The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-12
EXHIBIT PRODUCTS AT B|G LAND SHOWS Alabama Should Let Her
 Light Shine WILL BRING RETURNS Baldwin and Mobile Counties Have Already Proved Advantages of Sending Agricultural Exhib-
 it's to the North
WILL BRING RETURNS
By WALTER HARPER

|
 Last spring The Age-Herald suggested
 that the business organizations and other i interests desiring the material develop
 ment of Alabama send an agricultural exhibit to the land shows at New York
 and Chicago this fall
 Some interest was taken in the susges-
 tion at tho time, and 1t seems that a
 few organizations, county, town and oth- CTS, have taken steps to put the sugges- I ton in operation.
 1 Baldwin and Mobile counties have for | one or two years maintained annual ex- hibits at the Chicago land show, and the results have been more than satisfactory. Large numbers of desirable immigrants have been induced to come to that south ern section of the state from the more congested centers of the north and west
 where lands are high and take lands in the south where the lands are not only | cheap, but where every other natural ad- vantage appeals to the man who must ex-
 act his living from the soil
 The land show to be held at Madison
 Square Garden in New York this fall will be the first event of the kind ever
 held in the eastern metropolis. It will
 be held November to 12. This is known as the American Land and Irrigation ex- position. Information of entry, prizes of fered and other facts will be gladly fur
 nished by Gilbert McClurg. general man. ager, 149 Broadway New York city.
 Space for exhibits will cost s2 per square foot, though I understand that
 there is no charge for individual entries of products for competition for the many
 handsome and valuable prizes that are | offered.
 | The land show at Chicago will follow that at New York, opening November IS
 and running to December g. It is called
 the United States Land and Irrigation ex- position. Detailed information of this 1 exposition is not just now at hand, but letters addressed as above to Chicago | will reach the desired destination and bring all information desired by prospec- l tive exhibitors.
 Pittsburg will also have land show that is considered with favor by exhib- itors with headquarters at Washington. The Southern railway will have an ex- hibit of southern products at this show as well as at the New York land show and the Alabama State Fair at Birming-
 held ahead of the New York show, from
 October 12 to 2s. This is called the Pitts
 burg Land show.
 The Age Herald is in receipt of a letter
 from Charles R. Turner of Tuscaloosa, asking for information on the Chicago and other expositions. He says that he has been commissioned to represent Tusca- loosa county at the Chicago show. This is a progressive move on the part of one of the best agricultural counties in Alabama. The business and industrial in- terests of any county in the state can spend money in no better way than to
 have a live representative with samples
 of it's products at all these big exposi- tions.
 People who attend these shows go there for the purpose of Investigating the rela-
 tive promises of those sections that are
 represented. They are looking for better conditions in some one respect or other than they find at home, and are ready to adopt the country or section that offers the best advantages.
 Alabama should not be ashamed of it's advantages. It has many more claims
 for favor than disadvantages It has only to advertise it's advantages to secure the recognition that 1t deserves
 l was in tine private office of one of the high bureau officials of the United States department of agriculture this l morning. Among other things he said, "I have just returned from a tour through the northwest. the west and the south. saw lands in the great west that are held at hundreds of dollars per acre that will produce no more stuff than will lands in the south that can be bought for less than $50 per acre. It is a matter of wonder that the opportunities in the south are not more fully appreciated by the people.
 ''The people in the north and west have some preiudices that must be overcome | before they can appreciate the southern country. but the southern people them selves. knowing the folly of these preju- dices, do not seem to appreciate what they l have.
 '"rhe people farther north imagine, for I instance. that the south is uncomfort- l ably hot. and by reason of that heat is unhealthy. They imagine that the lands l that are tilable in the south are low narshy and miasmatic. They cannot ap-
 preciate that the summers are really milder in effect than their own summers | and that the winters are also so mild that 1 cattle can be carried through to the l next season with much less expense thar at home.
 "When the farmer on the high priced l lands in the colder north comes to know
 that the lands in the south are not only
 cheap. but equally productive with theil own. that the climate is not only pleasant but healthy. you will have movement oi desirable immigration southward that will be of vast benefit to that section.
 | "All that is needed Is for the south tt let it's light shine. Inform the peopl, who are seeking homes what you have and they will come. One drawback to tn, south's development is the cheapness O the lands People who do not know tn, facts look on this condition with sus picion. They feel that if the lands ar, really as productive as claimed the lant values would be more in keeping
 Baldwin and Mobile counties are con 1 vlncing these homeseekers of the nortl and west by showing the products of thei
 soils Nothing talks better than tn,
 actual fruits of the farm. Show tn,
 prospective immigrant the potatoes, tn,
 hay and corn and he knows the quality
 of the soil.
 These practical witnesses at least in
 duce the prospect to make further per sonal investigation. visit to Alabama has seldom failed to please the man O.
 intelligence who knows how to appreciat,
 the finest combine tion of natural advan | f,, he