The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-09
FARMERS SPECIAL
 STARTS ON TOUR Experts Will Address Farmers
 of Mississippi SEARCH FOR MISSING MAN Old Man In California Wants to Find His Missing son-Farmers Of South
 Mississippi Must Furnish
 Molasses for Market.
SEARCH FOR MISSING MAN

Jackson. Miss, March S-(Speeial)-A
 Farmers Special train today began tour of the Mobile and Ohio and of the Southern railway in Mississippi and dur ing the week will visit the various towns along those lines. This train carries distinguished party of scientific farmers and others engaged in that line of bus mess, who will address the citizens of the communities at which the train stops from the rear platform or at some public place selected by the town.
 In the party are Commissioner of Agri-. culture Blakeslee Director w. L. Hutch- inson of the Agriculture and Mechanical college, Professor E. R. Lloyd of the Agriculture and Mechanical college, Dr. Tait Butler of the Southern Farm Co., zette, Prof. R. S. Wilson of the depart ment of agriculture at Washington and others. These gentlemen have already visited the towns along the Illinois Gen. tral and the Yazoo and Mississippi Val ley on a similar mission and it is be- lieved that great good was done. There Is no doubt that considerable interest was stirred up and that thousands of the farmers of that great cotton producing region are going to plant more corn and other food crops for man and beast this year than ever before in their lives.
 Search for Missing Man.
 J. G. Noudorfer, superintendent of the Illinois Central. has requested the assist of the press of the country in locat- ing one William Burton, or Urton, who left California several years ago and was understood to have been adopted by a gentleman connected at that time with the Illinois Central railroad. The father of the boy is now old and feeble and his memory is gone, so that he cannot recall the name of the person who adopt ed the son. He is also rich and wants the boy to return home, as he is the only heir. The old gentleman is of the opinion that his son assumed the name of his adopted father. Railroad men everywhere have been requested to assist in the To- cation of the missing man.
 Market for MoIasses.
 G. D. CuTLlSt manager the Far10erS' Union warehouse at McComb City, was requested some time since by his patrons to find a purchaser or a market for their molasses and he has done so He prints a card to the effect that the farm CTS asked him to find them a market and now that he has done so the goods are not there to deliver. The would-be purchasers want the molasses put up in cans or other merchantable shape and very few of the farmers of the state are prepared to furnish the goods" in that shape. In this part of the state the farmers who bring moasses to town to sell have it in a barrel in their wagon, and expect the customer to furnish jug. It is a very easy matter, however, to get jugs in Jackson.
 Boy Preacher.
 Jones county has produced another wonder. For many years Jones has been famous for her big pine trees and now she also boasts of big sawmills that are converting these big trees into merchant able lumber. There was a time when Jones was the home of the man who had the biggest foot in the state, and even prior to that day and generation there were big droves or herds of sheep grazing on her big hills and through her big valleys.
 It may be that there are other things which have conspired to make Jones fa- nous. Anyhow she has experienced rev. olution of late years that has lifted her from one of the poorest to one of the richest and best counties in the state. Jones now comes to the front with a prodigy in the way of a preacher of holy writ, 13-year-old boy named Dennis By rick. who is preaching to the multitudes and creating a very profound sensation. He has applied for ordination to the min istry and will enter an once on evange- listc work.
 Boil Weevil Does Good.
 A Louisiana farmer who is in the boil weevil infected district writes to cousin In Amte county, advising him to quit farming or quit raising cotton when the weevil gets to his place, as you will not get enough cotton to pay for the seed and the picking Among other things the Louisiana man says, "I planted 70 acres last year on second years land, 6-foot rows, cotton topped when 6 feet high, locked In the middles, got five bales. This is what the weevils will do. In 1907 l had 90 acres new ground and got II bales. So you see 1 will not try cotton this year. After losing $7000 in two years do you blame me for quitting cotton?'
 His crop this year will be 80 acres of corn, 20 acres cane, SIX acres 1rlSn pO tatoes 12 acres sweet potatoes, one acre tomatoes, one acre beans, 70 acres hay, and he Twill let some one else feed the boil weevil." This is a fair sample of the cry that is coming from all along the line where the weeyl has been for one, two or three years, but after the fourth or fifth year the farmers seem to learn how to deal with and to minimize the ef- feet of the presence of the pests.
 GIanders Among Mules.
 report comes from Winona that glanders has made it's appearance among a lot of mules owned by s. N. Ely, and which had also been in the town of Vai- den, so that the farmers and stockmen of both communities are fearful of an epidemic At this season of the year a spread of the disease would mean the loss of mana thousands of dollars to the state, and the board of supervisors have been called on to take every possible precautionary measure.
 Leagues State Meeting.
 Ten days from date, on March r, the state meeting of the Law Enforcement league will be held in Representatives hall in this city, and already several cities and towns have taken steps to be represented by delegates and some Of them have gone so far as to organize local branches of the state association.
 The object of the Law Enforcement league Is not, as it's name would indicate. to enforce the laws of the state. but to