The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-11
CORN CROP GIVES
 GREAT PROMISE Mississippi Truck Grower Talks of Seasons Prospects WATERMELONS DO WELL John w. Day is Successful Grower of Grain and Garden Truck and
 Will Speak on the Subject
 at the State Fair.
WATERMEL0NS DO WELL

{ states that the tomato growers In his section did not make any big money this season, and that just now they are doing nothing in the way of shipping, the season being over and the truck patches being planted ,o cotton and corn and other field crops.
 Asked to the prospect for cotton l and corn crops MT. Day said that the corn crop was the finest he has ever seen, and that there are a number of fields that promise 100 bushels to the acre. He understands that a great many of the boys of Copiah county have joined the Corn clubs and that some of them have crops that attract the attention of the neighhors-
 The cotton crop Is spotted, as seems 1 to be the case everywhere, and the yield promises to be of about a half crop. There is an occasional field of good cotton, well fruited, but most of the patches show stalks that are very small and unhealthy, and which can not make anything worth mentioning. MT. Day has promised to be at Lucedale Greene county, on August IA, Wlll 1OHlHlSSlOneI Ol AS lCull LII C Blakesdale. and to address the great crowd that is expected to attend the agricultural meeting there on truck growing and kindred subjects. He is good and forceful talker, a man who has made a great success at his busi- ness of farming, and what he has to say is from first hands.
 Just now" said MT. Day, about all I have to sell is watermelons, and have a fine crop on some 12 or 15 acres. l do not fool away my time peddling watermelons, but pile up my wagon. drawn by two good mules and sell the load at $1O-no more and no less-to the merchants, and some days I sell five to six such loads. raise only the long black melons, having found them the best"
 MT. Day always takes great inter est in the state fair, and has been one of the largest individual exhibitors in the state. If every county would spend as much money as does John Day on | the state fair the quarters would have to be enlarged very materially. I
 1 A serious condition of affairs has de- veloped in Oryisburg, Pearl River county, and 1t may require a special act of the l legislature to straighten out the matter. | Until recently Orvisburg was denominat- l ed as a village, and had its quota of officers-mayor, clerk. treasurer and al- 1 dermen, etc, but has fallen off in popu- lation, it seems, and has surrendered its charter to the governor. It now de- l nff n ret fTxr a village has public funds left over in his hands-to be exact, $4.50-and he is at a loss to know what to do with 1t. He has appealed the matter to the governor of the state, and the governor having never before gone up against just such a proposition has passed 1t up to the attor- ney general. That official Is now wrest- ling with the problem, but it is doubt ful if even he can solve 1t, and may pass 1t up to the legislature to say what shall be done with this surplus public fund
 State Revenue Agent Adams has paid into the state treasury the Simpson coun- ty treasury and the treasury of the town of Shivers the sum of $436 each, in set tlement of the blind tiger case that went against R. C. Berry some time since. and over which Chief Justice Whitfield
 
 opinion of the court
 This Is the case in which a good Bap- tist brother was selected from among the citizens to tank up' on the alleged cider that Berry was selling, to settle the con- troversy as to whether 1t was an intox- icating beverage. The result is known The representative of the prohibition ele- ment rather liked the stuff, and before the day was over he was so hilariously drunk that he couldn't hit the ground with his hat Justice Whitfield innocently referred to the samples as a Methodlst brother" and the deacons Of the church came back at him through the newspa- pers, declaring it was Baptist who sam pied so freely of the beverage.
 MT. Berry fought the case through the supreme court and it cost him more than s16oO before he was done with it-or rather | hefore the revenue agent was done with him.
 An interesting fact in this connection l ia that Shivers had permitted It's town | charter to become imperative, ana had l no municipal government, but seeing that s4S6 was in sight, had the governor 10 l commission a set of officers on August 9 and begins life once more, and with a plethoric treasury, as the revenue agent has sent them the money.
 Maj John D. McInnis. representative of 1 the Mobile and Ohio and of the New Dr. leans Northeastern, was in the city today, and being asked how the railroads are taking the proposition to readjust cotton rates within the state said that while the railroads are greatly interested there are business communities that are more keenly alive to the situation than are the railroads, and he predicted that the next meeting of the commission would be more largely attended than when Com
 missioner Scott tried to get his 2-cent pas- senger rate adopted.
 The idea is that such central points as
 Jackson and Meridian are not going to
 take kindly to the proposed rates as a
 business proposition, as 1t Is liable to di-
 vert a great deal of cotton from such
 nlaces to the river points, and give them
 all the business that now comes to them
 under an equitable distribution and under
 a rebilling arrangement that may not be
 law, but which usage has made excusable
 even by the interstate commission when
 shipped out of the state, and which ar
 rangement if changed now, would bring
 disaster. especial to mill towns, and | u,o,,Id mt bene6t the small towns and