The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-01-06
THROUGH
HAZEL
EYES

2l4 counties in the entire United
States selected by the Depart
ment of Agriculture to serve
experimentally with the proposed
crop insurance program.
Ray K. Johnson heads the cam
paign now getting underway in
Holmes county to get 1000
Holmes county cotton farmers
sign up for crop insurance.
Announcement of the current
campaign is featured on page
sever Of this paper and sponsored
by the First National Bank of
Lexington and the Holmes Coun-
ty Bank and Trust company of
Lexington, West, Goodman, and
Walden, two institutions which
are vitality interested in the well
fare of Holmes county farmers.
Holmes cotton farmers are be-
ing asked to contact Mr.. Johnson
whose office is in the basement
of the lexington post office near
the County Agents office for de-
tails of this program which should
mean a great deal to the farm
ers throughout the nation in the
future.
If this experimental program
proves successful, crop insurance
will become a regular thing and
farmers will be protected from
outright crop Misunderstanding it
possible to take part OF the gam
BILE out of farming and make OF
it a more successful business.
We should be proud that
Holmes county has been selected
as n Of 8 Mississippi counties to
make this experiment. It means
our farmers are getting in on
the ground floor and helping
develop the program from the
Discrimination this is a pioneer
movement.
Though the campaign has only
begun already more than l,OOO
Holmes county farmers have sign
ed up for crop insurance, SO the
goal of 1000 here should be easily
reached.
The first crop insurance pro-
gram started in 1912 and was adj
ministered as a part Of the AAA
program. 1913 marked the first
year for the program to be made
Though experimentally) as a re-
gular department of the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
During l947 there were 300
farmers who signed up for crop
insurance, but in 1948 there were
only 800.
It costs nothing for farmers to
get full particulars or this and
all Of our farm subscribers III
asked to investigate the crop in
surance program for their own
protection and welfare.
Whether we are business or
professional people, our welfare
is tied up with that of the farm
er, for ours is a farming section.
So aside from a genuine interest
in the prosperity and welfare OF
and farm friends u interest is
partly selfish.
What helps the farmer helps
all OF us.
Let's help push the crop in
surauce program, and make sure
that every Holmes county cotton
producer has the opportunity to
either accept or reject this crop
insurance plan.
Scout Leaders from all over
Holmes county will attend 9
meeting Friday night. January
z, at 7:30 o'clock at the City hall
in Lexington. The meeting is be-
ing held for the purpose of elect
ing officers and planning an en-
larged Scouting program fol
Holmes county for the New Year.
Parents and all other interested
men and women of Holmes coun-
ty are invited and urged to attend
the meeting, according to Nor
man Weathersby, of Lexington,
who is district chairman of Scout
ing.
Henry Brown, state executive,
of Jackson, will be present and in
charge of the meeting.
Parental support of Scouting is
the weakest part of the program
in Holmes county, our Scout
leaders report.
This is not a good situation.
Parents should certainly be
greatly concerned with the train
ing their children receive-in-
terested in every phase of de-
velopment as citizens of this
county and state.
The young Holmes county boys
who are Boy Scouts receive train
ing they cannot get elsewhere.
1t is the most important training
they receive outside their home,
church, and school. This particu-
lar type of training received by
Scouts is not usually found in the
home, school. or church. 1t aids
and supplements that training,
and plays a vital role in shaping
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