The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-09-13
Congressman Gambler and HIS
Experts.


and his corps of agricultural ex-
perts, who arrived Monday to fill
their Aberdeen appointment to adj
dress the people Of Monroe county
upon the various special topics dis
cussed by them. There was already
la large assent lage Of jurors, wit
nesses, litigants and court officers
present which was augmented by
other large numbers who gathered
from the city and country to hear
the speeches that had been an
| nounced
Mr.. Gambler, in brief prelimina-
| ~ remarks, stated that the gentle
| men whose services he had secured
| from the Agricultural Department,
were plain, practical, common
sense, everyday farmers. and would
| speak from personal experience more
than from any theories derived from
book-learning, though they were
at the same time well informed in
that respect.
The first speaker introduced was
Mr.. J A. Bonsteel, who discussed
alfalfa, fertilizer, the grasses, etc,
and demonstrated the value of al
falfa as a hay crop and its peculiar
adaptability to the lands Of this
and other sections of the State.
He was followed by Mr.. r :.
kellogg, the timber expert, who gave
some interesting figures in regard to
the variety and value Of our timber
resources.
Mr.. A. 5. Meeharg, Of DeSoto
county in our own State, made a
most interesting talk on the subject
Of crop cultivation. He addressed
himself particularly to the import
ance of preparation of the soil so as
to retain moisture as a guard against
drouth and the manner Of releasing
the water on low grounds to pre-
vent constant saturation.
Mr.. NJ. o. Eldridge spoke on the
theme Of good roads, and Mr.. r. s.
| Wilson discussed the subject of seed
selection
At the conclusion of these speech
es, which ran well into the after
noon, Mr.. Gambler rounded up the
day with a rousing speech discussing
the condition Of the South and the
South s resources.
All the speakers were accorded
the most careful attention by an
audience composed almost entirely
of agriculturalists by whom the big
court room was well filled. and good
results will inevitably follow the in
formation impaired.
A year or two ago Columbus was
seriously Independently sick
from a distressing case of Railroad
Fever. The delirium of this fever
was attended with such energy and
high temperature that several of
her progressive citizens procured a |
charter for road that should con-
meet with the Frisco at AmOry, or
at Aberdeen with the Frisco and /
Illinois Central as well as our divi-
sion of the Mobile & Ohio. They /
were in such earnest that canvass
ers were put afield who by purchase
or otherwise secured considerable |
private grants of right-of-way and
other essentials, but when the final /
test came for putting the enterprise
into practical operation the fever
passed away and the patient re-
sumed its normal condition.
Another and far better opportun-
ity for the construction of the road /
is now offered by President II. +.
Reynolds of the newly organized |
company, and Columbus will take a
second vote upon the issuance of
$50, 900 in its aid September 30.
While Aberdeen has already accept
ed the proposition and voted the
$50, 900 asked for here, the road is
not nearly of so much moment to
US as it is to Columbus, for it gives
us, at least for the present, no adj
ditional connections, while our
would secure connection
with two other trunk lines that she
cannot otherwise reach. Out of
sheer self-protection, Columbus
should clear her registration rolls of
all dead weight" and vote for this
railroad proposition with practical
She has all to gain and
to lose. The very ordi
nance ordering the election specifi-
cally provides that not a bond is to
be issued until the road is complet-
ed and in operation. Ii Columbus |
1allies with this opportunity, as
some other towns in their over-con- /
idence of greatness have done in
similar circumstances and lost, she