The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-26

the night trains a number of delegates came in for the convention and hurried to the Commercial and Industrial As sociation rooms
 The night session was especially set apart for the address of Dr. W. c. Stubbs of New Orleans, whosa name has been prominently identified with the growing of cane, the production Of sugar and syrup for over a quarter of a century. During the convention al- fusion after allusion was made to the great missionary work pr. Stubbs had done in disseminating information as to cane growing and to extending the cane acreage In the South.
 The Alabama and the Georgia cane growers bore cheerful testimony to Dr.. Stubbs's work in extending the sugar cane propaganda in those two States.
 He Is a recognized authority upon the growing of cane. the sails adapted to 1t and the fertilizer which will give the best results. These subjects he chose for his address. More especial ly did he deal with the soil and it's fertilization. Two years ago Dr. Stubbs addressed the Cane Growers Association at Macon on the manufac- ture of sugar.
 Address of Dr. Stubbs.
 Dr. Stubbs began his address by comparing a farmer to banker whose bank Is his capital whose circulating medium was fertilizer and whose crops are his silver and gold certificates. The necessity of conserving his capi- tai, of taking needful care of his farm. was stressed by Dr. Stubbs. He spoke with sorrow of the wilful waste of land by farmers in the East ern and Southern States. They had with careless waste titled the land. needless of the value of conserving the fertility of the soil. He had been born ! and reared on a Virginia plantation on Chesapeake Bay. he said. which after 250 years of wasteful cultivation had been reduced to the worst degree of poverty q few years ago. It had been the custom of men farming with these | careless methods to impoverish farm lands and move on to impoverish new farm lands in other States. In this way the soil impoverishers moved from Virginia, South Carolina and North Carolina to Georgia and Mississippi and then on to Texas.
 The emigration movement to Texas and other Western States and Territo- ries, pr. Stubbs explained, came about ! through the movement of soil impoV- erishers from their old States to new fields to conquer
 Dr. Stubbs was thankful that at last these soil impoverishers," these Cloths and Vandals of agriculture" had now reached their ultima Thule. that they had reached their limits and there were no other worlds to conquer.
 The nations that had gone down through history had in Dr. Stubbs's opinion, fallen because. their people had impoverished the soil of the coun- try Imperial Rome had fallen be- cause the wealth of her agricultural lands had passed away through her sewers. The valley of the Euphrates. so rich once, and which had supported the great cities of Tineveh and Baby lon, was now a waste place. made go by the people who squandered the riches of the soil.
 Must Conserve the Soil.
 The speaker, therefore argued that it was of the utmost importance that the richness of the soil of the South should be conserved and built up. It was especially necessary that the land de- voted to sugar cane should be conserV- ed.
 Cane lands needed nitrification more than anything else and the sugar cane plant demanded more water than any other plant.
 To bring home to the minds of his hearers the demand of the cane plant for water, Dr. Stubbs said that to pro- duce one pound of cane, 500 pounds of water were used. And yet cane, while it required a great amount of water. it would not bear to have water stand upon the land.
 The element of nitrogen, Dr. Stubbs said was the most necessary and the most costly fertilizer. To find means of keeping the land supplied with nitrogen was 0 problem that had en- gagged the minds of the leading agri- cultural thinkers of modern times. At one time there had been fear that at some future time there would be a famine of nitrogen, but this fear had now been removed. It had been re- moved chiefly by the growing of legum- inous plants such as pea vines. The need of theland for nitrogen was beipg supplied by bones and dried blood. and by cotton seed and cotton seed meal as well as through the growing of legum- inous plants
 Waste of Nitrogen. "At every battle between the Japa- l nese and the Russians" said Dr Stubbs M