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Hr I COTTON REPORTS PROM EVERY SOUTHERN STATE. I A Farm and Home Weekly for Mississiooi, Ala* _ bama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee. FOUNOEO, 1Mt. AX SXARKVILLK MISS. BUBSCRIFTION. *1 A YEAR. Volume XIII. No. 49. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 3I. 1908. Published Weekly WHAT Y 4*1' W 11.1. FINIl IN Till** UKKhA P.IPKR IW*M Kind of HrBdfimw. I! B G«*er 1 4 4‘ream Separator* Pay. H M Baines.1 0 « hildrca's Lunch IU»itn. Aunt M*rv ... 6 f citioii (Y»*|» li(-port* I'm* Kicry Mutr 2 4 otton Price* and Colton Profit* . 4 l*»«‘t Fatli* H<m£* on 4 «*m U«*u«- il 1 «r»*m»'*t V|«%-!•**nn»* Truth!#. C M S» h< r*»r 12 Cel Poultry lion sen Head' for Winter. Cnde Jo .... 14 Grain Weevil . 16 How to l*r#*» t|»«» Good Man A Tr«»u»**n*. Mr* P C. Read- ... 7 How to Cure M«-at. Old Subscriber . 10 How * Your Water Supply* .. 7 How to Make Bottom Und Pastures. A K Maser . ... . . & Lasl Week** Paper. W K Masse? * Xlttht-Rldertrm Attain . . .. V N’uftiwtwe About Pine Straw, W F Masse? 3 Preparing f(»r Wiaier «*« Mark l-srtn. V l. French ... . 10 1’tnM t rull Trees m iMrr. W F Masse > South and the Preaideorr. H « Mia re Rent* for All Crop*. Knarf Dm* The lUdl W«et|| |* Here 4 You Are Not Gettinc Enoutth for Your Cotton need. G. II Alford . 13 Veterinary Qoe*tlcm* Answered Dr il A Rob ert* .. ....... • . 11 Williamaon Plan Fad*. W F Masse? t Random Comments on This Week's Features. ll «** ms to us 'hat this «**eh'* p*(ht I* about j op to the standard Our cotton crop reporta, of course. constitute a notable feature, hut there are other art idea of no Iro practical value a The article (suggesting share rents for ail crops j Is especially imely and ought to Is* seriously con sidered U) all landlords and tenant* before mak ing IS©?* contracts There la uo doubt but that war present renting system la largely responsible both for the one crop system and for the waste of our land* two pf the greatest evils of rtouthern agriculture Our correspondent strikes the key note when he declare* that * a land owner who Is to receive a share of what the land produew* will slaty* look more carefully after the working of j It. * and »hi* fact alone la airoo** enough to dem onstrate th«* superiority of the share system. Jl i Our summary of Mutslatlppl boll weevil condl* I ****>“ on page 4 might to quicken interest in di ll t*nwfled farming and l*re*ideut Waller Clark I **en** to »!*,. up ih« situation properly when he I ^*rlar*e that at last "the great Qod of Nature, Letdtrt in tHe Movement for Better Cotton Prices P**MtDR*T C * MaRKKTT Of Um SaiioMi l iiayr* t'otoft PMBMIMCNr li.tUMK JORDAN, j Of the Southern (\»tu>n AlfcKiWiOQ President Barrett, of the National Farmers Union, representing millions of mem bers. lias called a conference of the officers and Executive Committee of the U nion to be held in New Orleans, November 1 1 th. followed by a great public meeting No vember 12th, of all Southern farmers and business men interested in better cotton prices. President Harvie Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Association, has also issued a call for a Mammoth Cotton Conference to be held tn Memphis. November 10, I I and 12. to which everybody is invited. These meetings will undoubtedly be largely attended, and we urge every reader who can do so to be present. Meanwhile The Southern Farm Gazette, endeavoring to get the fullest possible information about the size of the crop, cotton conditions and the tendency of farmers to hold or sell, is printing this week notable reports from agricultural leaders in every Southern Stale from V irginia to Texas. I his feature is undoubtedly one of the most* interesting and valuable we have had for many a day. despairing of man * effort*. ha* taken the »ltuatlon in ham! b% u-ndlng the boll weevil to compel a dtvrrktnrailna that the land* may l»r utnl for future generation* to wtumi the land* belong.” ; Mtrertor Seymour, of Alabama, offer* a wl*e *ug geation for our coming cotton convention* In the nnaertton that the only way to help cotton price* t* to grow more corn. Jl Jf your water supply l» not what it ought to b«, mi article on page . may get you to thinking of ftomctblng batter The time ami labor that ha* been needlessly spent in the Southern States on account of water suppling badly planned, or not planned at all, would dig the Panama Canal—and the burden of it in large and shameful measure has fallen on our country women. On page 7 there is also some good counsel about gardening, which should be read in connection with Mr Dur ban’s article last week. Jl Mr. French Is right in urging more light in the ! ftblr but t lie ! hlug •ill hm le'1'1’ til a • . (Continued on Page 4.1