People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1894 — Convicts Compete with Farmers. [ARTICLE]

Convicts Compete with Farmers.

Jackson, Miss., Dec. 5. —After ; his year convicts cannot be leased, therefore the board of prison control has contracted with a number of prominent planters to crop in shares, the crops being entirely under the state’s control. More than 10,000 acres of land will be cultivated.