The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-19

Mlllef or New orleans, W. M. COX or Bonneville, Charles Scott of Rosedale, Joseph Hirsch of Vicksburg, St John Waddill of Memphis. These are among the most distinguished lawyers of the state, Messrs. Cooper, Truly and Price having been members of the supreme court and Messrs. Green and Cox hay ing often been appointed to preside in special cases, while MT. Miller was at torney general of the state several years ago.
 J. A Evans of the United States depart ment of agriculture, with headquarters at Shreveport. La. was in Jackson today to tell the farmers and business men of Hinds county about the boil weevil. He was introduced to the very small crowd present by Governor Noel who is taking a great deal of interest in the matter, and made a plain, unvarnished statement of the conditions existing in the weevil- infected districts of Texas and Louisiana and predicting that the same conditions
 would be found in Mississippi in an- other year or two unless the farmers and land owners took time by the forelock and did what is necessary for the eradi
 
 planting of early varieties of cotton, and that all stalks be burned during the win ter months, as by that method millions of eggs and many old insects are de- stroyed.
 MT. Evans told of the habits of the
 weevil, how it lives and reproduces in great numbers, and declared that in q i field that is well infested a cotton bloom is hardly ever to be found.
 The farmers of Mississippi are manifest , ing a great deal of interest in the coming of the weevil, but a great many Of them are heard to declare they do not care if it does come-that it will make their neighbors produce more corn and other food stuffs. and they believe that will be to the benefit of the state.
 The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley rail- road is also evincing great interest in the pests and proposes to run special boil weevil train from the northern county Of the state, starting on December ', and
 running to the southern border. On this l train will be several scientists and expert | bugologists who have made a special study of the boil weevil, and they will lecture the farmers along the entire line l of the road in this state. This special 1 train has been promised at the instance l of President Hardy of the Agricultural and Mechanical college, and Governor Noel. Commissioner of Agriculture Bakeslee and others have been invited to go with the party.
 Commissioner of Agriculture Blakeslee of this state, who is president of the Southern Commissioners of Agriculture association announces that the next meeting of the organization will be held l in Atlanta Ga, on November 30, and that the following compose the very important 1 committee to draft a uniform food and 1 feeding law for submission to the legis- l latures of the various states
 | Guy B. Tucker of Arkansas, Dr. John 1 Carson of Texas, Charles F. Barrett of l Oklahoma C. D. Harris, w. M. Allen B. l W. Kilgore of Raleigh, N. C.; K. w. Ma | 2ruder and B. s. Purcell of Richmond, l Va: R. E. Stallings of Atlanta. Ga; F. l s. Parker of Charleston, s. C.; R. E. 1 Rose of Tallahassee, Fla. B. B. Ross of l Auburn, Ala; W. F. Hand of the Agri- | cultural and Mechanical College of Mis-
 sissippi:iS iS B. Brown of Nashville, Tenn. l R. E. Bluen of New Orleans, La; B. E. l Halligan, Baton Rouge, La.
 1 The officers of this association are H.
 E. .Blakesee of Mississippi president; R. l E. Rose, Florida vice president; John 1 Thompson of Tennessee, second vice pres 1 ident R. w. Kilgore of North Carolina, 1 secretar wand treasurer