The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-10

in its third year and is growing in
popularity for year to. year. The
management has been of the best and
and the events excellently attended.
About twenty corn clubs in the
various counties will hold their
.roundups during October and are
nothing more or less than one-day
fairs. Some of them will offer spec
ial premiums for other crops besides
corn and live stock. These meet
ings will likely result in a number
of new fairs for next year to swell
the list
Something like a dozen colts
shows are held in the State each
year, being distributed among all
sections. Some of these are held by
owners of horses and jacks while
some are open to general competi-
ton. They are largely attended and
create intense interest.
The Completion of fair season
comes with the great State Fair held
at j. .kson October 9th to Noven
ber 9Th inclusive. This event has
been given space in these columns
heretofore and it is not necessary to
say more of it now.
Three meeting of the greater ..gri
cultural Importance have been held
Meetings that were well attended
in the State during the past month.
and characterized by interest On the
part of those who came. TIL. boil
weevil convention at Natchez was the
largest attended, drawing people
from six counties in Mississippi and
three or four parishes in Lo iisiana.
This meeting was promoted by the
Natchez Chamber of Comm, zee and
was a splendid success. 1t was made
possible by the fact that the boil
weevil had arrived in the tie ritory ad
jacent to Natchez and that some
airy to counterfeit its dam aging eff
ect. The large theatre building us
ed for the meeting was comfortably
filled at all sessions excepe the first,
and at times standing room was
freely used. 1t denoted the fact
the people in that section and begun
to realize the great dan age to be
done by the weevil and their inter-
est in remedial measures While
there were a number ef excellent
speakers upon various subjects, by
far the most instructing and inter-
esting talker of the occa sion was DR..
Evans of Shreveport. Lc uisiana, who
is charge of the Government demon
STATIONS with reference to the wee
vii in Louisiana and Texas. He was
in a position to give actual experien-
ces with the weeyil covering a per-
iod of five years spent in fighting the
pest His advice was particularly
interesting and instructive. and 1t
would be worth great deal il he
could be secured to make this adj
dress in a large number of the Mis-
sissippi that are to be infested with
the weevil during the next few years.
DR.. Newell also delivered an illustra-
ted lecture on the wevil that carried
with it valuable information. Other
speakers upon the main subject as
we'll as others of Importance, were
given strict attention. The meeting
was splendid success from every
stainpoint was made permanent and
date announced for another later on.
The people of that section are deeply
interested in adopting approved me-
thods to compat the weevil, and will
no doubt work the matter out salts
factoriiy.
The Farmers Congress at Lexing-
ton was another meeting of import
ance and splendid attendance. This
meeting was under the direct super
vision of DR.. S. A. Knapp, director
of the farmers demonstration work
with the U. S. Department of Agricui
ture. 1t held for four days and the
interest shown a healthy increase
throughout the entire time. Que OF
the features of this meeting was an
excellent exhibit made by the far
mers Il that county. 1t was select
ed from the demonstration plats
throughout the county and shown
as an example of that could be ac''
Tcomplished by cultural methods. DR..
Knapp delighted the audiances with
two splendid. discourses on agricul-
tural and a number of short talks
on specific propositions during the
meeting. He was located for a num-
Der of years at Lake Charles, Louis
lana, and is throughly acquainted
with conditions in Mississippi A
number of gentlemen spoke upon ag-
ricultural propositions and several
demonstrators gave their experiences
together with the success attended.
1t was great meeting and will be
productive of good throughout the
section form which the attendance
came, covering Several countries In
that part of Mississippi.
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