The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-29
WILL MEET HERE NEXT
AGRICULTURAL CORNERSTONE
 FRS COMPLETE WORK.
Invitation of Mr., Poole to Hold the Next Convention in Montgom- cry is Accepted-Date
 Not Yet Fixed.

Nashville. Tenn, Aug. 8.-The Cotton States Association of Commissioners of Agriculture completed its program to- night and adjourned to meet next year in Montgomery, Ala.
 The Association devoted the morning to the reading. and discussion of papers, drove to Belle Meade in tally-hos in the afternoon and held its final session at night in the Assembly hall of the Tulane Hotel.
 At the night session a paper by J. G. Lee of Louisiana, the newly elected Pres ident. on Relations of Departments of Agriculture and Experiment Stations" was read by W. R. Dodson.
 The Committee having in charge the annual address of President Patterson re- ported, emphasizing the recommendations made as follows:
 Uniform fertilizer inspection: pure food laws; test farms; more stringent laws on crop pests and diseases; the teaching of the clements of agriculture in public schools; larger appropriations for farm CTS institutes and a system for collection of crop statistics.
 Resolutions relative to the death of John C. Redhead of Mississippi. were adopted.
 The invitation extended by Commission CT Poole of Alabama, that the Associa- ton meet next year in Montgomery was accepted, the date being left to the Exec utive Committee.
 Extension of Improvement in Old Lines of Work of the Department in My State and the Adoption of new ones during the past year" was a subject which all the Commissioners joined in debating. after which the Association adjourned sine die.
 The closing days session of the Cotton States Commissioners Association was begun this morning by the reading of a paper on cotton culture by J. F. Dugger of Alabama, who said that cotton would undoubtedly hold its position during our generation. because it easily sold, re- quires less capital and could be grown on poor soil that would not raise other prod ucts. A too close cultivation impover- ished the soil. but there should be grad ual rational changes. In order to insure highest rem lneration. the growers should release what they don't consume. Diver sification of crops should be employed so the farmers would have something else to sell.
 Cultivation of poor lands should be abandoned and the farmers made to un- derstand that pasturage is profitable The cost of production per pound should be curtailed, as it was not the lower cost per acre, but the lower cost per pound, that was the most remunerative. Culti- vation should be made to conserve hu- midity and fertilization concentrated There should be such retaliation as would leave large amounts of fermentable veg etable matter and leguminous plants should be freely used. The rental sys- tenn stands in the way of cultivating the soil and agricultural information should be disseminated through all channels In cludiEg the schools.
 Judge w. H.. Tayloe of Alabama read paper on the Torrens system of land registration, and its effect on the value of country property. He referred to the time in England when the titles were held by solicitors in their safes and there was no way to tell who owned any piece ol land. This plan was followed at hrs' in this country, but the present system could hardly be called such, and prac' tically all that saved the Southern land' | to their owners was the statute of linn | Iitations. He mentioned numerous In stances in which the purchase price ha' been lost on technicalities and the re corded titles were no good. This condi ton evoked the Torrens system. Int law was fully explained, and the speaker declared he would like to see the associa ton start a crusade against everything hut fee simple titles. With the question of titles once settled, 1t would be easy to settle the question of land values, n' said.