The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-31
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
state DsDsrtne.t of Agriculture.

state DeDsrtnaent of Agriculture. o,A, A i,ni;l::. .a E ssia of enterprise IS it. Hi. Indicated appointment of Judge Wilkinson. Chief Clerk, au- ia gnrs systematic and broad work, be- say: we must recast, @ 'Vs' we must rev olutienise or do worse" applying the sipothssm is so sa m tS . his particular tield s It ing the Department well S. ted upon its tn, new career 2: constitu;ional fas. the convention which led to the eis- stttntiona, vation or the ,p Department . to con of all citizens who reflect upon the true relation of such a feature oc state government to the leadinE in is in it's infancy. the admiration 0t the world. and our principal iron man. nfacturlng county Is our greatest tay h on. seaesstlon. D" but paueee shs one eoun and half million tons of iron the State produces is not worth on the market stats cotton crop. Not p' oniy E SO. Sss while sales of cotton mean that all
 the proceeds. tarry with the pro- ron ana the sat gnsn W 'aeS anS prots n Ns@ sss'ys YorR most '1 we 'hs rsma ass Democrats fsrms,r so., we must see that .sn our power.
 Alabama needs a State head to the agrIcultnral interests The farmers' a State head. MT. Seymour's success with the Cotton Association is a case in point. l read news item the other ture of Iowa has. by its assistance 10 farmers. increased the corn crop 50,- ooO,ooQ bushels annually The ass's- documentary matter from the. De: partment, which argues the claims of seed corn We. can take up the re. cotton and corn in Alabama and in the improvement of then for four years, as Sam. Jones advised, ,"recast Hancock county: Ga. was the Nap,. day. He got rich as fast as honesty work 2s Started %a1 wtS maas s in merchandising, and in twenty-five years of cotton planting, he accumu- ase more hsP RraPeisii betson WalsH proved seed of cotton he used He made his own seed. His method was was: ing. of hundreds. of acres; then to select piece of land. 2ernaps ten acres. to experiment with lIGreaSeu ,nsS Ol seed that , haye pee h1 Held produced four bales of cotton to the acre with reasonable certainty, year following year.
 Senator Morgan has. pntliehed in pamphlet form an address, delivered by him. some twp months ago. at cotton in the commercial wo l1 touch. ing upon the eve: tasting practical mo nopoly of the s9u'h 1ia,srnr in the prGdpe 1sIss published in a Birmingham magazine sources of Alabama. These .two pa pers taken together. should pc dis, tributed by the Az nana Dep", .itef .men, the State and outside, They prove from incontestable data the ,gound. less capacity of Alabama in the most varied lines of huraan pursuit The revelation is phenomenal
 1t may be said in plain truth. that within the boundaries of Alabama mil- lions upon millions of people may live and produce from the soil every object of the worlds commerce, ex. cept bananas, or some "art tropical frH5t. W. read now that the South Caro- Ina Commissioner of Agriculture vis- tied Europe last summer to select i'm migrants for particular localities ann
 pai ticular kinds of bs 'ndnsoTIs GamnIste ,s .he neopie coming direct into the port of Charleston, a very important condition of immigration.
 If we look at it in its opportunities with perhaps some additional legis.a- culture and Industries opens neid pr enterprise to the Commissioner only lower in dignity and importance 70 Governor of an agricultural people