The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-01-23
Farm Crops Day at
Farmers Short Course
Dra,us Large Attendance

SSi SioSfOhS VI uyhuh4Atih6 VI pidotlu5
by representative Of a pow
def company. Tonight stereocopic
lecture on farm buildings will be CIV
en- by d. Scoates and lecture on mod
ern dairy methods by L. A. Higgins.
Soils and Fertilizers.
Statistics of results produced By the
use of fertilizers, the kinds of fertil-
izers to use on different kinds of SOIL
and the propar application of fertil-
izers made up the theme of the ad-
dress of e. B. Ferris of Mcneil ex-
pertinent station.
Following the address by Mr.. Ferris,
some more good advice on the use OF
fertilizer in this part of Mississippi
was given by Mr.. e. L. Robins of
Hattiesburg, who is manufacturer of
a fertilizer that is widely used In this
territory. Mr.. Robins urged the farm
ers to get their land in proper physi-
cal condition for applying fertilizer
before they use it. Often, he said,
land that good fertilizer has been used
on fails to produce properly because
of no fault of the fertilizer, but be-
cause the land was not in proper
shape for receiving it.
Educational Responsibility.
In a general average of educational
tests applied by the Sage Foundation
Mississippi ranks forty-fifth in the
Union, according to Prof. F. B. Wood
ley, superintendent of the Hattiesburg
city schools, who advocated better ed
ucational facilities for the state. AS
method of improving the schools oi
the state, Mr. Woodley suggested the
employment of better teachers, con
solidation Of schools, revised curri
cula in which an agricultural course
will be included for every school, ant
compulsory education.
! Mr.. Woodley stated that he believed
I in education for both white and black
that if it good for one it is good fol
| both. Education of the right kind will
improve the negroes of the country ant
make better citizens of them, the
speaker asserted.
Marketing Farm Crops.
The subject of Mr.. Brooks address
is one that is being given much
thought by the economists Of the COIN
try and a bill for creating a depart
ment of markets is now pending be
fore the United States Congress.
Mr.. Brooks stated that the differ
ence between the market value of ag
ricultural products received by thu
producers and the value paid by the
consumers is seven billion dollars
which is the cost Of distribution. HI
declared that by the adoption of CO
operative methods Of selling thii
amount could be reduced to three ant
a half billion dollars, thereby saving
three billion dollars to the producer.
and the consumers. AS examples o.
industries and communities that haC
successfully adopted these methods hi
cited California and Oregon fruit dis
tricts, the Denmark dairylng industry
the wheat raisers Of the West, thu
tobacco belt, the Virginia produce dis
trict, and the truck farmers of Ten
nessee.
In reply to a question as to the
cause for the apparent failure of CO
operative cotton selling, he stated thai
the last effort of that kind failed be
cause the men at the head of it failed
to manage it in such sway as to cope
with the difficulties of finance thai
necessarily arose from such big un
dertaking; with the additional fail
ure on the part of the organization tc
bind its members by contracts to sci
only through the warehouses of the
organization. He stated that co-ope
rative selling Of cotton would be 8
more difficult accomplishment thar
that of any other product on account
of its immense volume and the stu
penduous amount of money that would
be necessary to handle it successfully
The financial end of 1t could not bt
handled until better system of rura
credits has been established.