The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-29
ORGANIZING MORE BOYS CORN CLUBS.
Commissioner Blakeslee Of
 Mississippi Is Busy
EXPERIENCE OF FARMER
Bales of Cotton On One Acre of Land In the Piney
 Woods Region

Jackson, Miss, December S.-(Special) ) On the first Monday of January Com missioner of Agriculture Blakeslee goes to Leaksville, Greene county, where he will organize the Boys Corn clubs and take steps for county fair next fall. This will be but the beginning of such work for the commissioner of agriculture. Returning to Jackson after his visit to Leaksville MT. Blakeslee will spend a few days at home and goes from here to Tishomingo county on similar mission The next three months, January, Feb ruary and March, he will devote to the corn club business, organizing every county in the state if possible. Commis- sioner Blakeslee appreciates the fact that the corn club movement is the greatest and most beneficial that was ever in augurated in the state and has deter mined to stir the boys of the state from center to circumference. The next Issue of his Bulletin" a publication with a free subscription list of 25,000, will be de- voted almost entirely to corn club busi- ness. The records made by the clubs this year will be printed in ful so that this edition will be worth preserving, showing as 1t will what the winners of the prizes this year made in the way or corn and their manner of cultivation, fertilizers used, etc.
 V. A. McWhorter is said to be one of the best farmers in Jones county, and as such his accomplishments on one acre of piney woods land will prove of interest as well as value to his neighbors and his fellow farmers everywhere. showing just what can be done by intelligent cul- tivation. Early in June MT. McWhorter planted one measured acre to cotton. On the 18th the young plants were chopped out. The acre was carefully cultivated, and the result was two bales of cotton.
 Such reports are eye-openers to farm CTS in the delta section of the state, where land that produces one bale Of cotton per acre is held at $50 per acre. and not for sale at any price, while the piney woods land is going begging at BIO per acre.
 Some of these days the piney woods. lands will come into their own. Now, while the price is ridiculously low. is the time for the young men of the state to buy 40. SO 160 or more acres to hold, not as an investment, but for homestead. In the event they do not. they will find. 1t has all been gobbled up for foreigners and the natives will be left in the cold
 There are great many friends and ac- uuaintances in Jackson who deplore the death of Vice President Jones of the Gulf and Ship Island railroad and a num- Der of them were at the depot last night to meet the remains that were en route to BBffalo. N.--Y.s accompanied by his heartbroken yS1ng wife and other rela- tives.
 During the past three or four years the management of the Gulf and Ship Island rested with the younger Jones. Captain Jones, the president and general manager of the road, has been in des- perate health, and has been forced to go to Europe in search of health. The son has had entire charge of the road and the business in Mississippi, and has made good in spite of predictions to the contrary. His one object In life seemed to be to carry on the business the father had begun in a business-like and pros- porous manner, and he has succeeded be- yond the expectations of his friendsi
 The younger Jones was thoroughly im- pressed with the importance of the great work his father had undertaken-the de- velopment of the piney woods section of the state, and he has done all that was possible to be done to carry out the ideas and the plans of his father-the one man who has done more for south Mississippi than have any dozen of the natives.
 Announcement comes from Natchez that the~packing plant recently completed there will begin operations on January l. Steam has already been turned on and every thing was found to work well, so that there is no reason the plant should not be started on schedule time for the first and only packery in the state.
 Tt is stated that hogs by the carload are
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