The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
LIVE STOCK MEN MEET HERE Alabama Association in
 Session. PRESIDENT CARY PRESIDES Meeting Being Held in Commercial
 Club. In his Address, pr. Cary Says no Feed Products should be Sold From
 Any Alabamh

No feed products should be sold from an Alabama farm," declared pr. re. A. Cary, president of the Alabama Live Stock Association, at the thir- teenth annual meeting of the associa- tion which was held in the Commercial Club rooms yesterday afternoon.
 All the lagumes. corn, hay, cotton seed meal. and cotton seed hulls that can be produced should be fed to anil mals and only the finished products sold
 This does not mean the use of less commercial fertilizer. for, the better your land, the more fertilizer 1t will stand with profit. Nor does 1t mean less cotton. Instead there will be more | cotton per acre, less acreage and less cost of production.
 | "Dtversihcation, rotations and live stock will do more toward helping the farmer at home to peace and pros perity that all the theories that float upon the seat of speculation" | The meeting was weel-attended by members from all parts of the state. This morning the second and more important session will be held. It Is expected that the attendance will be svep larger, than during the first. In the absence of Mayor Teague, pr. Griel welcomed the association to Montgomery.
 "The health department in the cities and in others of the state want you to help in our fight against uberco- losis," he said in his address. "The splendid work that you have done in oh ecking hog diseases makes us hope that you will make a special study of the transmission of tubercolis from animal to man.
 At the recent anti-tubercolosis congress in Washington the question from milk was left pretty much In doubt. there being eminent authorities on both sides. Personally. I believe that tubercolosis can be spread in this manner. There appear to be three ways in which they do so. If the milk passes through Liberated udder. 1t Is likely to be Inflicted. Again. the cows get considerable faecal matter on their bodies and in switching their tails, brush some into the milk. A COW with | tn bercolosis or in a stable with ami mals having the disease undoubted infects the milk. Then too, the milkers may have tuberculosis and thus spread the disease in handling of milk. All these different feature Tn the dairy business demand careful watching"
 President Cary's Address.
 The address Of the day. was that of the president of the association. pr. Cary. He said in part:
 Rabies in dogs and other animals has been quite prevalent in Alabama and in several other northern and and southern states. This much dread- ed and fearful disease can be con- trolled by laws taxing and regulating the muzzling of dogs. In fact many towns and cities do effectually check and sometimes stamp out rabies by rigidly enforcing the muzzling of dogs.
 Tt speaks well for our state that ed in Montgomery a laboratory where the Pasteur treatment may be given without cost to all citizens of Alabama who have been bitten by rabid anil mals.
 "Eradiction of the cattle tick has been started in five counties. This work has been pushed as rapidly as possible. The state funds Sor tick eradication are lot large and we have been compelled to depend upon Federal aid from the Bureau of Animal In- dustry. This help In part came a lit- tie too late in the year to enable us to clean completely a single county of cattle ticks. But the outlook for this year is brighter and We hope to
 
 four counties free of ticks by the end of this year.
 "The public must not forget that the cattle tick costs the Alabama live. stock industry not less than two mil lions of dollars every year and 1909 was no exception. This enormous drain upon the cattle farmers of Ala bama takes no little amount from the profits of the business. Every dollar of this great loss can be saved by eradicating the cattle tick. The Federal Government is now supply ing from five to ten times as much mos ney as the state. In Tennessee the state supplies very little of the funds for tick eradication, but the counties suppliment the work of the Federal authorities. The Alabama law provides way in which the county commis- sioners can aid thetick eradication work in their county. When the counties of Alabama awake to the fact that the expenditure of a few dollars will help to save thousands of dollars to the farmers of each county then tick eradication will move that much faster and the work will be go ing on In many counties. In order that you may get some idea of the eX. tent of the work done during 1908. the following summary is given: Total number of first inspect
 ed premises .... ........ 2,96S Total number of first inspect
 ed cattle .. .. ......... 62,9s1 Total number rebated inspec-
 tions of premises ..... 4.474 Total number of rebated in
 spections of cattle =. ...124.552
 Hog cholera and infectious pneu- monia were quite common In Alabama in 1908. The source of the cholera has been chiefly from importation of infected hogs from other States. In some instances the sale of animals from infected herds has spread the disease. It is very probable that the new serum treatment that has been developed by the Bureau of Animal Indusry will reduce the losses and possibly become a factor in stamping out the disease. Missouri Is going to give the new serum treatment thorough test. At present we have not the money to apply this preventa- tive treatment in Alabama.
 During the year 143 horses and mules were inspected for glander and of this number ffty-four were found to have them. Twenty-eight of these were Western horses that were ship ped into Alabama and caught by a veterinary inspector before they were sold and scattered over the State.
 Tt may be of interest to the asso- l citation to know that the Animal Illus bandry Department of the Ala bama | Polytechnic Institute Is developing 1 interests of the State. Feeding and growing. doing good work for the live stock interests of the State. Feed