The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-28
FIRST BALE AT CUBA G|NNED SATURDAY Was Sold For Unusually
 Low Price COTTON WAS EARLY
Dr. Vaughan Has Remarkable Crop. Insurance Rating of Cuba Is High-Negroes Will Have
 School

Cuba, August 27-(SpeciaD D-Cuba's first bale for the season was ginned yesterday, being brought in by Henry Brewster and sold to W. F.. McGowen & Co for II 1-Sc. The grade ran fair ly we'll but not high. They bought this afternoon two bales from Coleman movement is on.
 This cotton Is about week earlier than last year. For the past week cot
 ton has gone backward and the cater pillar is now where he Is making him
 self felt to the great detriment of the
 top crop. Various fields have been at tackled and where the foliage is eaten
 off the crop opens very rapidly which will make a heavy September move ment.
 The gun fired by Senator John Sharp Williams for 13-cent cotton has
 walked the people up and there, will be no general disposition to sell at present prices as all parties in interest | feel that this crop has been over-esti- mated and that with worm damage so prevalent that the output will be ma terially cut down.
 | The Bank of Cuba will follow it's accustomed policy of aiding the farm CTS to hold what cotton they wish | kept off the market Seed opened at | 25c, & very low price as compared with former years. Independent buy
 CTS are watching the situation closely and will likely load up with a few | hundred tons at this figure They | were successful in forecasting the mar
 ket last year and believe that they | may duplicate 1t again this season. Producing the most remarkable crop he has ever had grown, pr. A. l.. Vaughan believes that he will harvest 55 bales from land that he bought three years ago that only produced nine. By intensive methods and keep | ing close behind his tenants he has l gradually worked the yield up to it's | present proportions.
 | This tract of 3S5 acres was bought by him for 5000 and the second year l he had il, it produced 36 bales. He holds the place now for s6000 and
 could likely sell at this figure if he desired. He follows the government
 methods largely and requires each l tenant to make corn and meat enough | to do them.
 Dr. Vaughan has just had P. !. | Krouse. an architect of Meridian, to
 make him plans for three brick store | houses, which will be one-story af- fairs, equipped in the most modern | way. He Is building these to replace This present frame quarters so that his l insurance may be cut down, but even after complying with all the require | ments of the Southeastern Tariff as-
 sociation they figure his rate at per
 cent which seems so totally out of | line that he will carry his own risk | believing it cheaper than to have in- 1 surance. Despite the fact that the town | has never had serious fire the rate | in most of the towns Is o per cent which being so high, has cut down the | amount carried by the merchants
 Negroes Will Have School Catching the fever of industrial edu- cation the negroes of this section have just closed a deal for five acres or
 land on which they will build a good school house and attempt to secure capable negro to teach them those things they most need. It is their an- nounced intention to learn their boys
 how to make good farmers and in this they are being aided, as usual, by the white people.
 Dan F. Delaine, their leader. says
 they are going to make a success of
 1t without asking for a dollar of state aid, although 1t is presumed they will
 use their public fund money in con-
 nection with this school. These ne groes carry life insurance, take up in tensive farming with vigor. and at
 tempt to adapt themselves to modern conditions without giving offense to the whites.
 Cotton Damaged
 Anthraxnose has broken out in some fields of cotton, due to the continued wet weather. but it is not doing so much damage as yet. The corn that
 is being harvested is proving fine. Rowen McElroy, member of the Boys