Show i tC t b f 3 4 j S i r 4 p a 4 ay t i ir r a x ty f BETTER DAIRY HERDS Dairying is one of the five major points emphasized in the community development plan at Tupelo Miss liss Twenty Jersey heifers imported from the Isle of Jersey for forLee forLee forLee Lee county breeders are arc shown here in the hands of H 4 and F F. F F. F A. A club members before being distributed to their owners Each heifer costs 1000 SMALL TOWNS TO U. U USA U.S.A. SA Improved System o 01 Reforms Are Needs By EARLE HITCH Released by Features The small community must be regarded as a sec cross sec tion of our common life with economic and cultural resources which will satisfy all the major needs and cravings of most men That thesis expressed by Dr Arthur E. E Morgan one of the leading U. U S. S authorities on the values of small community u L u u L u me uie formed the me ne basis oasis 01 of me community community v development plan instituted at Tupelo Miss The plan now in its second year of operation and hailed as a model in revitalizing ruf ru- ru rural rural f ral communities Rural America has resulted in At Stake development of the resources in inthe the area sur- sur No 6 rounding Tupelo In a Series on a wide scale The region embraces embraces embraces em em- braces five populous populous populous lous counties with a total population population population tion of approximately Diversify Farming Most of the agricultural production production production tion comes from small type family-type farms on which cotton has been the main source of income But cotton has been hard on the land Also it has its ups and downs as ns a money crop So the small farmers around Tupelo are being introduced to an improved system of agriculture The land is suited to intensive cultivation cultivation cultivation and a general program to build up the land is proceeding What is being done at Tupelo is worth the notice of small farm communities communities communities com com- everywhere The best thing about the Tupelo Tupelo Tupelo Tu Tu- Tu- Tu pelo plan is this It is practical The difficulties as well as the needs have been taken into consideration consideration consideration con- con and the goals have been fixed accordingly The plan does not expect to accomplish everything in a day It is based on m a policy that thatis thatis is doing two highly desirable things at the same time It is achieving some immediate re results results results re- re and laying foundations for more important results in the future Interest in the farmers' farmers problems S is s not new in Tupelo The banks the businessmen and the Daily Journal Tupelos Tupelo's looking forward-looking newspaper newspaper newspaper per for years have recognized the importance of making farming pay paya a good return Thirty years ago when the boll weevil did heavy damage damage damage dam dam- age in the cotton patches the banks began promoting dairying For years the Daily Journal has been campaigning for better agriculture The farmers have been urged to look after their soils and to consider consider consider con con- sider growing things beside cotton Recalls Pitfalls of Past This campaign has had the personal personal personal per per- interest and a great deal of the time of the Daily Journals Journal's energetic publisher George Mc Mc- Lean Two years ago when McLean returned from war service with the navy he remembered the troubled times on the farms after World War WarI I and during the depression He was aware that cotton again might bump up against a declining market He knew too that mechanization was not far away and that the small farmers would be at a disadvantage when machine production is fully established McLean determined to tomake tomake tomake make a careful study of the whole farm outlook as it affected the Tupelo Tupelo Tupelo Tu Tu- Tu- Tu pelo region He employed at the expense of his newspaper a professional farm management organization to make a study of all the problems and what could be done about them This was undertaken by the Doane Agricultural service of St. St Louis the outstanding agency in the farm management field The survey was completed and the report filed about a year ago Get Trained Leader The report was laid before a meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing of farm and business leaders and a sponsoring organization was formed to back a program for building building building build build- ing up resources of the five counties which had been surveyed This organization organization organization or or- became the Rural Devel- Devel e r n r s 4 y NEW HERD SIRE Imported from the Isle of Jersey with the 20 heifers was Clemence's Boy a anew anew anew new addition to bulls of the Tupelo area artificial insemination asso asso- council The Daily Journal furnished the money and a trained agriculturalist was employed to direct direct direct di di- the program with headquarters in the Tupelo chamber of com com- merce It was realized that the first big job was to get the people full fully informed of the project and what it aimed to do To get out good attendance at meetings an entertainment program offering popular Hollywood f films ms was presented once a week for eight consecutive weeks in five main communities The results exceeded exceeded exceeded ex ex- expectations as the weekly attendance at the five meetings averaged 1000 By the time the eight meetings had been concluded the council had the groundwork well established for forthe forthe forthe the first years year's program This covered covered covered cov cov- ered three types of farming which offered several different ways to in increase increase increase in- in crease farm income To furnish adequate adequate adequate ade ade- quate markets for new farm industry industry industry indus indus- try home processing was undertaken undertaken undertaken under under- taken in poultry and certain fruits and vegetables having a known customer customer customer cus cus- tomer demand In addition to these objectives the council also adopted several planks in the platform of a community social social so so- social cial pr program gram These included good health including a good diet recreation recreation recreation education the church and the home |