The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-25
FARMERS UNION
 MAKES NEW MOVE Mississippi Members Plan to Use Much Cheap Gotten BAGGING FOR THE BALES Lower Priced Stuff Is To Be Used In Wrapping Bales, Which Will Be
 of Advantage to the Farm
 CTS In Many Ways.
BAGGING FOR THE BALES

Jackson, Miss, June 3.-(Special.) .)-At the special meeting of the state officers and representatives of the Farmers union from different sections of the state, held here today at union headquarters, for the purpose of discussing and consider ing the matter of making contracts for the manufacture of all the bagging nec- essary to wrap the entire output of the cotton crop of the south, plans were dis cussed and resolutions adopted to have this bagging manufactured from the lower grades of cotton, thereby consum- ing thousands of bales which are today stagnating the cotton market, and at the same time secure better bagging. The union takes the position that this not only creates a better market for the cheaper grades of cotton, but will stop the con- sumption of jute bagging, which they charge is an inferior article, controlled by trust and made by foreign labor.
 The officers state that the manufacture of enough cotton bagging to wrap only 2,OO0,0O0 bales of cotton will mean the making of 14000,O00 yards of bagging, which will require over 30000 bales of the
 
 low grade cotton and the benefit de- rived from the sale of this cotton, to- gether with the advantage of having 1t shipped direct from the factory to the farmers will mean a saving to the south of over a quarter of million dollars, and the manufa cture of enough of this bagging to supply the entire demands of wrapping the whole cotton crop will mean saving of s2,0o0,O00.
 Another advantage is found in the statement of representative English mills that they can pay more for cotton wrap ped in this bagging, the raw material reaching them in much better shape, and weights holding out better.
 The matter is now being taken up by the executive committees of every state in the south, and arrangements for the manufacture will be perfected at once. Negotiations are being closed for the sup ply of this cotton bagging for the state of Mississippi, and the officers of the Mississippi union are confident that all other states will take the matter up and push 1t to a successful conclusion
 Governor Noel announces that the spe- cial train to Denver for the Mississippi del- egates and theIr friends has been secured and routed over the Illinois Central It will leave the Jackson depot on the after noon of July for St. Louis,f where a Denver train will be made up of southern delegates. This train will arrive in Lin- coin, Neb, on the 4th of July spending most of the day there with MT. Bryan. The ride from St. Louis to Denver will be over the Burlington and returning will | AL 1.aC ft.ir1 sleeping car reservations should write or telephone to Gov. E. F. Noel at Jackson Governor Noel will be accompanied by his wife, and it is understood that several other delegates will be accompanied by their wives or other members of their families.
 J. B. Burns of Burns, Smith county, an nounces that in addition to the reward of sl00 offered by the governor for the arrest and conviction of Bill Barber, the negro who shot Baxter and Rufus Burns at their home on the 18th of last March, $15o has been placed in the hands of the sher- if of Smith county and is payable for the mere capture of the fugitive.
 He gives the following description of the negro: "Bill Barber, alias Bill Jones, is a black negro, about 30 years of age, about feet inches high, weighs abou1 Ap PounuS, SiiShtiy StooPou' 'ainS i'iioi CT rather tongue-tied, and goes smooth shaven, but at times wears a short, scanty mustache; wears a No. shoe"
 Hon. s. s. Hudson of Vicksburg, mem- Der of the board of trustees of the State Charity hospital asks the press of the state to call attention to the fact that the hospital is being overcrowded with con sumptives and other incurables while those who might be cured by surgical op- erations are crowded out and forced to go elsewhere for treatment MT. Hudson urges that each county fix up and make pleasant it's poorhouse and take care of its own incurables, and urges that the toards of supervisors take the Kings Daughters into their confidence with view to making life on the poor farm not only possible but pleasant.