The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-09
Mrs Mathis to Carry Message of Farmers Preparedness
 to Distant A A9riculturistS
Noted Alabama Woman Farmer Address Teachers of Flor Normal School-Will Leave on Extended Speak ing Tour and Address Meetings of Bank
 of Distant States
By CLARENCE G. THOMPSON

That Alabama and other sections of the south is being sought out as one of the most important fields for i'm proved agriculture, is evidenced by the different periodicals that are sending representative into this section. Only last night, while chatting with The Age-Herald reporter in the parlor of the Moulton hotel, Mrs. Mathis received call from Harry Snowden Stabler. special agricultural writer for the Country Gentleman, farm paper pub lished by the Curtis Publishing com pany. MT. Stabler has been in the south for more than three weeks and will not return for more than a week yet Having become acquainted with the work Mrs. Mathis is doing he arranged the meeting over long distance tele- phone and was especially interested in the work she is doing
 INTEREST ABROAD
 Interest in Alabama is not confined to the United States alone, but has crossed the great ocean. A letter from a banker in western Australia to Mrs. Mathis demonstrates this fact. The letter is in the shape of an inquiry. The farmers in that distant country are facing the same proposition that they are in Alabama and other sec tions of the south. They are con fronted with the tenant problem, which greatly resembles that of this country, and they are asking that the Alabama woman farmer help them solve the problem.
 Another evidence of the Alabama talk" going abroad was in the sending of 10000 copies of a pamphlet con taining her speech made before the great bankers meeting in Chicago, where several thousand bankers stood up and gave three cheers for the south and Alabama at the conclusion of her speech to Europe for distribution.
 FOOD PRODUCTION.
 Through the work this association is doing in this way and the work that is being carried on by the government, the state of Alabama was saved in round numbers last year s26 00G 900 in food production. According to statis- tics the increase in last year over that of the year before amounted to that figure. It was also shown that Ala bama is losing less from the onslaught of the boil weevi1 than any state that has been infested vet The counties where there is any probability of the pest coming are preparing for it and will be no heavy losers when it strikes.
 Over dinner at the Tutwiler hotel last night Mrs. Mathis talked to the representative of the Country Gentle man of the development and future development of the state. He was in terested in many things she spoke of. He became enthusia stic when she told him that there was 14,000 acres of the finest alfalf in the south. growing in the Demopolis alfalfa section That is the greatest thing in the world" said MT. Stabler land if I see no other part of the south I will visit the De- mopolis alfalfa section. I want to see q. I want. to show the world through the Country Gentleman what Alabama has in this treasure field. Really, I think I have been looking for just the place where you speak of ever since I have been in the south Mr Stabler will go to Florence with Mrs. Mathis today and will return by Birmingham to the Demopolis section. ..t-.s