The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-13


of the metropolitan press Of his efforts
to do something for the cotton plant
ers in securing appropriations from
the u. S. Government for extending
the market for cotton and cotton
manufactured goods in domestic and
foreign market. A resolution was
drafted by committee Of which he
was chairman, and adopted by the
Association at Jacksonville, Fla,
which is being sent to every member
ST congress together with personal
xetter from the Commissioner of the
state represented, urging that these
appropriations be continued and in
creased as results warrant. The press
is taking up the slogan and doing ex-
cellent service in the campaign. The
following from the Memphis CONNER
cial Appeal is similar to editorial
utterances from the cotton producing
section of the country:
Recently we had occasion to ask
what had become of the movement
looking to the advancement fthe cot
ton trade with China. The answer is
made in the resolution which was
adopted in the conference Of Southern
state commissioners of agriculture,
held at Jacksonville. It is as follows:
Whereas cotton is the principal money
crop of the South; that this will con-
tinue to be so for years to come is
a matter about which there can be no
difference of opinion. We note with
a degree of great satisfaction that the
United States congress at its last
session appropriated small sum to be
used in the commendable work of ex-
tending the market in foreign fields;
therefore, be it
Resolved; That we, the Southern
states commissioners of agriculture
and agricultural workers, in the eight
annual convention, convened in the
city of Jacksonville, Fla, take advant
age of this, the first opportunity, to
express our appreciation, Of the re-
cognition given our greatest crop and
heartily command the good work
undertaken for the benefit of the cot
ton planters and the manufacturer,
and urge our Southern congressman
and senators to use every effort to
secure adequate appropriations for the
active continuance of this work.
This means that there still lives men
in the trenches; that there is yet
valiant fighting going on to give the
South some little of that federal aid
which has been bestowed lavishly up
on Northern and Eastern industries.
We are given to understand that with
the help of small appropriation for
the advancement Of this work, and
q friendly hand from the federal gov
eminent, trade relation with China
alone could be so vastly enhanced that
a 25,000,000 bale crop would consum-
ed with the case with which present
trade relations with the world devour
a 100000 bale crop. Certainly here
IS an honest incentive for government
action. How much purer, more
universally beneficial and more decent
ly honest for the government to spend
money in this cause than to waste it
III ship subsidy steal. We commend
the resolution Of the Jacksonville con-
ference to every honest member of
the house and every senator to carry
1t into execution, and we would
exhort every Democrat among them,
and every Republican who does not
believe IN robbing the many to enrich
the few, to arm themselves with this
resolution and pay it, card for card,
upon the table as a sound and honest
trump against the grand sas~ny Of
the ship subsidy measured
The Harvey farm near McComb
City is an example Of what can be
accomplished by intelligent handling
Of our Mississippi lands. 1t recently
produced half a bushel Of sweet po-
tatoes that contained only six of the,
tubers., Mr.. Morrow, the manager,
has already picked seventeen bales Of
cotton from sixteen acres Of land and
will gather two or three bales more.
On this same land he raised enough
cabbage in the spring to pay for the
entire cost of cultivation and hand
ling for the year Over 100 hogs have
been sold this year and bountiful
supply of milk, butter and chickens
provided. Some Of this land produced
as high as two and a half bales of
cotton, the fact being vouched for by
reliable men. This is an example Of
real farming and is a testimonial to
the productiveness of the lands in
Pike county. What has been done on
the Harvey farm can be done on thou
sands of others with the same intel
ligent handling.