The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-12
Agricultural Department
CONDUCTED BY FULTON s. WHITE.

 to help defray expenses of keeping up the home.
 The farm is kept well cultivated and still produces fine crops, furnishing an object lesson of what old Virginia soil is yet capable of producing under good eul- tiyation. The old trees around the place is the home of birds and sonnets, which help to make the place attractive From Mt. Vernon we next visited Arlington, the once happy home of Robert E. Lee. The government bought this home, and Arlington is the largest national cemetery in the United States, with Vicksburg coming in as a good second. One gets fine view of Washington from Arlington, and a fine view of Arlington from the Washington monument. We went through all the houses and had a guide to take us all over the grounds. This, too. is beautiful place, and, like Mt Vernon. many of the old forest trees are left standing, and here too are many squir- rels to help interest the visitors. Here rests the heroes of many wars. Here are buried the men who were killed on the battleship Maine.
 Every visitor to Washington should see Arlington. These historic places will al- ways have an interest to our American people. l enjoyed every foot of this his toric country, as there was something of
  step. Beautiful Washington! Beautiful Arlngton Beautiful Nit Vermont All like the great Atlantic ocean and the grand Rockies, one must see them in order to fully understand what they are. This was a realization of one of the fond est dreams of my life. l wanted to go out and stand on historic Cemetery hill, where occurred the greatest artillery duel the world ever had. It takes a whole Hatt tn oro Ralffn1nrp OIt fO (rRttNS- burg and back and as 1t was raining cold rain the day we had set to go ont we gave it up, but I hope yet to live to see the time when I can stand on this historic hill. Baltimore is also a beaut- ful city, and I sSg some very fine farms in Maryland. Philadelphia, too, has many places of history. We visited old Inde- pendenee Hall. where we saw many things of great interest. We went to the old cemetery and saw the grave O. the great printer. philosopher, philanthropist and patriot Benjamin Franklin. Here in this old cemetery are tombstones so old that time has worn the lettering past reading.
 From Philadelphia on to New York it is almost a continuation of towns, cities and manufacturing plants. Some of these are more than one hundred years old. The Pennsylvania railroad has four tracks between Philadelphia and New York and trains are passing rapidly be- tween these great cities. There is much of interest to see here, all along this line. The small farms all through this coun- try are closely cultivated and everything saved and sold to best advantage. Some years ago many of the wornout, poor farms in New England were turned out, abandoned. Since many of these have been reclaimed and turned to small dairy farms, and the milk of this section has proved a paying business. This is one of the many industries needed in Alabama.
 All through our hill country, where grasses and forage crops can be grown, we should have daries. Then there are so many other things that people can en- gage in that money can be made out of. This trip was one of great interest to me from start until I reached home.
 Our convention, while in session in Wash ington, had many important questions under consideration, all looking to the agricultural advancement of the country. The department of agriculture is now doing more than ever before to educate and help the people in their efforts to im- prove the country. Another thought came to my mind while on this trip, which is. why any American should go abroad to see foreign countries before seeing our own country. There is enough of inter- est in this country for me to see for years yet, and I want to see America, our own beloved historic country before going abroad