The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-21

asoditiss c.n by secured h pracuesIly iimitless abundanee.
 A Thought on cattle.
 The prediction was made by the tpeaker that unless cattle raising picks up pretty soon the price of beef would Keep going up until we would be forced by want of supply and by high prices to quit eating meat
 Gradually the production of the Unit ed states is increasing. while the meat supply fs growing less In proportion. ~ an evidence of this lack of supply pr. Romnei pointed to the fact that In tiiis nation have diminishsd from from 10 ioo to ss per cent. This means thaS nniess more interest ts takep in the animal Industry the, exports will cease and if we want then to eat meat even at an extrsvagant price we would have to
 Prof. D. T. Gray of tn. Chair of Antmel lndustry in the Alabama Poly tschnir Institute, specialized on hogs for his speech of twenty minutes. to which each member of the program was limited. He told of the folly of feeding hogs on corn alone and ao- knokledged that feeding for pork on this item would be losing proposition but 1t should be mixed tn this State with such easily grown products az thir = 1iihher
 He showed by . shart that pork could De produced by such mixtures for less than three cents per pound.
 Talks of Dairy Wosk.
 pr. s. D. Dow, who is with the national government and associated with dairy experimental work at Au- burn, impressed the audience with the importance Of this kind of work. He told of the recent impetus in dairy barn building. feeding by silo and other methods of scientific dairying being practiced In Alabama. He told incidentally of c barn about to be built near Montgomery.
 One of the important features of Mr. Dow's lecture was the warning aeainst the non-producing cows Of the dairy herds in Alabama. Those should be eliminated and not bo boarded by the, sound milk producing cows Introduced humorously as pr. Ticks. pr. Cooper Curtis, the tick expert of the United states Agricultural Depart ment, spoke prophetically of the pesti- lence which reisns in the Southern | states. He had a map to show the | complete pestiiential area of America practically all of which lies In the south. He begged his searers to take an interest in exterminating the tick
 He said residents of this section have no idea of the depression oi | land values of the South on account | of the prevalence of cattle ticks Tn our cattle. It thus means more than l n mere auarantining of this. section | But strikes ct the very agricultura l wealth of the South.
 Dr. D. A. Brody spoke effectively o | thA urof,sr rotation of crops. He warn sd arairist the evil of letting lands li' I laie durinx winter and advised force | fnlly that the lands be planted in som' | legpn1inous plants like vetch or clove | or some nitrogen restoring plant
 He gave illustrations of multiplied production by the scientific mixing an' l rotating of crops.
 | The last speaker. H. D. Haverly. pc ing a woodworking expert, command | sd especial attention. The subject wa I not Altogether new as he had beei l working in this district with his edu cational methods and demonstratioi
 work. but he threw new interest int 1 his talk this morning. He gave evi
 denoe of remarkable increased produo | ton of both corn and cotton by care ful selection of seed,
 The occasion wound up by an elo
 quent address by Captain Hobson. wh | appealed to the patriotism and Anglo
 saxon instinct of the Southerner t Duild up a grand civilization upon
 material foundation. the only lastinf
 way. He was roundly applauded.