The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-27
ACH|EVEMENTSON DERBY FARM GREAT. Live Stock Association at
 Model Farm PROFIT IN CATTLE Frank Derby Entertains 700 Farmers and Explains His Splendid
 Success With the Stock
 

Whitfield. July 6.-6Special That
 interest in the question of live stock
 raising and scientific methods of farm
 ing is manifested throughout the state
 was well illustrated on the farm oi
 Frank I. Derby, in Sumter county, Tues
 day by the large number of farmers
 and live stock raisers who assembled
 there from the different counties o1
 middle and western Alabama to attend
 the meeting of the Alabama Live Stock association.
 The Derby farm is difficult to reach
 but nearly 800 people interested in the
 questions which were to be discussed attended nevertheless. The farm is practically 14 miles from any railroad but it is located in the midst of the sandy and fertile lands of Sumter county and those who visited the modal farm Tuesday were well repaid for the l trip.
 The meeting was for the purpose of | showing those who were interested what could be done in the way of rais- ing cattle and feeding them through the winter months on green farming products grown during the summer months. This demonstration proved a revelation to all who attended and all of the farmers returned home during the afternoon convinced of the possi- bilities that there were in using scientific methods in farming and of the future, of the live stock business in Alabama.
 On the special train which left Selma for Lilita Tuesday morning for the Derby farm there were number of farmers from this part of the state as far east as Montgomery county. From Selma to Eilita farmers got on at every station. The western part of the state was largely represented by large numbers of people who got on the train at Uniontown and Demopois and other stations. At Lilita the coaches containing the large number of visitors were switched onto the tracks of the Sumter and Choctaw road, large lumber road owned by the Allison Lum- Der company. and were carried to Whit field. At that point they were loaded into all manner of vehicles and carried over a model clay road to the Derby plantation about five miles from the sta ton.
 After reaching the farm the visitors saw the achievements which had been reached by MT Derby, who today is doing much to advance the profession of farm | ing in this state.
 The meeting of the Ala abama Live StocF association and the demonstration which l was held on MT. Derby's plantation Tues l day was a great task for one man tc | undertake. But Mir. Derby, who is al | energy was equal to the occasion and the | TOO or more who came from distance and from the country around the farm | were taken care of in a most able man
 ner, and were suptuously fed with a wei | cooked barbecue dinner, to which were
 added many baskets of good things by l the women of that section.
 | State Veterinarian c. A. Cary classes Sumter county as the greatest live stock county in the state. It is through the energy and successful farming of Frank Derby that Sumter has won this reputa- ton and at the same time MT. Derby has | won the name of cattle king of Alabama | II was through the work of Derby tha; the tick eradication was started In the counties in the western part of the state | and it is through his efforts that this work is now being carried on in his home county.
 Method of Wintering Cattle To successfully raise live stock MT Derby showed the large crowd Tuesday