The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-15

sor Duggar, who instructed the farm
 CTS as to methods in the culture of al
 falfa, when to SOW 1t, when to cut 1t
 when to allow the stock to feed on ii
 There was nothing whatever forma
 about the speech. In fact 1t wasn't l speech. II was a teacher talking t' 1 an eager class. with the open air as | class room covered only by the shad l of great oak trees. with tree stump
 for benches and cold water for refresh
 ment. The farmers would never allow
 Professor Duggar to deliver two con
 tinuous ideas. As soon as one was ex I pressed he was interrupted by ques
 tions. which he answered entirely in | formally. It was not set speech tt | number of farmers. who came because they had to and did everything during
 the speech but listen. It was a simple , and practical talk with lots of inter
 ruptions like Well. how about this
 perfesser?' from the planters. eagel
 and anxious to learn.
 | Road Improvement. Professor Duggar emphasized th' | poiat that until the roads of the coun | try are improved the farmers art
 blocking their own hands. In the sum
 mertime the hard prairie soil is al right. but. during the winter. passage
 on these roads Is about as hazardou.
 as the passage of fly over a piece oi
 tanglefoot paper. He said that the
 country is well supplied with sand l stone that will make ideal roads and | promised the farmers that if they
 would guarantee the use of ten teams
 for one day. the Government would send to Uniontown set of road ma
 chinery and build a mile of typical
 road in order to show the farmers how | cheaply and yet how we'll the roads could be constructed.
 Professor Duggar was followed by | Professor Spiliman of the agricultural l department. Professor Spillman sim ply told in technical terms of the work | being done at the diversified farm oi | MT. Munford and. like Professor Dug gar, answered numberless questions l from the interested farmers. Hitherto the open air meeting had been businessiike and practical. The l farmers had been pupils In a school but when 1t was announced that Con- gressman Oscar Underwood of the Ninth District and Congressman Wash l Taylor of the First District were going | to speak the planters knew they were | going to have lots of opportunity to 1 test their lung power. The young Ninth District Congress- | man did not attempt to discuss agricul- lure and farm matters He assured the | farmers, however. that the Government | Is taking more interest in agriculture
  | the country.
 And the reason Is. fellow citizens.' | said Mr Underwood, that, for the first | time in the history of the country, a | practical farmer, who Is interested in | the welfare of farmers. is at the head of the Agricultural Department. | He paid high tribute to Secretary l Wilson and said that the secretary is more interested. in the welfare of the | South along agricultural lines than in any other section. because he felt that the South was more dependent on it's agricultural welfare than any other section of the country, He declared | however, that the Government was not | doing what it should do. for agriculture | when one recognized that on agricul- ture the manufacturies, the army and | the navy depended. He compared the proportionate increase in appropria- tions for various causes within the last five years and showed that the Agricultural Department had been sad ly neglected.
 MT. Underwood referred to what the Government was doing for the cane- brake section, the tobacco farm near Marion. to forward the tobacco indus try in the section, and the soil survey of Perry County.
 Labor and Immigration. He then went into a discussion of the
 
 eating that the State inaugurate a de- pertinent of immigration, but warning the department against bringing into Alabama any immigrants but Irish,
 English. German and Scandinavians He declared that the Southern European immigrants are @ menace to the civil ization of the South.
 Congressman Taylor was then intro- duGed The Demopolis solon got his crowd in a good humor and prophe- sled brilliant future for the South through agriculture. He urged that the farmers in addition to learning ag- riculture by practice learn it from books by the best technical writers on agriculture in order that the Southern planter might vie with any.
 He said that the people of Alabama are bothering themselves about the railroad rate question. This question, he declared, is solved as soon as the people of the country realize that by building good roads they can solve the question themselves.
 He told of the work being done in constructing locks on the Warrior Riv- er to make a waterway from Birming- ham to the gulf.
 Dinner was announced and the farmers and speakers hurried to cluster of trees, where camp stew. bar becued alfalfa fed mutton and pork and q plethora of the product that made Milwaukee famous was awaiting them
 At the close of the dinner, Commits sioner Poole was called on but he merely assured the farmers that the Agricultural Department was proud of the strides made by the canebrake sec tion and that he would endeavor to give~them an appropriation for their road experiments.
 The crowd dispersed to visit the al- falfa fields and notice the alfalfa fed swine. On seven acres of rather in- ferior land, Mir. Munford has a herd of 15o hogs feeding. The corn that he Is giving them amounts to less than two cobs day each. Almost their entire food is alfalfa, Twenty eight days before the barbecue. the hogs were weighed and record was made of the total. The day before the barbecue the hogs were weighed and they had gained 2.777 pounds in the twenty-seven days. Pork Is readi- ly selling at five cents a pound at the Uniontown market. The earnings from the hogs alone for one month amount ed to $1sSs5. CT the same seven acres 1900 pounds of hay was cut. The hay sold for $e0, making the total earn tngs of the seven acres, $19S.S5 for the month. The expense of maintain ing the seven acres during that timo amounted to $2S. open and above everything, MT. Munford cleared $l72.S5 on seven acres of land and this land Is in cultivation nine months out of the year.
 Attention to AlfRIfR.
 He has a plantation of 5000 acres and although his crops are widley di- nF.