The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-24
MONTGOMERY IS. READY
 FORTWOBIGCONVENTIONS
THE CANE GROWERS.
SEVERAL HUNDRED DELEGATES
 CONVENE TOMORROW.
President Purge of Association Reaches Montgomery and Talks with In- tcrest of Meeting--Some Dis
 tinguished Speakers. @


 The third annual convention of the Interstate Sugar Cane Growers Asso- citation, the largest organization of its kind in the world, which is to be in session three days in Montgomery will ] open at 10 o'clock. tomorrow morning in the assembly hall of the Commer- cial and Industrial Association on Bibb Street and between 300 and 400 members and delegates are expected to be In attendance.
 Governor Cunningham of Alabama will deliver an address of welcome to the members of the convention in the name of the people of Alabama as soon as the meeting Is called to order to- morrow morning by tho President of the Association. D. c. Purse of Savan- nah. Ga. Addresses of welcome will also be made by Captain A. c. Forbes. President of the Commercial and In- dustrial Association. Mayor T. Fl. Carr is on the program to extend a welcome In the name of the city of Montgomery but on account of his ill- ness he will have to name some one to speak in his place.
 Prominent among the speakers who will address the convention are Colo mel John Dymond of New Orleans. managing editor of The Louisiana Su- gar Planter. Captain R. F. Rose, State Chemist of Florida; Judge Allen Fort of Americus Ga, and Hon. E. J. Watson, Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration of South Carolina. The speakers scheduled to deliver addresses Wednesday afternoon are Professor B. B. Ross of Auburn. State Chemist; Professor W. l.. Hutchinson Director of the Mississippi Experiment Station and Hon. John Thomas Carter well known Southern planter resid- ing at Guard Ridge Fla
 The speaker Wednesday night will be Dr. W. c. Stubbs of New Orleans. recognized throughout the South ds one of the ablest men to discuss sugar growing and kindred interests. Tho members of the convention. after hear Ing the learned paper of Dr. Stubbs. will devote the rest of the evening to thorough discussion of the subject.
 Dr. H. W. Wiley, Director of the Bureau of Chemistry. United States Department of Agriculture. at Wash ington. will occupy the first part of the Thursday morning session of the convention in his speech on some im- portant phase of-sugar cane culture and will illustrate his lecture by in- teresring charts. This will be follow ed by an address by R. A. Ellis of Arapeka. Fla. and the session will con clude with an address. The Cultiva- ton of Sugar Cane in South Carolina" by Hon. E. J. Watson of that State
 The afternoon session will be the time appointed for one of the most in- teresting papers to be read before the convention. Farming vs. Merchan- disc" by W. B. Roddenbery, one of the best known planters in Georsla whose immense plantation is at Cairo. Ga. His address at the convention of the Association In Macon, Ga, in May. 1903. was widely praised and the au- thor was highly complimented on his effort by Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson. who classed it with the best papers ever written on agricultu- ral subjects.
 Central Sugar Plants" will be the subject of an address by Hon. R. E. Rose. State Chemist of Florida, which will follow the address of Mir. Roden- bery Thursday afternoon. R. M. Mar tin, Secretary of the Convention will close the meeting in the afternoon by hls address, 1.-The Exploitation of Goor- gia Cane"
 The evening session will be devoted to the reading by Professor J. NJ. Mc- Candless Georgia State Chemist, of his address. "The Importance of Ac- lively Enforced Legislation to the Su- gar Cane Growing States" and the pa- per will be discussed at length by the members after its reading.
 The convention will be addressed Friday morning by J. H. White, Gen. eral Industrial Agent of the Seaboard Air Line, the title of whose speech will be Immigration to tho South" This speech will be the last one of the con vent1on, the afternoon being devoted to the routine business matters and the election of officers
 The Interstate Sugar Cane Growers Association was organized in Macon. Ga. in the spring of 1903. Last May 1t held It's second annual convention in Jacksonville. Fla. Through the efforts of Montgomery members of the Asso- citation and the Commercial and Indus trial Association. Montgomery was sa- lected as the third annual meeting place. Through a mistake in tho printed matter, the date Of the open Ing of the convention was made for today but the meeting will not start until tomorrow morning.
 President D. G. Purse, former Pres- ident of the Savannah Board of Trade and prominent citizen of that city. who arrived in Montgomery yesterday morning to arrange the final details Tor the convention. spoke interestingly of his mission to the city.
 He said that he expected this meet ing would be the most successful one in the history of the organization and that the people of Montgomery would do well to attend the session of the Association as he was sure they would be both interested and benefited by their attendance. Ladies as well as men are cordially invited to attend the meetings and a welcome is extended to all.
 number of the delegates from the six States composing the Association arrived in Montgomery last night and by tonight majority of those who will attend the convention, are expect- ed to reach the city.
 President Purse is staying at the Imperial Hotel.