The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-11
SELECTED
HE WILL HAVE CHARGE OF FRUIT
 EXHIBIT.
Montgomery Man to be Commissioner of Horticultural Display at the
 Great State Fair In Oceober.

The horticultural Department of the Alabama Agricultural, Association, which Is to hold its big State Fair in Montgomery October 22 to 27, has beth organized. and placed upon a working basis. This announcement was made yesterday, when the name of the head of the department was given out. M. M Dawson, one of the best known and deepest students of horticulture and fruit raising in the State.
 Dating from today. work will be commenced. looking toward the devel- opment of this department at the Fair, and toward securing splendid exhibit of horticultural products
 An invitation to take charge of this branch of the Fair exhibits was extend ed to MT. Dawson by the Executive Committee a few days ago, and the acceptance of the request was made by the new department head in person yes terday. At that time he announced his intention of putting himself in touch with leading fruit growers <and nurserymen in the different counties of the State, to arouse interest in the horticultural features of the Fair,
 Alabama should be able to present a splendid exhibit at the Montgomery Fair" said MT. Dawson yesterday. Every variety of coil in the State will bear fine fruit, and some fruit can
 
 nurserymen, the nursery stock the past few years has passtd all expectations. Fruit growing is comparatively a new industry in the State. In saying this, I mean that it is new as a developed science. We have grown fruit for a long time, but the culture of other crops has drawn, the attention of the Alabama farmers from this field in the past Now they 'are beginning to realize the possibilities presented in this line, and all over the State more fruit is being grown than ever before.
 For instance. the people of this State can produce as fine peaches, as can be grown anywhere. The middle section of the State has many fine or chards of splendid peaches. In the Northern part of the State. up among the foothills of the mountains, we have late apples that will hold their own in comparison with any produced in any part of the country. All over the State, we have grown splendid crops of earyy June apples. harvest ap- pies, as they are sometimes call ed. The farmers in the Southern section of the State. especially in Baldwin and Mobile counties. have gone into the fruit raising industry ex- tensively. During the last few years, a number of colonies Of farmers from other sections of the country have set tied there, and taken up this branch of horticulture. In addition to these, Alabama has grown. and Is growing fine specimens of persimmons. ponie- granates, pears. plums, aprieots, hgs and other fruits. all of which shall make arrangements to havt represent ed among the exhibits at the Fair
 MT Dawson is widely known throughout Alabama as close ob- server and a successful grower or fruits and trees. He is a Montgom- cry county man, having been located in the vicinity of Montgomery for the last twenty-five years.
 A large space has been reserved in a prominent position in Exhibit Hall. the main exhibition building which Is being planned for the Fair.