The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-27
FARMERS TAKING UP
 DAIRY INDUSTRY
Boil Weevil May Prove Bless
 ing in Disguise
SHIPMENTS OF MILK
Southern Mississippi Is Turning From Cotton 10 Other Products and Dairying Is Now Growing
 Very Important

Jackson, Miss, December 26.--(Special.) ) The farmers of the boil weevil district In southwest Mississippi have been very greatly concerned as to what they are to do to offset the disaster brought to them by these Mexican pests and have turned their time and their attention to various and sundry industries. Num- bers of them have gone largely Into the raising of peanuts. others are raising cattle for market. But an industry that promises quick and positive returns is that of dairying. and many have taken stock in that comparatively new indus try in this section of the union.
 It is stated that along the Woodville and Slaughter shranch of the Yazoo and Mississippi valley railroad the Hammond Co-Operative Creamery association has established agencies every few miles for the collection and the shipment of milk and that local men have been engaged to measure and grade and test for puri- ty. At the same time these agents pay the farmers cash for the products of their barnyards and dairies, saving them the trouble of shipping and collecting. which is very great convenience.
 The farmers of that section have come to the conclusion that 1t is "up to- them to do something for themselves. They have become very firmly convinced that they cannot make a living pro- ducing cotton while the weevil Is with them, and they have looked about for the next best thing to do. The dairy, the peanut. live stock and other branches Of farm work appeal to them strongly, and 1t is confidently predicted that in three or four years these farmers will be more prosperous than ever in their lives.
 The citizens of Jones county, coun- ty that is in the very heart and center of the piney woods district of the state, and which has always been considered enc of the poorest in the state are very much enthused over the boys corn, club movement, knowing that their lands will make just as much corn as will the lands Of any other county in the state when properly cultivated, For this reason, they have offered prizes worth while striving for next year, and which will no doubt tempt many boys to enter the lists.
 The prizes offered so far are as fol- lows.
 J. H. Crawford. s20 in gold Hicks Mercantile company. $20 in gold; Com mercial Bank and Trust company, s2o in gold provided the yield is 175 bushels or more), for the best acre of corn. That means one boy may get a prize of at least s60 for one acre of corn.
 The Laurel oil and Fertilizer company offers two prizes of BIO and s5 for the best yields. grown with their fertilizer.
 Other counties have offered prizes, but these in Jones are the best noted 30 far. The piney-woods section of the state won this year, and with such valuable prizes as these may be expected to do so again.
 The board of supervisors of Covington county gives notice that on the first Monday of January 1t will sell s25,000 worth of good roads bonds for the pur- pose of building and maintaining good roads in the Third district of that coun- ty. Other counties in that piney woods section of the state have done the same. and the chances are that the movement will become epidemic in a short while Simpson county having already fallen in line Bad roads have long been recog- nized as one of the greatest drawbacks to Mississippi. Her roads have been worked on the communication system since the creation of the state, and that means that there have been no roads. Road working has never been anything but a great big frolic-a time-liller-and the average farmer in the state has paid out fortune on the repair of wagons and other wheeled vehicles.
 There is no question of change of sentiment during the past two or three years. Many counties are now taxing themselves heavily for road work, and in a few more years they will all be at 1t.
 The "Bilbro bribery money" amounting to S645 that has been in the hands of the sheriff of Kinds county and of the circuit court since the trial of Dulaney at Yazoo City last month, has at last been put to use. Bilbo said 1t was not his-Dulaney denied all knowledge of it. wherefore 1t was the property of no man and the court was called upon to dis l pose of it. Judge Henry was equal to the emergency and has divided and ap- propriated the fund as follows The Old Ladies' Home, the King Daughters. the Confederate veterans and the Searching Sunbeams get the 'taint- ed money" $ls2.5O each, and they are all perfectly willing to use 1t. | Sheriff Harding turned the money over as directed by the court, taking the re- ceipt of the heads of the several or ganizations for their pro rata share. --.s.-------
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