The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27

bew to feed them with green foods dur hine the cold months from the crops which bad been grown during the summer. This he does by two large silos which he has built of concrete on his plantation. tirea; stalks of corn which had been grown last summer were taken from one of these snos and shown to the visitors. ldr Derby also showed a machine which he with eollaborator has just secured pat
 ent on and which will become a potent factor in the raising of live stock.
 This machine Is mixer and will appor- ton and mix all kinds of food fed to cat ltle Through 1t was run stalks of corn which were fnoly chopped into food for his cattle The machine has other ad- Vantages which were shown 70 the hu"- dreds of people by Mr. Derby during the efternon as well as many other modern Improvements about his farm
 After the arrival of the special tram
 from Selma at Whitfield and after MT
 Derby had conveyed to his farm the large humber of visitors the meeting of the Ala hama Live Stock association was called to order. To the crowd MT. Derby explained the, purport of the meeting and stated that every body on the ground was hts guest.
 The meeting was then turned over to pr C A Cary of Auburn, president Of the Ala bana Live Stock association. Tn his opening remarks pr. Cary spoke on many sides of the question of scientific
 farming and the raising of live stock and oomplimented MT. Derby on the great
 work which he was doing for the farmers of Alabama aud for Sumter county.
 Afer he had concluded his short ad-
 dress Dr. Carey introduced to the as-
 semblage K. c. Gurley of Macon, Miss,
 who is large dairyrnan in that sec
 ton. He spoke most efftertainingly of that branch of the live stock business and impressed upon his hearers the ad-
 vantages which the south had over the
 north in the dairy business. and ex-
 planed the manner, in which he con- ducted his large dairy, the methods of disposing of the products of his dairy
 farm. and the manner in which these products were made to the best selling advantage The address made by MT. Gurley upon the dairy business was most interesting.
 Jesse NJ Jones, farm demonstrator of
 Montg gomery county, spoke upon the sub
 iect of growing. MT. Jones ex-
 plained the best scientific methods of planting such a crop and went into his subject in detail. Hon. Joseph Green
 of Dallas, a member of the present leg
 islature, made an appropriate address, in which he urged the cooperation of the different farming and live stock or ganizations to the end that a large ap-
 precipitation from the state for this work be secured. He told of the small amount which had been appropriated
 by the recent legislature for such work and deplored the fact that the appro-
 priation made had not been many times greater.
 Eradication of Cattle Tick | Prof E. F. Couthen of Auburn spoke
 upon the eradication of the cattle tick. The methods used in the eradication of the cattle tick and the benefits accru- ing thereby to the owners were fully
 explained. MT. l.. Poole, resident Of Cuba, and one of the coming citizens of
 Sumter county, also made most in- teresting address. MT. Poole also spoke
 upon the cattle tick and the local phases
 that had come about during the eradi-
 cation of the pest in Sumter county He
 gave much logical advice during his ad-
 dress and his speech was considered the
 best of the day. The addresses were concluded by Col. Sam Will John Of Birmingham, who has considerable farm