The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-29
Leaders From North Ala bama Will Meet at Cham
 Der of Commerce
FARMERS ANXIOUS
 TO CARRY ON WORK
Hope To Do As Much Here As Mis- sippi Did in Grown In Mississip- pi"-Holden To Be Here
 and Help


 the Alabama crops diversification cam paign will take place in Birmingham to- morrow. when leaders from counties in the northern part of the state will gather here to meet the members of the Bir- mingham Chamber of Commerce. Plans for statewide organization will also be discussed at this time
 Reports from the various counties in northern Alabama are that the farmers and business men are anxious to carry on the work begun by the campaign and that they are only waiting for desig- mated leadership and a definite outline of plans.
 The plans for this follow-up work will include special campaigns for gardens in each county. the eradicating of the cattle tick, putting idle lands under cultiva- tion, financing the boys and girls in rais- ing pigs and poultry, cooperation between the farmers and business men, organizing farmers clubs and special women's clubs for carrying on the work in the schools and rural districts. and bringing about true diversifcation of crops through live NNOSaA follow-up work will be that of raising what we feed and feeding what we raise." so that every county can save this year thousands of dollars that would otherwise go to other states for foods and feedstuffs.
 Holden To Be Here
 Prof. P. G. Holden, head of the Inter- national Harvester company farming forces, has been asked to meet with the northern Alabama leaders, both business men and farmers, tomorrow and assist them in working out plans for making the follow-up work count for the utmost good in every county. He has offered to assist the follow-up committee in publish ing complete gardening plans for use in the schools and by the grown-ups, too, and such other material as will help make the follow-up campaign of vital interest to all the people in northern Alabama.
 It is thought that the meeting tomorrow may result in starting movement as big as that started in Mississippi after the three weeks diversification campaign there last spring. Some of the Mississp- pi leaders got together at Meridian when the campaign ended and took up the cam paign slogan, Grown in Mississippi" Headquarters were established at Jack son for the Grown in Mississippi move- ment under the direction of H. E. Blakes- lee, state commissioner of agriculture. J. E. Waggoner, one of Professor Hol- dens associates, who is now in Birming- ham, assisted MT. Blakeslee in the plans that were carried out all over the state.
 A grown in Mississippi week was held in all the schools in which the children studied a specially written textbook on Mississippi's agricultural resources. Nils sissippi grown meals were served in hun dreds of homes all over the state, estab- fishing a sentiment for using Missis- in from the north. All the railroads run ming through Mississippi had grown in Mississippi menus in their dining cars. Tho grocers made agreements with the farmers in their neighborhoods to handle their vegetables and meats eggs, butter and milk. They also advertised these homegrown products to their customers, who meanwhile had started a campaign for buying Mississippi products.
 Help From Newspapers
 Several dozen newspapers got out grow in Mississippi editions printed on grown in Mississippi editions printed on mills at Moss Point. Many of the coun- ties organized campaigns of their own, with able leaders, to give the boys and girls pigs and chickens, to build enough dipping vats to get rid of the cattle tick, and to have gardens every month in the year.
 In some sections business men, realiz- ing the need of diversification and the need of leadership in bringing it about, took charge of the work in business-like way, and joined hands with the farmers In many of the towns the bankers not only furnished the effort and money to make the work a success, but also g large part of the necessary enthusiasm.
 William C. Radcliffe, secretary of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, has received a letter from MT. Blakeslee in Mississippi saying that the grown in Mississippi movement is going ahead as strong as ever and thaS splendid results are being felt from it in every section In this letter he tells of some of the big things for diversihcation that the move- ment is accomplishing. He has had to es- tablish a grown in Mississippi publica-