The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-23
OVER THE WEST.

OVER HE WISH.
 When mailing my last letter from Starkville, Miss, I was T the eve of leaving for the north and west. I left Starkville Friday evening. since which time I have travelled through the great agricultural states of Illinois, Wiscon- sin, Minnesota. Iowa, Kansas, and also visited last Friday and Saturady Okla homa. where I delivered three lectures at Farmers institutes.
 From Oklahoma I went Saturday night to Denver. reaching here this morning early. I am spending a very pleasant day in gaining valuable information to be used in my future work.
 I have just visited a large new cream cry plant here which cost $200,00O. This plant Is complete in every respect. The managers were very polite, showing me through the plant, where I had the op- portunity for seeing the latest machinery for handling dairy products. They have a capacity for churning 24,000 pounds of butter daily, but nov are only turning out a product of 10000 pounds daily.
 Most of the cream now used is drawn from Nebraska, distance of 300 miles. which shows what the dairy industry can do. This plant will soon put in machin- cry for manufacturing ice cream also. This will be added as soon as the pro- duct will permit, for as yet they are un- able to procure enough cream to meet their demands for butter. We hear here the same old song-can't get farmers to milk the cows-nor can farmers who have milked cows for one season, used hand separators to separate the cream and have sold the cream and fed the skim milk to hogs be persuaded to quit the business.
 Gi-.s Do the Work.
 One of the most noticeable and pleas ant features of this great creamery here is that a number of bright, beautiful young ladies do most of the work, mak- ing all the packages and putting them all up ready for shipment. Most of the work is light and pleasant, and the girls take 1t by the piece. Even school marms and stenographers say that they can earn more and earn it easier than at teaching or elerking. What business could be more pleasant than one where such girls are employed? The girls here were all nicely dressed, all had a look of intelligence and refinement far above what we usually see in shop girls or fac tory girls.
 l am greatly interested in the dairy in- dustry and want to see it fully devel- oped in Alabama and all other sections along the Frisco lines in the south. For this reason the dairy business will receive my best attention.
 am out on a vacation and on an edu- cational campaign. I will leave here to- night for points in California, going by way of the grand canyons of Arizona, then to southern California, where will commence to study the methods of fruit growing and packing for shipment and market. I will visit as I pass out of Colorado, the great cantaloupe country around Rocky Ford, Col. While in Cal ifornia l will visit the great seed farms, where so much of our garden seeds are grown. l will also visit the grape and citron fruit sections, as well as the apple growing sections of northern California.
 Making Crop Notes.
 am making many notes on various crops, especially alfalfa. and am looking closely after irrigation methods. l will return after visiting Salt Lake City and Ogden by the northern route to St. Paul, and also back by Lincoln, Neb to see there the largest creamery in the United States.
 want to get around in time to at tend the gerat national irrigation con- vention to be held in Fl Paso Tex. No- vember 15, 16, IT, IS. expect to have vast amount of valuable information for our readers from this trip. I want to write long article on what diyersfl cation has done and is doing for the west. This creamery here furnishes a valuable object lesson of what we need In the south-light employment where our girls can earn money to keep themselves Independent and employment that is no disgrace Work for all the people is what we need and no one should longer look upon labor as disgrace and think that only the poor should labor and that. too, simply from force of circumstances. We need more industries all over the south and these industries hould be build ed upon high moral plane.