The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
Must Have Stock .

Must Have stock. eve have heard of many remedies for improving the condition of Ala bama farms and the farmer. Pros perity panaceas have been thrust upon the public so often that the multiplic- ity of remedies have confused the far mer. Sometimes the man who earnest ly desires improved methods is unable to separate the good from the bad suggestions. I have no fault to find with the men who advise farmers to grow more corn, or grow more cot ton on les acreage or use more com mercial fertilizers.' or grow, more leg umes, or make more hay or make more hay or rotate and diversity your crops But what will the farmer do with all the forage and feed crops if he has no stock to which he can feed them? It has been suggested that the hay. corn, cotton seed meal etc, be sold. That means the sale of soil fer tility and is in a measure a continu- ation of the old cotton system where all the home grown fertilizer produce ng materals were sold and the new crops must be grown with commercial fertilizers or upon new land.
 Such a system has always depleted soils and completely exhausted them of vegetable matter. In fact vegetable matter or humus is very decient in all worn out farms in the South These lands can be reclaimed probably by rotation. diversication and livestock.
 Talk Of Dr. Browning.
 The other address of the afternoon was that by pr. c. W. Browning. as- sistant State vetinarian. who spoke on "The Progress Made in Tick Eradica- tion in Alabama"
 The tick" said pr. Browning. 'is Spanish pest which was originally brought into this country by way of old Mexico. It spread to Texas and from there to all the Southern States. It causes the cattle to have distemp- CT, often fatal, called the Texas fever.
 During the past year we have suc- ceeded in wiping out the pest from sev- enty-five per cent. of the farms in Montgomery. When we took hold of the work of eradication, there were less than ten per cent. of the farms which were not infested. So far as we can learn, we have reduced the inor- tality among cattle due to this dis ease. by some eighty per cent. The work is progressing at the same pace in Dallas, Wilcox and Lowndes coun- ties Already the preliminary work of posting notices has been started in El- more and Perry counties.
 The method of dis-infecting cattle has been pretty much by greasing the animals with crude petroleum. We have used the rotating process some what. but in the main, the work has all been done by the hand,
 Montgomry and the other counties in which the work has already been car ried on will probably be rid of the pst by the end of the summer. At the present rate of eradication. however, 1t will take twelve or fifteen years before Alabama will be free of 1t.
 Today's session begins at s o'clock this morning. and will be held in the Commercial Club Rooms The pro- gram for the meeting will be as fol- lows:
 Feeding Horses and Mules-c A Cary.
 Symptoms and Diagnosis of Hog Cholera-Jesse M. Jones.
 The Cheapest Methods of Producing Pork in Alabama-J W. Ridgeway.
 The Dairy Conditions In Alabama as Have Found Them-S. D. Dow.
 Live Stock on the Farm-C. Kirk patrick.
 The Negro in Live Stock Farming J. A. Wilkinson.
 The Williamson Plan-W. H. Sey- mour.
 How I Raise Sheep For Pront-oJ. H. McDaniel.