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State Board Will Take Up
Important Matter Monday
at Montgomery
Montgomery, January 17.— (Special.)
Arranging the military districts of Ala
bama will be considered by the state
military board next Monday. The board
will consider the advisability of ar
ranging the districts so south Alabama
companies can be in one regiment, cen
tral Alabama companies in another and
north Alabama companies in a third.
In this way the stale will save several
thousand dollars each year, according
to the belief of military men.
The board will also discuss the feas- j
ibility of a brigade encampment during
the summer. This is the year for state
encampments and a decision W’ill be
made about whether or not regiments
shall hold separate encampments or ail
meet together. Among other things
to be considered are plans for the re
organization of the medical corps, strict
enforcement of rules prohibiting the
wearing of military uniforms except
' when on duty and examination of inef
ficient officers.
The military board has the right to
make rules for the military companies
if they do not conflict with the state
law provided the governor approves
them. Any changes in the state mili
tary law’ considered necessary will be
recommended by Governor O’Neal in a
message to the next legislature. j
BRIBERY CASES AT
Prominent Political Leaders
Will Face Charges at
March Term
Huntsville, January 17—(Special.)—Judge
James H. Ballentine of tbe law and
equity court has continued until the
March term all of the bribery cases
against prominent political leaders here
growing out of ttae investigation of the
last grand jury into the last city election
and spring democratic primary in Mad
ifcbn county.
Edward C. Betts, vice president of the
Chamber of Commerce, has received a
letter from Don Carlos Ellis, secretary of
the national advisory board, notifying him
of his appointment as a member of the
state board of directors for the National
Conservation exposition in Knoxville
September and October.
Jchn Harveston, the liber factory opera
tive who, it is alleged, set fire to the
barn of James McClure and started a
blaze that caused a 16000 loss, has been
committed to the grand jury and his bond
fixed at $2500. He will no doubt remain
in jail until the grand jury assembles.
Major Kendall Dead
Portland, Ore., January 17.—Maj. Henry
Fletcher Kendall, United States army, re
tired, died at his home in this city Thurs
day. He was 76 years old.
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SWEET POTATO IS
IMPORTANT EOOD IN
SOUTHERN STATES
Is One of the Five Greatest
Commercial Truck
Crops
HOW TO GROW AND
MARKET TUBER
Southern Farmers Should Provide
Adequate Storage Facilities and
Hold Potatoes Until After
Digging Time
By C. B. STEWART
Washington. January 17.—(Sperial.)
Each year the sweet potato la becoming
of greater importance as a commercial
truck crop in the United States. During
a long period It has formed one of the
principal sources of food for the people
of the southern states and tropical Amer
ica. As a commercial truck crop the
sweet potato would be included among
the Are of greatest Importance. ranking
perhaps about third in the list. As a food
for the great mass of people llying In the
warmer portions of our country the use of
this crop Is exceeded only by hominy and
rice. The larger cities of the eastern
United States are well supplied with
sweet potatoes during a considerable por
tion of the year, but no provision has yet
been made for many of the markets of
the extreme north and northwest.
The sweet potato is especially adapted
for growing on thin, sandy, cut over tim
ber lands of the south; in fact, the po
tatoes grown on this character of soil
are more uniform In sir© and shape and
keep better than those grown upon the
richer alluvial soils. A great opportunity
Is afforded the farmers of this region to
develop the sweet potato Indnatry, de
pending upon the Rocky mountain and
great plains area for a market.
Storage Facilities Necessary
Sweet potatoes can be marketed to
greater advantage when storage facilities
an© provided. Growers who do not have
suitable storage facilities are compelled
to sell their sweet potatoes for a low price
at digging time, while comparatively high
prices prevail during the remainder of
the year.
The proper keeping of sweet potatoes
requires that they be well grown and
thoroughly ripened; free from disease;
carefully handled in digging and storing,
and stored in a dry, well ventilated place,
where proper temperatures can be main
tained.
The first essential is met by growing the
sweet potatoes on land adapted to the
crop and giving good cultivation.
The second essential, freedom from dis
ease, requires the careful selection of seed
potatoes, the use of new soil in the plant
bed each year, and the following of crop
rotation in the field, so that sweet pota
toes will not 1© planted on the same land
oftener than once In three years. One of
the best ways to keep the crop /re© from
disease is to grow the seed stock from
vine cuttings planted on land where sweet
potatoes have not been grown for several
years. Diseased and decayed potatoes
should not be thrown on the land where
the crop Is to be grown. A safer plan
would be to burn all infected potatoes and
refuse.
Padded Baskets and Wagons
The third essential lies In Uie care ex
ercised in handling the potatoes at the
time of digging and storing. Padded bas
kets and wagons with easy springs are
recommended for us© in transporting them
from the field to the storage house.
The fourth essential, proper storage fa
cilities, may easily he provided on almost
any farm in the south, especially where
lumber is cheap and wood or other fuel
abundant. The farmers of the south, who
as a rule grow only a few acres of sweet
potatoes, follow the practice of storing
them in pits or banks. When free from
disease at the time of storing this method
has proved fairly successful for keeping
the hardy varieties of potatoes commonly
grown In the southern states, but tlie
more delicate Jersey type, which is in de
mand in the northern markets, cannot
be successfully stored in this way. There
is no difficulty, however, in keeping sweet
potatoes if they are free from disease,
carefully handled, and stored under proper
conditions.
Two or three types of sweet potato stor
age houses are used by growers in the
northern part of the swreet potato region.
One consists of a building wnlch is con
structed entirely above ground and is
provided with double walls, a plank, con
crete or earth floor, bins for holding the
stored potatoes, and suitable heating and
ventilating facilities.
Another typo of storage, used by grow
ers lr, New Jersey, consists of a base
ment under the dwelling itself or under
an outbuilding, but only » i
ground and provided with
dews lor ventilation. A bat _
must be dry to insure the keeping of the
potatoes, and it is doubtful if this type
would prove satisfactory in the gulf coast
states. The method of heating is with a
good wood or coal stove. It is best to
place the potatoes in bins, rather than
on the floor. And the main requisite is
the securing of warmth at all times and
freedom from moteture.
Cause of Low Prices
As before stated, one reason why the
southern farmers have not received more
for their sweet potatoes Is that they hate
not followed the proper methods in mar
keting the crop. Frequently (he potatoes
ere rot only damaged in digging, but are
put in bags or rough barrels without
proper grading and rushed to market at
a time when there is an oversupply, ijtw
prices are the result. The secret of se
curing higfc prices for any perishable
farm product is to properly grade, clean
and pack it and to place It upon the
market at a time when there is the great
ets demand for it. The period for the
greatest demand for the sweet potato is
from September 1 to April 1, and the
highest prices usually prevail from the
middle of December until March 1. To
obtain the best prices It is necessary io
have facilities for storing the crop front
one to five months after harvesting.
With the land peculiarly adapted to the
cultivation of the sweet potato, and a
constant and growing demand for the
crop in the north and west, where the
markets have not been sufficiently sup
plied, there Is every Inducement for the
southern farmers to adopt improved cul
tural and storage methods and make the
sweet potato a more Important money
crop. There Is no danger of an over-pro
duction—the demand has never been met
and Is constantly growing.
WOMEN EXCLUDED
FROM BRITISH BAR
London, January 17.—Women were ex
cluded from practicing law at the British
bar by an overwhelming vote of the rtar
association at Its annual meeting today.
A motion to admit women to member
ship was favored by some of the young
barristers, but the senior counsel voted
en masse against It.
'KEEN INTEREST IN
GORE'S IDEA 10 ADD
_ T
Wilson Is Believed to Have
Concurred in Idea of the
Oklahoman
TRIBUNAL IS FAR
BEHIND AT PRESENT
Believed That Addition of Two Jus
tices Would Add (ireatly to Speed
of Court—Who Will Be
Next Senate Leader?
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By C. K. STEW \RT
Washington, January li.--(Special.)—
There is a manifgstatton of keen interest
by members of longress of all parties
over Senator G<#e’s proposition to in
crease the United States supreme court
from nine to 11 members, especially r.nce
tt iB generally believed that the plan lias
the concurrence of President-elect Wil
son. The possibilities of such action pre
sents a very pleasing proepect to the dem
ocrats and the progressive republicans,
tt Is conceded, of course, that the in
ert aee would not be made until after Pres
ident Wilson had been inaugurated and
vested with the power of appointing the
two new justices. It is taken as a mat
ter of course, with the President's well
known attitude, frequently expressed,
that "nothing but progressives will he
put on guard." That Is to say, the two
appointees would be men whom the Pres
ident could depend on to construe from a
progressive viewpoint the progressive leg
islation passed by Congress, the consti
tutionality of which might be attacked.
Will Control Senate
It is now taken for granted that Pres
ident Wilson when he gets his stride In
having enacted into law tbe reforms he
contemplates will have a working major
ity in the Senate. The absolute demo
crate majority of one may be increased
by picking up a democratic senator or two
in the elections yet to be held, but at
any rate he will have the support of a
sufficient number of progressive repub
licans to give him control of the Senate.
Thus, it is stated, with an enthusiastic
and harmonious House and an approving
Senate and a supreme court presumably
in sympathy with his policies. President
Wiison would be in an enviable position
to carry out speedily the democratic pol
icies and have them approved, if it be
came necessary to do so, by the court
of last resort.
No constitutional amendment will be
necessary to Increase the membership of
the supreme court, Congress being en
dowed with full power over that as well
a? all other federal judicial bodies. It is
thought that a hill to increase the mem
bership of the supreme court will pass
the House without friction and would
;also pass the Senate.
Strong indorsement of this proposition
j comes from the bar of the country, .1 is
I said. The court is now far behind on its
docket, and many important cases are.
caught in the jam. Two more working
justices would help things materially and
facilitate the earlier decisions on impor
tant matters, to the great joy of lawyers
all over the country.
No Whisper of Dissent
There is every present indication that
the incoming President is to have the
hearty support of his party in Congress.
There is not a whisper of dissent. There
are no “reactionary” democrats. One
I could not be found in Washington with
a search warrant. Everybody is progres
sive, and to paraphrase an old saying
every member of Congress declares, "I
hove been a life long progressive ever
since last election day.”
The President will find no man In h.»
own party to say him nay, ami as for ttie
old guard republicans, such of them as
have survived the cataclysm of November
will not be in any position to throw a
holt or a monkey wrench into the Wilson
machinery if they should so desire.
There Is one question almost daily asked
and that Is who is going to be the real
leader in the Senate? Hoke Smith looms
up very formidably right at thin time,
but It is conceded that some of the older
members are not going to give way with
out a struggle. Everybody Is hoping
that that struggle will not endanger the
success of the party.
NORTH STATE WOMEN
GOING AFTER BALLOT
Raleigh, N. C., January 17.—A fight to
obtain woman suffrage In North Carolina
was launched here today when a reso
lution was introduced in the house to
amend the constitution to permit women
voting in this state and using the bal
lot box. This is the firBt measure of its
kind presented in the North Carolina as
sembly.
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Average Yield of 18 Corn
Demonstrators in Hale Is
56 3-4 Bushels Acre
Greensboro, January 17.—(Special.)—W.
If Knight, the local government agent
of farm demonstration work for Hale
county, has just made his final report
for 1912. Me reports IS corn demonstra
tors who worked 120 acres and the aver
age made was 5614 bushels per acre.
Mr. Knight had 30 cotton demonstra
tors, who worked 304 acres of cotton,
making on an average of 1727 pounds of
seed • otlon to the acre.
Mr. Knight, himself a first ( lass farmer.
Is making a success of Inducing the
Hale county farmers to adopt the in
tensive system of farming with which
lie has had personal experience, and has
been most successful.
The warehouses of Greensboro have re
eelved 8100 bales of cotton to dale, and
cotton seed Is bringing 124 per ton.
Many farms around Greensboro are al
ready looking busy. Spring weather en
ables farmers to begin to prepare for
planting early to head off the boll wee
vil.
CONFEDERATE GUN
MAKER SUCCUMBS
Mobile. January 17.—Alexander N. Spear,
aced 73, an old Confederate veteran. Is
dead at Mb borne here today. With the
outbreak of the civil war he left here
for Selma. There he conducted a foun
dry for the manufacture of nuns for the
Confederacy. Me has been In the service
of the 1'nlted State* customs office for
some years.
CHEROKEE RESIDENT
IS 108 YEARS OF AGE
Centre, January 17.—(Special.)—There la
living near Korney, In thla cdunty, Mrs.
Margaret Woodruff, who Is 108 years old.
She makes her home with her non, A.
J. Tillery, who la a Confederate peu
aloner 76 years old.
JUDGE MS WILL
PROBABLY RECOVER
Eminent Alabama Jurist
Able to Sit Up in Mont
gomery Yesterday
Montgomery, January 17.-(Special.)
Judge Thomas (J. Jones of the I’ulti
States district court and governor of
Alabama for two terms, will probably re
cover. He has heen dangerously ill with
pneumonia for several days, but was able
to sit up today and read a newspaper.
T*h\sicians say he will he well soon it
th» r« is no relapse.
Judge Jones is one of the heat known
men in the south, having made a reputa
tion as a Jurist by the railroad rate cases
which have been in tin* courts for six
years.
Financial
P'rom the Boston Transcript.
“Wat's ‘inflated currency,' Bill?”
“Dunno! less it's money wots been
•blown In.' ”
Lounsberry Convicted of
Having Held Up a Fast
Union Pacific Train
Kansas Oily, January 17.—“Guilty. **
This was the verdict returned in the fed
eral court in Kansas City, Kan., today
against Wells l<ounab*rry, who last Au
gust robbed « Union Pacific mall train
near Lawrence. Kans.
Mis plea of defense was insanity, Lou mi.
berry held up six mail clerks, forcing
one to bind the remainder and blindfold
them. After placing his loot in a ba;£
he stepped off the train at Lawrence,
boarded it again a moment later and hid
in a Pullman berth, where he was cap*
tured as the train entered Topeka.
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