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MOBILEVIEWEDUflCheon i cot« lich wasI. nt*n IMotorcade Pastes ThroughAgriculture AreaJ. ■' -vSr'r' .Ufc-yfySbf $. ■ ' • '*. |B.,High point in a farm motorcade conducted through ti county yesterday by the Mob Agricultural dub was a get-to-gether and barbecue at St. Elmo, warn guest* mingled with local residents and farmers. Attendance was about 300. The aaaemb was briefly addressed by Dr _Duncan, president of Alabama Polytechnic institute at Auburn.Robert J. Ooode, state commis-slJ?Per 2* agriculture, and Pres,Milton L. Brown of the club, all Introduced by County Farm Agent Charles J. Brock way.Welcomed by DodgeThe visitors: were welcomed.It. M. Dodge, chairman of the___Elmo committee cm entertainment, who then waved them tothe barbecue feast prepared andserved by William P. Betbeze and V* s2ll drlnk* dispensed byJohn O. Shaw. After the the guests inspected the gin of Ben F. Deakle which in operation at St. Elmo. G. W. Biron. inspector for the New YorkCotton Exchange, commented on the neat and trim appearance of the bales turned out by Deajtie isrefuting the criticism of roughappearance often directed atcountry bales.Visit to DairyThe first halt of the motorcade was at Satsuma dairy where milk was served and the party told about that dairy’s system of pasturage, number of cows and amount of milk produced. The route then passed into the Theodore district and the cotton area,going south from Theodore as far ■as Fowl river creek, pastWarley farm and the farm of Walter W. Bolton, where a fineherd of duroc jersey host werefeeding along the road. Then theroute doubled back to Theodoreand by way of the Agriculturalclub’s demonstration farm at Irvington, where 160 acres of cotton were seen.Grand Bay Ne*t From St Elmo the party, be- , cause of threatening weather feW# duced to not more than a doaen cars, swept around by Grand Bay to Dees' store at Union Church, where the principal feature was a tield of cotton planted after a crop of Austrian peas, without commercial fertiliser, the probable yield of which Brockway estimated at a bale and a half per ore. Then the route led east through Dawes and swung backon the Dickens Ferry rd. past SevenHills and Spring Lake farm whereJ. F. MeOowin’s fine herd of Aberdeen-Angus cattle were grating near the road on tame pastureVelvet Beans Viewedle | Crossing Big creek the partyit north to Tanner-Williams,ing aldng the way fine fields cotton, heavy growths of vel-beans In corn and cocks ofwithkudzu hay piled up, covered a rain caps and ready to haul bam or bale. On the return Mobile, the travelers passed, government’s subsistence farm project equipped with a dozen or so trim houses, barns and outbuildings.Both Brown and Brockway ex-. pressed themselves as satisfiedl« with the trip and determined to 1 make it a yearly event.
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The Mobile Times
Mobile, Alabama, US
Sat, Aug 28, 1937
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