The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28

young men who think they know lot about farming. You send out tons of pamphlets every year in which you and your bright young men attempt to tell the farmer how to grow timothy. cotton and corn. They may know what they are talking about but in my opinion the great bulk of these bulletins are used for gunwadding and to stop cracks in the wall.
 q want three or four of your brightest young men in the different bureaus to come with me to the Sixth district or Alabama. I don't know anything about farming. I am willing to admit 1t, but my people are farmers and they are ex- pecting something from me and, by the rotting hull of the Merrimac. I propose to give it to them. I want your young men to talk to my farmers face to face. Let us see if they know what they are talking about.
 we, the people of the United States, are paying out millions of dollars to sup port you and your professors of agri- culturalogy every year. Let's make 1t practical. What do you say?'
 By my whislsers, that is good idea, Dick I will try 1t. Pick out your men and God be with you," and Jim Wilson smiled broadly and wisely.
 
 his memorable-even his famous tour Of the Sixth district with his menagerie of agricultural experts. It was the first time that the plain people back in the sticks had ever had a view of high salaried farmers at work. The farmers fiocked out to the meetings. They got interested. They went home and began to dig up their old farm bulletins and began to read them. The office farmer was not so bad after all.
 The newspapers all over the country printed pictures of Hobson and his expert | farmers. They also printed tripple-leaded editorials and Sunday features about the | innovation. Other congressman got busy and before three months there were al- most as many original farm expert con- gressmen in the United States as there were votes in the lower house. But it was great work with lasting results. | The little ripple that Dick Hobson started that morning four years ago down at Jim Wilson's office in Washington has widened into great waves that are lap | ping both the oceans, the gulf and the lakes and that is. making the agricultural districts blossom like the honeysuckle | It has done another thing. It has put the bright young men in the department to work.
 I lHe ulIie SIunt pulleu OiL III Ih0 OAAtiA district Of Alabama by the kissing-bug hero started the real revolution for intel lgent agriculture through the co-opera- tion of the federal department and there will be no end to its beneficial results. | Captain Hobson is very courtly in man. ner, perhaps acluired while taking spe- cial course in naval ethics in Paris in his younger days. Perhaps 1t is the blood of the black belt
 | He is simple in his attire. Always in good taste and as consistent in this as he | is in his prohibition principles. I saw a photographic snapshot of him taken with one foot on Pennsylvania avenue and the other on the first step I (bottom) of the national capital. He had on the same broad brimmed slouch hat 1 that he wore on his agricultural trip through his home district.
 Some congressman have clothes they wear at home and then some clothes they wear in Washington. Captain Hobson may have two suits but they look alike lin the photographs.
 Captain Eobson is problem in Ala bama.
 His friends at home are expecting him to run for governor of Alabama, United States senator and Vice President of the United States. Some people high up in the nation say they would vote for him for President