The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-11
DEVELOPMENT OF LANDS IS OBJECT
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tContinued From Page One) work is not conducted strictly along scientific lines, according to college st tandards, they take the most im- proved and approved scientific infor- ination and adapt 1t to field condi- tions, testing it as to actual condi- tions along the lines, recommend ing those matters which have proven valuable to the farmer.
 Helping Industry.
 The industrial work Is helpful to & new or old industry. Facts con- corning location of, plants for any given purpose may be obtained. As sistance in surveys, statistical data which Is unprejudiced and which would be difficult to obtain Is ten dered any prospective industry. The railroads want the public to know that aside from being freight or pas senger carries they function broadly as advance agents of greater south.
 In the morning meeting of the as- sociation, A. R. Gwinn. development agent of the l. c. showed results of limestone on acid fields along the line of his road. Taken from three states the results were con- elusive and strongly indicative of the needs of southern soils for this requisite of better lands. limestone. .
 The Florida method of boil weevil control was discussed by three men of the Seaboard Air Line railroad Results from more than fifty test fields showed that the Florida plan proved more successful than the old methods used. The Florida plan con- sists of picking up all squares at a certain date, then following with call cium arsenate poisoning, using fre- quent application.
 Ben Colman, agricultural agent of the I. c. system. spoke on the prob lens of marketing perishable fruits and vegetables of the south. How to ship appetizing products to north ern markets and have them arrive in condition to be desired. He outlined means by which his road has found it most desirable and successful to approach the growers of perishables and to be of actual assistance to them. MT. McClendon alsq discussed this subject, leading the discussion. The officers. o Q o
 Officers electe for the coming year were: H. S. McClendon. agricultural agent, Florida East Coast lines, St Augustine. president; w. R. Tucker development agent. Atlanta. Birming- ham and Atlantic railroad, Atlanta, Ga., senior vice president: J. B. Ha- man, development director Gulf, Mo bile and North Mobile railroad, inn migration vice president; E. s. Gen. ter. Jr, agricultural agent, Atlanta and West Point railway, Atlanta Ga, agricultural vice president; R. H. Bryson, agricultural and indus trial agent, Mississippi Central rail road, Hattiesburg, Miss, industrial vice president; J. H. Mcbride. devel- opment agent. Seaboard Air Line, Florence, S. C., secretary-treasurer.
 Seventy members and guests at tended the annual dinner of the as- sociation Wednesday night at the Tutwiler hotel.
 Among the guests were prominent figures in national agricultural cir cles, who have been attending the meetings of extension workers and boil weevil control committees in Birmingham this week.
 Among the speakers who com mended the roads for their policies of development and practical help were: b. A. O'Neal, president of the Alabama Farm Bureau federation; Dean Dodson of Louisiana university college of agriculture, Baton Rouge La.; Dean Cooper of the college of agriculture of the University of Ken lucky, Lexington, Ky; Miss Susie " Powell. state leader of home demon stration agents for Mississippi; Dr Hinds, Alabama state entomologist J. A. Evans assistant director of ex. tension, U. S. D. A.; MT Lassitter, ed. itor of the Progressive Farmer; c A. Cobb, editor Southern Ruralist.
 The meeting of the Railway Devel- opment association will be continued through Thursday morning, wher they will adjourn to meet with the Southern Agricultural Workers group, which will hold meetings ir the Tutwiler Friday.