The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-07-12
AGRICULTURAL
OUTLOOK IN RANKIN
GROWING BRIGHTER
Farmers Did Not Spare Time nor
Money in Making Necessary Prep
arations for Profitable Crop.
Rains Retarded Growth.

The agricultural outlook for Ran
kin County is much better than 1t
was two weeks ago, the farmers are
making good use of this splendid
weather and the fields are taking
on different appearance each day.
Corn is late but is being cultivated
and given the best of attention; the
average farmes seems TO regret the
fact that his corn crop Is not up to
the normal crop on his farm and he
is making amends by keeping the
teams turning every available hour
of these long, dry, hot days, and
the results are most encouraging.
The farmers of Rankin County at
the outset this year planned to put
every effort into making a crop
and did not spare time nor money
III making the necessary prepara-
tiOns for a profitable crop. The
rains begun in February and have
continued necessarily, so far as
making crop has been concerned.
The fields have been prepared, the
crops planted and cultivated up to
this time with very few days when
the soil was in the proper con-
dition. Under the most discourag-
ing conditions the farmers have
kept steadily ahead with a deter
minatiOn that is most remarkable.
Suppose the farmer should lose
hope? The world would soon go
hungry. We are compelled to raise
our hats to the man behind the
plow; our destiny is in his hands
and we should do all we can to
hold his hands high and give him
the due regard to which he is
entitled. Cotton is late, in fact,
we see very few blooms in Rankin
County, July 18th, and our hope
lies in having favorable weather
conditions for the month of July.
In the Fannin community there
has, possibly, been just a little
lighter rainfall-rather, they have
not had quite so many heavy down
pours, one after the Other-as iii
other sections of the county, the
corn in that section is late but
with favorable weather an average
crop of corn will be produced. There
are several corn club boys out on
the prairie who have fine prospects
and the older boys are laughing
and punching each other about how
the boys are leading off. Cotton
in this community is late as a rule
and with dry weather nearly all of
of it will be laid-by in fine shape.
This condition prevails across the
northern section of the county out
to Leesburg and on to the Scott
County line In the ClarkSburg COM
munity the farmers have late corn
which is being cleaned of grass
and is very promising; the cotton
is blooming and the most of it is
in condition to fruit fast. In the
Pelahatchie territory the farmers
have made great strides in getting
crops in shape and the outlook is
much better than at any time this
year. Boil weevils are numerous
and dry weather will be necessary
to outwit them. There are some
weevil poisoning demonstrations be-
ing carried out that are interesting
and will prove to be of very great
value to cotton growers. Mr.. e. b.
Mcdowell, of the Fannin community
is carrying out a demonstration
with the "Weevilnip" treatment;
Mr.. H. " Watkins on his Monterey
farm and Mr.. J. w. McRae, of
Brandon are both trying out the
Hills Mixture treatment and every
farmer should see these fields and
draw their own conclusions as TO
the profit in poisoning the weeyil.
There are other farmers trying out
different plans and treatments all
of which are interesting and educa-
tional. The truckers of the Florence
section are just closing out fairly
satisfactory season so far as TO-
matoes are concerned, some made
good profits and other did not seem
to be so we'll pleased, but taken
as whole the truck growers are
satisfied with the returns OF the
season and will be ready to try
again next year with an increased
acreage. these truck growers are
ready to turn their attention towards
the corn, potatoes, peas and other
crops now and have as good chance
for food crop as the average
farm.
Some of them have good cotton
and are not worried about meeting
obligations. About the same con-
dition prevails over the county. The
best live at-home programs are
being carried out in the Pickett
and Mayton communities where
every farmer seems to not have
been carried off his feet by the
high price of cotton and planted
his usual food and feed crops then
little cotton-sOme of the are
getting into the dairy game on
small Soa1n and arQ dOin0 SOmQ OOOd
farming and not letting the scarcity
of labor, nor the high prices of
corn and oats trouble them in the
least. The time is long since past
when a lazy man can succeed with
the farm any more than he can in
the mercantile or other business. He
must think deeply about world
conditions and plan for the thing
that will make every effort count
for something.