The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-09
THE CATTLE EXHIBIT SHOULD BE SEEN BY EVERYONE IN STATE Shows Marvellous Progress Made in Alabama in Rais-
 ing Fine Stock LET BOYS AND GIRLS
 SEE WHAT IS DONE Cattle Industry in Few Years Will Be Alabama's Greatest Source
 of Wealth and
 Profit
By J. A. HERMAN Bureau of Animal Industry

bureau or Animal Industry
 The State Fair this year is a marvel of attractions. to please young and old. male and female, urbanite and suburb anite.
 The exhibits are beautiful, useful and source of education and edifca- ton to all who gaze upon them.
 There is a great lesson to be learned this year, that heretofore was never presented to Alabamians.
 The cattle ebarns and stalls are filled to overflowing with prize winning cat. tie, the product of these lands of this great commonwealth.
 The long dreamed of and oft herald ed story of this state being able to produce cattle second to none now is a realization.
 There are Alabama beef and dairy cattle vieing with the best herds of their respective types in America. The Alabama farmer who misses this great exhibition has reason to indulge in those patriotic words, This is my own, my native land"
 The Alabama children, sons and daughters of noble sires and heroic mothers should have the opportunity of witnessing this epoch making event For this fair marks the year of the building up, the ushering in of a great cattle industry. Its greatness will de- pend upon how we profit by the object lesson at the fair. The older folks must take home with them burning de- cir }n cfo r+ +1,
 TO BOYS AND GIRLS
 The future of Alabama as an agri- cultural state, which it is and always must be in the main, must in brief space of time be entrusted to the boys and girls of today. Therefore it be- hooves us now to let the light of knowledge and enthusiasm into the souls of the youths who are to perpet- uate the wonderful work now being done by the pioneers who have proven here, now and forever, that Alabama is not only cotton growing state but great agricultural commonwealth in all the name signifies. Alabama can and will in the future produce cattle in sufficient numbers and quality not only to feed her people. but will help feed the nation. Four years ago there was a fine exhibition at the State Fair but they were herds imported from other states do not remember a sin gle herd shown which represented this state, with the possible exception of MT. Bates Jersey herd from Hamburg
 The Fair association imported those northern herds that year to show the people what other states were doing. MT. Burton and MT. Foulkes knew that it was necessary to inculcate into the brains of the farmers of the state Knowledge of the various breeds, and by associating farmers and cattle for week, hoped to kindle a growing fondness for the art of cattle raising, for it is an art no less than the cul- tivation of the love for music or fine paintings.
 Each succeeding year Messrs. Brown and Foulkes have labored arduously to attract the best cattle of the world to come to the fair, so that the lesson could be rehearsed over and over again.
 AROUSED FARMERS PRIDE
 The scheme was prearranged, those early exhibitions were to call atten- tion to live stock, to sting the pride of the Alabama farmer, in showing him what his brother farmers in neigh boring states were doing.
 The psychology practiced by the of ficers of the Fair association has brought forth fruit in abundance, as is demonstrated this year, by those magnificent cattle exhibited by Ala bama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and Louisiana.
 The love for good cattle has always existed in the hearts of the people of the south. It is a matter of history and record that for more than half century throughout this state and oth- CTS, men have imported pure-bred cat tie to help raise the standard of our native herds. There have been enough pure blooded cattle brought into this state in years gone by to have pro- duced the best average cattle in the United States. It was impossible to make any progress because those inn ported cattle succumbed to disease, transmitted by the cattle tick.
 There was never any other legiti- mate reason for having theS poorest