Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-02

the farmer can cultivate for his stock. As soon as the oat crop is out the same land should be sown in the Unknown pea.
 Clover and grasses are slightly less in acreage than in last season, being 99 per cent. Franklin, Limestone and Jackson counties each show an increase acreage of 10 per cent, and Perry and Clay of 8 per cent. Forty-four counties are culti- Vating grasses and clover, while twenty two omit these crops. When there are SO many grasses adapted to this soil and climate it is strange that one-third of our farmers do not cultivate them.
 Irish potatoes come up per cent above last season. Colbert county covers her self with laurels of progress by increas- ing her acreage 30 per cent over a stand-l ard crop. Madison county is next, being IA, Lee 1l3, Jackson, Lauderdale and Perry IDS each. There is no reason why Alabama should not ship in June of each year SOO000 bushels of Irish potatoes to northern markets to be sold at quite re- munerative prices. One acre in spring Irish potatoes will give a greater net profit than five in cotton.
 Tobacco culture has increased only 4 per cent over full crop The acreage is 1O4. Jackson and Conecuh counties , have run up. the acreage to 19 per cent above full crop. Geneva county 12, Baldwin 10, Tallapoosa 9, and several other counties have an increased acre age of s per cent. The northern tier of counties should cultivate the plug yari- eteis, where good clay subsoils exst.I The southern counties are adapted to producing a fine, silky leaf for cigar making.
 Sorghum cane area reaches to 107A per centum. Tuskaloosa county is at the head of the column, being 126; Lee, 125; DeKalb, 124; Bibb, 120; Clarke HIS; Butler and Coosa, 116 each; Greene and Hale, 115 each, and several other coun- ties as high as 113 per centum. Every well cultivated acre in sorghum should produce 200 gallons of syrup. besides having fifty bushels of seed for stock.
 Fruit prospects were never better. Peaches are one-third grown, apple trees ladened. so are the LaConte and Keiffer pear trees. Some of the limbs on fig trees were killed in February, but new wood has put out and they are ladened with fruit. Where pear blight" has shown itself by killing the limbs the trees should be promptly trimmed be- low the blackened wood, and amputateq limbs and leaves burned Spraying all kinds of fruit trees with Bordeaux mix ture should be repeated two or three times during the season on healthy as well as on those showing signs of disease. The May frosts have killed all the grape blooms in the north, therefore prudence would suggest that our horticulturists should carefully dry and preserve all fruis they possibly can, as they will be in Remand at fair prices.
 HorsSs and mules have run up to 105 1-3. Whey were cheaper last winter than for two decades. The increase in Jefferson county is greatest, being 11S; Cherokee, 116, Limestone, 115; St. Clair. IA; Clay, 112, and several other counties as high as no. Horses and mules can be raised as cheaply in Alabama as in any state in the union; therefore, our people should cease to send money out of the state for what they can produce at less cost than can be done in the middle states.
 Cattle are "off" at the very period that there should have been an increase. Re- ports from sixty-four counties show that they average only 96h per cent. and in