The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-10
ALABAMA CROPS | ARE IMPROVING
Lacy Finishes Ten Years. Women Form Company.
 Operators Make Appeal
By FRED ". GORMLEI Montgomery Bureau The Ass-hera'd
 12I.2 Eirxt Aatlnnal Rank RuiIdknI

Montgomery, August 9.-(Special.)--
 Favorable weather conditions during
 the past month caused the bureau of
 crops estimate of Alabama today to
 make material additions to it's es1
 mated of probable yield of food crops
 for Alabama this year. The bureau in
 its monthly statement estimated that
 the cotton crop in Alabama would be
 S37,000 bales compared with an est-
 mate of 7s7,000 bales this time last
 month or an increase of fifty thousand
 bales. It also figured that the probable
 yield of corn will be 69.166,000 bushels
 compared it's estimate of 625S3 900
 5s3.000 bushels.
 Other estimates of principal crops
 based on reports dated August 1 were:
 Peanuts 1o.3Ss,0oo bushels, hay 1,545,.
 900 tons, Irish potatoes, 4214,o
 bushels, sweet potatoes 14,16s,00
 bushels, syrup 17,5oo,o0o gallons, oats
 6,7o6,00O bushels wheat ffinal esti-
 mate) 7s7,000 bushels. Referring to
 the generation of the crops the re. port said: "A general improvement is shown in this forecast, amounting to some 5000, ,0000 bushels of corn, 50,000 bales of cotton and a slight increase in Irish potatoes over a month ago. The production of marketable peanuts does |not promise quite so heavy but the acreage may be harvested for market is very problematical and will depend wholly on the market at and harvest time. The sweet potato crop does not look so large as month ago, not that l the end has fallen, but the acreage to be harvested does not look quite so large as was used in the former fore cast. Syrup holds it's own and the harvest will be large if seasons con tinuesgood. Oats at the time of harvest did not promise quite so large yield as they did a month ago. Three per cent of the oat crop of last year was found on farms August i. Wheat has been harvested and the acreage yield is estimated at 9.6 bushels which makes the total harvested the same as forecast a month ago."
 
 Theodore Lacy, former chief clerk of l the state convict department whose disappearance in 1913 with about one hundred thousand dollars of state funds created a sensation, has completed his ] first sentence of ten years in prison growing out of the loss of the none y and has entered upon the second sen tence of six years. Lacy has made an excellent record according to report in | the convict bureau, and received credit on his senteEce. If his record during the second term is as good, he will be ' made free man in less than five years statement as to what was done with I the money which he packed in a pine l box the day he disappeared has been I unavailing.
 Report of the organization of a nove' | corps in C1ebourne county reached the secretary of state today. The com | pany will engage in the mining oi gold and mica and every stockholder is 1 woman. It is to be operated under l the name of the Seven Sisters Mica and Gold Mining Company.
 1 The corporation will begin business with a paidin capital of s5o,ooo. Those interested are Elizabeth w. York, Annie Schlappio. Helen Wallace, Bertha Ritz man. Marret w. Verge, Jessie M. Bagley | and Hattie P. Wright.
 Lester Dyer. alleged to be a noted moonshiner of Jackson county and to | have served time in the Tennessee penitentiary in connection with the death of two revenue officers, was ar rested near Paint Rock yesterday by an agent of the state law enforcement | 1 ,rk, Al I,r rktI1 k,6 kAA
 destroyed Dyer's brother was also ar
 rested on charge of being interested
 in the plant.
 1 Twelve gallons of liquor and 1.00C
 gallons of corn and sugar mash were
 destroyed. The Overs were armed with
 revolvers. but were unable to use them
 as the officers had the drop on them l Operators of furnaces in the Bir- ningham district today appealed te
 the public service commission not tc permit the railroads to have another | increase of, 25 per cent in coal, coke limestone and iron ore. on the ground that they were granted an excessive
 increase when the director general ot
 railroads ordered horizontal increase | of 25 per cent several months ago
 Steel manufacturers did not join in the petition.
 The furnace operators have had 2 petition before the commission for sev. l eral weeks for an order decreasing tho , rates on these supplies on the allega tion that the railroads have been kill. ing a rate greater than that permitted i by the director generals order. The.
 now claim that a horizontal increase
 on these commodities will maintain
 that inequality. The petition will bt
 considered in connection with the pc tition of the railroad for the genera increase on intrastate rates.