Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-09-04

serving OF tbe piauuiIS VI Ihoh cV"''iS"
cncy as well as the whole people of the
State. Among the measures passed
might be mentioned the creation of the
State Live Stock Sanitary Board, which
is cooperating with the United States
government in eradicating the cattle
tick; providing for the establishment of
agricultural high schools in each county
of the State; providing for county com
missioners of agriculture; authorizing
board of SIT. ervisors to appropriate
money for premiums to boys engaged in
the corn growing contests; to protect
and foster horticulture and fruit grow
ing; to regulate the sale and provide for
the inspection of commercial feedstuffs,
and others of more or less Importance.
Other necessary and remedial legislation
will be asked for when the Legislature
again convenes, and it will likely be
granted cheerfully.
Live Stock Sanitary Board.
This board was created by the last
Legislature for the general purpose OF
handling all diseases of live stock, but
more particularly to cooperate with the
United States Department of Agricul
ture in Kidding the State of the cattle
tick. 1t was created in compliance with
request made by the Mississippi Live
Stock Association, an organization COM
posed of some two hundred of the largest
live stock raisers of the State. The cat
tie tick is costing Mississippi more than
two and half million dollars annually
1t has been eradicated in territory ada
cent to Mississippi, proving the scheme
thoroughly practicable. The quarantine
lines against tick infested animals arc
gradually tightening. and it became alb
solutely necessary for something to be
done for the rc'ief of our State Five
counties near the Tennessee line are
being cleared now, and others will be
taken up as soon as these are free and
funds available will permit. This is a
matter of the greatest Importance to the
people of Mississippi, and is deserving
of their hearty cooperation and sup
port.
Boys Competitive Corn Clubs.
The Department of Agriculture and
Commerce has devoted much time and
attention to this work during the past
two years, believing it to be one of the
greatest movements inaugurated since
TIC civil war for the benefit of the
South. Last year five counties were or
ganized and the work fairly inaugurated.
This year twenty three counties have
been organized with over three thousand
boys engaged in the contest and approx
mltely five hundred girls in the home
culture clubs. The work of these school
counties, then brought to the State Fair.
md this year will be carried to the Ma
tional Corn Exposition at Omaha. When
it is considered that three thousand boys
in Mississippi are securing an agricul>
tural education along with their literary
work. that they are being intelligentlp
equipped for the battle of life in a pro,
fession that will soon be considered the
best in the land. there is found sufficient
to encourage renewed efforts for the
future.
Agricultural High Schools.
The last Legislature authorized each
county in the State to build an agricul-
tural high school and pledged support
fund of one thousand dollars per annun:
when certain conditions had been met
1t is highly gratifying to note that fit.
teen counties have at this time located
their schools, and are arranging to com
ply with the conditions. Thirty cOun-
ties are agitating the question, and some
of them will no doubt be successful. II
is believed that within the next five
years nearly every county in the State
schools. Again has the law making bod
les recognized the request of the sgrI,
cultural people for educational facilities,
No State in the South, and probably the
Union. will have such an array of agri,
cultural schools as Mississippi. 1t means
that the farmer boys will be just a
we'll educated as the lawyer, the doctor,
he preacher or those in any of the pro,
fessiCns.
Fairs and Expositions.
Nothing aids in the development OF
agricultural horticultural and live stock
resources more than the Old-fashiOned
county and State fairs. The Department
of agriculture and Commerce has en-
couraged these in every legitimate way
possible. More are being organized Gael
ear. and great State fair has been
builded at Jackson. This work will be
pr secuted until the county in Missis
-ipri without well-conducted fair will
Je an exception instead of a rule. Fairs
not only encourage the proper develop
mcnt of agricultural possibilities, but
tend to keep our people at home. Mis-
slsslppl mas WiChln Che past twenty
wears sent Texas alone one hundred thou
sand good people. This must be stopped
AMI the fairs will do more than their
share along that line.
Encouraging Syrup Making.
In Jackson, as well as all other towns
in this section, it has been impossible
during the summer months to buy
pure, Impressed syrup for table use
';lucosc compounds were the stock in
trade. South Mississippi produces lib
orally of the finest syrup under the sun
OUES HIS WORK IN PRIVATE.