The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-27
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Based on reports from correspond
ents throughout the cotton belt, the
New Orleans Times-Democrat makes
the following report of cotton crop
conditions: Taking the belt as a
whole, a moderate deterioration has
occurred. The boil weevil has done
extensive damage in parts of Missis-
Sippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, and
there are complaints of other insects
in some sections. The ultimate out
come is still largely dependent upon
the date of killing frost Farmers
seem disposed to sell enough to pay
their debts and hold the remainder
From now on the nookworms which
are thriving in Alabama soil will have
hard time of it, if it is at all posi-
BILE for DR.. w. w Dinsmore of De-
catur, Ala, to put into effect some
of the ideas that he has regarding
the eradication of the parasite. The
physician has taken up his headquar-
tiers at Montgomery as head of the
Alabama department of the Rockefel-
Ter hookworm commission, and is now
throwing out lines which are aimed
with the end in view of permanently
Kidding the state of the life-sapping
pest.
Gen. Charles H. Grosevnor of Ohio
delivered the annual grafton before
the Society of the Army of the Cum
berland at Chattanooga, Tenn The
general told his hearers it was high
time to quite waving the bloody
Shirt that the war is over, and that
we are all Americans now can in
dissoluble union of indissoluble
states" was the omission from the
constitution of the United States,
which caused the war of the sixties,
was the declaration of General eros
yenor.
Gen. w. H. King, who joined the
Confederate army as private, but
rose to the rank of acting major gen.
eral, died at his home in Sulphur
Springs, Texas He was II years old
and native of Georgia.
Forty-three persons were injured,
thirteen seriously, when st. Louis and
San Francisco passenger train No.
went through a bridge one mile west
of Compton, Oklahoma.
President Charles P. Barrett of the
National Farmers Union has issued a
statement to the Southern farmers
urging them to hold their cotton, and
calls upon them to borrow money, if
necessary, in order to hold the crop.
Population statistics enumerated in
the thirteenth census were announced
by the census bureau for the follow
ing Southern cities: Roanoke, Va,
34,874, an increase of 1879, or 62.2
per cent. over $4,000 in 1900; Tampa,
Fla, 3S,524, an increase of 22,685, or
1892 per cent over 1888 in 1900;
Louisville, KY, 223,92S, an increase
of 19,1997, or ga per cent. over 2O4,-
1872 in 1900; Lexington, KY, 5000, an
increase of $3.50, or 33.1 per cent.
over 26,369 in 1900; Charlotte, N. c.,
34,014, an increase of 1923, or SO
per cent. over 1901 in 1900; Shreve-
UOEI, Lid, ZO1O1O, dn I'LL Oo0O VI L.
002, or rs per cent. over 1908 in
1900. Montgomery, Ala, 1876, an in
crease of 1870, or 25.7 per cent. over
30,346 in 1900 Austin, Texas, 29,860,
an increase Of 1902, or 34.2 per cent.
over 22,25S in 1900 Wilmington, n.
c., 25,74S, an increase of 4,772, or 22.7
per cent. over 20,896 in 1900.
Advice to the Southern farmers to
advertise tneir farm products in news
papers was given at Hot Springs, Ark,
at the state fair in an address by
John M. Parker of New Orleans, pres
ident of the Southern Commercial
Congress. "The Northern and West
ern farmer is up-todate," said Mr..
Parker He advertises what he has
to sell, and pays the expense of that
advertisement and derives the highest
price for his product"