The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27

Veterinary Medicine At the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. is the only one
 of its kind in the South. The mum
 Der of students in the course has in
 creased more than one hundred per cent. over last year. This School of
 Veterinary Medicine will educate Ala
 bama boys 90 that they may become practitioners who will locate in Ala
 bama and help develop the livestock
 industry by treating and preventing diseases of animals. They will also
 become city and state and Federal inspectors who. will stamp out diseases and protect public health by inspecting meat and milk.
 The Farmers Institutes and the Summer School at Auburn have been great educational factors in the live stock Industry in Alabama. At near ly every farmers institute that has been conducted by the Alabama Poly technic Institute for the past seventeen years has pressed to the front the importance of live stock on the farm. At the Auburn summer school. where nearly 500 farmers were enrolled in August, 1908, the judge of live stock. lectures on subjects relating to live stock and prizes for the best animals, received more prominence and atten- tion than any other subject.
 The breeding and feeding of hogs and sheep will not be what they should until our farmers raise suf- fcient for home use and then sell car loads of hogs and sheep-ali espe- cially supply the large cities with the high priced Christmas lamb.
 'Figurativsiy speaking. there is a gold mine for the farmer who can produce Christmas lambs--say just a few hundred each year. The Christ mas lamb market of the large cities has never been supplied.
 The dairy COW Is the queen of the farm. She can do work, turn grain and waste grasses hay and cotton seed meal into delicious milk. delicious cream and golden butter The dairy COW can also improve and make rich our worn out soils. When farmers know that car loads of worked over butter and also margarine are ship ped into Alabama every year. 1t Is strange that we do not have more dairies. There Is not q city in Ala bama that has an adequate home sup ply of milk. butter and cheese. CreaZi in some instances Is shipped into our cities from without the StaSS. Ala bama can be made a great dairy State the equal of the best. The crying need is more educated dairymen and dairy workers who are constant and regular in their work. On February IT. 1909. the Alabama Dairymen's As sociation was organized. Its chief aim Is to advance the dairy industry in Alabama.
 'In 1907 ss.ooo.ooo worth of butter was exported from Canada. This but ter did not remove as much soil fer tility as the removal of the hay from a 200 acre farm.
 The horse and mule business in Alabama Is largely dependent upon Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri for additional supply. Some exceiiently bred trotting. pacing and saddle horses have been raised in Alabama. A few to supply the demand. There is also a demand for coach and draft horses. but there are few if any bred in Ala bama. It is pleasure to note that there Is an increase in the number of mules in Alabama, but not sufficiently to supply home wants.
 '"No line of live stock offers such mules. have never known a man to fall if he used ordinary judgment In breeding and developing mules. Men may fail in the horse breeding bust ness. but as a rule the mule man Is a success. Mules are always salable and in demand. The demand is growing and much moro rapidly than the in- must advance in price. The young farmers of Alabama can not overstock the market in the next twenty years. Even the panic of 1907 did not depress the price of mules. The call comes to every Alabama farmer: Raise mules. During 1908 more than 4.29I mules and 2,936 horses came into Alabama. Over one half of them came from East St. Louis market. Up to February 24, 1 1909. 4,S53 mules and S11 horses have come toAlabama accompanied by health This means that not less than $100,0 passed out of Alabama in 190S for horses and mules and up to the present time in 1909 sS0.000. This forcibly proclaims a nome demand. | Doubtless a similar demand for mules obtains in every Southern State except 1 Texas, Tennessee and Virginia