Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-03-13

county is 95 per cent pure lime
So it would be fine if we could
get one of these stations in our
county. Tom Brame made a
very effective speech on this bill,
telling about a crusher at Geiger,
Ala, and what it is doing for the
country near there. Prof. Ames
of the Holly. Springs station says
that he has tried it and it is fine
to put on any of our sour lands.
And while it benefits the prairies,
| it does well on the sandy lands.
1t should be understood that
lime is not a fertilizer. Lime
sweetens and tends to floculate a
soil, and will give best results
with leguminous crops, after
which other crops are great
ly benefited. In 1912, at this
station. the yield of seed cotton
was in one instance increased
from 600 pounds on unlimed land
to 82O pounds on soils that were
lined, and the same year the
yield of corn was in one instance
increased 13 bushels per acre by
the use of lime, that is the un.
lined soils produced 81 bushels
and the lined soils in the same
test produced 70 bushels per acre.
know the Editor will pardon
me if | give the Mississippi peni-
tentiary a little free advertising.
for they have a most excellent
molasses which they sell F. 0. B.
at Parchman at 30c a gallon by
the barrel and when put up in
hermetically sealed tin cans, they
sell it at 35c per gallon, and
these cans are worth sc after the
molasses is used. A letter ad-
dressed to the Secretary of the
Board of Control, here at Jack
son, will receive a prompt answer.
A large bank at Canton closed
it's doors this week = had $3.50. 600
deposits. It is claimed that this
will be paid, but this is done in
nearly every case. The president
of this bank, a Mr.. Foote-no re-
lation of our Foote's was a very
progressive man and had done a
great deal for that county. Had
loans on farm lands that could
not be realized on at once. He
was also president of the oil mill
at Canton, and am afraid that
our county boy. Spivey Douglass,
will lose his place by this failure.
Lee Simpson, a Noxubee coun-
ty boy, is here trying to get the
law amended so that corporations
can hold and sell the cut-over
lands of South Mississippi. He
is reputed to be the most success
full business man in that section,
and the Jackson News referred
to him as the Napoleon Of the
Gulf Coast,
1t is contemplated to h I'D a
peace Jubilee" at Vicksburg in
October, 1915, to which all of the
"boys in blue and the boys in
grey" are to be invited and a bill
has been introduced, BUT NOT
PASSED, appropriating $4,000
for this event and to pay the
way of all old Confeds to the
meeting. The date for holding
this meeting is the Tooth ami
versary of the signing of the
treaty of peace at Client, and
since this time there has not
been a war between English
speaking people, save the war
between the states. The Cover
nor has done me the honor to ap-
point me to represent Mississippi
on that occasion, but wrote him
that | was not at the siege of
Vicksburg, having had the honor
to represent Mississippi at Get
tysburg that day, and requested
him to appoint that gallant SOL
dier and excellent gentleman,
Capt. W. L. Ratliff to this posi-
ton and he did so. Captain Rat
lift commanded a battalion of ar
tillery at that battle and | be-
lieve he is the ranking living
Confederate officer who partici-
pated in that battle. The boys
in blue" are taking big interest
in this movement and the Feder-
al government will be asked to
contribute $3.50, 900 to this and |
expect it will be a grand affair.
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