The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-18


 crop and soon got more and better land.
 Rufus Harron. of Camp Hfi. Ala, sald: we must look after our women. We must not neglect those who are bad. but so to them and teach them better Some of them don't know any other way than the old way on the streets. that they have been so long accustomed to. Let us go home and put Into practice the things we have talked about here"
 One delegate said: Let the men stay away from town more and the women Parks asked. ''Is there any place Tor our women to go to except on the streets when they are in town"
 Lucy Grace, of China, Ala. spoke on the eighth question. She said:
 T help my husband by raising poul- try. selling chickens, eggs and butter, and when he wants my help on the farm I go on the farm. send milk and butter and eggs to my school three of whose teachers are graduates of Tuskegee. I have been farming since was an s-year-old girl have pieced quilts and sold them. sold ss6 worth of eggs and chickens last year and SIS worth this year. You ought to plant velvet beans I have some with me. We have sixty acres of land The men ought to stay at home and work. I have not traded on my hus- bands account for eighteen years. My husband has been sitting down, but he Is getting up now. He did not want me to come to this Conference because I am uneducated."
 Mrs. Perry. of Union Springs. said she had nine living children. two grad uates of Tuskegee and two now here in school. My husband was mighty extravagant preacher.
 T did all could to help him save. have boys and told him wanted q home. He said. Bully. let's go tt work I never go to town on Satur' day. I always go on some other day have home in Greenwood now thai cost me $500. I keep my children h school making quilts. feed them or quilts. My children are all in schoo that are not married. One Is stu dent in New York city"
 What About Saturday. A delegate said Saturday was hel busiest day at home She goes Tues days and Fridays. She has nine chil dren. When her husband was living she plowed, ditched, used the hoe ant cooked for the home. "I always have plenty of eggs, milk and butter" Sht said: 'T am educated in business but not in letters. have fifty-three acres One woman said after attending ths Conference she helped her husband by persuading him to plant corn and food products. instead of so much cotton He Is preacher and is glad he listened to me. now.
 One woman said she helped her hus- band by sewing, raising chickens, eggs and vegetables. She persuaded her husband to buy a steer and we made three bales of cotton, then we bought a mule now we run a two mule farm and. make plenty of cotton. peas. meal and, syrup. We have three bales of cotton unsold."
 B. Jeter of Milstead said if the men were as faithful and worked as hard as the women. all would be better off | He said the subject ought to be re- | yersed, how can the men help the women make a better living? One | delegate said, If were the man my wife is we would be much better off One delegate said in his community the women were behind the men and were driving them out and making them do something. I have 16s acres paid for. I paid seventy-four bales of | cotton for rent, before I woke up and bought land.
 Deal Jackson of Georgia spoke on Dangers to be avoided in farming He has sent the first bale of cotton to market in Georgia for eight years. He thinks his people were made on Satur- day and for that reason dislikes to work on Saturday. He thought that was true of man generally, having been made on Saturday evening, he was opposed to working them. sases
 'T have fofty-six blows and 2.00t acres of land" he said. got 1t by working every day and was always a leader in my blow crowd. rented the same plantation for fourteen years and saved $1,000. bought 26O acres first and got so at last that l could buy 900 acres at once. have no debt on my land. Steve Bond said he rent | ed land for ten years and round out ne had paid $50 an acre for 1t, in, rent and did not own an acre. when Deai Jackson was asked how he got the | first bale of cotton every year he said there was more in the man than there was in the land. He said, T will plant cotton next week." q started" said he, with a log house with stick and mud cliimnies. Now I buif0 all good frame houses with windows and brick chimnies" When asked whether he thought his laborers appreciated him as much as they would white man, he said. promptly ne thought they QlO. His early cotton he calls the Jackson prolific" [
 James Wallace from near Albany. Ga., said he had known Deal Jackson for seventeen years and he was re- liables T run fourteen blows. own 250 acres, paid for" he said.
 The Mortgage System.
 A delegate from Notasulga said:
 '"The mortgage system was one of the greatest dangers. Another dan ger is the agents that go among the farmers selling them worthless things that they are to pay for in the fall. The lightning rod is another danger. Another danger is in buying every body's prolific cotton" that is no bet ter than seed he might save for him. self Our farmers jump on every thing somebody else says is good. They go to court to see how some fel- low is coming out. The societies keep men out late at night making men," They say your widow will get $500 and there will be no expense to bury you. Boy you ought to get into that thing" tell them I don't need a cof- HJho yyoaHfoino y,aov, ra