The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-15

l tree. Tn cOnnecu0n Wltn tHe SSHoOi' there is an experimental farm where practical agriculture is taught to all or the students who desire to pursue that I course. The school has developed tn fact that the co-educahon of the sexes is not only feasible but highly desirable. and productive of the best results. The Southwest Alabama Agricultural School Is a scientific and classical in stitution, established by an act of the legislature of 1s92-S3, operated by Board of Control composed of practical farm CTS appointed by the Governor, and | managed by a competent faculty of col lege men and women.
 This institution of learning was launch ed upon the educational seas with q definite and well defined object in view. It was the Object of the State primarily to found and maintain school for | Southwest Alabama, where young men | who expect to become farmers may be taught the fundamental principles of scientific agriculture-both theoretical and practical-and where tests of the analysis of soils and fertilizers may be made. and where experiments may be conducted in the growth of grains. fruits, | vegetables, vines, grasses, and In dairy | making, and stock raising. This school, while denominated agricultural. is not 1 strictly so. as all the other sciences | together with the classics. music, are and | a normal. or training department. are | included in it's curriculum. and its doors are open to both sexes and pupils of all ] grades.
 The faculty strives to stimulate and ! encourage a laudable ambition in the | minds and hearts of their pupils; to | direct the efforts in the routine of school 1 work, so as to lead them to appreciate | and practice self reliance: to install into ! their minds proper conception of human life; to give the correct idea of American citizenship; to fit them for useful and i honorable pursuits in after years.
 Truck Farming. Strawberries, tomatoes and canteloupes have, in the last few years, been grown here for market, the acreage increasing each year until it has become quite a | profitable industry, the cost of transpor- tation decreasing as the quantities ship ped increase. One gentleman, MT. J. D.. | Moorer of Evergreen sold one year from | two acres planted in tomatoes $40 worth, 1 all of whiLn were marketed by the goth 1 of July and the land cleared off and i ready for another crop. It is not an un- usual thing to sell 500 worth of straw | berries from one acre or $100 worth of canteloupes from one acre. Other truck growing can be made equally as profit | able.
 There Is one variety of grape which has long been grown successfully on a | small scale. It bears large quantities of | fruit without cultivation or pruning, has | no enemies among the bugs or worms. Even according to crude metehods this | grape makes wine which has been pro- nounced of excellent quality by experts. With a few experienced grape growers and wine makers located in this county | A. more than the cotton crop.
 1 Che of the most successful peach l growers of Georgia, after travelling over several States, decided that this section 1 was specially adapted to the profitable growing of peaches, and has established at Evergreen the Rumph Alabama Or chard and Nursery Company, and has | more than a hundred acres planted in peaches. The flavor of the Alabama peach | is far superior to the California fruit, r.pens much earlier and has all the quail ties necessary to make 1t bring the high est rrices in the Northern market. AS much as 5000 has been realized on ten acres of poor land. The trees produce a fair yield in two or three years, and good crops of vegetables, cotton, potatoes, etc., can be grown between the trees while tkey are coming into bearing.
 Cotton Factories.
 Evergreen has numerous advantages for cotton factories. Labor Is cheap, the cost of living being so low on account of the mildness of climate and the ripening of fluit and We vegttables during a greater portion of the year. The cotton fields are here and the raw material can be bought at from half a cent to a cent per pound cheaper than in the markets of New York, New Orleans and Savannah. Good l ba la{d small quantities, for $225 per ton. The ports of Mobile and Pensacola are less than 100 miles distant and furnish amp.~ facilities for exporting yarn and cloth to all parts of the world
 Fruit Growing.
 MT F. NJ. Rumph, who has been very successful in his business. recently left the great fruit growing region of Georgia, | and after travelling through various DOT tions of this and adjoining States, finally settled in Evergreen, and near here he | has planted immense tracts of land in trees of all kinds.
 The fruits that can be prohtably grown in this section are numerous and the yields, when the seasons are propi- tious, are simply immense. Many citt- zens who are interested in growing and shipping early vegetables to market are also engaged in growing and shipping | strawberries. They have found that there is money in the business, and each year there is a larger number to engage In 1t | than the year before.
 | Among the fruits grown are peaches or every kind and variety, apples of dozen or more different names. quinces, april cots, plums, cherries pears, blackberries, ! raspberIies, grapes-in fact all the fruits indigenous to the temperate zone, and many that were before oXotics have been ] accIimated and found to do well.
 This is essentially the home or the grape and defy California or any other grape and wine producing country to ex' eel this in the variety, flavor and size of the fruit grown here. Most of the wine made is from the scuppernong. and when properly made it has the most deli' cious flavor of any ever tasted, and there is q fortune for the man who cultivates this grape for wine-making purposes alone.
 The New Court House.
 Conecuh County has kept pace with the progress of the times and has butli a most magnificent brick and granite court house which will stand for all time and which is an ornament to the towr and a credit to the county. The county offices are all commodious and convenient
 The Peach Paradise.
 No section of the country can boast oi