Leflore County, MS
Community News
Wheat can be raised successfully in Mississippi has been demonstrated by S. F. Jones, owner of what is known as the Race Track
plantation in Leflore county. He raised and shipped to New Orleans a car load of wheat said to be the first car
of wheat ever raised and shipped out of Mississippi. The yield was 20 bushels to the acre and the wheat classed
as No. 2 red. It was sole for 84 1/2 cents per bushel. [The Gulfport
Daily Herald, 9-20-1911 - submitted by Candi H.]
Jackson, April 26 - A strong company has been formed at Greenwood, Leflore county, for the purpose of interesting
German-American farmers in this section of the country and with that end in view the W. C. George plantation, comprising
1,850 acres, has been purchased. This plantation, once the property of the late Senator
J. Z. George and inherited by his son, is said to be one of the finest in
the delta, the greatest cotton producing region on earth and having a frontage along the Yazoo river of some 10
to 12 miles. [Daily Herald, April 30, 1909 - submitted by Candi H.]
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