The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-08

| transportation; our large sugar factories
 are now using 1t. and. in fact, its im- possible to predict what extended use
 this fluid fuel may yet be put.
 | The Farmers Institute.
 The Farmers Institute is becoming a powerful factor for good in the South.
 Like any other new venture, however, ft
 has taken plodding work and persistent
 effort to secure for 1t its proper place
 in the minds and hearts of our people and convince them of its real value, to
 them, as an important educational fea-
 ture. But, year after year, of honest and
 earnest endeavor has, I am glad to say.
 afforded substantial evidence of convic.
 tions and conversions, and a more fairly lrgrounded belief in the principles of the
 "'newer agriculture" which are being
 taught by that coterie of agricultural
 missionaries, the farmers institute
 corps" Besides the good results ob-
 tained in this work from pertinent talks
 and discussions. the Institute can be a
 most useful medium and largely instru-
 mental in the inauguration of local agri-
 cultural fairs. It has been so in my own
 State, and the beneficient results obtained
 in the improvement of the products of the home and farm, by the stimulation of
 a spirit of friendly rivalry and healthy competition, brought about by these To- ! SASOC0Cut
 our most sanguine expectations, but those
 of exhibitors themselves.
 'T am deeply impressed with the con- l viction that the railroad companies, oper- | ating in our several states. could add very materially to the success of this great missionary work. True, 1t Is a fact, I understand. that in some of the South | ern States, the railroads have been quite generous in affording transportation to fy,Cfftnfa WnrkarQ. and durfnH inc at summer, several companies doing busi- ness in my own State have been good enough to give reduction in transporta- tion, and for which we are truly appre- ciative. But I am very much welded to | the opinion that it would be to the ad- | vantage of all transportation companies to offer every inducement for the sue cessful carrying on of this important work, and to realize that in helping on l the good cause they are but adding to | their own coffers For, 1t Is only nat ural to presume, that increased produc- ! tion on the part of the people. through | the influence and teachings of the Farm ers' Institute. means an increase in the | products to be hauled by the railroads. Commercial Fertilizers.
 "The regulation in the business of com mercial fertilizers has, in Louisiana. been quite satisfactory since the law pertinent
 
 | past two seasons, cotton seed meal when | for use as a fertilizer, has been subject to inspection and taxation. and the re- suits have been very gratifying. When 1 this bi-product is to be used as feeding l material, 1t is exempt from the tax. And l this brings up the question to my mind as to the necessity, or otherwise, for some uniform action, or, at least an ex- pression of opinion by this Association
 with regard to the regulation of the uni formity and purity of feeding materials for our livestock. Laws regulating this matter have been enacted in many of the other States of the Union, and no doubt | to their advantage. One result probably has been, however, that in relieving those states of food-stuffs of inferior quality it has at the same time flooded the mar kets of our Southern States that have no such regulations, with stock foods of very inferior gfades. Tor, 1t is a fact. that, in very many instances, feeding ma terials are unloaded on certain sections of the South, that could not possibly find a market in other parts of the country where the necessary laws are in vogue. and where greater discrimination is ex- ercised by those who purchase and use commercial, and other stock-food pro- ducts
 Immigration Needed.
 
 ment of the wonderful and abundant re- sources of our beloved Southland will largely depend upon the influx of desira- ble immigration. Greater effort is being put forth at the present time than ever before to attract that class of people whom we wish to settle amongst us, build up homes and communities. work with us, and share with us the unequalled advantages which our Southern country affords. The railroads are taking an ac- tive part in this great movement, and have already accomplished much. The magnificent exhibits and examples of the South's productiveness, shown at the different mammouth expositions through out the country, have all had their good effect and influence in opening the eyes of those living in less genial climes, and on less productive lands, to the wonderful possibilities of Dixie; and the forthcom- ing Louisiana Purchase Exposition, at St. Louis, which will be-, and will prob ably remain a record-breaker for all time. and in any country, should. If the oppor- tunity is taken proper advantage of by each and all of our Southern States to let the world see what we have and what we are capable of producing, be the greatest advertising medium of which 1t Is possi- ble to conceive.
 But above and beyond the regular and stereotyped methods adopted to at- tract immigration southward. there is a question that will, think, bear passing allusion, and which Is. to my mind, one of great importance. When the prospective home-seeker from a distance comes with in our borders to view the land do our home people, through their agricultural methods, the kind and quality of thei: livestock, an1 tho appea 'ance of things in general upon their farms, impress these home-seekers with the idea of our won derful resources. and of the prosperity about which we are won't to expattate? It is a common saying. that nothing sue. ceds like success,' md I believe that orc of the q, cate st attractions to the would be home-seeker in the South, would be to find cur own pc )ple. not only prospr GUS, which many are. bat adopting moe Intelligent, modern. F.Ed up-to-dats methods in their agriculture; ard 'digsinV out of cur fertile corner of moth sG earth mere of her hidder trea irs.., and having 1t on daily exhibition as an of- cular demonstration of lnyincirg pro Jf to the immigrant of the vertty of oul clais ts to the great prod lcti' 'eness of our scl,s For. to my mind u ere is nothing that coIld nave 90 gre.t a ten- dencv to repel the intelligent immigrant hcme-seeker than to find Inc varJ condl tens and possibilities ahout wh h We are wont to talk in such laudable terln5,
 erHain'ne lnimproyed and uT developed by cur ht me people themselves.
 Production of Cotton.
 ''The policy of our cotton States should be to raise all the cotton we can, and hold the production at home instead of in foreign countries their possessions are de- pendencies But in looking to maximum nroduction at the minimum cost we nust