The Neshoba Democrat., 1922-08-03

will preside at the coming session.
$95, ,150 worth oil chickens and eggs
per year; IL, 734 hogs per year about
enough for four hogs to every farm
family In the county. Why can not
we produce enough meat for the
whole country? We produce so bu.
OF apples per tree per year; 1.S6 bu of
peaches per tree per year; approxi-
mately 2 bushels of pears per tree
per pear; 4.94 pounds OF nuts per
tree per year; 70 of ton Of hay and
forage per acre per year; we buy
or pay out for feeds per farm per
year $53 80; we buy or pay out for
fertilizers per farm per year $41 AZ.
Now gentlemen of the County l
have tried to place clearly before
you the situation OF our county, and
there are many others in very near
~ the same contition. AS study
the situation. some OF the things are
very deficient and some are about
normal but the greatfquestion is;
"What can we as Neshoba County
people do to make this County one
OF the best In the State and one
among the best In the United
States?" There Is a great opportu.
nifty before each and every person In
the County In helping to develop
some of the things mentioned above
and scores OF other things that
could and should be developed In
time. We are now planning to de
velop one OF the greatest agricultur-
ri projects this good old county has
ever known, and we believe that the
Sugar Cane Syrup Growers Associa-
tion will be q complete success when
the people OF the county take hold of
this proposition, also believe that
this is the only successful way we
will ever be able to grow and place
our syrup on the market. l have
been travelling about oyerthe coun-
ty a great amount since January
1922 and have been taking special
notice OF the condition OF the farms
and the types Of soil that are being
cultivated, and / find a large per
cent OF very fine type of soils that
are not being cultivated on account
Of requiring too much labor and ex-
pense to place them into the proper
state OF cultivation. Sooner or later
we are coming to know that we
have got to spend our time, energy,
labor and money on our best soils
and get all OF them into the possible
state OF cultivation. 1t is well
known fact that we cannot still fol-
low our crude methods OF exploitive
kinds OF farming and expect to COM
pete with those farmers who are
conducting and operating their
farms an Il direct and complete bilsi-
ness. with view OF lowering the
cost OF production by growing more
per acre on all cultivated soil.
am very proud to note that the
people are awakening to the fact
that there is becoming a kind OF re-
construction In agriculture and In
other phases OF activities that will
be Of great benefit to good old Me-
shoba County. We have begun to
Improve our Roads in the County
and are placing drainage cannals in
the badly needed overflow districts,
which when completed and the soil
10 got into u good state oi cultiva-
tiOn, Will l,e equal In value to some
u the (clained to be) fine types of
Delta Soils. The value III Our f,lrms
In the county have Increased $767 ,9b2
since 1910 hnt we hope to improve
the soils tive 0r ten times this valua-
tinn IN the next ten years. We have
already begun TO Improve the aeri-
cultural side .oi the county BY devel-
oping sone oi the better soils. hy To-
! lstalIin& 4 better drainage system on