The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-09
SECOND DAYS SESSION
 OF CANE GROWERS' MEETING

sSstVV ttiitniSfdutS Hdu DefH DIuuSHt ii aud by next June he confidently be lieved that the total would be upwards of 10000.
 pr. Louis Edelman, formerly Consul
 to the United States from Austria, de hvered a strong argument in favor oi more liberal immigration laws. Tampa today extended to the conven-
 ton hearty invitation to meet nexi year in that city and the Executive Committee has this matter in hand Al the beginning of the days ses
 sion President Purse suggested that a committed of six be selected
 to recommend officers for the fol.
 lowing year. MT. stewart of Florida
 put the suggestion into a motion. The convention adjourned while the dele. gates from each of the six states form. ing the convention met in caucus tt select the various officers. | Professor Edward Daniel, late State Geoiogist of Michigan, but now spend. ing the winter across the Bay at Fair. | hope was called to the stand by Pres I ident Purse to speak on The Value oi
 Agricultural Schools. @
 Professor Daniels drew d lesson from the marvellous regeneration of Japan I in power and in industry. It came from their deep appreciation of the | intellectual principle--the surpassine value of thoroughness. The Japanese
 in the past quarter of century had come to teach the children, not the | children of any one class, but the chill l dren of all classes.
 So thorough had been this intellec- tual regeneration of Japan, in this tram 1, ing of hearts and hand that as the tiny 1 David. 1t had thrown against the forehead of and laid prostrate the mighty Goliath of Russia.
 The South. so rich in resources, so
 promising in it's future will come into It's own by universal training of hand and mind. The industrial hope of the South is in the hands of those who
 love work for its own sake, who go to
 work full of joy and singing"
 Tn Virginia. in Wisconsin, where he
 had spent much of his life and he had no doubt that the same was true of
 Alabama, fifty out of every hundred
 away If they could find anybody to buy. They are out of touch with in- telligeht and trained methods of their profession. They do not even know their own business. the business by which they hope to make living for themselves. and their families. |. He reviewed the efforts he had made to have the National Government adopt Ithe system of county agricultural schools in each county there should
 be one of these rural agricultural schools in close harmony and accord
 with the system of agricultural educa- tion throughout the State. Here exper-
 ments with local soils should be made one after the other and the results
 brought home to the farmer of that county. All information and all litera-
 ture sent out by State or district az ricultural schools should be dissemi-
 mated and brought to the local farmers. He urged his hearers to "agitate, agitate," wherever they went. He did not at this time advocate that the county high schools should be estab- lished by the State, but he did urge that the counties should have the right
 to establish those schools if they saw fit to do so.
 He had endeavored to get this system established in the Philippines. and in this he had the hearty endorsement of General Macarthur, who wrote Profess
 sor Daniel that he left the Philippines , in the keenest disappointment. because he was not able to put the system into practice which promised so much to the agriculture of the Philippines. The plan had the hearty endorsement of Sec
 retary Wilson, who, because of his
 pressing duties, had not been abIesto
 carry forward the plans he had en-
 doFsed As for the National Depart
 ment of Education. he called it "A mere bureau of statistics presided over
 by fine old gentleman, 80 years old,
 and in his dotage."
 The speaker was given generous ap-
 plause, and there was no doubt of the endorsement of his audience to all he had to say.
 President Purse, in regret, announced the inability of Secretary James Wilson
 to be present He was kept in Wash ington by a meeting of the Congress
 sional Committee on Agriculture. He
 took occasion to say that Secretary
 Wilson had done more for agriculture
 in all sections of the country than any of his predeoessors.e The convention showed It's endorsen ent of this state rnent by instant applause.
 Dr. w. c Stubbs, whose name is more familiar to the cane growers of the South than the name of any other man, was next upon the program to speak informally upon cane growing and syrup making. Dr. Stubbs has practi- cally devoted his life to cane-growing and is regarded as one of the greatest authorities upon the subject. He had a word to say in hearty commendation of the proposed system of rural agricul- turaI schools.
 Dr. Stubbs described the fertility of the soil of Louisiana. It was an allu- vial soil he said. which had been brought down by the Mississippi River throughout hundreds of years. To it's richness twenty nine states had con- tributed.
 Tt is." said Dr. stubbs. "as rich as the valley of the Nile and as fertile as the valley of the Hudson"
 From this he passed on to a descrip- ton of one of the great sugar planta- tions. on which 2.00O tons of cane q day are gathered and crushed for the making of syrup, On this plantation no less than 500 men were daily engag- cd in stripping and cutting cane and an equal number of men are engaged in collecting 1t and hauling it to the mills. He then went into an elaborate, but clear explanation of the different ways by which classified and granu- lated sugar is made.
 In cane growing. in hauling and in sugar making the methods of Louisiana were the evolution of 100 years. Lou isiana was 100 years in advance of all the other portions of the South.
 He compared these methods and thesa auuinTneufs with thosn ba eo1,, l.,