The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-04
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Bonner on Home Building, and Orch
ards. Prof. q. III. Afford made two
able speeches on Soil Fertility and the
use of labor-saving farm implements.
Many questions were answered by the
professor.
There were about 600 presents at Nc
Cool to listen to the scholarly GRAFTON
delivered by Prof. d. G. Hall on the
Ideal Citizen. Col. Bonner spoke on
the Importance Of beautiful homes,
good schools, churches, and in fact, on
everything calculated to uplift the
farmers.
Col. Afford stirred the farmers by
palking on the subject of Diversiication.
He urged the farmers t. have good
gardens and fruit orchards, milk, butter,
pork, rice, beef, chickens, eggs, and in
fact, eyerwhing good to eat that is
grown on any farm. He urged them to
raise everything necessary for home
consumption and let the cotton crop be
D surplus one.
About 800 farmers and their families
listened to the speakers at Affords
Springs. There were many young peo-
pie present and Col. Bonner spoke in
The main to them. He urged them to
study farming as the lawyer and doctor
study their profession AID then to mar
ry and build and maintain beautiful,
happy country homes. Mr.. Afford told
them how to make money on the farm.
He said that our land ought to yield
one bale of cotton instead of One-thlrd
bale and that we ought to cultivate
from thirty to forty acres per hand in
stead of fifteen.
The farmers are now great friends OF
farmers Institutes. They now realize
fully that the lecturers sent out by the
Mississippi A. & M. College and Ex-
pertinent Station are not theorists, but
practical men who have studied the
science of agriculture.
An effort will probably be made at
the next session of the Legislature to
pass a bill making an appropriation to
buy a silver service for the battleship
Mississippi, which is now in process OF
construction. The b~attleship will be
ready some time during the next W
years. 1t is customary for the States
after which a battleship is named to
present a handsome silver service to
the ship, and Mississippi will be no ex-
ception to the rule. 1t is not antici-
pated that there will be any trouble in
getting an appropriation for this pur-
pose.
All prospective students of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College should
make application to their County
Superintendent of Education on or be-
fore Sept. IA, the same also applying
to the girls desiring entrance to the
Industrial Institute and College. Every
county in the State is allowed a certain
number of scholarships in these insti-
buttons and they are being very greatly
sought after. During the past few
years the attendance at both institu-
lions has been very large, with more
applying in each county than the county
was entitled to.
Industrial Commissioner ]. c.. Clare of
the Illinois Central railroad has con-
cluded a deal with Gov. Vardaman
whereby that road becomes the owner
of the best part of the Mississippi ex-
hibit at the late st. Louis Fair. This
exhibit will be seen at the Industrial
Exposition to be held at jackson in
November. Manager Mckay has as
signed to the Illinois Central road all
u lldll LII tlC oid
Capitol in which to make their display,
which is expected to be one of the hand
soonest ever seen in the State.
The report of Sergeant Dodds of the
penitentiary for the month of July
shows forty new convicts received dur
ing the month, as compared with six
teen received for the same period last
yea Murder and manslaughter con-
tinue to be the most prolific source of
increasing the prison population, the
division for the past month being as
follows: Murders, s; manslaughter, z;
criminal assault, 3; attempted criminal
assault, l; assault and battery with at
tempt to kill and murder, 6; forgery, 2;
burglary, 2; grand larceny, 2. The re-
mainder were sent up for various minor
crimes.
About fifty families from Illinois are
to be located in the neighborhood of
Durant and will embark in the vege-
table and fruit industry. These fami-
les have been induced to locate there
through Capt. j. F. Merry, General
immigration Agent of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad. They are Italians from
the northern part of Italy who have
been in this country for some time, and
it is stated that each family is to have
about forty acres of land.
Vice-President G. L. Loop of the
Southern Express Company, has notified
the Railroad Commission that the COM
pany will make a reduction of so cents
per 100 on short hauls over the Gulf
and Ship Island Road. He requests
that the hearing of protests against ex-
listing rates charged by express COM
panies in Mississippi be deferred until
the regular meeting in October.
The Lewis J. Parker Stave Company
has closed a deal for 1870 acres of land
near Senatobia. Five hundred acres of
the land is in cultivation, and that part
alone brings an annual rental of 81, 100.
The timber, however, was'the greatest
attraction, as the company calculates
getting 5000, 900 feet of yellow poplar
and soc, 900 feet each Of hickory, ask
and gum. The crosstie item will be a
big thing, possibly some $4,000 or $780,
600 worth.
Hon. A. A. KincannOn, President OF
the Industrial Institute and College,
held a conference with Gov. Vardaman
in regard to the affairs at the college.
stated that there had already been
enrolled over 800 young ladies for next
session, and more are clamoring for
admittance. In speaking of the facili-
ties at the college and the need for
more room, President Kincannon said:
I'VE have no funds available for en-
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