The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-06
OF CANNING COMPANY

 outlet for their output at a handsome profit. SUCCESS OF CANNING COMPANY l
 The Alabama Market and Canning company was indeed lucky to numberl among it's field forces A. Dewey Smith, | an old hand at the canning game, hav- ing had experience in other fields MT. Smith erected a model plant at Gunters- vile, where he induced the native farm CTS to bring in huckleberries, wild goose- berries blackberries and many otherl good things that had gone to waste inI times past. MT. Smith will probably be, in charge of erecting new plants for the company the coming season, as he is a good organizer.
 Smith is a great believer in the steam process for canning, as this method hasi proven one of the best.
 Last season the parent company keptl their canning plant busy, using up much surplus stuff in way of vegetables and potatoes when the supply was littleI heavy in this district. The company also acted as a go-between for marketing the output of all its subsidiary canneries.
 The outlook for the coming spring and summer is bright Everybody seems to be full of the fighting spirit-if not able to go into the trenches they can go into the fields and fight the battle on this side. There is not block in town or a. farm section in the country that has not it's share of soldier boys lover there," and all will put their shoulders to the load and push harder this year than last.
 Stock in the rural sections looks much better for the fray than it did this time last year The reason is easily explained. The farmers provided themselves with feedstuff of their own last year-plenty of corn, roughage and hay. And so nice has everything worked out, that the or der of things will be duplicated again | this season.
 l The S0-cent cotton figures of the present
 time should not excite the tiler of the soil into a big cotton crop this year. l Go at it slow. Thirty cents looks good | If the boil weevil could be forgotten | But it will be here to fight again. our
 soldiers can't eat cotton. Think Of the
 Boys in the trenches and their allied
 brothers who are fighting beside them. Plant to feed them first and then put in a few acres of cotton.
 | Intensive farming is coming fast 1t s l the salvation of landowners with large holdings of poor ground It's case Of get down to work on a few acres ana enrich it so as to double and triple the 1 crops now being raised on the same space Make 70 acres produce what 100 l acres have been producing. Turn the other into pasture; raise hogs, sheep and cattle. We have grazing every month in l the year. The big ranch owners Of the sheep districts of the west are now ne- l gotiating for millions of acres of south | ern lands on which to graze their sheep. l This places us in bad light before the l world-millions of acres of sheep lands and no sheep on them. This is another l object lesson from which we must take | a cue.
 MRS. MATHIS PLEASED
 My friend, Mrs. c. II. Mathis, while l conversing with me the other day, said she was proud of old Alabama and Its farmers. They had more than doubled the output of the soil the past year. And
 she is looking for still better results the coming season. Mrs. Mathis was put into the field as driving influence last
 year with the result of crop as never before raised in this state. And she is still hammering away at every oppor- unity. She has been north and inter- ested bankers in our section, and we can expect big things from now on Wall street now looks to the south az the best place to loan money" said Mrs. Mathis, "and from now on some
 big deals may be looked for"
 This morning, every war front on the map of Europe looks blue for the Kaiser he's standing still with an awful set clement staring him in the face. Let's
 add to his nightmare by doubling the
 output of the soil of Alabama and the south the coming season; let's breed
 every SOW on the farm let's raise every calf in sight; let's raise enough food
 stuff to feed ourselves, our allies ant have some left If we do this on this side of the world, you can bank on oul
 soldier boys doing their part on th' other side.
 So here's hoping that every farme in the south will start tomorrow to driv' nails into the Kaiser's coffin Let's bur.
 him as soon as possible. It's up to th' farmer to do 1t.