The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-16

to inc attain nient of their object two
 rs,.ornsions' I've Plans.
 cna of these plans was the sale of the lana to people who had money to pay for it without regard. to whether the purchaser was or was not coming to Alabama. This is the way the South Alabama Land Company did business. 1t had land to sell and 1t soid 1t at satisfactory prices to men who had some money put by and who did not care to lease their northern home. The land of this company was located in and around Bennstts. The comnanv has sold most of its land. in fact nearly all of it's lands. The pur- chasers were in most instances railroad men in the Middle West making good salaries. Except in few Instances they have not come SQuth. Except in a few instaHces the pfoperty has not built up. The wealth of the commun- The future of Bennett's is suffering from the same cause that Ireland h sufYerinr from--land1ord absenteeism. At Bennett's. in the town proper. there is fine looking two story wooden hotel. a railroad house. few unim- pressiye houses and not much else. In the vicinity, however. are the Wade farm. the Sole farm and a few others which show what can bs done by the land buyers who have come on and rome to work on their farm property But the land about does not bloom as 1t does around some other colonies of Baldwin. But this is to be changed at Bennett's. The lana buyers are coming South they say as soon as they can conveniently and without sacrifice turn loose their Northern holdings to move down upon their Aiapama farn
 That is one plan. The other is sim- liar in that it was born Of the same desire to sell land and sell 1t at a profit. These land companies are not eleemosynary corporations or phiian- thropic organisations whose primary purpose is to bless mankind. Their urinary busine ess Is to sell land with profit and incidentally to bless man. kind.
 The second plan Is to bring the set tiers to Alabama and set them down upon the land they've bought To the Illinois. the Indiana and Ohio imi- grants. the land company says: Heres s your Iand 1t will grow Irish pota- toes. sweet potatoes. cabbages. peaches velvet beans, strawberries and sugar cane. If you want to know anytnine 2 else about raising these crops we will give you HI tuc hhAos As'
 Now get to work
 And to their credit be it said. these Northern farmers get to work in down. rirht earnest The work that is dons upon the farms the immigrants them selves have to do. There is no labor problem here because there Is no la bor. The new conner may have been a car conductor a grocery keeper. or a mechanic up in Chicago. but when he comes to Alabama he un1earns his old business and goes tn blowing. fertiliz- ing. planting. working and catherine. with all his thoughts and energy. It's remarkable the returns they get from these ninevwoods farms and the quick ness with which they get these same returns.
 A farm in February may have been 2 roueh. uninvitins piece of woodland with pine trees growing upon 1t. and dead and dana vino piue l"os scattered about upon It. but in November 1t shows diHerent sight Tho wood 1ena strip has becp transformed into an oasis of fertility framed In the sur ~cunding woods, an oasis on which two IT three crons may have been grown '>etween February and November. It
 ,av be that there are only eight or ten
 ores in the strip. but the eight or ten
 "res are acres of fertility and pro-
 '-ctiveness. Or it may be that It Is
 >rty acre or a sixty acre farm. In
 -hich case there are peach orchards
 # out. cane patches and COW peas for 'ock feed and similar branchings out