The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-15
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am leaving today as the guest of the Anniston Chamber of Com fmerce, which will send delegation of farmers and business men into the chicken, poultry and food producing sections of Tennessee, going through 1 Chattanooga, Knoxville, Morristown and the Johnson City sections of the state.
 | The trip to be made in automobiles. the party leaving this afternoon at o'clock from Anniston, driving to Rome and there spending the first night. The object of the visit will be to educate at first hand the farmers of the Anuiston district away from the one-crop system of agriculture as far as possible by letting them know what is being done in sister state.
 I It is great pleasure to be the guest of such a body, and to have the privilege of going along with such bunch of fine fellows as are sched- uled for the trip. l ran across my ] friend Charley Bell, the hustling An- nistonian, who was here on Monday last attending board meeting of the trustees of Howard college, and he told me that I was to be in his car with Harry Ayres, the versatile editor of the Anniston Star. 
 It can be easily seen that I am set for a good time, fine fellows. an interesting trip through one of ica, and the opportunity to eat lot of good things and perhaps a chance to talk, and besides study an indus try which has gone a long way 10 making the farmers of east Tennes- see rich, that is the poultry indus try, and, of course, it was perfectly proper for the Anniston Chamber of Commerce tQ take a preacher along as an expeft on chickens.
 
 l am going out to try and get a line on raising them and not to buy them, as did some friends of mine who recently went to Atlanta in car and on the return trip began 10 buy chickens after they left Rome and so loaded the automobiles, for they stopped at every farm house between it and Gadsden, that when were obliged to get out and buy coop and express their purchases into Birmingham.
 Poultry Is a right large term desig hating collectively all birds which have been domesticated for their flesh or eggs. including fowls, ducks, geese, guineas, turkeys and ever peacocks and pigeons, but I reckon I'll not waste much time in getting up any special story on the trip about the two latter but will con fine myself to the more familiar barnyard variety, the kind you pot and the kind that lay.
 Let no man despise the study eff poultry, for every one of us when we have had a chance, have smacked our lips over a juicy young chicken. a duck, fat goose or wellfed turkey, that king of the barnyard, which ought, according to Benjamin Franklin. have been the American bird, whose final throne is our Thank sgiving table. The man who cannot have his mouth to water at the thought of this quartet of deli cious fowls needs to consult physi- clan for his liver is out of order.
 Then while thinking on the delect- able four no doubt you have already associated in your mind, each one. with some special fondness, as fried chicken with gravy, goose and ap- pie sauce, broiled duck and plum jelly, or roast turkey and cranberry sauce. and mayhap a thought about best with each one of the birds ~whicnl is fit for a dish for king.
 am sure that those of you who read this will express little surprIseI at my acceptance of the invitation and will be grateful to the Anniston Chamber of Commerce if 1t succeeds in it's mission of firing the farmers of the adjacent country with anl earnest desire to produce more poul- try and ship it into the Birmingham district and other portions of the state and thereby gain money for themselves while furnishing the best of foods to Alabamians
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