The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-03
B|LBO HANDS OFF
 IN PRIMARY ID
 DECIDE JUDGESH|P Mississippi Democrats Vote in Run-Off Tuesday Fol lowing Warm Campaign
STATE SUCCEEDING
 IN RAISING STOCK
Prison Farms Are Gradually Being Converted From One Gotten Crop to Escape Ravagcs of the
 Boil Weevil
By E, E. FRANTZ


 Jackson. Miss, August 2.-(Special) Next Tuesday the voters of Mississippi will settle the dispute as to who shall be justices of the supreme court in the mid dle and northern districts of Mississippi that being the date of the second pri- mary. The candidates in the middle dis- trict are Clayton D. Potter, present in- cumbent, who was appointed last winter by Governor Bilbo to hold until January l, l9l7, and George H. Etheridge, nov serving the state as assistant attorney general. In the northern district the candidates are E. o. Sykes, also ap- pointed by Governor Bilbo, and K. Fl. Knox, now serving as district attorney.
 In the first primary Etheridge led Pot ter by about 100 votes, and Sykes led Knox by even a large majority but the minority candidates feel confident of re- versing the figures on the second round and are making a very vigorous cam paign The principals are putting every possible moment on the stump and their headquarters are flooding their districts with campaign literature. The newspa- pers have been used for all they are worth and have reaped a rich harvest, so that the expenses of this second primary have been five times what the first round with the voters cost the candidates, and no doubt will equal at least one years salary of s35oO
 It was expected that Governor 3i,bo would take hand in this second primary in an effort to save the scalp of the two appointees, Potter and Sykes. but instead he gave out a statement to the effect that every tub must stand on its own bot tom, and since then has gone to Wash ington, where he will perhaps remain until after the primary.
 RAISING LIVE STOCK The superintendent of the convict farm, located in Rankin county, a few miles out from Jackson, is very much encou.- aged to. believe that his efforts to get clear away from the boil wevil by con verting that $500 acres into model stock farm will prove a great success. The state has two farms near Jackson that are being converted into stock ton raising impossible. There are 50 or 60 brood mares and fine jack on each farm. with about 150 colts. The idea is to raise 75 to 100 mules every year, and already several that were raised on these farms are making crops on the big cotton farms in the delta. They have cost the state about $50 each to raise to three years of age, and are now worth from $20O to S250 each.
 Hundreds If aP ,e them grade Herefords, and 5000 or i00) hogs are also to be found on the convi ,t farms, so that in very few more years the state will not only be producing all the blow stock it needs, but the hog meat with which to feed the 1500 convicts, and beef to sell in car lots.
 In course of time 1t is feared the state is going to be forced to get entirely away from cotton. It was expected that this year the Parchman farm in the 1elta would produce at least 5000 bales. but it is now estimated that the boil weevils have destroyed at least 2O00 bales and that the bottom crop is all to be counted on for certain.
 TRIBUTE TO COLONEL STREET One of the most remarkable men in Mississippi is Col. H. M. Street of Merid- ien. He is well along towards his four score years, but is still hale and hearty carries himself erect walks with elastic step and attends to his insurance busi- ness as promptly and as thoroughly as does any man half his age. Colonel Stree, has never been a politician in the strictest sense of that word, and yet has taken great interest in public affairs and has found time to represent his county in the legislature few terms He has served as speaker of the house four differen, terms. In 1878 and in 1s76 he represented Prentiss county in the legislature. ano was elected speaker both times. Prior tc 1892 he had removed to Meridian and ir that year was sen ito the legislature from Lauderdale county, and for the third term