The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-26
PROGRAMME HAS
 LIVE FEATURES Association of State AgricuI- turaI Schools to Meet
FARM PRODUCT CONTEST
Much Interest Felt in Course Gov ernor Conner Will Take in Lynch ina at MobiIe-Mrs. Hearn
 Has Made Bond.


 meeting of the Association of State Az ricultural schools, to be held January 29 and 30, at Auburn, shows a number of interesting features, and is layout that highly pleases Commissioner of Agriculture J. A. Wilkinson, who is the head of the organization. Gov. B. B. Conner will speak on the opening day at Il o'clock if his enga gements are not such as to prevent and MT. Wilk inson feels that they can be arranged
 Dr. C. c. Thach. president of the Alabama Polytechnic institute, will make the address of welcome, to which Dr. c. J. owens of the Abbeville school will respond. The other features of the first day will be addresses on the soil survey by Commissioner Wikin- son, suggested farm exercises by Prof. A. Duggar, and the boil weevil by Prof. w. p. Kinds.
 In the afternoon of Friday, the first day, J. B. Hobdy will talk of How Az riculture Is Taught and Demonstrated; J. B. Espy, of Results of a Rotation Experiment" and E. A. Miller on SCHOOL ITOunQS anu AlnlcllNSs III the evening H. o. Sargent will have The School Garden" while Prof. R. s. Mcintosh and P. F. Williams will dis cuss the various phases of horticul- ture and plant breeding.
 On Saturday W. F. Monk will speak on the place of the agricultural schools in the state educational system, and L. N. Duncan and J. M. Atkinson will urge a closer relation between the az ricultural. schools and Auburn. L. L.. Vann will talk of plans for populariz- ing the agricultural sch ools.
 An out of town speaker will be A. K. Risser of Starkville Miss, who will Dairying in the Agricultural Schools"
 Other addresses of the day are: Co operative Work In Dairying," s. C.. Dow; Demonstration In Judging Hogs," D. T. Gray and J. W. Ridge way; "Teaching Physiology" c. A. Cary; Best Method of Teaching Bot any to Agricultural School Students F. E. Lloyd; Laboratory and Chemistry In the Agricultural Schools" B. B. Ross.
 It is anticipated that among the out comes of the meeting will be the full organization of the plant breeders as sociation which Is matter of very much interest to all the farmers.
 That Farm Product Contest. | In bulletin now being sent out Com missioner of Agritulture J. A. Wilkin- son outlines the importance now at tached to diversified crops and lays down the rules in detail of the prize possibilities. He says: We will not stop to discuss the importance of rais- ing more home supplies but, believing that all agree that more corn, oats, grass, trucks, molasses and stock are necessity to our future uplift, and that in raising home supplies, cotton, our best money crop, can largely be made our surplus crop.'
 With regard to the prize winners, the statement continues: Tt is our pur- pose to publish the data and informa- tion that we shall obtain in bulletin form for the benefit of the public We hope to be able to hold institutes in every community where the maximum crops are made and have those who produce them assist in these institutes. It is also set out that a purpose of the movement is to encourage all to make an effort to produce on smaller areas more and better returns for their labor and investments"
 Attached to and made a part of the bulletin are a number of reports on corn raising and the details of plans that have been of benefit. Among these are the Williamson plan, showing of how z. J. Drake of Marlboro county, South Carolina, raised 254 bushels of corn on one acre, and the plans of MT. Williamson of Georgia, who makes 10 to 100 bushels of corn to the acre. Good results by A. F. Benton of Troy, Ala, are recited, he making 61h bushels on an acre that had been cultivated for 50 years.
 There are also the following papers of interest: "Selecting Seed Corn in the Field" J. F. Duggar, Auburn; No Need to Have Oat Smut" J. r. Duggar, Au- burn; Alfalfa" L. N. Duncan, Auburn; :; Manufacture of Cane Syrup" B. B.. Ross, Auburn; Pork Production in the South" D. T. Gray, Auburn.
 In addition there are number of tables showing the values of certain kinds of feed to hogs and cattle, and the best way to handle all of the better crops of the state.
 lynching Investigation.
 There is much interest at the capital as to what position Gov. B. B. Conner will take with regard to the investigation of the lynching of a negro at Mobile early Saturday morning. Appeal has been made to him to offer rewards that will aid in getting the guilty ones in the pale of the law, and the citizens of the Gulf City have urged that help be given in the movement to punish those who took the law into their own hands
 There is precedent for such action on the part of the state. Several years ago. when a mob took a negro from the jail at Gadsden. Governor JellSs not only of fered reward for the capture and punish ment of the guilty ones. but sent detec- tive to Gadsden and kept him there sev- eral days looking itno the situation. Though nothing was ever made public about the outcome, it was understood here at the time that the names of several men in the lynching party were secured. However, no indictments were returned. It Is also a matter of history that under the administration of Governor Jelks sev- eral white men were sent to the peniten- tiary for being members of mobs, and in many cases governors have ordered spe- cial terms of court to try negroes quickly to prevent mob law A notable instance was the term held few weeks ago at Greensboro.
 Robbers Are Rampant.
 Robbers and bad men were on the ram- page Sunday night. The store of A. E. Thompson, on the outskirts of the city,
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