The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-01
Dr. 7ait Butler Elected President Of Agricultural
 Workers Of the State
and Plant Pathoogists Admitted to Asso ciation-Next Meeting Place Is Not Named -Resolu-
 lion Scores Oleomarearine as Substitute for Butter

conducted their offices: the Tutwiler hotel
 for courtesies, the Tennessee Coal, Iron
 and Railroad company for the privilege
 of visiting it's steel and phosphate plants
 a, Ensley, the Birmingham newspapers
 for extended notices given of the meet
 ngs. and the following one on oleomar- garine;
 '1 Present requirements relating to the coloring of the product not satisfactory. "2. That latitude should be given for the manufacture of oleomargarine in forms
 which will be most attractive to the con sumer when so made under federal super vision, but that these products should not
 be permitted in any measure to be sold or served as butter. In order that the public may be adequately protected against deception, all preventive meas
 ures found necessary should be adopted and federal tax sufficiently large to cover all expenses of propef control should be levied.
 "S Accepting as a fact the statement that dairying is the form of live stock husbandry which tends to increase ana take the place of meat productions as population increases and foods become relatively higher prices and more scarce. and,
 A. Accepting as a further fact that the COW is essential to the most eco nomical disposal of the rough by-prod- ucts and crop residues of the farm, and that accordingly she is essential l to the most economical improvement 1 and conservation of soil fertility .'Therefore the committee is of the l opinion that the husbandry or the dalry l industry in the south IS or mucti greater importance to the agricultural development of the south than is the extension of oleomargarine production 1 or the furnishing of such an enlarged l market for vegetable oils as would De furnished by such increased oleomar- | garine production. | "Howeyer. the committee is also or ! the opinion that if oleomargarine IS
 made under federal supervision ana IS sold absolutely on it's merits TOT Jus. what it is. the dairy industry has little to fear from such fair competition" BUTLER'S RESOLUTION l Dr Tait Butler offei~l resolution which he said had not ben considered | by the committed relating to the prop i uganda looking to reduction or the cotton acreage this year, ana as ineais l thereto a reduction in the use or Ter tilizers. pr. Taits resolution, while not opposing a reduction in the cotton acreage. urges the greater use Of Ter tilizers on the land so planted, making l larger use of manures and commerciai i fartilizers that have been proved suit ah1e This resolution was laid before the association but not acted upon. With the report of the live stocK 1 committee on co-ordinating investiga- ] tional work in the south before 1t, the
 members of the association in general
 discussion took up the question or
 methods of conducting feeding experl-
 ments with velvet beans and grain ana 1 nut products grown in the south.
 There was also general discussion
 m the importance of o-ordinating in- vestigation work, led by pr. E. R. Flint, {, office experiment stations, Washing | ton, D. c.