The age-herald., 1898-10-29
Alabama Farming

From the Eufaula Times
 A gentleman said to a Times man that he could make a suggestion. The Times man was agreeable and listened. "We do not need western oats to feed our stock on," said he. That is proposition No. l. Inis country is full of corn, and can be bought, I should think, at 35 cents bushel. The town of Eufaula, instead of feeding shelled oats, as so many do, ought to buy the country corn and save good deal of money for our iresides. | shall not buy a grain of western oats. | When I can't get sheaf oats to feed on I l will buy country corn. We must learn to stop using the west our storehouse, and
 in an humble way I shall begin on it.
 1T shall not buy blade of so-called tim- othy or any other kind of western or east ern hay. l shall fill my barn with the best home-cured hay. and be one of many who might, if they would save a great sum of money for our own firesides.
 T don't want any bran from the wheat raising country for my COW, either. Peas are most plentiful, and peas are better feed. l will have them cracked up, and not send away for a really inferior food, buying, as we have been doing: ground-up corn-cobs and paying money for them or other adulterated so-called bran. Peas are better. can buy them of my neighbors, and keep that money at home.
 "One other thing: shall use more wood and less coal than ever before. Wood is plentiful, and I want to assist those hum- bier citizens of ours who make a living hauling wood.
 What we need to learn, above all things else, is to live at home. I shall try it on some this winter. I invite you and others to join me in this mild crusade in the inter- est of home garnerings and gleanings."
 There are large chunks of wisdom in what the gentleman says. Think of it, reader, and see if your mind does not arrive at about the conclusion he does.
 From the Greenville Advocate.
 One of our town farmers, MT. P. B. Dunk lin, was in our office a few days ago and we asked him about his little farm, what he planted, etc. He told us that this year he simply plowed up his twenty-five acres and scattered little German millet seed on the ground and narrowed 1t in and let it and crab-grass grow. short time ago he took a number of hands and a mower and gathered his crop. He put up 750 bales of as good hay as anybody need want. He said that he was offered sl0 a ton, or $375, for his crop. The cost of planting, baling and hauling did not amount to $75. So he made clear profit of over $500 on twenty
 five acres. Besides, he had good pasture for number of cattle for some months, which was worth more to him than the cost of raising the hay. MT. Dunklin says the | people of Alabama must take the place of | Texas, and raise grass instead of cotton. | The Texas people can raise cotton at & 1 cents per pound because they do not have to use fertilizers. and they use improved machinery, so that one man can make 65 bales of cotton where in this state it would | take three.
 There is no doubt but that good hay baled 1 can be as readily sold as cotton, and it has l been demonstrated that this county is adapted to hay raising as much as cotton. and when put up in bales is as readily dis ! posed Of. The merchants buy hundreds of carloads of hay from Tennessee and else where every year and pay twice as much
 for 1t as our farmers would be willing to
 take for theirs.