The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-17
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from $50 to slOo per acre on sweet potatoes

from $50 to s1Oo per acre on sweet potatoes this season.
 I wish l had the time to say more Of the manufacturing industries along this line. The prosperity of the cotton mill at Tupelo. also the new knitting mill, both of which are running on full time and doing rush ing business. But I am to go over this line again as early in the new year as possible, when l hope to be able to go more into the details of the possibilities of this section.
 In Texas.
 At this writing I am out in Texas. where I am holding a ten days series of farm CTS meetings. I am greatly interested in this work here also The Texas farmer is greatly interested just now in this question of diversified farming. We are arranging with our associations here for the planting of 5000 acres of cantaloupes next year, as well as line of other early crops
 It's the same old story out here You hear so much about the boil weevil and their damage to the crop, yet as l pre- dicted last summer the farmers have made more cotton than they will ever gather There is lots of cotton yet in the fields going to waste, and lots of 1t Will be plowed under again next spring. or course, there may be sections where this is not the case. but 1t is so all along our line from the Red river to Brownwood. It Is late in the season, nearly Christmas, the weather is cold for Texas, and the farmers cannot secure help to pick cot ton, so that a good per cent of what is out is likely to remain out and be plowed under next spring. My opinion is that the blight is doing as much damage to the cotton crop in this state as is the boil weevil, for this blight effects much larger area.
 This black blight may be largely pre- vented by the use of kamit, using from 300 to TOO pounds per acre and applying just before planting the crop. Wheat is looking well out here, and there has been a good acreage sown along our lines in Texas
 The Prosperous West.
 I came here from Kansas City, crossing through Kansas. Kansas is prosperous and has great reason for boosting and re- joicing. for she has in her banks S130.O00,- GOO, 5700O. GOO bushels of corn in her cribs, 52000,000 bushels of wheat in her bins. and of fat stock-horses. mules. cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry-there is scarcely any reckoning, while she also has the great est hay crop with which to feed this stock ever known in the history of the country.
 With continued good crops in the west this country will soon become ndepend- ent of the financial manipulations of New York, and Wall streets financial power will be a thing of the past. that is so far as being able to produce finan- cial panic at will. The east is now bor- rowing money from the prosperous west and the west has the money to loan.
 For the past three years duties have kept me from home Christmas and Thanksgiving. but I am arranging to be at home this Christmas l shall visit the A. X NJ. college, Houston and Galveston. New Orleans and then to Birmingham for Christmas. and from Birmingham to St. Louis, Chicago and Milwaukee, Hope to have something of great interest from some of these places for our readers.