The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-01-13

HAZEL
EYES

county is 1000. The campaign is
just getting underway.
We call your attention to an
advertisement in alseries sponsor
ed this week by the Merchants
and Planters Bank of Tchula, in
the interest of Holmes county
cotton farmers.
If you are a farmer and plan to
have a cotton crop in l949 you
should investigate the crop in
surance program and what it can
mean to you. Offices are in the
basement of the Lexington post
office.
The first farm tour of 1949 was
made last Thursday by Holmes
county white and colored farmers
and was a great success, according
to reports,
Winter grazing was under spec
ial observation at this time by the
group which visited the farms OF
C. ". and Hoover Maxwell, Ras
NJ. Branch, G.. H. Love, and ID.
c. Lundy. All of these places
boast first-class well-planned
winter grazing programs.
Crops planted were oats, wild
winter peas, wheat, and white
Dutch clover.
One of the planters made the
announcement that he had grazed
his pasture from November i,
through January /, and had al
ready netted $40 per acre above
the cost of preparation, seed and
fertilization. In addition he still
has two more months of addi-
tional grazing that will practical
ly double the above benefits.
What this farmer has done can
and should be done by hundreds
of other Holmes county farmers
every year. There are only about
100 Holmes farmers participating
in the winter grazing program.
There should be hundreds.
Every man owning n or more
cows should have from n and
one-half to two acres per COW in
pasture properly fertilized and
seeded.
A small group of Holmes farm
ers are making good money by
sound year round farm practices.
What they are dong could be ac-
complished by a lot more Holmes
farmers.
Capt. A. S. windham Of the
Mississippi Highway Patrol is
authority for the statement that
there were 389peop1e killed in Mis-
sissippi during 1948 in traffic
accidents. The record will pro-
badly reach 400 when it is COM
pleted officially.
In addition thousands were hos
pitalized and many crippled for
life.
During the year of the great
polio epidemic there were 496
people killed on the highways of
our state, more than died from
polio-and To per cent Of these
were in the polio age group. The
same year 1895 went to the hos
pital from traffic accidents.
The four greatest factors in
traffic accidents, Capt. Wind
ham said, are speed, reckless
driving, running stop signs, Gao
per cent or more of the accidents
are at intersections) and drinking
drivers.
Safety is an individual thing
and begins with YOU. The two
main things we can do as good
citizens, Capt. Windham said, be-
sides being careful ourselves al
ways is to first, demand good
1aw-enforcement and second,
when we are asked to sit on a
jury where there is a case involv-
ing drunken driving to judge the
case on its merits whether it in
wolves one of the most prominent
citizens of a town, or its most
obscure citizen.
Sometimes juries become SYM
pathetic to a person charged
with drunken driving because he
will lose his drivers license. Men
on those juries should remember
that when they turn the drunk
en- driver loose they are turning
a potential murderer loose, Capt.
Windham said.
During November of 1913 there
were 1873 drunken drivers caught
in Mississippi. There is no way
of knowing how many e not
apprehended. November. Capt.
Windham said, is an average
month.
So il seems that the drunken
driver is the greatest menace to
public safety on the highway.
On Labor Day two years ago
there were nine deaths on the
highway, five of which were
caused from drunk drivers. One
was a title girl pushing her doll
carriage along the sidewalk. A
drunken driver ran up on the
sidewalk and killed her. A mother
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