The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-02
All Workers Will Return for Alabama Products" Din- ner At the Tutwiler
 Tomorrow Night
FARM EXPERTS WHO WILL AID IN WORK
 EXPECTED TODAY
P. c. Holden and Associates Coming From Chicago-Banquet Commit tee Promises Surprises for
 Big Crowd Expected

campaign tomorrow in which 90 meetings will be held with some half hundred or
 more speakers Chairman Doster stated
 yesterday that the 50 automobiles needed to carry the speakers over the county would be secured today. Anyone who has
 car to offer or who will go along he
 asks to get in touch with him this morn-
 ing.
 The committees arranging the Ala bama Products dinner at the Tutwiler tomorrow evening at o'clock met yester- day and preliminary details of the pro- gramme were mapped out and lists of speakers drawn up. It is expected that peoples both men and women, will be present at this dinner from all parts of the state. The dinner Is open to every one interested. No invitations have been issued, as the whole state is invited. Governor Charles Henderson will be one of the guests of honor.
 Thursday morning the speaking crews will start out in Blount county and from that on the campaign will be waged until every county in the state which wishes to hear the farm experts lecture will have been covered.
 Experts Come Today
 The farming men who will take part in the campaign will arrive here today.
 P. c. Holden, director of the agricul- tural extension department of the Inter- national Harvester company, arrives in Birmingham this morning from Chicago. Besides his associates who are already in Alabama ready for the work, there will be with him Fred Hatch, who owns one of the largest diversified farms in Illinois; Ralph T. Hemphill of Oklahoma, George Wilson of Oklahoma, and H. Guy Hath orn of Mississippi, who will join the other Holden forces here today.
 Farming men from the Southern, Queen and Crescent. Louisville and Nashville, Central of Georgia, nlinos Central, Frisco and Seaboard Air Line railroads reach here today also for the work J. F. Dug gar. head of the experiment station at Auburn, will be here with six of his asso- ciates ready to take part in the entire J. T. Watt, head of the United States county demonstration agents in this state. is also looked for today c. l.. Mauldin, district agent, who has had a leading part in the advance work of the campaign, will come today. This afternoon or this evening several hours will be taken up in going over the charts and perfecting the final details for he start tomorrow morning.
 P. c. Shook, president Of the Chamber of Commerce, sent telegram to Presi- | lent Markham of the Illinois Central, | ,sking him to come on from Chicago to he diversification dinner at the Tutwiler l night John c. Clair, agricul- l ural commissioner of the Illinois Central. | s expected from Chicago.
 Big Crowd Expected
 W. C. Radcliffe, secretary of the Cham | ,er of Commerce, said last night that | nearly 100 tickets for the diversification | linner had already been taken and paid | or. With the other tickets that will be | aken here and the delegations coming | rom other parts of the state, the expec- alton is that special arrangements will | lave to be made to take care of all the i! 'eople. A large number of ladies will be MT Radcliffe last night urged 1 hat money or a check accompany each | equest for a reservation at the tables.
 w. P. Redd, Hill Ferguson, Frederick sunster and other members of the com nittee expect to have the programme fin- shed today. Every speaker will be linn ted to five minutes. Surprises are prom sed in the musical programme that Is be- ng arranged by MT. Gunster.
 More automobiles. Mir. Radcliffe said, re wanted for the campaign In Jefferson ounty tomorrow. The start will be made arly from the Chamber of Commerce nd a number of business men of the ity will accompany the campaigners.
 The Pastors union yesterday warmly ndorsed the campaign and some of the minister's are arranging to preach ser
 R~.x&~ l erous farming. The purpose of the cam aign was presented to the ministers by 'rof c. w. Farr, who was introduced " Frank Hammond, chairman of the minister's committee of the campaign. dr Hammond will send out letters today o pastors over the state asking them to reach farming sermons during the cam aign.
 Government Is Cooperating
 Secretary Radcliffe has received a message from Senator-elect Underwood vho has enlisted the interest of the apartment of agriculture In Washing on in the crop diversification movement n Alabama.
 Dr. Knapp, chief of the division of cooperative farm management, says hat every agent of the agricultural de- artment, one to each county, with two n Birmingham, Is working in the crop iver6ificat1On campaign. TneSe agents eport to the department that the oat TOD planted last fall was about 1S0,000 cres, as compared with 14,000 for thei receding year., while the fall wheat were about tripled Dr. Knapp gels that every effort should be made Q prevent the farmers from blowing nder their oats for the purpose of cotton, thinking the price may dvance. Another feature which he feels , important is to get merchants and ankers to assist in moving the varied rops just as they have heretofore as- sted in the movement of cotton.
 q received letters today from 29 oys asking for pigs"
 This letter was received yesterday -om the secretary of the Faco, Tex, hamber of Commerce. where a crop campaign has just closed.
 "Oyer 1000 boys and girls have been nanced already the boys to raise a h ig or a calf. the girls to raise poultry"
 This Is the word that comes from Arr h ansas. where a statewide crop diver Ification campaign was held short me ago. h
 Results from the crop diversification 'ork. like the campaign which will la tart in Alabama tomorrow morning. |] re piling up in other states where milar campaigns have been held. In { rkansas as a result of the campaign 1ere which was put on by the seme