The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-21
LIVE STOCK MEETING
ANNUAL ;,nssaoS ,.ss .9 .r,,,,.. To Bn HELD
Tick Eradfcation fs Chief Tonic te Be Dfscussed Teday--sIany Prom-
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 The eleventh annual meeting of the Alabama Live Stock Association which begins tonight at o'clock ifl the Com mercial Club rooms is expected to bring the largest gathering in the his- tory of that organization to Mont9otn- ery. Prem every section of the state the cattle raisers and dairymen will come to Montgomery to hear the dis cussions on one of the leading indus tries of Montgomery and other ceun- ties.
 The program for this meeting win have particularly to do with the dairy Industry in Alabama. It ls d subiect full of interest and an effort will be made to stimulate interest from year to year in this phase of farm life. To this end prominent authorities on the subject will in the future be invited to Alabama to address the farners just as for this gathering the famous dairy expert Mir. Risser. of the United States Department of Agricuiture. has Beer, asked to speak to the Association h. morrow morning. The subject of Mir. Riser's discussion will be "co-opera- tive Dairying by the United States De. partnsnt of Agrioultnre.S
 Every farmer interested In ticir eradication and especially Montaou,erv County farmers." said pr e. A. cafy. Rresident of the Association yesterday.
 mas been requested to attend, and haar the talks and discussions on the differ- ent methods of killing ticks on cnstia and in pastures. some of which ruav he employed in Montgomery County, das
 This, program has been arranged 70 give promience to the dairy indusl trt in Alabama and we caii On a1t dairynen in Alabama to attena ana hear the dairy expert, Mr. Risssr. from the dairy division of the Department or Agriculture at Washington, He ex. peets to visit the dairfes of Alabama and cooperate with. the dafyFnen.v q .
 When pr. Cary, who is State vets erinarian. referred to the eradicatiou of the tick on cattle or in pastures if. Montgomery county, he was speaking of the probable exercises of an author tty conferred by the last Legisiature on the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, which was created by an act to protect the live stock in Alabama from infectious or contagfous dieea sas
 The following is the section of this act which relates to the work of tick eradication or tick suppression, or the eradication or suppression of any other diseasA; as
 %Be 1t further enacted that the work of cattle tick eradication or the sup. pression or eradication of any of the infectious, contagious or communicable disease of live stock shall De taken up under the provisions of this act in any county or any part. Of a county or in any part of the State of AlAA bama, when the State Live Stock 6ana itary Board may deem bests The ceun- ty commissioners of any county in which the State or Federal authorities take up the work Of tick eradication or the suppression of any infectious. contagious or communicable disease of live stock may appropriate, for aiding in such work, such sum as the county commissioners may deem adequate and necessary.'' fN
 The mseting. which begins tonight at o'clock. will De continued through tomorrow. there being morning and afternoon sessions, the former to open at a. rii.. and the later ct 1 D. m.