The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-28
ALA. LIVE STOCK
 MEN IN SESSION
Sixth Annual Meeting Attended
 by Seventy-fve Members
PAPER ON CATTLE RAISING
Professor souIe of the University of Tennessee Reads an Exhaustive Paper, In Which He Points
 Out Many Facts.

The sixth annual meeting of the Ala bama Live Stock association Is in session in the Commercial club rooms in the First National bank building. There are probably seventy-five men in attendance, and the sessions were very interesting. The features of the morning session was the address of welcome of Mayor ". M. Drennen, the annual address of President c. A. Cary, and the reports from seven of the nine districts in which there are agricultural schools.
 President J. B. Hobdy of the Seventh District Agricultural school. Albertsville; President J. B. Lovett of the Ninth Dis trict school BlountsvilleP President J. V. Brown of the Third District school, Ab- beville; Prof. A. F. Corey, agriculturist of the Fourth District school Prof. II. O. Sergeant agticulturist of the First Dis trict school, Jackson; Prof. J. E. Duggar, agriculturist at Auburn; R. s. Mackin- tosh, professor of horticulture at Auburn; Prof. L. M. Duncan. agriculturist at
 
 endon Davis, breeder, of Huntsville; J. s. Kerneschan breeder, of Florence; W. q. Little, breeder, of Livingston; MT Hikes, breeder of Huntsville; w. G. Ennis of Livingston. W. G. Little of Livingston, T. s. Scale of Livingston, F. I. Derby, breed- er of Gaston; Eg Hoyt, dealer, Liyings- ton; W. T. Green of Livingston, Isaac Lewis, ". M. Glass. Birmingham; w. B. Neighbors, Taladega; W. F. Goth, Hunts vile; W. A. Ellis. Rose; J. c. Drake, Huntsville; A M. Trayer, Huntsville; W. L. Evans, Liyingston D. D. Burdette. Livingston; L. D. Winslow, Thorsby: E. A. Bishop, Talladega.
 Professor soule's Paper.
 At the afternoon session the paper of Prof. A. M. soule of the University of Tennessee, on ethe Beef Cattle Industry in the South" was read. In his treat ment of the subject Professor Soule an- swered a number of questions In regard to the proper feeding of the cattle. The paper was considered by the members one of the best of it's kind they had ever heard, and the professors advice they TeBdTu us OI great Dtnenl IIOitSSOT Soule is connected with the experiment station at Knoxville, and has the seien- tifc facts to support his argument. He shows that Alabama is behind many other states In cattle raising and that by care- full management this state could be made to produce many times as more cattle and breeds than Is now done.
 Professor Soule divides his paper Into three heads. first, the need of beef cattle raising In the south; second, the ability to have choice beef cattle, and third, the capacity for maintaining the same.
 He said that the need of the beef cattle in Alabama was shown by the fact that only 81 per cent of the farms in the state are classed as cattle farms. and only 3.1 as dairy farms. He also showed that the values of the cattle of different ages In this state are very much lower than the prices of the cattle of the same ages in other southern states, the value in Ken lucky being nearly 100 per cent greater than In Alabama. He pointed out that this showed the need of improved stock and a systematic feeding from calfhood. He states that through these agencies the value of the beef cattle In Alabama would be as great as that in Kentucky within three years.