The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-17
EXPERTS AT TROY.
Lectures Delivered to the Farmers of
 Pike County.

Lectures Delivered to the Farmers of Pike County.
 Troy, Feb. 18.--(Special. )---The farm ers% institute was opened in the court | house by a lecture by Dr. C. A, Cary.
 director of farmers institutes. He dis.
 cussed the benefits and purposes of diversiiication Of crops and tho value of live stock. Much of this is necessary
 to cut down cotton acreage and grow
 as much cotton on one-half the land.
 thus reducing the labor and the cost of producing cotton. Moreover, live stock
 and rotation of crops will reduce the quality of commercial fertilizers re-
 quired; they will make cotton the
 money crop for the farmer and enable
 the farmer to produce hogs, cattle and, sheep for meat and for sale and all the mules and horses required to
 make all the farm crops. The speaker gave brief review of the habits and life history of the boil weevil. The farmer who. diversifies his crops win De ready to stand the changes that the boil weeviI will force upon the farmer when 1t arrives in Alabama.
 brief review of Professor Holden's methods of increasing the yield of corn was given. Professor Holden increased the average yield of corn in Iowa from 32 to SS bushels per acre for .he entire State of Iowa.
 Ftol- w. 1. SIaith or Washington gave an interesting and instructive lecture on the character of the different soils and told the farmers how to handle some of them and what many of them should receive in fertilizers.
 Col J. M Thornton described his method of curing peavine hay and handling shredded corn fodder.
 Dr. z. A. Cary gave the life history or cattle ticks in summer and in win ter and graphically, by blackboard diagrams, illustrated how every farmer could clean his cattle and pactures of cattle ticks by starving ticks in a pro- cess Of rotating pastures or feed lots.
 Al night Prof. A. G. Gaskill of Wash inBton gave an Illustrated lecture on forestry at the auditorium of the city school
 Yesterday Prof. J. F. puggar gave an interesting lecture on varieties of cot ton and fertilizers for cotton and some of the ways of getting away or around cotton wilt and root knot in cotton.
 MT. Spoon of the Department of Agri- culture at Washington next gave one or the most interesting and valuable talks on how to make good roads. He stated that Pike County could make roads out of clay and sand at a cost of $i5o to Sf,50o per mile. This talk was so impressive that one of the County SbAAiHiaSSAOueFS tOok MT, SHoOL out 10 1 investigate the method of making | roads, now in operation In tEls county | MT. Spoon will examine the system and | give such suggestions as he may deem ] best
 Prof. R. S. Makintosh then made a | brief talk on peaches and the means | of holding fin check San Jose scale on | fruit trees.
 Prof. B. B. Ross, State Chemist and Professor Of Chemistry at Auburn, gave an extended lecture on the origin pr source of the ingredients of com nercial fertilizers, and then gave sev- sral examples to illustrate how farm CTS can buy the ingredients and mix the fertilizers at home and many times save money by s0 doing.
 Prof. A. C. Gaskill discussed the methods of conserving and maintain Ing forests and receiving an annual in- some from q given lot of timber land