Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-30
THOUSANDS IN MOULTRIE
FOR STOCK CONFERENCE
Inspiring Address by S, Davies
WarfieId, One of Features
of Opening Session
Especial Dispatch to The Journal)

4
thousand people came TO Moultrie today
to attend the opening session of TIE
greatest live stock conference ever stag
ed in the south. The address of welcome
was delivered by Mayor W. ]. Vereen
and 5. Davies warheld. or Baltimore
chairman of the board OF directors OF the
Seaboard Air Line and president OF
southern settlement and development or
ganization which together with the
MoUlt..~ chamber of commerce promOt-
ed the conference, responded for the
visitors.
The outstanding features OF the pro.
gram Jouay were practical addresses On
the best metnS~s TO promote the ave
stock industry.
WOMAN sTIRs MEETING.
An Alabama woman, Mrs. G. Ii.
Mathis, field agent and agricultural lee
turer of the Alabama Bankers associa-
ton took the Moultrie live stock con-
ference by storm today when she de-
fiyered an address that was a plea
for the awakening of the south to her
wonderful opportunities and the proper
cooperation between all the people. she
declared that the southern states neea-
ed TO 20 away from cotton and diver
sify. Financial assistance must be rem
6ered for this work, she said. and the
credit system changed to casn.
Lets get the bankers and business
men to organize in each county and go
after what their county needs. We don't
want any cross firing in this work
either"
She was rendered a rising vote OF
thanks for her address and demonstra-
ton such as is seldom known followed
when she concluded. committee to
prepare resolutions calling upon the
Georgia legislature to appropriate thir-
ty-five thousand dollars for a live stock
building at Athens as a part of the
work OF the state college of agriculture
was named as follows:
T. Anderson, Marietta: c. S. Shing-
Ter. Ashburn; 2. S. Cummings. Leila; Z.
F. Shedden. Atlanta: P. NJ. Mcneil, Mari
eta: R. NJ. Pindell; Baltimore; C. +.
Andrews, Waycross; c. b. Allen, MouI-
trie.
Leading live stock men from all sec
lions OF the nation, scores Of promi-
nent railroad officials, experts detailed
by the stae and national governments
are taking part in the conference. W. Is.
Roddenberry, o. Sairo, is presiding.
This afternoon the visitors were car
lied TO the mammoth plant Of the Mo
trIe packing company where special
killing" had been arranged. The i've
stock show At which over 100000 worth
Of fine cattle are exhibited, is vieing In
interest wi the conference.
MIR. wARFIEEDS ADDRESS.
Mr.. Warfield said in part:
we are gathered here today Tor the
purpose of laying the foundation Tor a
general campaign in the state OF Geor-
gia In the interest of one Of the great
11 he
should become one of the leading In
dustries of this southern country OF
ours-that of raising cattle.
I'VE are all familiar with the vast
areas of land in the southern states
particularly in the states OF Georgia
Florida, Alabama, ,ne Eastern Carolinas'
Eastern Virginia and West Virginia
which have been largely used for free
grazing Of caIde, and part of which has
had naval stores and timber removed
therefrom. These lands should be ultt-
mately brought into use as general
farms and for the purpose of diversified
farming The foundation LOr this IS the
I've stock industry. No people proper
" equipped for diversified farming, Das-
ed upon live stock, have failed to be-
come highly prosperous. The southern
country is handicapped in the live stock
Industry, in that 1t is subject TO the
Texas fever cattle tick. The Southern
Settlement and Development organiza-
ton, the organization which l REPRO
sent here today, has already done ana
is doing effective work in assisting In
the eradication of the cattle tick as IL,
first step in the use of your lands Tor
the grazing of live stock and later Tor
the purposes mentioned. We wish ID
impress upon the land owners, the rat
tie men, and those interested, the inn
portance Of the cooperation of all in
terests in this territory to the end that
the cattle tick may be eradicated, the
breeds improved, and the live stock in
dustrv become the basis for permanent
diversified agricultural activities in
your section and the other sections OF
the south l have particularly mentioned
The organization which 1 represent
has three distinct activities The Lrst'
10 cooperate with every available
agency for the betterment of existing
conditions that the farmer may make his
labor more productive; the second. TO
assist in preparing the way for he
success Of such people as may be in
duced to occupy the millions of acres Of
land in the various sections of the
South Atlantic states; and third, the
securing OF the proper people for such
purpose"
Il have referred 20 diversified farm
pleasure Of making a few remarks at a
meeting held at Tybee Island, Ga, under
the auspices Of the Savannah board OF
trade. On that occasion said:
Il am not one of those who believe
that this should be carried to the extent
OF supplanting in the cotton growing
sections Of the south the growing Of cot
ton on a large scale. There is no territory
on earth that can produce cotton at 1t
can be produced in our southern country.
Il IS the most valuable crop that can be
produced year in and year out, simply
because of the present war the prices
may not have been quite as satisfactory
as the planter might wish, nevertheless.
II the prices can be obtained which have
been obtained under such extreme con-
ditions as you are now facing, il goes
without saying that under normal condl-
tions the average price of COTTON will
enrich the farmer TO an extent greater
than any other crop which he may think
OF putting In. For my own part, and
assume there are many here who viii
not agree with me, there was a serious
mistake made after the war started I'm
advertising TO the world that the south
was enable TO take care of itself on the
cotton question, and asking for all kinds
Of assistance. which, as II turned out. 1t
did not need. and there is danger now
OF repetition OF this very thing. What
we want is greater production from 4
given number Of acres by more intensive
farming-this can be done"