Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-11-26
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget of State News Items Gathered By Our Special
Correspondent at Jackson.
AGR1cULTUR1srs IN CONVENTION.
Modern Cotton Growing, Stock Raising,
the Boil WeeviI, and Other Subjects
of TutereSf Discussed

AAOueIH NOIIOH O1VWAnS, SIOCA NdlSAASJ
the Boil WeeviI, and Other Subjects
of Interest Discussed.
The convention of Southern states
commissioners of agriculture met at the
state house Tuesday morning with ten
states represented by their commits
s%ioners, state chemists and nearly three
score prominent planters, agricultural
experts, and representatives of the
United States department of agriculture,
in attendance.
The body was called to order by Presi-
dent, II. E.. Blakeslee, of Mississippi. Mr..
Blakeslee discussed at some length uni
form feed laws, crop reporting, agricul-
ture in the common schools, the Boys
Corn Club movement, agricultural high
schools, state and county fairs, farmers'
Institutes, education on the farm, tick
eradication, feed and fertilizer laws,
regulation of nursery stock, shipments,
highway improvement, and the war on
the Mexican boil weevil. On the latter
subject he declared that cotton can be
grown in spite of the weevil, and warmly
approved the demonstration farm work
being carried on by the United States
department of agriculture.
Actresses of welcome were delivered by
Governor E. E. Noel and Ex-Governor
J.. K. Vardaman. The afternoon session
was devoted to addresses and discussions
under the general head of live stock.
Thu principal papers were:
Progress of Tick Eradication From q
National Standpoint" J. A. Herman,
United States department of agriculture,
Washington, d. c.
Uniform Laws Relating to Live Stock
Sanitation" TAFT Butler, editor Southern
Farm Gazette, Starkville, Miss.
TIL night meeting, which was not a
part of the convention, but a result of
it, was characterized by two notable
short addresses on agricultural and in
dustrial education by State Superintend-
ent of Education Powers and Miss Susie
V. Powell, president of the state school
improvement association.
Modern methods of growing cotton,
the South's great staple, was the prin-
cipal topic of discussion at the morning
session of the Southern States commits
siOners of agriculture Wednesday. The
invasion of the Mexican boil weevil, aud
methods of culture that will minimize
the ravages of that pest, formed a prom
inent part of the discussion.
Among the speakers was DR.. w. D.
Hunter, chief entomologist of the United
States department of agriculture, who
discussed the boil weevil from a national
viewpoint, its progress across the cotton
belt, and the methods being used by the
government to make the growing of cot
ton both possible and profitable in spite
of the weevil and it's ravages.
During Thursday there were further
discussions of feedstuffs and commercial
fertilizers, live stock and the Importance
of tick eradication, sanitation, quaran-
tines, ETC., but the greater portion of the
day was devoted to farmers institute
work showing the great value that is
attributed to labor in that field all over
the South.
1t is conceded that this was the most
intelligent-looking body of men ever az
sembled in Jackson. While there were
few commissioners of agriculture pres
ent, there were several of the most prom
inent agriculturists in the South, Il num-
Der of a. and M. college professors,
chemists from state institutions and rep
r~esentatives of the department of agri-
culture at Washington, who have made
such topics as were under discussion here
their life study and who are recognized
as authorities.