The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-28
HUMBLE PEANUT ID BE HEIR OF KING COTTON Interesting Report Made on
 Geological Work AVIATORS WILL MEET The Hattiesb6rg Team Shows signs of Making Good in Their Recent
 Admittance to the Cotton
 States League
AVIATORs WILL MEET

Jackson, Miss, November 27.-(Special.) That the once humble peanut is the heir apparent to the boil weevil eaten ermine of King Cotton grows more manifest each day.
 Agricultural Commissioner Blakeslee has returned from the Atlanta meeting of southern agricultural commissioners, and his first official act was to complete and deliver to the printer an exhaustive treat isc on the peanut its culture, the varle- ties suited to Mississippi, methods Of harvesting the hay, care of and prepar- ing the nuts for market, soils suit able and appropriate fertilizers. rms pamphlet will be out in few days, and is for free distribution. The appropria- tion will only admit of 1000 copies be- Ing printed, but the various oil mills of the state are ordering them in consld- erable quantities, for use In their sev- era1 communities in an effort to secure crop to replace cotton seed for oil and fertilizer purposes. Commissioner Blakeslee announces that up to Decem- Der 15 he will accept orders from oil mills or other interested persons for the pam phlets at the cost of printing and mall ing. s5 per 1000. This morning orders were received at the commissioners office for considerably over S0OOO copies above the small number provided for by the state appropriation.
 The demand for peanuts Is insistent, and mainly for seed purposes. President G. R. Hightower of tM Farmers Ware house company says that every pound of the nuts raised has a market at top notch prices and hard to get enough to supply the demand at that. President Hishtower expects the price to hold up for year or so at any rate, until the area growing them increases very con siderably, when the price will decline, and they will then become the main re- liance of the mills which have been us- ing cotton seed.
 Interesting Report Made
 Governor Noel has received a report from Dr. E. N. Love- director of the State Geological commission, working in cooperation with the federal authorities, of work accomplished which Is most ina teresting and important. During his sev- eral visits to Washington Governor Noel interested himself greatly in obtaining for Mississippi increased facilities for soil survey, in road building efforts and the general development of our under ground and surface water and forest re- sources. He found there was little dis position to extend federal aid until the state itself walked to the necessity and by vigorous and insistent presentation through messages and personal efforts the governor finally secured partially ade- quate legislation.
 The work in Noxubee, Adams and Lau- derdale counties has been completed, and just commenced in two others. Another county will be completed in January. The maps for Noxubee and Adams county are in the hands of lithographers and will be ready for distribution shortly.
 During this work material is being col lected in a most minute and painstaking manner for a soil map for the entire state It will be possibly 10 years be- fore this map will be available, but 1t will be one of the most complete and thorough works of its kind In the United States. Dr. Logan has gathered data showing the structural and road build ing materials of the state and their loca- ton and these materials are now being tested When the tests are completed this information of great value will be made immediately available in an advance publication.
 In connection with this thorough going over of Mississippi, a wealth of valuable material has been collected for the for nation of state museum of natural his tory, geology and of the natural resources of the state which will be Of great edu- cational value Specimens have been provided for all of the state educational institutions. including the agricultural high schools of Mississippi.
 Aviators to Meet.
 The aviation meet scheduled for next week, at which McCurdy, Ely, Augustus Post and others of the Glenn R. Curtfss flying squadron" will fly in biplanes monoplanes and do just plain flying at Jackson Monday and Tuesday, grows bigger each "A hours. Now the prop osition is on hand to have some auto mobile races with tempting purses be- tween local talent and any others who care to enter There Is fine track at the fair grounds where the meet will be held
 All railroads entering Jackson have granted a rate of one and one-third fare for the week, and while the avia- ton meet has no connection with the merchants of the city, they. quick to realize the opportunity, have gotten to- gether and announce that the entire week will be made "bargain week" :" and where purchases run above certain figures will emulate the Memphis and New Orleans merchants and refund the fare of out town purchasers Indi- cations are for a record break ing crowd at the meet, and. in fact, all dur ing the week. To secure the rates from the railroads required some hard and quick work from Mayor Crowder and President Oscar Newton of the board of trade in the face of adverse circum- stances and somewhat of disinclina- tion to grant them, owing to misap- prehension on the part of the rail- roads, but the officials mentioned tri- umphed and all parties are satisfied. Cotton Crop Report.
 Secretary Lawrence Yerger of the penitentiary board of control today turned into the state treasury the nice sum of s90,S97.32, the proceeds of a thousand bales of cotton sold by the trustees to the firm of Royce & Co. of New Orleans. As yet only 1700 bales of the states crop have been sold. In- dications are that the total peniten- tiaey crop of cotton will be in the neighborhood of 4500 bales, which will aid beautifully in tiding over the stringency in the states exchequer.
 Team Makes Good.
 Indications are that Hattiesburg, re- gently admitted to the circuit of the Cotton States league, is going to be game to the end and have a good team. A charter has been received at the gov ernor's office for the "Hattiesburs Baseball company with capital stock of s10,0O0. sharesj $10 each, and D. F. McInnis, F. E. williams, Dr. l.. H. Mar tin. w. M. Duke, D. M. Eastland, w. G. Gillespie, P. c. Edmonston and A. Foote as incorporators. The fans of Hattiesburg are getting down to busl- ness.
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