The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-06


 black. waxy land, it did not do so well. It was not an improvement upon the old varieties grown upon that charac- ter of land.
 He spoke. too. of the High Shank" variety of cotton grown upon stiffer land and which has considerable vogue in Georgia. On it's native heath this cotton was splendid. But he had come across some of it planted at Abbeville where it was removed from its native soil and environment.
 sShank High' Gotten.
 He said that in truth it had become shank high" cotton for he only saw three stalks of normal size.
 He alluded to the strickland Big Boil" as offering another example of cotton which was failure when re- moved from the conditions under which 1t was developed by system of se- lection. It was developed by Mir. Strickland on piece of bottom land, which had water in it. three feet from the top. When that cotton was plant ed on upland, 1t was failure.
 You want to understand" said Mir. Burgess. that the variety breaks up and goes to pieces every time it is re- moved from its original conditions and environment"
 MT. Burgess advised his hearers to CnefHStiNeS. ny 'CdNSlul SSicC- ttUns, the varieties which would do best on their own land--to select the seed from the largest and most fruitful stalks, plant them and in this way get enough of the hest seed to plant their cotton crops. He said the ginners could be pursuaded in each community to help inS seed selection.
 Mir. Hill, the forestry man. looked more the student than the farmer or sTs-K4a but Hxft good talk and his farmer audience bent forward to catch every word. He had, moreover spent an active and indus trious day about the creosotc tanks, demonstrating and explaining. But he had enough energy stored up to get up on the platform and tell his hearers things they did not know and to give them some thoughts tl'at were as novel as they were entertaining.
 Having gone into the nature of thc experiments to preserve the old field pines, and having rncoHnted the results | of those experiments MT. Hill took up 1 the subject of forest preservation. He | had no doubt but that the idea of pre- l serving the forest wa5 entirely new to 1 his hearers. They had. perhaps, never l lee ked upon the forests in any eoonom- | ical or business light The country | had never regarded it's forests in that ! light.
 Americas F0rests.
 America had been so rich in its for 1 asts that its people had gone ahead l using them up and never thinking oi l the future. He gave some startnns l figures as to the rate in which forests 1 were being destroyed in America. The 1 people of America were cutting down 1 inc trees four times as fast as they i grew. If all the timber cut in Ameri- 1 ca in one year was piled like coro weed is ordinarily piled it would reach three and a half times around the world. Three and a half million ieel of timber alope was used by the news papers of America in each year iht I railroads used annually hundred million cross ties. Each year there was cut in America for all purposes l the enormous total of forty million "something has got to be done and done real sudden,n said MT. Hill 1T summing up. The thing for each far, mer to do is ta realize that his fores' 1 ia not like a coal mine, all Tn one ,ieca ana none to grow, but that fl is a growing investment constantly ih' creasing."
 He Advocated the adoption by eacf farmer of a plan of careful selection Of the trees he cut in his forest. Tht 1 forest should be divided into squares and the trees should be carefully cur l from the thickest part of each square In this way, he said, the farmer couie l benent each year by the growth or hl' | forest. He brought home the destruct I iveness of forest fires by telling hi' I hearers that it took long leat pint tree four years to grow its hrst foul inches And yet thousands of thu young plants were destroyed
 MT Hill explained to his hearers tn' plarf adopted by the Forestry Depart ment to preserve the forests which ye remained in the United States. In th' west an enormous reserve of 13O,OOO, eo0 acres had been made. The Govern ment was able to do this because thu land was yet the property of the Gov
 ernment.
 It was now desired to make Ma tional Forest Reserve of 5.O0O,0OO acre
 in the Appalachian Mountains. He eX
 plained the need of such reservation Its primary purpose was protection
 against floods. He showed how for
 ests were the best possible insuranc
 against general damage by floods. Tn
 forests in the first place absorbed
 great part of the moisture
 The trees shaded the groun'
 which was> kept in con | dition where it would absorb larg 1 mart of the moisture. When the for l
 hard and baked and the water ran of
 as if would run off floor. Such wa
 the primary causes of floods.
 The bin setting aside the 100000
 acre reservation in the Appalachians
 MT. Hill said, had passed the Senate
 but the powers that be had held 1t u
 in committee in the House. He close with the expressed hope that an arous ed public sentiment would compel tn next Congress to pass the bill.
 Senator Reynolds Speaks.
 The record of the presen
 Legislature was endorsed and defende bv Senator Herbert F. Reynolds, ( Centreville who was presented to tn large audience by Judge Wilkinson |; Senator Reynolds explained some fiji teen or sixteen of the more importar measures passed by the Legislatur He complimented the wok that Commls
 sioner Wilkinson was doing and declal 2 ed that he was one of the best Commi' sioners of Agriculture Alabama Ina ever had.
 In sneakine of the work of the la!