Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-03-20


, he will inaugurate just such a
organization.
Prof. Ames. of the Holl
: Springs Experiment Station.
here this week and stated on tn
. floor of the House that every Gov
in his herd of twenty makes hin
$500 a head; he said he feed
her on cotton-seed meal, hull,
and silage, and does this will
high-priced labor. Now, if oul
farmers, who with their families
do the work of the dairies them
selves, why can't they get ever
better results than this? But
Ames insists that they MUST have
silos.
The members from South Mis-
sissippi tell such awful tales of
the destruction by the boil weevil
that | hope a great many of our
farmers will get into this dairy
business, especially as | am as
sured that the cabbage market is
going to be over-stocked. | am
told that on the |. C. Railroad
alone, there are $4,000 acres in
cabbages and the farmers around
Newton will all plant much more
than they did last year. But
there is a saving clause in the
planting of cabbage and that is,
this crop will be off in time to
make a splendid crop of corn. |
notice that our expert on the
raising of cabbage advises the
planting of corn right by the side
of the cabbage. but the Cabbage
King" of Newton county says he
would advise waiting until the
cabbages are cut off and then
bursting the row wide open with
a double burster and then plant
the corn right where the cabbage
grew and this will give better re-
suits. One of the members said
the other morning that we had
three pests in Mississippi-the
boil weevil, the cattle tick and
The Government experts, and he
believed the Government experts
were the worst of the three, for
hey had nearly ruined his people
.rying to get them to plant cot
on by the Government plan.
But the great corn man of this
county, Mr.. Jones, has made
'ver a bale to the acre, rigt here
n Kinds county, by following
his plan and by his careful selec-
ion of seed.
Our Pension Committee found
hat some of the counties had
arge numbers of negroes on
heir pension rolls,-Hinds coun-
y having 81 and Yazoo county {
Z, and believing that it was
ardly possible that all of these
egroes had followed their young {
1asters to the battlefield, we Of {
cred resolution to the House,
skiing for authority to summons {
he Chancery Clerks and Chair 7
len of the Pension Boards of c
nese two counties to appear be- !
ore us and show why such a +
umber of negroes were on their G
olls. But this resolution raised v
storm in the House and it was f
oted down. We then adopted {
ne following resolution writer t
Y myself: v
HOUSE RESOLUTION No t
WHEREAS: The Pension b
Committee find that they h
cannot get the consent of n
this House to even inquire {
whe'4r negroes have been e
placed on the roll contrary to "
law or not:-
THEREFORE BE IT RE- a
SOLVED: That the Pension p
Committee of the House be d
disbanded and that theSpeak- b
er proceed to appoint a COM a
mittee that will more nearly Il
reflect the sentiments of the al
House on this question. m
This resolution was signed by W
the members of the Pension NJ
'mmittee, but when Speaker
lln found it out, he came to me II
ID asked me not to introduce it Il
i'd ne would have our former b
solution re-considered, which al
did and the House then adopt VI
it. But we found it impossi- p;
2 to take a single negro from tf
e roll, as the gentlemen sum- dt
oned stated that not a negro &c
IS ever placed upon their rolls ps
cept by the affidavit of two re- Il
ectable white citizens. l just bi
ention this to show how strong tn
e House is in favor of keeping OF
ese negroes on the roll and | kl
We despaired of ever getting dl
EN- off, although Mississippi is ou
e'only state in the late Confed- tV