The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30
Chief Mcdonald will get his old plat with the city.
 ELEVEN THOUSAND BOYS

According to Prof C.. A. Cobb of the extension service and in charge Of boys corn clubs pig clubs. baby beef clubs. etc. his rolls now show 11,099 members. 5000 more than year ago, and they are all doing fine work. These corn club boys have been in creasing the corn crop of the state the past four or five years. They have averaged nearly 50 bushels per acre, and that is about 32 bushels above the average for the state. Some few of the boys have produced more than 225 bushels per acre. several have gone above 200 bushels and hundreds of them above 100 bushels per acre. Such yields have opened the eyes of their fathers and now the "old man" is try ing intensive farming to such good ad.- vantage that the corn yield of the state has been doubled, with fair chance of being trebled this year with crop of 100.000.000 bushels. Profes- sor Cobb announces that October has been set aside and designated as Seed Selection Day." when prize of a $2o gold medal will be presented to the county that makes the best showing in the matter of selecting seed corn. This medal will remain in the county so long as 1t leads in this work.
 MOVING TO OLD CAPITOL
 The sl25,oo0 worth of repairs on the old capitol are almost completed, and already the state bank examiners have moved into their handsome quarters on the third floor, rear. The examiners were forced to move because of the fact that they have been occupying the office of the secretary of the senate, and the leg islature being ready to assemble in extra ordinary session, a move was imperative. Most of the other rooms in the old building are ready for occupancy, but there will be very little more moving until the middle of October, as there is a great deal of cleaning up to be done. walks to be laid. heating connections made and great many odds and ends to he attended to before the building Is ready for all departments that are to be moved there. The old capitol is now one of the very best and handsomest public buildings in the state.
 MISSISSIPPI CATTLE WINS
 Enochs & Wortnan. owners of sone of the finest herds of Hereford cattle in the south. and whose stock farm is To- cated two or three miles north of Jack son, are being congratulated on the great showing their herd made at the Kentucky State Fair at Louisville They got first prizes on aged bull, senior year ling bull, junior yearling bull. senior bull calf. aged SOW, 2-year-old COW. agod herd. young herd. calf herd and get of sire. They also won few second. third and fourth prizes. as well as senior champion bull, grand champion bull ju- nlor hampion bull. senior champion cow and grand champion COW. Recently the LaVernett Herefords. owned by the fam fly of the late w. J. Davis of this city, won nearly everything at the Nebraska State Fair at Lincoln. All of which goes to prove that good cattle can be raised in the south as well as in other parts of the country.
 TWO SOLDIERS DIE
 During the week just ended two sol : diers. both from Jones county. near Lau- rel. and both members of Company II. Second Mississippi regiment. have died in Camp Jackson, one of heart disease and the other from another organic trouble. One was Marion Newell, the other Zenith, Holcombe. Their bodies were sent to their homes under military escort. Al . general thing the health |of the 5000 soldiers here has been nne. and thero have been no deaths from fovofn or oth1r ofdtunSy dioeasoo.