The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-12
UNIFORM WORK IN ALL FARM SCHOOLS Mississippi Raises Standard
 for Education
TUITION FEE CHARGED
Students Who Attend the Schools From Outside the County VIII Be Ex- pected to Pay Small Month
 ly Tuition

high schools finished their business last
 night and adjourned, having first adopted
 the following recommendations:
 l. That a uniform tuition fee be charged students residing outside of the county
 In which the school is located, and that
 this fee be $2 per month, paid monthly
 or sl5 for the session, paid in advance,
 on the basis of a nine months session.
 g. That a natriculation fee not exceed ing sS be charged each pupil.
 g. That the county levy tax sufficient to enable the schools to continue nine
 months
 4. That a sufficient quantity of land be
 set apart to be worked by the students
 without pay to supply the home-raised farm products for the dormitory without
 cost to the students.
 D. That committee consisting of two literary principals, two agriculturists two domestic science teachers. and one coun- ty superintendent be appointed to adopt
 uniform series of text books for agri-
 cultural high schools, and make a report of their action al the next meeting of the State Teachers association.
 6. That the president and executive
 committee of the State Teachers associa- ton be requested to grant a department to the agricultural high schools. '. That a committee consisting of Messrs. A. P. Dent, T. w. Davis and T. c. Bradford be appointed to make a careful study of the agricultural high school law and report to the state su- perintendent of education before the next
 meeting of the legislature
 s. That each agricultural high school teacher visit at least two agricultural high schools each year.
 This report is signed by S. P. Walker chairman, and E. R. Strathan, secretary While very few of the counties of the state have established their agricultural high schools and are ready to begin work this fall, there are several counties that will be in line before the beginning of another session. State Superintendent Powers and other leaders in the campaign for education are hard at work and will
 not rest till every section of the state is boosting such an institution.
 A few of the survivors of a famous Con- federate command that went out from Jackson in 1861, and known as "Bu<s Rifies," have inaugurated movement to
 erect fitting monument over his un- marked grave in Greenwood cemetery. this city, and call on those few still llv- ing, as well as veterans generally, to assist them in their labor of love- The
 monument has been selected and will soon
 be placed in position, regardless of whether the promoters receive assistance
 or not.
 When the war between the states broke out, E. R. Burt was auditor of the state
 of Mississippi. Resigning his office he organized the command that made his
 name household word In Mississippi. He fell while leading his men in battle at LeesbuIg October 2l, 1861. He was then colonel of the Eighteenth Mississippi and
 was the first field officer from this state
 to be killed. His body was brought back
 to Jackson and laid to everlasting rest
 but the grave has been sadly neglected,
 and not until quite recently have any
 efforts been made to mark it.
 The boil weevil Is marching steadily on-
 ward, eastward and northward, and it is expected that he will cross the Alabama line before the end of the year into Sump- ter or Choctaw county. This is the pre-
 diction of one of the agents of the de-
 pertinent of agriculture, who is well post
 ed as to the movements of the pest A travelling man who spent d day last
 week east of Brandon, in Rankin county
 30 miles east of Jackson, reports having
 seen the weeyils in several fields, and 1t
 is understood they were not there last
 year. A few days ago Commissioner of
 Agriculture Blakeslee visited a patch of
 extra fine cotton in the corporate limits
 nf n41re ap I.
 declared there were no bugs in his cotton
 MT. Blakesee returned to his office with
 a glass jar full of the pests and in all
 stages of growth.
 Some how or other the weevils do not
 seem to have done the damage this year
 they have heretofore. This is accounted
 for on the ground that the farmers have
 put up a hard fight against him. All
 punctured bolls have been carefully gath
 cred and burned, and blows and harrows,
 set shallow, have been kept moving. R. s. Davls a farmer of near Lyon Coahoma county. is entitled to the
 banner as the champion chicken raiser of the state--that Is. if his proximity to Col. Lamar Fontaine, a citizen of the same community does not prove a suspicious circumstance
 According to MT. Davis he purchased
 s5 worth of Rhode Island Red eggs one year ago. Since that time he has sold
 $96 worth~of chickens and eggs ana
 has a large flock on hand.
 There Is not a banker or other bus mess man in the United States 1t Is safe to say. who can show such a profit on any investment. On an investment of s5 MT. Davis has made 1925 per cent.
 There are farmers In Missis sippi who consider the6 chicken business entirely too small for them to waste their time on and dealers are forced to the ne- cessity of sending to distant states for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth every year. But the same is true of
 mules, hogs and other farm animals
 Every spring the state of Mississippi pi
 spends several thousand dollars for Missouri mules and other tn ousands for
 western meat to be used on her pen itentiary farms in the making of cot ton.
 Governor Noel Is in receipt of let ter from the department of agriculture at Washington expressing great inter< est in the "diyersiication farming bar
 becue'' at Shaw on August II, and stating that MT. Markham. the expert agriculturist detailed to attend and aG- dress that gathering, is in every way
 qualified and competent for the services required of him. The governor Is ;llso advised that the Agricultural and Me chanica1 college at Starkville has de- tailed Prof. J. w. Fox. director of the experiment station, to attend the Shaw meeting. Professor Fox was for sor,,c time in charge of the Delta experi- ment station at Stoneville, made q great success of it, and is well ac- uuainted with the needs and the ,l,- mands of the farmers of that sectto, of the state, so that those in attend.