The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-11
CORN AND COTTON ARE BOTH INJURED Poole Thinks Crop Will Not Be
 Over 950,OO0 BIG LOSS TO COTTON SEED Notable Improvements Are Being Made at Court Street Methodist Church.
 Other News of Mont
 gomery.

| Montgomery. October i0.-(Special)- 1 Commissioner Of Agriculture k. R. Poole.
 tho has had for several years q good 1 idea of the crops of Alaboma and has | fept in touch with them all the time, Is
 convinced that the recent storm inflicted
 eamage of at least 25 per cent to the cot 1 ten and b to the corn. He Believes that
 the cotttn crop of the state this year will
 not be over 950.0O0 bales. Corn is much
 more severely hurt than was at first sup posed.
 One of the most serious situations" said MT. Poole, Ifs the rur of the cot
 ton seed and . am afraid there Is going to be a great deal of trouble to get erough to put Tn the crop of next year. AS I have said before. they have routed in the cotton bolls and are ve;ueless when so affected. This will make 1t hard for ply of next year, and will. believe. be a cause fo. short crop in the following season.
 T waut to call attention of the farmers to the danger of feeding the bad corn 10 their stock. This Is likely to result In their death snd great lo.s in this Way {. The gran should be selected with care So that the poisons incident to the con- tnct wiSl the earth will not set the horses Il q m lies on the farms.
 Tt is row tin1e to SOW oats and begin to prepare for the next year, and 1 be- Isve notwithstanding the 2isaster to the farm i.',erests the tillers of the .oil will get on tci) next year. If .nere had becn no trouble this year they would ha e i teen out of debt and able to begin 1907 , c'ean But they will coma cut and with il 2h 'rl es for the cotton raised aad
 :he outl'Ck for small crol. of the staple next yea" the future IS net so daIk. i though the blow was one of 'le worst the Alabama farmer ever had D strike hin." MT. Poole has been very accurate in lis cro Information and lls given sonae sood advice during the past year. He keeps in touch with the wa situation, te'ng a large rlanter as yell q stata n1cial
 MT. ',o'es .flce has received 9 report on some eevis sent ". T. Clarke, ent mologis- at tn, Auburn cohege, few days as. He says trey are of the COW Ica wacNil class and not capable )f
 os-eding in cotton b2lls. though do dam ee wheo they get there. hs bugs were
 f.und on the antat.on ot County Treas
 Ser Co,nrane Lear the clt..
 Loss to Seed.
 The latest item of storm damage talk is the harm done the cotton seed crop of the state. which experts now place at s1000,000 This is in addition to lowering the grade of the cotton
 and the destruction of the staple open in the fields.
 Cotton seed men from every SOC ton of the state are agreed that the
 loss will exceed $4 ton on seed which will mean great deal to the state In the final wind up. It Is shown that in many cases where the seed have been exposed to the weather that they have routed and are of no value
 They can be taken fin the hand and crushed easily.
 It is estimated that seed would have brought $13 a ton this year If 1t had not been for the storm, but that the mill men will not be able to pay now more than $9. and that at that price they will be taking great risk If the seed are as badly damaged as was thought they will be worthless for oil
 as they will be for planting This will cut everyway, not only taking away the value of the seed but cutting down the working time of the laborers at the cotton seed oil mills
 Along this line 1t is estimated that the loss to Alabama farmers because of the storm of September 28 will be SC, 900, 900, and that 1t will take twelve months or good time to get them back on a solid footinG
 Improving Church. Court Street Methodist church, one of the oldest in the city; a place where Jefferson Davis and other notables of the Confectionery Worshipped, Is just possessed of a new Sunday school room of the most modern type, called the Lo- max annex, a memorial by his mother to the late Tennant Lomax, we'll known all over the state. It Is to be oc- cupied next Sunday with appropriate ceremonies, and attended by a pro- gramme to take In some of the best features in the entire Sunday school field.
 The whole day services of the church will be given over to the oc-
 casion. the exercises to be held at II o'clock. Dr. John A. Slice. pastor. will
 have a talk on the work of the con