The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-11
COTTON MUST BE HELD FOR
 GOOD PRICE, SAY FARMERS

.onr second point Is the consioera- t,on of the causes of this greae s,e,. ttop in cotton. We near co n'o,n.s of rust. blight, wilt and black rot to say nothing of worms. weev,s, atc ana we believe with MT. sui,y tnat one fruitful source Of these eSiis is to be found in poor seed .a
 eve must either improve our seeo h. content with a poor yield .Another cause, and one more se- r,ous 1T possible, than poor seed. IS nnr failure to rotate our crops. Many of our farmers are planting cotton year ofter year in the same land. without even using fertilizers. As long as this continues we will have rust, phgns and every other disease to which the plant is heir. Land should not De planted in cottoS for more than two or three successive years. Let corn, neas or oats be planted every second or third year and we will have better crops of every kind. more healthy cot ton and fewer disasters.
 q would like to hear from the mem- bers on this subject.
 Respectfully
 "Joohn A. Sellers.
 Chairman Executive Committee"
 Report ia Discussed. w. H. Vaughn, discussing the re-
  ration in cotton, said that many fields have been continuously planted In cot ton for fifty years. without change ana needed rest or rotation. That the Tar mer who was able should market ms c-op as the demand required, and not force 1t on the market ..
 Frank McLead said that the cotton CT on was badly damaged from rust and boI. worms. and the yield would not be greater than the last short crop.
 W. D. Westcott suggested some thing should be done to combat the rust and boil worm evils, and that the crop should be marketed in business like way.
 M. s. wadsworth advised the farm CTS to make their own supplies, raise their cwn stock and there would 'ot be q surplus of cotton to rush on the market.
 W. D. Sayre said the action of the Association last year in advising slow marketing of the cotton crop had wide influence and he believed aided in creating a sentiment among cotton producers to hold for a fair price based on supply.
 J. A. Sellers, in answer to questions by Mir Barnes, stated a bale of cotton ct uld be carried at about three-fourths O. its value at a cost of s2 for six months, including all charges, and av- craze shrinkage in weight.
 Capt Edward Napier of Bullock County, was introduced and made an interesting talk on raising rutabaga turnips, cabbage and asparagus on prairie land. Seventy-fve to $100 per acre could be made with these crops. which were suitable for the white man to work As for cotton. he said, the negro could make enough of that-the seasons had all to do with a large or small crop,
 Captain Napier said he sold $i0 worth of eggs per month-the product of 150 Leghorn henb-and advised at- tention to the minor industries of the farm.
 F. P. Chaffee, Chief of the Weather Service in Alabama, was introduced, and gave a most interesting and high ly appreciated address, which the mem- bers applauded
 Addressed by MT. Chnffee.
 Mir. Chaffee spoke as follows:
 If there is any one class on which the country depends for Its prosperity more than another 1t is the farmer. Not the man of anticipated ideas and meth ods who plants corn year after year on the same ground merely because his father and his fathers father did so, but the up-to-date, progressive farmer who diversities his crops. when he can profitably do so, and who exercises the same degree of intelligence in his bus mess as does the merchant. the me chanic. or any other worker e. Tt Is only in recent years that this branch of industry tasr!culture) has commanded so much attention from the thinkers of the country. and only within the last decade that 1t has been the focus of so much thought This is an age of scientific research and exper- iment, and we see on every hand the | endeavor to apply the best results of scientific research to daily life. The work of the National Depart ment of Agriculture is so broad as to embrace every line of scientific re-