The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-01

year 20 tons of cabbage, worth annually
$4,000 Birmingham uses every day in
the year over 1900 bushels of oats
worth S2,0O0,000 annually Birminghani
uses every day in the year over 10, ,000
bushels of corn. mixed corn for feeding
purposes. and white corn thar is con-
sumed by the mills-l0.000 bushels of
corn daily which is worth annually
over s2,250, 900; Birmingham uses ever,-
day In the year over 300 tons of hay,
worth annually s1.200.000: Birmingham
uses every day in the year over 100
tons Of other foodstuffs worth $3.50. 00o.
Birmingham and the Birmingha dis
trict uses every day In the year over
10000 gallons of milk worth sI.S00, 600:
birmingham uses buttermillx and cream
worth over 100000 annually: Birining-
ham uses eggs worth over 81, 500, 600
every year; Birmingham USED in the
year 1912 26,S9S head of cattle worth
81, 500. 900; Birmingham used 1854
sheep, 1896 hogs and veal worth over
$400,O 900; Birmingham used fresh
meats shipped in here, cut up by the
packing houses over 7,946,2l1 pounds.
worth s1,275,000.
Do Not Cover Mineral District
"Now gentlemen, some of these ng-
ures are estimates. but made from n
careful survey of conditions. The fig
VI Cd L iidNt given NVu ItSdluiilE Cat
tie. hogs, beef and packing house pro-
ducts do not even cover the mineral
district of Birmingham, but are from
the report of the health officer of the
city of Brmin CHAM, consumed and in
spected within the city limits of the
city of Birmingham in the year 1912.
THE figures | have given you foot
up $14,300,000 Gentlemen. they do not
include packing house products such
as salt meat. smoked meats. ham. ba-
con, lard; neither do they include chick
ems, ducks or poultry of any sort: nei-
ther do they include butter or vege-
tables. One man who lives within three
miles of where you are now told me
few days ago that he marketed to
the wholesale dealers Morris ave-
nue. from one acre of land this sum
mer tomatoes that netted him STOPS. Is
land worth 500 an acre in this yicin-
ity?
Where Products Come From
when you add to the list | have
given you the products that are CON
sumed here and raised on farm, which
have not been inclnded in this list, you
will have a sum total of over $40 0.000,-
900, products of the soil used in the
Birmingham district every year. Does
ii mean that the Birmingham district
has increased the value of the farm
lands in north Alabama? Now, let's
see whether land is worth 800 an acre
under such conditions. The hay that
is used in Birmingham is largely al
falfa 1t comes from Arizona New
Mexico, Idaho. Colorado. Kansas ana
Oklahoma The nearest of these points
is Oklahoma, and the minimum trans
portation charge on a ton of nay from
Oklahoma to Birmingh is 50 and in
most cases it is $40 per ton. The charge
on ton of that hay raised in Alabama
on Alabama soil would be about So and
the maximum from anywhere in the
state of not over So per ton. a saving
in the raising of hay from the farm
to the market of Birmingham, COM
pared with that from the. farm rf Okla
homa TO Birmingham. of 81 per ton.
Alfalfa grows anywhere over a ton to
the acre: 81 a ton would be an interest
of 7 per cent on 800. to say nothing
of the profit that accrues in the rats
ing of that stuff to the farm in the
west Is land worth 500 an acre to
produce alfalfa hay for this market II
it is located within striking distance
of this mineral district?
Take corn corn comes to Birming-
ham from Ohio, Illinois, Indiana Kan
sas, Nebraska and Iowa. That corn
carries from common station to Birming-
ham a transportation charge of over 35
cents per hundred. The transportation
charge on corn from Alabama points to
Birmingham would be 10 cents, and in no
case over Is cents hundred, a saving
on 100 pounds of corn from the farm
to the consumer in this district of 20
cents per hundred or over II cents per
bushel Forty bushels of corn at IL cents
would be $40 increased profit over the
profit made by the raiser of corn in the
western states. If our farmers would
adopt proper methods, intensive farming,
diversifying their crops and getting down
and using the goods that are made in
this great district
Another proposition. gentlemen. Take
beef Cottonseed meal contains plant
food that Is taken from your soil and in
the production of your great staple crop,
cotton; cottonseed meal is not only a
plant food, but is a wonderful animal
food The cottonseed meal produced in
the state of Alabama is shipped to New
England it is shipped to the northwest
ern states and used there for food for
the production of meat for human use.
Should Produce Meat
There is no better grazing country
on the face of the earth than the hill
sides and the valleys OF Alabama. That
cottonseed meal should be fed to cattle
grazing on the hills of north Alabama.
The beef that is used in this market.
beef and hogs amounting to about $4,-
100000 annually. should be produced in
Alabama. and produced from cottonseed
raised in Alabama fApplause). When
you bring about that result you will
have made the first step towards placing
Alabama where she belongs, among the
states of this great nation. If Alabama
would pass a law prohibiting the export
ing of pound of cottonseed meal and
making 1t obligatory the part of those
who produce 1t in this state to feed it
up and return it to the soil they would
pass one of the best Jaws ever written
on the statute books of this state. Do
you know that ton of cottonseed meal
worth s25 as commercial fertilizer after
being fed to a steer, after the animal
has extracted those elements which go
to make increased growth and fat, still
contains $23.35 worth of plant food and
commercial value. III other words, a
steer fattened on conttohseed meal would
extract from its commercial value as a
fertilizer only Sf.65 yet the people of
Alabama who need fertilizer to increase
their cotton crops are shipping plant food
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