Water Valley progress., October 09, 1909, Image 8

About Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918

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The Water Valley Progress.
Learning From a Negro.
We ran across an old negro the
other day who can neither read
nor write, but who has kept bis
eyes open, and has reached some
progressive conclusions that
ought to make some of our white
farmers rather ashamed of them*
selves by comparison.
When he hauled his cotton to
market the other day, this negro
got a better price per pound than
our white farmers have been get*
ting, because the buyer said it was
about the best bale that he had
seen this season. The old negro
never lets a bale lie out in the
weather, but keeps it housed, and
When he gins his cotton he always
instructs the ginner to put good
bagging on it.
“I have always noticed,” said
the old darkey in talking to us,
"that any thing that looks nice
and good, no matter what it is,
fetches more money. The good
bagging that I put on my cotton
costs twelve cents a bale extra,
and 1 believe 1 sometimes get
12.00 a bale more on account of
the neat-looking bagging, not to
say anything of the better price
I get on account of keeping the
cotton dry and under shelter.”
—Btarksville (Miss.) Southern
Farm Gssette.”
Letter to Dr. P. R. Whitley,
Water Valley, Mies.
Dear Sir: There are tboaaauda
of people saying; "Theft what I
call a good job of paint, it has
worn three years. I'm going to
repaint before it needs it; three
years is enough.”
Those people are a long way
behind the times. There are two
reasons for painting; those people
know only one; they are thinking
only of wear; of keepingont water.
Throe years may be too long for
the looks of paint; it isn’t half
longenougb for the wear, ir all
you want of paint is to keep* out
water, Devoe is good for a crosen
year* in average places, And
that Isn’t all.
The coot of the job is the first
thine to think-ot; and, if you
thing of It right, you needn't
bother with wear.
Bring the Corn Belt South.
The following editorial on Prof.
Early’s speech before the Tri
State Fair at Memphis last Satur
day. is taken from the Commer
cial Appeal of Sunday. The Com.
mercial Appeal also gave a de
tailed report of the speech in a
news item. The eddress was an
doubtly well received, and it is
believed will do much good for
the whole south.
“Superintendent Early, of the
Yalobusha county, Miso , schools,
made a remarkable address at the
Tri-State Fair yesterday.
He showed that the corn belt
could be moved South.
Prof. Early isteaohing the boys
of Yalobusha county bow to grow
corn. He has formed corn clubs
all over that eonnty. Each boy
takes half an acre of iaad, or an
acre, and is taught to grow oorn
under the United States govern
ment system.
The result has been remarkable
Land which formerly grew firefe
fifteen to twenty baobab of oora
to an acre* in the boats ot the
pom dnb boys prof 'aces from
sixty to eighty bnakolo of corn,
Sixty bushels of oom to the aero
is comtnod for theeo clubs. One
acre produced more than a hun
dred bnshela.
That was in a region eighty to
one hundred miles south of Mem.
phis.
The formation of those oora
clubs is spreading throughout
Mississippi.
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