Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-08-18

me, ME a. the tram. n SaId have
nad any support" | told her no
ana she SAID ~ ell / saved you some
thing As soon as We got nome she
went back to the refrigerator and pull
ca out . half Of a waterme 81. ii
looked like it might have been one Of
the melons on this mans wagon
II WIS a NICE melon ana tasted nicer
than it looked. | asked her What
did you pay for this Melon" She
told me a dollar and a half. And Mrs.
James does not waste her allowance
either, that is any more than the
average woman does. Just think of
that man. What is the reason that
happened? Why was the I'm at
Bonneville urab.e to sell his melons
and why did Mrs. James have to pay
Sl.50 for her melon? A lack of CO.
operation. That's all, just a lack of
cooperation.
Surprising in the town of Bonneville
there was an organization of business
men who had a vision, who understand
where their wealth came from and to
whom they must look for customers.
Why, they would have had an orgarl-
cation that would have been in touch
with the markell of the country.
They would have perhaps been asso-
ED verv closely with the county
lssent. The county agent, closely in
Ich with the farmer. wouiH nave
found out how many watermelons were
r1tnpr 70 L., rotcaJ 81 ~ COLL th,S
organization a Chamber of Commerce.
That Chamber of Commerce, with its
executives, would have found out
something about the markets and that
man would not have had to go home
and throw away about $500 or $780,
90 worth of watermelons. That money
did o go into the bank as deposits
at Bonneville
There are so many opportunities,
so many chances to develop your state
that it hurts me to know that you are
not getting the things you ought to
have. When you find a farm of 240
acres of land equipped with all modern
conveniences and with modern ma
chinery, as in Iowa, and then come
down and look at the farm homes in
Mississippi, you cannot much blame
the women for wanting to get away
from the country
And after all the women are the
ones who are going to tell the mer
whether or not they are going to stay
on the farm, You had better give
| d little attention to this end of it.
l Let me say this to you: Get your
7 wives and other ladies of your town.
interested in buying the home pro
ducts. Get them interested in thu
} work of the Demonstration Agent ant
, in the problems of the farm womel
= and their homes.
Here in Memphis our county agen
S working with our Farm Bureau, ha
7 started a club market. The house
n wives have made it fashionable t
= drive down to this curb market to pc
: their vegetables and farm product
+; and as a result is has grown to be
e big success and has almost revolu
+ tionized farming ard farm life in She.
g by County.
| am exactly like my fr.end Mr.. I
B. Clark, who was quoted in the Con
mercial Appeal lately. | hav
never advocated cutting down til
: acreage of cotton, but | do advocat
1 this-the raising of what we want [
eat at home and raising what fee
u stuffs we need for live stock at hon
&c Raise a crop 'for the lands sake
and then produce all the cottor, VIC
Is can grow. If you will do that, Missi
II sippi will soon become the richie.
~ state in the union, just as certain ;
u | am talking to you.
Wilson Mallory handed me a eli
+" ping the other day, taken from a Bo
ton paper and showing the opiniC
- that a New Englander has of Il
~ southern farmer. 1t reads as follow
" The Southern farmer gets up b
- fore ~daybreak at the alarm lof
y Connecticut clock. He buttons h
- Chicago suspenders to his Detrt
80 o~veralls, and washes his face wi
CINCINNATI soap in a Pennsylvan
pan; sits down at a Grand Rapi
~ table and eats Chicago meat ard |
=" diana hominy, cooked in Kansas CT
:, lard on a st. Louis stove: and pu
=" a New York bride on a Kentuc
mule fed with Iowa corn; and plo,
his farm, covered by an Ohio mo
ne gage, with a Moline pillow. When be
vi time comes, he reads a chapter fro
on a Bible printed in Boston, says a pra
err written in Jersusalem, ard crav
.; under a blanket made in New Jers,
eu to lay awake all night listening to t
bowls Of his cur dog, the only hoI
'er product on the farm; and then wor
Us ers why he cannot make more NOR
Is raising cotton"
llk Now you know, my friends,
truth often hurts. 1t hurts me
have to acknowledge that this
pretty nearly a statement of fact a
it is up to the "leaders" to change
You have the cure in your hands
you will only use it!
INT thank you.