The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-09-02

county seat"
The live stock interest had th'
banner day of the Farmers Insti
tute, and created more interest thar
any subject on the program
Dairying, which promises tc
wrought wonders in Mississippi
had no better authority than the
distinguished autor on milk pro-
duction, H. D. Gurler, formerly ol
Champaign, Illinois, but now oi
Noxubee county, Mississippi, tc
Iaddress the audience. Mr.. Gurler,
who has farmed in Illinois, thinks
there is no farming country that
will give to the animal husband
man more returns per acre and COW
than Mississippi. All these glow
| ing accounts from outsiders and
insiders are marred by one speck
on the horizon and that is the cat
tie tick. This phase was ably ex-
pounded by Prof. Archibald Smith
before the Mississippi Live Stock
Association. He showed that our
losses from the tick in Mississippi
was So, 500, ooo annually in the de-
preciated price of our cattle, the
deaths from the tick fever and the
decreased value to the county as a
taxing medium. The county of
lOktibbeha alone (the best stock
county in the state) sustains a loss
of $40, 1000 annually. Prof. Smith,
as a member of the Live Stock
Sanitary Board, reports that with
an appropriation of $4,000 by the
last Mississippi legislature to Grad
icate ticks that there are five coun-
ties free from ticks, viz: Marshall,
DeSoto, Tate, Tunica and Quit
man. That the Federal Govern.
ment will take them out of the
qoarantine line and they can ship
cattle in the future and market on
an equality with those north of the
quarantine line.~ 1t has raised the
value of their live stock Sos, 900 a
year. Prof. Smith asked the sups
port of the Association to go be-
fore the legislature in January with
| its endorsement for the sum of
| $685. 600. This amount created a
debate and Prof. Smith, assisted
by G. H. Afford, county commits
sioner of Claiborne county, carried
the day for the purpose of securing
this amount to give the people OF
the boil weevIl district relief by
commencing from Coahoma coun-
ty down the river and going east.
This amount will be wisely spent.
The boil weevil infected district
will get a relief because they have
a remedy to eradicate the tick, but
there is no panacea bound to put
pestierous boil weevil out of busi-
ness. All depends on the MEM
bers of the legislature, and We boil
weeyiI stricken people must urge
on the senators and representatives
the passage of this appropriation.
1t will take S., 1000 per county to
take it out of the tick quarantine
line, and then we can have better
stock and better prices for them.
The Horticulturists had the clos
ing day. Truck masters gave their
ideas and they laid stress on diver
styling in truck farming to sue
ceed. That twenty acres was
enough for the truck farmer to
handle. Some years ago little
book created a sensation, "Ten
acres enough" that was not
enough, SO Robert B. Roosevelt
wrote Give acres enough" now
the Mississippi Trucker says
"Twenty acres is enough"
E. R. Lloyd, Director of Farm
ers' Institutes, wishes to have many
gentIewomen at these institutes
next year and will have some MEM
Der of the gentle sex to address
them on horticulture, Horticulture
and poultry raising.
Claiborne county was represent
led here by Hon. ]. M. Taylor, B.
II. Wade. G. A. Taylor, w. A.
Fife, John A. Lord, II. w. M.
Drake, A. A. Maddox, w. Y.
Hughes, R. H. Morehead and
James F. McCaleb, M. D.
JAS. f. McCALEB, M. D.
| Aug. 2oth, 1909.
| Pertinent Recommendations.