The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-17
Chose Officers and Ad-' jOurned. THE SECOND DAY SESSION Delegates Showed Interest in.
 Their Work. 1nterS sting and Instructive Papers wkre Read and Discussed. Farmers Went to Auburn
 to Attend Sale of
 Cattle.
THE SECOND DAY SESSION

Ths Alabama Live Stock Association yestsrday went on record by unahf moub vote as favoring the holding oh 1 staA Agricultural Fair annually m Montgomery.
 Tke Association completed its work yes terday afternoon and adjourned, after selecting Montgomery as the place TOT thu! next annual meeting, the time 10 pc fixed later. Most of the members of the Association left for Auburn at SEQ o'clock yesterday afternoon to attend the auc- ton sale of sixty registered Hereford cattle which is to take place there to- day.
 The meeting here, was declared to De the most interesting and most prontaole in the history of the Association.
 E. A. Bishop, Secretary of the Asso- ciation, who was absent from Mondays meeting arrived in Montgomery Monday night and took up his duties.
 President c. A. Cary; Clarendon Davis, treasurer and Secretary Bishop were again chosen to their respective positions.
 Pursuant to the order of adjournment, the Association met at g o'clock yester- day morning in the rooms of the Mont gomery County Agricultural Club on Commerce Street. The meeting was bet ter attended than on Monday and 1t may be said that the papers read received better attention and that the interest was greater and more general.
 Hon. R. R. Poole, J. c. Adams and George I. Motz of Montgomery read papers before the Association yesterday.
 Beef Cattle in Alabauca.
 The first matter taken up by the As soclation after the meeting was called to order by President c. A. Cary, was the reading of a paper, Feeding Beef Cattle in Alabama" by Jesse M. Jones of Auburn. MT. Jones talked interest ingly on this subject and in further con vincing his hearers cited statistics to prove his points. He gave out several formulae of scientifically prepared food for. cattle. He has made a thorough study of feed for cattle and showed by citing tests that have been made, the effect of different foods on cattle.
 After Mir. Jones finished reading his paper. the subject was discussed for q half an hour by the members.
 Cotton seed and cotton seed meal were shown to be most important food staples for cattle and that 1t was economy to the farmers to feed 1t to his cattle rather than sell 1t in the market.
 c. T. McElderry of TaI1adega, chair man of the Committee on Transportation Rates for Farm Products read a report of the work accomplished by his com AnitIce iu LhAS olreCLlOn. ne Salo Inat he could report some progress along the line, but not much of 1t. He added that the matter of high railroad rates to the farmers of Alabama came up before the Association three years ago and that the committee had done its utmost to obtain favorable rates from the railroad com panies. He said that the railroad of- fcials promised to look into the matter but If they had done so, they had not reported 1t. tf.+
 McElderry on Railroads.
 'The General Traffic Manager of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad stated to me-" said McElderry, that he had no doubt but what the rates could bc ad- 1usted satisfactorily" Mr. McElderry said that this satisfaction referred to the railroad and not to the farmers of Alabama. He further said that the railroad officials were courteous gentle- men. but that they were working for and in the interest of the railroads and not in the interest of the farmers.
 Continuing, he said that he had gone before the Alabama Railroad Commission and the Southeastern Traffic Association in pursuit of his object
 Mir. McEiderry then stated some rates for farm produce in Alabama and com pared them with rates of Georgia and in Tennessee, showing the Alabama rates in excess over. those of the other States He cited as an example this instance: The railroad rate on a car load of hay from Gadsden to Montgomery would be