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A GREAT FARMERS’ MEETING,How a Progressive Alabama Farmer Had an Institute of His Very Own—The Good Example Set by Frank I. Derby.THE EDITOR of The Progressive Farmer and Gazette attended a meeting of facmers in SumpterCounty, Ala., on August 17, that was in many respects quite a remarkable affair.It was held on the farm of Mr. F. I. Derby, Gaston, Ala., and gotten up and managed entirely by Mr. Derby, as a public offering to the advancement of the agriculture of his section. Mr. Derby is one man in a million. He has his own ideas and his own way of carrying them out. Being interested in the cattle business, he naturally became much interested in the eradication of the cattle tick, especially from Sumpter and the surrounding counties and is doing much to aid in carrying out the work which the Federal, State, and county authorities have inaugurated. He accordingly conceived the idea that it would be good for the cause of agricultural progress to call his fellow farmers together at his place for one day, to study and illustrate modern agricultural methods.He accordingly got up a program for the day and by dint of untiring energy and the use or printers’ ink and his typewriter, coupled with his well known hospitality and ability to do the things he undertakes, succeeded in getting to his farm, four miles from a railroad station, a most remarkable congregation of farmers. We say remarkable because the writer has been doing institute work for 20 years and has spoken to many audiences of farmers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and other Southern and Northern States, but never did he face a more intelligent, high-class body of farmers than Mr. Derby brought together at his farm from Sumpter and surrounding counties on August 17. But the audience was not the only remarkable feature of this meeting. Men engaged in public work from all over Alabama were there. Federal workers in tick eradication with Dr. .1. \ Kiernan, iri charge of the work in Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, were there; the Federal farm demonstration agents, with Mr. Phelps the State Agent, were also there; the Dairy Demonstration Work of the National Department of Agriculture was represented by its genial expert, Mr. Dow. The Federal Bureau of Animal Industry was also represented in another line of its work by Mes.-rs. Ward, Ridgway and Cbatterton, who are conducting experimental work in the feeding of beef cattle and hogs on Mr. Derby’s and neighboring
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Birmingham Progressive Farmer And Southern Farm Gazette
Birmingham, Alabama, US
Sat, Sep 03, 1910
Page 4
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