The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-19

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bout our one-crOp system whereby we
put all our hope on cotton.
Yes. They will agree with you and
go right out and plant cotton.
We're not saying the cotton will
come up because a flood or a freeze
may come along and kill it all. If it
does grow more than likely the boil
weevil will get more than its share
of the white gold.
What's left after the boil weevilI
gets through with it will bring a
price determined by the government.
The farmer usually puts it in the loan
and uses the money to make another
crop Of cotton that nobody wants or
needs. We have enough right now to
last us some time.
The idea has existed so long that a
farmer can't be divorced from cotton
that everybody apparently believes it.
Far be it from US to try to tell the
farmer how to farm.
But this paper is going to have
some men in Durant Tuesday night,
October 8, at the City Hall, who do
know how to farm and know how to
make a dollar go a long way. We're
inviting every farmer in this eNire
section to be here at that time. 1t will
not cost any of you one penny. 1t is
meant to be Informative, educatiOnal
and of practical value in cold cash to
every farmer.
Dairy farming and its possibilities
will be discussed by men who know
what can be done on your lands.
They will inform you about what
dairy farmers in other sections of the
country are doing with just a few
cows. They will show you where you
can realize even greater income than
farmers in more severe climates, the
same farmers that even now are en-
joying a greater measure of prosper
ity than you have ever experienced
over a span of years.
Please, Mr.. Farmer, do not say you
are not interested. Make it a point
to at least come hear what can be
done whether you intend to do any
thing or not. We know there are
plenty of you who will not be inter-
ested but we would like for you to at
least give the meeting a trial. You
may be surprised.
We would not divorce the farmer
from his true love, cotton. Wed just
like for him to do something that
will give him a steady income year
in and year out. Something with
which to buy the baby's shoes.
Let's not arrive at a conclusion
without at least an effort to ex-
anime dairying possibilities in this
section.
We're going to have to do some
thing about cotton before long. We
may as well begin now.
The Board Of Supervisors made an
appropriation Of $2,400 in special
session Monday to contribute to ven-
eral disease clinics in Holmes county
during the ensuing year. This money!
will be matched with $4,000 from
the state and Federal governments.
Thus S6,400 or more, if necessary,
will be spent in this county.
There was no opposition from any
of the doctors in the county express
.sed at the meeting. "A large group Of
citizens were present to plead a case
for the clinics. This was unnecessary
because the Supervisors had been in
formed there would be no opposition
to the move and went ahead and
passed the measure. Numerous peo-
pie over the county had already ex-
pressed themselves to the Supervisors
before the meeting.
Thus we take a long step forward
in Holmes county to the health of Il
people.
Lexington Junior Chamber Of
Commerce officials have taken up the
fight of getting highway IL between
Durant and Lexington black-topped
before cold weather.
This group needs support from
people in Durant. A newspaper can
yell its head off about something
that needs to be done a long time
before it can get any action. What We
need now is a large group Of citizens
to show enough interest to get some
thing done.
If members of the Durant Rotary
Club would go together with the Lex
ington Jaycees to see Mr.. Roebuck
perhaps we could get somewhere.
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A little boy came to see us this
morning wanting to know the name
of all the members of the Presidents
cabinet. He said they changed so of
ten that he just couldn't keep up with
them.
We found, much to our chargrin,
that we couldn't either.
How many of them can YOU
name?
Why a cow should be MIXED on the
right side has always been more or