The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-01-30

SVciss@s NuhheiS, oi tue business
League, has two column article IN
the issue Of the Manufacturers Record
of Jan. =, under the caption of .srhe
Delta Wants More People secretary
RunneIes is preparing special feature
stories for The Southern editions of the
New York American and the Chicago
Record Herald. The article in the
Manufacturers Record follows:
GrcenNiile. Miss, Jan. 10
Editor Manufacturers Record:
We mad with us Morday. the I7th,
DIR. Seaman y. Knapp, chief of the b,l-
reau of plant industry, agricultural de
partment, at Washington, and follow
ing the address of DR.. Knapp the Wis
itor ana his staff admitted that through
out the series of Southern addresses he
never spoke to crowd that was SO rep
resenative in land ownership as the one
here. 1t was an audience of planters
strictly, since | regret to announce
there were perhaps not two dozen other
adults In the courtroom who were in
commercial business alone. 1t is not
| overestimating the situation to say that
more than 100000 acres of land were
represented by actual ownership in thai
magnificent audience. The meeting
went down in history as the largest
and most enthusiastic and decidedly he
most effective farmers meeting ever
held in the Delta country. n dozea
counties were represented. and proba
bly, every plantation of consequence il
those counties
DR.. Knapp had reserved for Green
vile the master speech he was to de
Iliver on his tour. Mr. NJ V Richards
of the Southern Railway advised your
correspondent that the bureau chief had
been preparing for his Greenville effort
with great care and that his address
would probably be issued III bulletin
form for general distribution through
oue the cotton growing states. With
out waiting ON the action of the agri
cultural department, the Greenville
| Business League, using stenographic
notes, is preparing pamphlet, and
copy of the address will he mailed by
this organization to the planters ii
/ Washington aud adjoining counties.
1t would be difficult for the boil
weevil to start panic at this stage of
| the game should the bug make his APP
pearance in the Delta. Our people have
been thoroughly prepared by DR.. Knapp,
and we have another advantage. 1t
, would not be regarded rs egotistical, or
should not be. for to state that the
Delta country has higher order OF
planters than elsewhere. Our land
owners are men of travel and observa-
tion; they are among the educated,
moneyed classes; they have been follow
ing, not with fright, but with inteitl-
gent understanding, the progress of the
weevil from the southwest OF Texas to
the borders of the Mississippi, and they
have watched closely the fight made by
the agricultural department against its
ravages, and they comprehend fully
what is needfu to be done under weevii
conditions. They appreciate that cot
ION can be grown In quantities to be
highly profitable with the Mexican in
sect in the field, ana they are ready to
adopt the remedy found SO gratifying
/ by the Departing demonstrations
namely, proper prparation of cotton
beds, early planting, intelligent drain
age, intensive cultivation aud the rails.
ing of all the corn and hay required or
plantations
The Delta is ready for the boil weevii
and il it comes the Delta planter Will
fraiI it to \ frazzle-
In d communication directed to you
in 0ctover. ] stated that the Delta
would this year continue its extensions
into the domain Of alfalfa, corn, rape
and clover. Nv predictions are being
lverified in almost daily conversation
with the largest planters of this sec
: t;on There IS being imported into this
country today carloads OF breeding
stoek-rood mares for mule production
1.-The highest class of hog for this cilrnats
!. and cattle for feeding for market IL
!. five wear the Delta is going to be on,
!. of the fines mule aud hog regions OF the
: South. Tens of thousands of acres vii
: be devoted - the production of this
: highly proftabie livestock A large
number Of plantations in Washintgor
i and adjoining counties will produce thi:
! year sufficient corn and forage to keel
!. up their mules and laborers anothe'
i year. / believe there will be surplus
] Of corn in 1911, and that hundreds O
cars of alfalfa and other iegumes WI
find markets elsewhere.
The action of the government in thu
Z week appropriating the unpreeedente'
i SUM Of $4,000 600 for the upkeep AM
2 Improvement of the levee system on tn
= lower M;ssissippi river should. foreve
s still any question about the safety g
: investment in Yazoo Delta farm or tim
Der lands. The government having full.