The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-30
FARMERS PLEASED
 WITH MEETINGS F. s. White Addresses School
 Children at Guin FARM LIFE THE MOST HAPPY Address to Farmers Was One of Series Now Being Conducted Along the
 Line of the Frisco
 System.
FARM LIFE THE MOST HAPPY

Guin, March -(SpeclaL)-F. ;. White, industrial agent of the Frisco system, and manager of the agricultural depart ment of the Age-Herald, accompanied by Y. S. Moore, live stock manager of the A. and NJ. college of Mississippi. arrived here on a late train last night for the purpose of holding an agricultural or in- dustrial meeting with the people of this place.
 The meeting considering the short time that was given for advertising, was well attended, and some of the best represen- tative farmers of the county were in at tendance as well as merchants of our town, most of whom own large farms, and they too were eager to gain inform ation on the practical subjects as outlined by the gentlemen named
 White Addresses Public School.
 In the morning. while waiting for the farmers to gather Industrial Agent White spent something more than half an hour in practical talk to the children of the public school here The burden of this talk was to impress upon the boys and girls the beauty of farm life, and to show them that people who lived on farms could and should be the happiest people in the land.
 He went on to impress upon the ehil- dren the importance of their learning young how to plant trees, vegetables and fruits, said that every child on the farm the boys to have vegetable and fruit gardens, and the girls should add to their gardens flowers and that all should unite in making the farm home not only profit able but a beauty and place that they would always remember through life. He said:
 Tell your fathers to let you plant shade tree so that in the years to como you may go back to your old homestead and find as I now find on my old home. trees that 1 planted when boy. They are now great shade trees and are a last ing beauty and comfort
 The speaker also advised every boy and girl to cultivate a love for all animals on the farm and said that every boy or girl on the farm shoul have d pig, calf, lamb or some animal which they could claim as their own. A comparison was made between city and county life, and
 
 only the safest place for young people but that the farm was offering greater ln- ducements for boys than could be found elsewhere. He went on to state that the day had passed in this country when It l should be considered a disgrace for a boy or girl to work on farm.
 Altogether the talk was full of good, practical advice, and MT. White said that he was very fond of children and his address showed that he was delighted in having the opportunity of talking to the children. The children showed good discipline. for they paid the closest at tention to the speaker from the start and kept perfectly quiet all the while and showed their good training by answering inteligently and promptly every question asked them.
 Farmers Begin to Arrive.
 By the time the speaker was under full headway in his address to the children the farmers-parents of the children-be- gan to come in in such numbers that the subject was turned to topics suited for the occasion, and such subjects as the natural advantages possessed by the great state of Alabama, as a country capable of producing great results in stock. grain, fruit, vegetable, grass, forage crops and the dairy industry, all were gone over briefly, as well as a statement of the great advantages that our people have in close by home market, which would take, at good paying price, every ounce of cream, every pound of butter, every chicken and egg every lamb. every pig, in fact that there was not single farm product for which the Birmingham mar ket was not begging and would take at good prices.
 In this respect the speaker said the Alabama farmer has a great advantage The speaker spoke also of the advantage of preparing winter pasture for all stock and said at Jasper yesterday our atten- ton was called to the cows belonging to two different farmers-one farmer had prepared a plat of land last fall and sown it to rye for pasture. His cows, which were sleek and fat and almost as round as a butter ball, were feeding on this rye. and the milk was running from