The Tupelo journal., 1908-07-24
Mississippi
Aews

Vegetable production generally this
season seems to have gone considerably
ahead OF that of last year, if reports
from the larger centers in the state
that are devoted to trucking on alarge
scale are to be taken as q criterion.
The production of beans in 1908 more
than doubled that Of the year before,
as the difference between 30,672 bushels
in 1907 and 74,412 in 1908 indicates: also
as to peas, the shipment in 1907 being
1, 93S, as against 10,502 this year.
There were 432,476 crates of tomatoes
shipped in 1907, compared with GAS, $40
in 1908, while the movement by car
loads was Sl6 in 1907, compared with
1,O4S this year, which included all
vegetables.
From all accounts the staple crops
are in as good shape as the truck farm
products, and this is the case gener.
the cotton growers being well
ahead, with good stands, many of which
are laid by, and the plant punched and
fruiting beautifully.
L. h. b. Pope, an oyster expert con-
nected with the bureau of fisheries,
United States government, has com.
pieted a thorough inspection of the
oyster reefs in the Mississippi sound,
in which he gives unqualified approval
to the methods of propagation being
carried on by the Mississippi oyster
commission During the past few
weeks, or since the close of the oyster
season on the LIST of May, the Missis-
sippi commission has had several YES
sells employed at planting shells, over
200, 900 barrels having been used, and
the report of Mr.. Pope lends color to
the belief that if these propagation
methods are carried out Mississippi's
loss through the decision in the cele-
brated Mississippi-Louisiana boundary
dispute will be greatly minimized.
President G. r. Hightower, OF the
Farmers Union, Mr.. r. A. N. Wilson.
one of the district lecturers, and Prof.
Meharg, one of the government agri-
cultural experts doing service in this
state, have entered upon the summer
campaign of education, and have APP
pointments running through every
week day to Sept. 5. While the ques-
tions of Investigation and cultural
methods as recommended by the gov
eminent experts will be discussed at
length, a large part of the program is
to be devoted to the warehouse matter
and the question of using cotton bag
ging for wrapping cotton bales.
Mississippi will need very little, if
any, outside financial assistance in
marketing the seasons cotton crop.
Sixty days in advance of the period
when picking becomes active in the
state finds the farmers in a more indie.
pendent financial shape than for sew
era years past, and if present prospects
continue the cotton growers of Missis-
sippi will be literally wallowing in
wealth when their crop is marketed.
According to latest reports Mississippi
banks are carrying individual deposits
amounting to $40, 0OO, 900.
Rev. w. NJ. Williams, superintend-
ent of the Mississippi o~rphange, located
at Jackson, has issued an appeal in be-
half of six children at the institution
who desire to take college courses. Ar
engagements have been made whereby
these children, five girls and one boy,
will be provided with tuition at $50
each, or $500, with the understanding
that they will work to pay their living
expenses. Superintendent Williams
will be glad to hear from persons who
will assist in furnishing the money with
which to give these children the de-.
sired courses.
A goodly number of sheriffs in Mis-
sissippi have not complied with the
statute enacted at the recent legislative
session requiring the publication of
federal liquor licenses issued within
their respective counties because of the
trouble encountered in securing the
lists from the internal revenue depart
ment.
Bishop Theo DuBose Bratton, of the
Episcopal diocese of Mississippi, will
be absent from the state for about six
weeks, spending the greater part of his
vacation in the vicinity of Lake George,
in northern New York.
A number of little bugs have been
found in the cotton fields around Osyka
resembling the dreaded Texas boil
weevil. Parties who have seen the
boil weevil say the bugs are the genu.
inc article. They are doing some dam
age to the crops.
The union meeting held at Okolona
by Rev. Burton A. Hall, co-laborer of
Rev. Geo. hates, resulted in 235 CONVEX
sions.
The Mississippi Association of Su.
pervisors me at Jackson with a small
attendance, but what was lacking in
this respect was made up in enthusiasm.
President Scott reports the levees in
excellent condition, and the contract