The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-04


of the state.
In addition to the foregoing the expert
ments which the department has been
conducting viii be continued, and ar
engagements will be made for a more ex-
tensive distribution of the particular va
rieties of seed which have been found
to resist this disease
The counties to be visited are those
in which the disease has made its ap-
pearance. In the order in which the
visits will be made they are as follows:
Dodge, Telfair, jeff Davis. Appling,
Pierce, Ware, Lowndes, Brooks, Berrien,
Tiff, Ben Hill, Wilcox Pulaski. Laurens.
Montgomery Toombs, Emanuel, Jenkins,
Washington. McDuffie, Columbia, Hous-
ton, Dooly, Crisp, Turner, Worth, Col
quit, Thomas, Mitchell, Dougherty, Cal
houn, Clay. Terrell, Randolph Sumter,
Webster Stewart, Chattahoochee, Ma
rion, Schley, Macon, Taylor and Craw-
ford.
Cotton Rate Hearing.
A new feature has been added to the
important cotton rate hearing which will
take place before the state railroad COM
mission on November 10.
The c. Horace Mccall Co of Atlanta,
cotton shippers, has filed a petition with
that body asking that it issue an order
prohibiting the congresses of the state
from using riveted cotton ties.
The chief objection to the use of the
riveted cotton tie is that it frequently
breaks when cotton is packed tightly in
the holds of vessels for foreign shipment,
and the result is the cotton arrives in
bad shape. This, in fact, is said to be one
of the most frequent causes of American
cotton reaching the other side In such a
ragged condition.
The commission has assigned the mat
ter for hearing along with the general
question of cotton congresses and cotton
rates to the ports which will come up
at the time stated.
This hearing grew out of the efforts
of a Milledgeville cotton firm to get the
commission to require the Central of
Georgia and the Georgia railroad to af-
ford them certain facilities which are
necessary to the erection of compress
at that point.
In it is involved the question of diff
ferential rates on compressed and uncom-
pressed cotton and the subject of cotton
rates generally between the interior and
the ports.
This hearing will command the atten-
ton of every railroad, compress and cot
ton shipper in the state.
Fine Opening at Tech.
Never has the Georgia School of Tech
noogy had a more suspicious opening
than this year when, with 557 students
enrolled in the various departments Pres
ident X. G. Matheson has found it neces-
sary to announce that it will be i'm
possible to accommodate one single stu
dent more.
This applies to the regular departments
of the institution, but the Tech has be-
sides a night school, where for three
hours every night such students as cannot
avail themselves of the day course are
/ given instruction. There are now 1879
students in the night school, and Presi-
dent Matheson states there is room for
90 more But this is the only place where
| there is any room at all.
But If any more regular students are
| IL
| be necessary for the legislature to make
provision by appropriation for more DOR
mitory space, as well as recitation room
On account of the increased number
| Of students the legislature at its last
| session had to give the school an addi-
tional $4,000 for maintenance, and now
| it has become a question of more build
ings.
These students come not only from
oVrvio h..f x,a4~~t 49,.
states and some of those way up north
! and east
! The Tech campus now presents a scene
| of unusual activity, with more than half
! a thousand students getting ready for
| their seasons work. The athletic fea-
/ lures are being given special attention
and the mandolin and glee clubs are pre-
pairing for the best organization they
have ever known. -
The Bitter Bit
| welching horse trader cannot use the
! courts as a means of backing out of a
bad trade, according to a decision rem
! dered this week by Judge Andy Calhoun
| in the city court of Atlanta.
j. r. Orr of Campbell county, wanted
a cheap horse and came to Atlanta Itch
! ing for a good trade. He finally decided
! that r. L. Walters, horse trader, had
just the thing he wanted-a gray horse
which he looked over very carefully and
decided that the animal filed the bill
Thereupon he paid 800 and took his pur-
| chase home.
Later he discovered that Dobbin was
the identical animal that figured in the
| ballad about the man who went to the
river and couldn't git across; he couldn't
even see the middle of the road
Thereupon Orr had Walters indicted
for cheating and swindling, and when the
case came on for trial Judge Calhoun,
after hearing the evidence, dismissed the
case. 1t was purely case of Greek meet
Greek according to the courts view, and
he held that all things being equal, it
is up to the horse trader to take care
of himself and see to 1t that he doesn't
get the worst end of the trade.