The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-28

same may be said of the several head of thoroughbred Hereford and Short horn cattle
 One of the most interesting exhibits on the grounds was that made by the Grenada bank and its 14 branch banks. The president of these several banks offered thousands of dollars worth of prizes last spring to the boys and girls of his territory and loaned them all the money necessary to engage in hog, beef or poultry raising Several of them did remarkably well. Wonderful yields of corn were made by some of the boys and remarkable results were obtained by the girls of the canning clubs and the poultry clubs. One 15- year-old girl has made more than s200 net off chickens and eggs this sea. son and several others did almost as well. The Grenada banker was so de- lighted with results that he erected a separate building on the fairgrounds for his exhibits and 1t was visited by thousands during the week.
 Taking it all in all, this state fair is great educational institution and has put many a farmer on the road to success.
 A DRUG ON THE MARKET
 A well known business man of Bi. ioxi writes to P. P. Garner, state com missioner of agriculture. to the effect that there is little or no sale for COW or other hides and wants to know the reason why. He calls attention to the fact that beef is abnormally high priced and that leather Is Tout of sight, wherefore he is convinced that the hide dealers have formed a trust and combine. Commissioner Garner leans heavily to the same idea and mas taken the matter up with tho au- thorities at Washington, who promise to look into the matter at once.
 RAILROADS PROTEST
 The Mississippi railroad commission held a very important session this week and which was attended by the tax commissioners and other officials of all the railroads doing business in this state. The representatives of the public service corporations were cited to appear before the commission and protest, if they so desired, against the assessment placed on their prop erty by the commission two months ago.
 GOOD PRICE FOR COTTON
 The state of Mississippi sold HOO baies or cotton one day this week at S5ss cents per pound an average of s175.T per bale. Ine exact total cannot be figured out until all the bales are weighed. but it is known they will average above 500 pounds, and that there will be somethina in the neighborhood of SPAS, 1000 for the state treasury. This cotton was pro- duced on the convict farm at Parchman. Sunflower county, and is the second lot to be sold. The greater portion of the crop Is still on and, and the trustees are confident they are going to be able to turn into the treasury more than S100n.- ooo on account of their cotton tins season.
 SENATOR WILLIAMS SPEAKS
 Citizens of Jackson and surrounding country crowded the Century theatre a few nights since and would have done the same if the building had been of five times the capacity, to hear John sharp Williams speak. Never before, perhaps, did any man receive greater ovation at the hands of his home folks He was in good trim and fine voice and as full of vitriol as the most rabid anti Vardaman supporter in the audience could have desired. He never called any name when he was lambasting varda- man and the other few "willful men, in Congress, but his audience know of whom he spoke when he held up to rid- icule the author of the now familiar saying that this is a rich mans war and poor mans fight The distin- guished Mississippian made that the bur den of his song, repeating it at frequent intervals in his bitterest tone and man. ner, and proved to the satisfaction of every halfway patriotic man and wom- an in his big audience that the rich man Is doing his whole duty in this war with Germany. fighting side by side with the poorest man in the land, and in addi-. tion is bearing the burden of taxes with out a murmur Mir Williams has made a half dozen speeches since returning from Washington, and has never failed to capture the whole crowd.
 BELGIANS WANT LAND ss
 P. P. Garner, state commissioner of ag- riculture, has received a letter from Os- car Van Der Meersch, 143 North Dear born street, asking him to locate large tract of land, at least 5000 acres, that is suitable for truck farming. The writer of the letter states that he is going to ta of tI,i