The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-01
FARMERS WARNED
 ON BOLL WEEV|L Cotton Pest Is Causing Alarm
 In Mississippi HARD FIGHT WILL BE MADE Country Merchants and Planters May Be Hauled Up By Federal Au- thorities for Violation of
 Liquor Laws.

Jackson, Miss. August 30.-(Special)- Commissioner of Agriculture Blakeslee has returned from the farmers insti- ute held at Natchez last week fully alive to the boil weevil situation, and has al- ready sent notes of warning to the farmers of Copiah, Lincoln and Pike, ad- vising them of what Professor Evans of the department of agriculture at Wash ington has to say about the steady ad- vance of the pests across the state. Pro- lessor Evans has been engaged in the eradication of the weevil for several years and is said to be one of the foremost authorities on bugs in the country He has found them in all the counties in the southwestern portion of the state and expects to see them cross the 1lli- nois Central railroad before winter. MT. Blakeslee has called for mass meetings of the farmers of the three counties mentioned on September IA, 15 and 16, at which times and places Professor Evans and other representatives of the govern ment who have made a study of the weevil will be present and advise the farmers as to the best way to fight them
 Deputy United States marshals, or in- ternal revenue collectors, have been stir ring up good deal of interest around over the state recently, and the chances are that at the next term of the federal court here there will be a great many merchants and planters summoned to show cause why they should not pay lot, h11c hn representatives of the internal revenue department have invaded the several counties, armed with names and ad- dresses of parties who are in the habit of ordering wet goods for their customers The revenue officers have demanded s75 of all such merchants and others who have been ordering whisky, but it is stated that in almost every instance the merchant has claimed that he ordered the goods simply as a matter of accom- mediation, that they made no profit on the goods and did not order for that purpose, and have refused to pay the sum demanded of them. The revenue men claim that in ordering such goods the merchant Is acting as an agent for the dealer, and that they are, therefore, lia- ble for the license. The supposition Is that all who refuse to pay the license now demanded by Uncle Sam will be hauled before the courts at an early day. But convictions before a jury of Mississippians will be another matter.
 Expjeriments recently made with cot ton chopper at Greenwood, under the auspices of the Business league, proved highly satisfactory to the Inventor, an Illinois man, and to the planters who gathered to see the operation. The ex- perments were conducted In a field of young cotton planted for that purpose by the Business league. It is stated that one man and team can chop out and thin 20 acres of cotton in ono day with this machine at a cost or not exceeding 15 cents per acre, which would be a saving of at least h per acre.
 The inventor is now negotiating with the Business league for the establishment of a factory at Greenwood, where the choppers will be turned out in sufficient quantities to supply every demand TOT the present-employing the first year about 150 hands.
 The theatrical press agent is getting in his work for Miss Kate McLaurin, the brilliant young actress, who IS 10 tour the south this winter as support to Miss Henrietta Grossman in "As You Like It, having sent out teIegrams from New York describing Miss McLaurin as niece of Senator A. J. McLaurin of Mis- sssippi. This is not true. In the first place Senator McLaurin has no niece In the second place the young actress Is only distantly related to the senator She is a native of Yazoo county. Missis- sippi. her father being Will McLaurin, who was about filth cousin to the sem ator
 r1on Sam Ham, former member of +ba Ieoislature from Coahoma county, and dyed-in -the-wool democrat, has con tr,huted a COW and calf to the Bryan Kern campaign fund, stipulating that the COW should be sold in Clarksdale at auction to the highest bidder for cash ond the proceeds to be sent to the treas urer of the national committee. The sale was to have taken place last Satur- day but the sum realized has not been made known so far.
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