The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-28
LIVE STOCK MEN HERE
ANNUAL MEETING WILL BEGIN
 THIS MORNING.
Ex-senator Harris of Kansas is on Program For Today--PresIdent Cary Enthusiastic Over
 Work of Body.


 The ninth annual meeting of the Alabama Live Stock Association will begin this morning at 10 o'clock in the rooms of the Commercial and Indus- wards of 15o or 200 cattle men from all parts of the State and from Western States are expected to be in aftend- ance.
 who will speak today. is expected to reach Montgomery this morning.
 The association will hold three ses- sions today and two tomorrow. The second session today will be held in the afternoon at an hour to be named at the adjournment of the morning ses- sion. The night session will open at 7:30 o'clock. The same hours will ap- ply tomorrow to the. two sessions, 1t being the purpose of the majority of members of the organization to return to their homes on the late afternoon and evening trains or to attend the large cattle sales Thursday to be con-
 pr. c. A. Cary. Professor of Physi- ology and Veterinary Science at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, who is President of the. Live Stock Associa- tion. arrived in Montgomery last night from Auburn. Secretary W. L. Thorn ton, of Talladega, arrived here last evening also and were making prep arations for the meeting.
 Joseph F.. Wing, editor of The Breed CTS Gazette of Chicago, and the promi- nent proprietor of cattle farms in ,Ithe West, arrived in the city last night as did also Charles Elliott, a noted breeder of Estill, Mo. There are in the west.
 Dr. Cary last night felt confident over the outlook for successful meet ing today. He declares that 1t has in the history of the association. All the cattle-raising periodicals in the South and some In the North have Ab- orally anticipated the meeting In their columns, most of the former having printed the program in full.
 There are many reasons why the meeting should prove to be the great est since the organization began it's ex- istence. First of all. of course. is the low price of cotton the past year and it's effect of turning the attention of farmers away from the one-crop idea to stock raising or some other kind of farming. Since the last meeting which was held about a year ago in Mont gomery there has been an increased interest in immigration and the Vest ern eattlemen have had their attention | attracted to the favorable conditions | for breeding in this State.
 | T have received about dozen let | ters recently from important cattle men in the North and West inquiring | view of locating here. There will bt lSa good many of such immigrants in at-
 Tendance on the meeting and it will
 help to hurry the immigration move. | ment.
 | "The meeting has certainly been the | best advertised that we have had. The | papers that we have on the program | will be interesting to every kind oi l bring out more valuable information | than any other feature of the program
 There is nothing like an exchange oi | experiences"
 l
 was held in Auburn just nine years | ago. Dr. Cary was present At the
 meeting. the organization having been | launched then. It was then, however Association. but the organization has remained the same, embracing some time later all departments of live stock | Joseph E. Wing of Chicago had a
 he told of the wonderful meeting of the Texas Live Stock Association held | last week In Fort Worth, Tex. There I were over 5000 interested cattlemer
 present. The breeders of all classes l prosperity as was never heard of there | according to MT. Wing.
 | If we could get that much enthusi'
 asm in this State" said Dr. Cary. 'oul
 highest wishes would be gratiffed. | | would then tell to the world just wha' | advantages our lands and prairies of | fer to the immigrant. We are grow
 ing, however. and there Is no reason ] to regret the work that has already
 been accomplished by our association | pr. Cary said that the sales in Au'
 burn Thursday will consist of fifty
 seven Shorthorn and about twenty-sis | Angus cattle. It will be one of thu | largest auctions that has ever taker | place in Alabama
 The officers of the association desir,
 1t to be known that they will welcome | to their meeting all citizens of Mon, gomery who are interested in the varie
 ties of subjects that are offered b,
 the program. It IS not necessary fol | is the purpose of the officers to increas,
 the membership as much as possible a tz fn0