The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-04


Journalist week, with the statement
I'VE areeady for our Florida neigh
bors an only want you to tell us
the exai time of their arrival that
we maylave our people waiting for
them athe train"
His Hnor then escorted the Jour
nal representative about the beauti-
! full ittlecity of Athens and intro
duced hi to some fifteen or twenty
men as Il advance agent of the train
load of irmers that were to be in
Athens July 22nd. Every mer-
chant exposed delight at being per-
mitted tdplay host to their Florida
neighborsand in the course of a few
hours sole forty automobiles =. ere
placed atshe disposal of the commit
tee appoited Dy the mayor to have
charge Of the entertainment.
Athensis the county seat of Lime
stone equity, one of the first coun-
ties in Alabama to rid itself of the
fever ticE and the wonderful devel-
opment that has taken place in this
county alng farming and live stock
lines, willastonish our Florida farm
ers and gve them an incentive when
they retun home to hasten the day
when the lick shall be eradicated and
they can iaise 1900 and 1900 pound
steers like they are doing in Lime
stone County.
They vii also be privileged to see
some wonderful results in the way of
building Up worn out farm lands by
the use Of the different clovers and
learn at tirst-hand from the farmers
themselves, how this practice Of plow-
ing under crops has increased the
yield of their crops.
A representative of The Journal,
who has been in the Blue Grass sec
tons of Tennessee, Alabama and Ken
lucky for the past few weeks arrane-
ing the details OF ne proposed Cat
tlemen's excursion to Re run by The
Journal on July 18th, for the purpose
of securing first-hand information Oh
the nationally, famous farms, has met
with a cordial reception rar in excess
of what The Journal had imagined.
The idea of extending the fraternal
hand of hospitality to their Florida
neighbors was taken up enthusiastic
ally by the citizens of Tennessee, Ala
bama and Kentucky and the only diff
ficulty met with has been in trying
to cover the most ground and derive
the greatest benefits in the shortest
possible time.
When The Journals representative
called upon Mayor Dedham of Column
bia, Tenn, in response to his invita-.
tion, the farmers on the special be
the guests of Maury county, Mr.. Ded.
ham Immediately called a meeting Of
the leading members of the board Of
trade and laid the matter before then
and asked what they could do to Sc
cure the privilege of entertaining the
Florida farmers.
When the Journal man suggested
j that he would like very much to hav,
the farmers and business men NEE
the Florida farmers with automobile
and take them for a tour of the ia
nous Blue Grass farms, Secretar!
Sowel, of the board Of trade, sail
that there were only 800 automobile
owned in Maury county, and Will
he did not think it would be possibl
to secure all of them, he felt confiden
at least 500 of them could be gottel
if that number were necessary. Tn
board of trade instantly began plan
ming the Entertainment for thes
farmers and while the time at Co
lumbia will be too limited to do al
that the resident would ike to do
they have planned a program tina
win confer the greatest benefit upo
the Floridians in the shortest posi-
bic time.
In the morning, our farmers wi
be taken to 1,000-acre Blue Gras
farm where an object lesson in tn
breeding and raising Of pure-bre
and grade shorthorn cattle and South
down sheep viii be seen. They wi
then be taken to a famous dairy plan
where successful attempt has bee
made to secure the maximum result
from minimum expenditure and o
this farm they will see that the mos
important feature of dairying is
lave an abundance Of pasture Ian
upon which the Jerseys can be rul
It is divided up into numerous divil
ions and no one section of its is pas
tured for more than a week at a tim
thus giving the grass ample time |
recover from the grazing. The ben,
fetal results of turning under gree
manuring crops viii also be show
and the demonstration of turning VI
der a rye and clover crop as high !;