The Brandon news., February 18, 1909, Image 1

About The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961

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REGRETS don’t bring money back to you when it has
burned up or when you have fooled it away. It takes
WORK to do this.
Put your money in our bank and it can’t burn up, and |
you won’t fool it away.
We will pay you 4 per cent interest on the money you
put in our bank and compound the interest every six months
on time deposits
Brandon Bank....
....Brandon, Miss.
•SIDNEY L. McLAURIN, ROY L. EOX, .W. H. BARNES,
Vice-President. Asst. Cashier. President and Cashier
SIMPKIN S PROLIFIC
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COTTON S
$1.50 Per BUSHEL
Said to be the earliest maturing
Cotton in the World. We ad
vise our friends to try at least
small quantity ofthese seed so
tfrat in case we do have the
weevil this cotton is said to ma
ture before they do much dam- •
age. We also have Early Seed
Corn, Seed Irish Potatoes, On
ion Sets and all kind of Garden
Seed.
Just received a car of Fertilizer
and Acid Phosphate—so you
can start your ,plows to running
early.
New goods coming in now in
Dry Goods such as Percals,
Ginghams, White Goods, Laces
etc. New Line of Shoes in low
quarters in Tans, Blacks and
Oxbloods, the new things for
Spring.
Be sure and give us a call when
you are in need of anything.
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Your friends,
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We wish to announce to our friends an 1 the general
public that we are now open and doing business in
the new Gale Building, on the corner of President
and Pearl streets, with a new, complete and up-to
date line of Dry Goods, Shoes, Clothing, Men's and
Ladies Furnishing Goods, and everything else that
is carried in a first class dry goods store, and we
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wish to say that if you are in need of anything in
our line we will kindly ask you to call around and
inspect our goods. Our mo#o at all times will he
fair and square dealings wi h everybody, and our
prices just a lifile cheaper than you can huv- them at
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any other place, for cash only. A call is all we ask
and we assure you that ourforce of experienced
salespeople will he glad to show you every aflention.
Yours For Business 11
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The Daylight Store,
Cor. President and Pearl Sts., - - Jackson, Miss
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DAIRYING IN THE SOUTH.
IReport of the Federal Bureau of
Animal Industry—Government Ex
perts Have Been Conducting Ex
periments for the Past two Years.
That there is no branch of agricul
ture that is more needed in the South
than dairying, iss the emphatic decla
ration of experts of the Bureau of
Animal Industry of the Department
of Agriculture who, for the past two
years, have been conducting syste
matic field work in the Southern
States for the development of the da
iry industry in that section. Some
interesting facts are to be cleaned
regarding the important industry in
the statement prepared by B. H. Rawl
Duncan Stewart and Geo. H. Whit
aker, entitled “The Dairy Industry
in the South,”. which was made pub
lic today. The report is divided in
to three parts entitled "Southern Mar
kets for Dairy Products” by Duncan
Stuart. “The Milk Supply of Southern
Cities,” by Mr. Whitaker and “Why
Dairying is Undeveloped in the South’
by Mr. Rawl.
The investigations in regard to
the dairying industry in the South
has been carried on by these scien
tists in co-operation with state ex
periment stations, agricultural colle
ges, and departments of agriculture,
and has steaidly increased until at
present a representative of the
Dairy Division of the Bureau of Ani
mal Industry is working in each of
nine Southern States. The work has
consisted largely of personal effort
among the dairy farmers with a view
to teaching them better methods, and
produced good results.
“In the prosecution of this work,”
declares Secretary of Agriculture Wil i
son in a letter of transmittal, “it was
realized that a decided improvement
in the quality of milk supply of
the cities throughout the South was
needed. Insanitary methods of pro
ducing and handling milk was a great
menace to the public health. In 1907
an inspector was assigned to investi
gate the situation more folly and giv j
assistance in applying methods that
would bring about improvement.” Th j
secretary adds that only a small part
of the dairy products consumed in
the South are produced in that sec-i
Great emphasis is laid in the sum
mary of conclusions on thee fact that
dairying in the South is not only a
profitable industry in itself, but that
it may be made the means of increas
ing the productiveness of the soil and
promoting a better type of agricul
ture. Briefly reviewing some of the
improvements which he dairy situa
tion demands in the Southern States
the experts point out that;
“It is found that Southern dairy
men, as a rule, are not using -the
most economic methods in the follow
ing particulars; The production of
the average cow is only about half of
what it should be. Too many of i^e
dairies are in the cities, when they
should be on the farms, hence too
high-priced feed and bad methods of
feeding. Milk and butter of poor
cases where an inferior dairy herd
bring the highest prices.
“It is strikingly true that in most
cases where an inferior dairy heard
had been in existence for some years,
it will be found that expensive meth
ods are being practiced and an infer
ior grade of output is being produced.
“Southern dairying needs improve
ment all along the line. The cost of
production is unreasonably high, the
the price of first-class products is ini
some cases too low.”
me conclusion tne report points out
that the three main points that every
Southern dairyman should bear in
mind, and which can be too strongly
emphasized, are;
Better cows, more home-grown
feed, a better product.
A noteworthy fact developed in the
investigation is that the per capita
milk consumption in the South is be
low the average for the country and
that the use of cream, of which large
amounts are consumed in the North,
per capita daily" consumption of milk
is almost unknown in the South. TSie
per capita daily consumption of milk
in the United States is estimated at
about two-thirds of a pint, while in
the most Southern cities the daily
consumption is less than half a pint,
and as low as one-third of a pint is
named.in some cases.
Several reasons for this low per
capita consumption of milk and creai
are given as follows: Indifference as
the food value of milk, and inherited
habit of using milk in small quantitie
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i an insufficient supply, suspicion of th
purity of the product, and the large
j negro population. It then is declared
i that when the milk supply of Soufch
i ern cities is improved by means of
i better sanitary inspection, and when
JtIie public realizes that an ample sup
J ply of clean, safe milk can be ob
tained, increasing amounts will be
consumed.
“Here is another opportunity for |
improving the condition of the South- £
ern dairyman,” the report states,“As £
the public is educated to realize the ;i
difference in the way good milk is
produced as compared with the infer
ior article, there will be a willingness :s
not only to consume more of that
which is produced in the proper man- j;
ner, but also to pay a higher price
for it.” i:
It is pointed out that in Memphis
and Nashville, Tenn., Asheville, N. if
C., and other places some daries get
one to four cents a quart more than is
others, merely because the public has • f
confidence that the product is pure : f
and clean. j |
A striking example of the unwis- if
dom of not producing its own dairy ; \
products such as creamery butter, ren < *
ovated butter, cheese, condensed milk i :
and oleomargarine and as a conse- 3 j
quence having to import these, food IJ
staples and the estimated financial **
gain if produced at home is shown, ft
is shown that the estimated profits
that could be saved to the South
would aggregate $14,652,727 in the fif
ty cities which now import those pro- :::
ducts to the value of $22,957,82, if jj
184,59 cows were kept to supply the jjj;
deficiency. This would amount to o :::
profit of $293,054 to each of the fifty jjj
cities. It is further shown that 12,- jjj
304 dairy farms, or an average of246 :::
farms per city, with fifteen cows jjj
with the proper,milk capacity on eat’4 jjj
farm, would be required to supply j 1:
these products and at the same time 1 j j j
give profitable employment’* to about j j
twenty-five thousand men.
Notice to AIL
Positively no trespassing on ;
any land of mine or any I have j
charge of. W. C. Johnson, mi
We have been getting
in lots of new goods, and
we want you to come in
and see them. We have
now in stock Internation
al Harvester Company’s
Disc Harrows and we can
get any machinery they
manufacture on short
notice.
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We have the celebrated
Perry Cultivators and
will sooni have the Im
proved Circle Brace Di
verse Cultivators, which
is claimeil by Texas Far
mers to /be the greatest
inventidi in the world to
dispel tie terrors of Bolt
Weevil,
lines. w
We feel that you wil} \
certainly lose as much as
we will by not giving us i
the chance of showing
you through.
We have just received 1
a new line of Saddlery,
Buggy Harness, Breech
ing Strap Goods, etc.
A. M. Shields
Everything But j
Groceries...* §
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