The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-09
Cattle Raisers Close Annual Session. Many interesting Papers Read tt cios- ing Meetings of Convention--
 Menteomery Is Selected for Gathering Next Tear.

Two sessions at which carefully pre- pared papers pertaining to the several branches of the live stock Industry of Alabama were read and discussed; offi- cers for the coming year were elected; reports of committees submitted and the place selected for the next annual meeting. consumed the second and last day of the tenth annual meeting of the Alabania Live Stock Association in Montgomery yesterday.
 Dr. C. A. Cary Of Auburn was rec elected President of the Association; J. s. Kernachan elected Treasurer and Dan T. Gray was chosen Secretary.
 Montgomery. being the most central iy located and most accessible from every point in the State. was unan. inously selected as the meeting place for next year. A number of new names were addtd to the Association roll.
 Dr, S A. Knapp of the United States De- artment of Agriculture. of Washington. on the subject, Live Stock Husbandry in the South." and Henry Clark of watrace. Tenn, on the subject The Mule Industry in the South" were the two speakers at ,the morning session. pr. knapp treated the matter of live stock as whole, in its commercial value to the South and to the individual cultivator.
 Of the several branches of the iri- dustry in the South and one reckoned on, a payJpgta basfs, which has few sti- persoEs.l pEn Rnapp. recommended the faisfng of hogs. The South. he said, was specially adapted. in climate soil and food products for the successful raising of hogs. From a close obscrv- ance, study and experience. he was prepared to give facts and figures that backed up his argument
 Hogs of South are Superior,
 The hogs of the North. he declared. were unfit to be eaten. They are fat tened on corn cnd kept up. where with out exercise there is no development of muscle. and the "streak of fat and streak of lean" which Is characteristic of the true bacon, is wanting. It is only in the South where hogs run on pastures and have plenty of exercise, that the, conditions are right for the production of tIfe best bacon.
 That the Southern farmer sells hun dreds of thousands of dollars worth of cotton and snends it all for meat Is not to the credit of the farmer. because he could as we'll raise the meat and keep the money received from the sale of his cotton. The south produces the hest of everything for feeding hogs In Iowa. he declared. one-third of the hogs die with cholera and yet South- erners eat the Iowa hog"
 Any old lady who knows how to Cf.Ho' aP SufAAEeu can I0ll you how to raise hogs," was his reply when asked how to guard against the .AiseaSe. Dr. Knapp told his hearers how to begin a stock farm and how not to begin one
 The South, he said. was bound to be a dairy country There Is more nutri- ment, more money. and more profit in dairy products .han in any thing in which the farmer can engage. He said the great trouble with the South ern farmer is he overhurdans the rail. roads in bringing food stuffs to him from the North. when If there must he burden. It should be in sending the products of the South to the North There Is demand such as the world has never known for good beef. good mutton. good eggs and dairy products, and if the South would take advan- . tage of the opnortunity, 1t could fur nish these products to the world. q.
 The subject cf he mule industry was discussed at length by Ntr Clarkei Mir. Clarke Is an extensive breeder and