The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-28
SO|L SURVEY WORK
 ID BE DISCUSSED
State and Nat!ona Departments
 Are Cooperating
WILL MEET Al AUBURN
The Retail Hardware Association of Alabama Will Meet in Montgom- cry Today-Red Men Ad-
 journ Their Council.

Montgomery, May 27.-(special)-rhe members of the Alabama soil survey forces will meet at Auburn a few days after the first of June to confer with Commissioner of Agriculture Wilkinson with regard to the future of the work in the state. The men in the employ of the government will also be on hand. The object of the session is to talk of the fu- ture of the work. The department at Washington has set apart S25,00O to hurry the work in Alabama, and it will be done.
 It is estimated that the whole state can be worked in two years, and the depart ments of both state and nation are work ing on that idea. Autauga, Lamar, Henry and Bibb are being finished now and Baldwin is two-thirds through. The farmers in all of them are delighted with the information given. They are making good use of it. Commissioner Wilkinson is now figuring on the best means to get the information to those who will be most benefited.
 There are at this time four parties at work During the summer there will be six or eight, and 10 to a dozen after Mo- vember 1. The work in Baldwin will be called off until fall in order to let the men work in cooler part of the state. The next work, to be entered upon at once, will be in Tallapoosa, Calhoun, Cullman and Colbert counties. It is ex- peeted that the first tests will be made about the middle of June. After that the men will rush the work quickly.
 The popularity of the soil survey, and in fact any movement that the govern ment is behind that helps the farmers, Is beginning to work through the heads or the members of Congress and other pub lie officials so that 1t is much easier to get appropriations now than ever before. It Is a question of doing the thing that makes the votes. and this kind of work makes them Active men know this, and there Is a revival in all the lines of ef- forts that tend to help the farmers to get more out of the soil than ever before with the same amount of work
 Hardware Men To Meet.
 The Retail Hardware association of Alabama will be in session here tomor- row and next day. Among the visitors will be National Secretary M. l.. Corey, who will talk of association work The Thursday morning meeting will be deVot- ed to prellminaries and the appointment of committees President B. F. Russell will make his annual address. The aft ernoon session will be executive, but the Friday morning meeting will be open. Beginning with the Thursday afternoon exercises the following is the programme: Executive session ? o'clock for mem bers and hardware merchants..i
 of T., G. Smith.
 Report of executive committee, B. F.. Luttrell.
 Report of delegate to national con- vention, l.. G. Smith.
 Paper "Co-Operation With Competitor: To What Extent" J. w Beasley.
 Paper. Why Mark Goods in Plain Figures?' Rane McMillan.
 Question box, M. L. Corey
 For subjects which should not be dis- cussed in open session.
 Friday Morning.
 Open session, 9.3O o'clock, for hardware salesmen and non-members.
 Paper, What Kind of Advertising by the Manufacturer Benefits the Retailer to the Greatest Extent?' J. c. Simpson, Question box in charge of M. L. Corey. The business man in politics.
 Does the price or the article itself Tn a WlHuOW olspidy otiioNt s'iN N-S toner?
 Do you find the R. F. D. of use in advertising your business?
 Does it pay to run and 1O-cent counter?
 Should we encourage the manufactur- CT of patented specialties to establish uniform retail price?
 Good buying, and what does it consist of?
 And others.
 Eleven and 12 o'clock devoted to hard ware salesmen( who have no troubles).
 Friday Afternoon.
 Executive session o'clock.
 Reports of committees, constitution and bylaws, resolutions, press location of next convention, nominations, auditing, in memoriam.
 Election of officers.
 Unfinished business
 Question box.
 o'clock, meeting of the executive com mittee.
 The officers are: President, B. F. Lut- trel, Florala; first vice president. J. W. Beasley, Birmingham; second vice presi- dent. Rane McMillan, Demopolis; sec-' retary-treasurer, L. G. Smith, Ensley. Executive committee, J. U. Cureton.