The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-12
SECOND DIVISION IN SUPREME COURT Will Be the Last Call for the
 Term THE FERTILIZER TAGS Sales For Eight Months Reach $1o4,- 752.5o, an Increase of $11, ,1o3.41
 Over the Same Time Last Year.

Montgomery, June 11.-(Special )-The supreme court will have the last call of the term next week, when the second division will be up This is composed of the counties as follows: Bibb, Croc- taw, Dallas, Greene, Hale Marengo, Per ", Sumter and Wilcox. There will be session on Tuesday and Thursday, the latter being the last motion day of the term.
 It is not likely that the justices will get away home for some days, there are already about 50 applications for re- hearing, which have to be passed upon before adjournment. This will no doubt cause a special term after the first of July, though the regular term ends June 30, by statute. It always occurs that a short special term is held to clear up tho left over in the way of rehearings and preferred cases.
 Two important cases are up on rehear- ings pleas, that of Frank Cazalas, sher- if of Mobile county, impeached, and c. c. Dickens, held to have been in con tempt of the court in the settlement of some business in which he had a part. The Cazalas case is likely to take several days to look into and the record in the Dickens case is one of the most volumi- nous that ever came to the court. Crops and Fertilizers. The figures of the agricultural depart ment show that for the eight months ending with May, the sales of fertilizer tags reached the sum of s104, 50, an increase over the same time last year of s11, ,103. .41. The tags are 30 cents for every ton, which gives a basis for calculation to discover how many tons. This prac- tically closes the season, the only other sales being small and not of special in terest
 Commissioner Wilkinson does not think this means any increase in the acreage in cotton but intensification of less acre. age than last year, with a great deal more than usual under corn and other grains. He has found this indicated in many sections of the state and is free to say that never in the history of the state has there been such a crop of grain of all kinds. He looks to revival along this line to make the farmers in dependent.
 Soil Surveys.
 In partnership with the government the state has almost finished four more coun- ties in the soil survey work. Hale, Tal- lapoosa, Baldwin and Coffee will soon be coming out no doubt by the end of the
  feed the people. We want more people
 Alabama needs more people and must have them. Immigrations is one of the important issues of the day Populous communities build good school houses, good churches and good roads. Sparsely settled communities cannot do this.
 Are Consumers.
 Immigrants are not only producers but consumers. They stimulate trade. The matter of overproduction on the farm is a fallacy. As long as there are mouths to feed there will never be too much to eat.
 'In my opinion the people and the state officials should take active steps to pop ulate the waste and undeveloped places in Alabama with industrious people. think we are too careful about the class of immigrants we invite
 "The negro as a class is considered the most undesirable perhaps of all na- tionalities but he is a good consumer and has his place in the great develop ment of the state.
 You and I will be dead long before Alabama is overcrowded with people, in the list of completlons. all but Baldwin