The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-04-13
YESTERDAYS MEETING
WAS 4 BIG SUCCESS
Secretary Wilson Made q Great
Speech Which was Thor
oughly Enjoyed.

The third meeting of tae Cane and
Cassava association was he'd In this
city yesterday, and will go on record
as the most successful Industrial
gathering ever held in the state OF
Georgia
The melting was largely attended,
ana full of interest and a general
spirit of earnestness and enthusiasm
was manifested, which is always a
characteristic of success.
The convention opened with very
impressive invocation of the diety on
the part of. Rev w C. Austin. of the
MvcKendree Methodist church, this
city, followed by an address Of wei
come by Mr.. f. ID. Aiken, on heha1f OF
the Brunswick board OF trade. MI.
Aikens remarks were timely and in
felicitous fashion, extended the
visitors the freedom of the city. His
address was a happy one and at its
conclusion he was enthusiastically ap-
plauded.
SECRETARY WILSON
MADE GREAT SPEECH.
The program was here varied from
and Secretary Wilson was the first
speaker of the day.
Mr. Wilson's address to the con-
vention was a splendid effort; splen-
did in simplicity, splendid In its
sound, common sense. He said he
came as listener; came to learn
what the people needed SO that ne
could help them, that for the time
being he was a Georgian, seeking
to know what Georgia and especially
south Georgia needed; that the de
partment had already taken up the
Isugarcane question and the manufac
ture OF a uniform grade OF syru[
therefrom. He made an earnest ap
peal to the people to diversity thC
crops, described the situation il
Iowa, where the people there raise(
nothing but wheat showing diversified
tion OF crops and Industries mad sayet
the state; announced the mt '0n 0
che agricultural department to be II
assist every section Of the country u
the particular lines of agriculture
| products best suIteu TO the soil ant
climate, to that end an examination
| of aoilc to ascortajn ,uhap dfcoar
attacked any particular agriculture
product, the cause and find remedy
the necessity for practloal scientiti
knowledge; the notable want OF sue
teaching in our colleges the needs BIZ
| ing SO great that the department wa
now forced to educate young men 4
the special education needed in tn
practical work of the department. II
cited numerous lines in which th
department was trying TO benefit tn
people. In agriculture by aiding i
examination Of soils and the elemen
needed for particular plant grown, b
fosting experimental work and SEM
ing scientific experts to localities 0
lines of special local importance.
its weather reports, by giving neede
| information as to the movement {
storms and thus warning and protec
ing people on land and on water; /
providing against the storms OF colt
which destroy the orange tree by
Isystem of hybridizing with view
: obtain tree which would withstan
the damage OF such storms. Th
efforts being made to encourage te
, planting for the south, already cor
: mercially successful In South Car
t lima, the effort to make silk produ
, tion in the south a great industr
. The opportunities for stock fattenir
in the entire Georgia pine belt. III
importance of turning over cotTc
: lseed meal into meat before exportlI
] it and ueriving the profit therefrom,
Mr. Wilson described the speci
efforts being made in congress
procure an experiment station in sou
Georgia, to aid our people in prepa
ing uniform syrup, increasing ca
|, sava the velvet bean, forage crops
v various kind. His references to
: attitude toward the south and soci
conditions was peculiarly tactful a
happy and elicited unbounded 3
plause.
The secretary leaves our peol