The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13
CANE AND CASSAVA
LARGE ATTENDANCE AT BRUINS
WICK's CONVENTION.
SECT'Y. WILSON'S ADDRESS.
HAS EVIDENTLY BEEN STUDYING
SOUTH GEORGIA.

The Simplicity and sound Common
Sense of MIR. Wilson's Remarks
Won the COnventiOn-He Urges Di-
versifed Crops and Tells of IOwn's
Experience-StOck Fattening in
the Georgia Pine Belt Discussed.
Turn Cotton Seed Meal Into Meat
Instead of Exporting It-COmmis-
sioner stevens and Hon. Pope
Brown Also Spoke.
Brunswick. Ga. April 1.-THE Sugar
Cane and Cassava Convention held in
this city to-day under the auspices
of the Brunswick Board of Trade, was
a success in every sense of the word
and exceeded anything of the kind ever
attempted in the state. Delegates came
here from all sections of South Geor-
gia and Florida, and when the con-
vention was called to order by Presi-
dent Goodyear of the Cane and Cas-
sava Association, the assembly room
of the City Hall was filed with the
sturdy tillers of the soil, who came
to hear men of farming reputation
discuss the two great money crops.
The center of attraction was Secre-
tary Wilson, who came here to par
ticipate in the meeting, and he dis
played great interest in every word
that was uttered by the speakers.
Mr.. Wilson's address to the conven-
ton was a splendid effort, splendid
in simplicity, and splendid in its sound
common sense. He said he came as
listener. came to learn what the peo-
pie needed. so that he could help them;
that for the time being he was a Geor-
gian, seeking to know what Georgia,
and especially South Georgia, needed;
that the department had already taken
up the sugar cane question and the
manufacture of uniform grade
of syrup therefrom. He made an earn
est appeal to the people to diversity
their crops, described the situation in
Iowa, where the people there had rails
ed nothing but wheat showing that di-
Nersification of crops and industries
had saved the state.
Mission of His Department..
He announced the mission of the Ag-
ricultural Department to be to assist
every section of the country in the
particular lines of agricultural pro-
ducts best suited to the soil and CHI
mate. To that end an examination of
soils, to ascertain when disease at
tackled any particular agricultural
product the cause and find a remedy,
the necessity for practical scientific
knowledge the notable want of such
teaching in our colleges, the needs be-
ing so great that the department was
row forced TO educate young men in
the special education needed in the
practical work of the department.
He cited numerous lines in which the
department was trying to benefit the
people. In agriculture, by aiding in
examination of soils and the elements
needed Tor particular plant growth, by
experimental work and sending scien-
tific experts to special localities on
lines of special local Importance. In it's
weather reports, by giving needed in
formation as to the movement of
storms and thus warning and protect
ing people on land and on water; in
providing against the storms of cold
which destroy the orange trees by a
system of hybridizing with a view to
obtain tree which would Withstand
the injury of such storms. The effort
being made to encourage tea planting
for the south, already commercially
successful in South Carolina, the effort
to make silk production in the South a
general industry; the opportunity for
stock fattening in the entire Georgia
pine belt; the Importance of turning
over cotton seed meal into meat before
exporting 1t, and deriving the profits
therefrom.
station for South Georgia.
Mr.. Wilson described the special eff
forts being made in Congress to pro-
cure an experiment station in South
Georgia to aid our people in preparing
an uniform syrup, increasing cassava
the velvet bean and forage crops of
various kinds. His references to his
attitude towards the South and social
conditions was peculiarly tactful and
happy and elected unbounded APP
plause.
The Secretary leaves our people
deeply impressed with the feeling that
every section of our common country
has his conscientious and watchful care
and interests, that he is an American
in cry fiber of his being, that so far
as lies in the power of his department.
every section and every interest will
receive all the help laying in his
power.
Commissioner of Agriculture Stevens
also addressed the convention, his sub
ject being, South Georgia's Develop
ment" MIR. Stevens is in a position
TO know what is going on in the agri-
cultural line in Georgia and he real
ICES the fact that South Georgia is fast
coming tc the front.
A Shot talk from Hon. Pope Brow
on IAN Experimental Station for South
Georgia" was also much enjoyed Mr..
Brown pointed out that this section
should have one, and said he hoped to
soon see it established.
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KILLED HIS FATHER-IN-LAW.