be grown in the county, because,
if the farmers go at it right, million
dollars worth of truck can be shipped
/ from Oxford every year. There is
no doubt but this is great trucking
section; but trucking is different from
growing cotton. You can. not turn
it over to an ignorant negro and
ever hope to make any money out of
| it. You must give it your attention and
stay with it until you get the money
i'll your pocket.
Trucking, dairying, raising hogs and
poultry, and plenty of food and feed
stuff can be made more profitable
than cotton ever was. With the motor
cars truck farm fifteen or twenty
miles out from town means no further
than three miles used to when we de-
pended on the poney and the cart, and
mud up to the axle to get to market
There IS no room for grumbling, no
fine for arguing this an1tter; you
have arrived at the place where it IS.
up to you to go to work do something
or starve.
We have a great opportunity here to-
make money. We have the most
|healthful locality in Mississippi. We
have soil adanted to growing truck
and the short winters which are es-
pecially favorable to stock and poul-
try. J.
Get few cows, few hens, and q
few acres in truck with good corn
and oat crop with sorghum and peas
and peanuts for feed stuff and you will
get by, you will make more money
than you ever did make raising cot
ton.
1t is no trick. to make an acre pro-
duce $500 worth Of truck in one sea-
son; plenty of people are doing that;
lit is common in trucking territory
Some make more than $500 to the
acre. You can't do it with cotton.
Let us get busy and organize can
ming company, put in q factory and go
in to the trucking business for money
and we will get It.