The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

thought that for while my speak
 ing for the war activities would have
 a rest, or as Jeff Bailey puts it, 'the
 public would breathe sigh of relief,
 but Sunday I got to speak a good word for the Red Cross roll call in CulIman county. at Cullman and at Hanceville.
 
 Rev. Clay I. Hudson, the pastor of the
 Cullman Baptist church, after weeks of 1 visiting in the homes of the citizens of all denominations in Cullman in his min- 1 istry of comfort and help, for it fell to his lot to frequently play the nurse In
 cases where the flu" had stricken down whole families, at last had to go to bed
 with it.
 1 It was his illness which called me to Cullman to fill his morning and evening
 tance call from Hanceville requested me 1 to run down and speak on the Red Cross in the afternoon. I drove down in 8 car with MT. and Mrs. D. c. Fuller, and County Chairman Bledsoe, and found a church full of people waiting to hear about "the greatest mother in the world" ," 1 It was the first chance had enjoyed of getting to ride over the old right of way of the L. & N. which was turned over to Cullman county, and l only wished that all of the so-called highways were as solid and delightful to travel over. At first there was bit of danger for those unacquainted with the need of not driving too close to the edges as the slag bed would give way. but now grass and dirt combined have knitted it together.
 I made a half hours talk and spent tho balance of the afternoon in riding over the county, and take it from me, Cullman county is winner with its splendid farms and white farmers, The fields, homes and barns and outhouses are well kept and everywhere one sees evidences of thrift. There is an orchard around every home, a tempting green turnip patch, and stately row of col
 
 the word stately about a garden vege- table which some folk thing is plebeian, but I know of few things better than a mess of them after the frost has fallen on them, with cornbread on the side and buttermilk as a filler drove down to Fuller Brothers barn. I have ever seen in Alabama. It was designed by a western architect along the broad lines of those which dot the great prairie farms. It was joy to look in numerous bins well filled with this years corn crop, and the row of picked ears hanging up for seed pur- poses shows that at last there are some farmers in the state who are beginning to give some attention to seed seec- tion.
 Now here comes shadow athwart my boost story for Cullman county. It is a tick county, and because of this prob ably the biggest blow ever befalling it from the standpoint of becoming a cattle
 
 large outlay of money and much pa- tience and hard work on the part of the Fuller Brothers they closed down their dairy and are disbanding their herd of Jerseys.
 Dwight Fuller told me that at one time he went to Tennessee and paid 5000 for 10 young Jersey calves and brought them back and reared them until they were was little demand for registered stock in the county. and his inability to ship them out of it, he could not realize any more for them than he paid shortly after having been weaned
 :, Fuller Brothers have one of the best equipped dairies in the state and yet it is out of commission, for they found that with no market for the sale of high bred cows, and with the low price they got for the milk and cream shipped into Birmingham in conjunction with the high price of feed that it proved to be un- profitable and that they just concluded to get out and wait for further develop ments. Dwight Fuller did not say so, but judge he is waiting to see what the legislature is going to do about tick eradication.
 The Fuller Brothers had made an ex- pensve experiment with hogs, building a score or more up-to-date hog houses and stocking them with pure bred ani- mals. but they found out that hogs and cattle did not go well together. Now was sorry to find that conditions were against such progressive young men, and that they had for the time abandoned cattle and hogs to go back to cotton and other crops.
 Their farm of l60 acres is only about a mile from town. They have made up their minds to bring it under a rich state of cultivation and already have put about 40 carloads of manure on it, and are rotating the crops in way to still further bring up the soil. They had fine success with both corn and cotton the past season and are standing by their investment and am sure that they are going to work it out until it becomes a profitable investment in spite of their diSaDDointuent over the cattle situation