The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-21
POOLE IS DUBIOUS
 ABOUT TIE PLAN Boil WeeViI Convention Cannot
 Do Much Good
  FARMERS IN GOOD SHAPE Examination For Rhodes schoIarshlu From Alabama Is Soon to Be
 Held at Montsomery-HiH
 Back From Fayette.
FARMERS IN GOOD SHAPE

l Montgomery OeceluDef N-(SpeCtal.)- Commissioner of Agriculture R. R. Poole does not believe that the result of the boil weevil convention, held last week at Shreveport, will have any effect worth mentioning towards hindering the little pest in it's destruction of the cotton cron of the country. While the meeting will no doubt result in great good to the cotton growing classes, Mir Poole does not think that anything was offered wk.ch will prove effective in stopping | the eastward movement of the weevil. He accounts for the minimum of damage during the present season in the special- ly dry weather that has prevailed. The weevil loves wet seasons and rank foliage and when there is rain and generous stallSage this little bug gets in his work in the most destructive way.
 Mir. Poole is very much in favor of the Witham plan of the Southern bankers ] establishing warehouses and aiding the 1 farmers to hold cotton until such time as the spinners have to have it. thereby | artifcially holding 1t up to high price. | He believes, with MT. Witham that this will bring about uniform price of at least 10 cents through all seasons, and will go to Atlanta to attend the meeting of southern bankers on January 24 pre- pared to uphold MT. Witham in his propo- sition.
 Farmers We'll of.
 | Speaking of the condition of the farmers at this time, MT. Poole says that they have more corn and meat and forage, and more of them are out of debt and have money in the bank than at any time since 1860. He believes that at least 40 per cent of the present cotton crop is still in the hands of the producer and middle men, and expects that 100000 will be carried over into the next season. He also believes that the acreage will be largely reduced next year, and is urging Alabama farmers to this end.
 Judge J. O. Carmichael president oi the state convict board has returned from a weeks stay in South Alabama Ir talking about the condition of the farm ing classes he said: T have never known the people of my section of the state tc be so well fixed as they are at this time An enormous amount of meat has beer killed within the past three weeks, and l all the people have corn and forage and food for themselves enough to make next | years crop without going in debt. There has never been in the history of the coun. try such crop as was raised this year Old land that had never made much oi a showing before turned out bale oi | cotton to the acre, and in many places farmers made two bales of cotton where they did not expect to gather more thar one."
 Rhodes Scholarship.
 An examination for the Cecil Rhodes scholarship from Alabama will be helt at the state capitol by W. F. Feagin secretary of the state board of examln- CTS, on January 1T and IS. This scholar ship will be awarded by a committee oi educators of which President J. w Abercrombie of the State university 1: chairman. Mir. J. H. Kirkpatrick of Mont gomery was the first Alabama man tC be given one of these scholarships, ant is now at Oxford, England. at work. These scholarships were provided fol in the will of the late Cecil Rhodes, tht great Englishman who spent most of hii life in the development of Africa, and are worth s1500 for three years. The ex animation is not competitive simply qual flying. All applicants must be over I and under 25 on October l next and un married. They must have reached tht sophomore in some degree granting insti tuition, and must be examined on arith metio, geometry or algebra, Creek anC Latin grammar. translation of Englisf into Latin and be able to read one Greel and one Latin book.
 HlIl Is Pleased.
 State Superintendent of Education I
  ty, where he attended teachers insti ute at Berry last Friday and Saturday He is very much elated over the work fir that part of the state, and believes that the county will vote next year to levy c special tax for educational purposes. The new superintendent, MT. Walter Bar nard, is getting the work well in hand and will soon have the county thorough. ly organized. On Friday evening an old maids convention was held as an enter. tainment to raise money for improving the school house at Berry, which is al ready one of the best in any town of its size in the state. MT. Hill will go to Mt Meigs tomorrow to make speech on cd ucational work, and to aid in the dedi- cation of a handsome new school house He will likely also pay visit to the Waugh institute, a negro industrial school near Mt. Meigs This school has about 300 negro pupils and is doing a good work.
 The Bank of Clanton has been organ. ized at Clanton with capital of $1b,OO0 J. P. Hayes, P. D. Wilson, A. J. Mullins N A. Kicker, W. A. Sarton and E. A. Matthews are incorporators
 The following gentlemen have returned from a hunting trip in Louisiana; Virgil Griffin, Robert Tate. Sam 5mithers Montgomery; George w Sherling, Birm- ingham; Dr. W. H. Blake Sheffield; R T. Erwin and E. H. Britton, Mobile. They killed eleven deer.
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