The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-21
! alfalfa, and that they eat the hay and

alfalfa and that they eat the hay and seed clean with avidity.
 Running wat. is scarce, but water can be obtained by digging wells from twelve to thirty feet in depth. All of the large farms are supplied with wind mills to draw the water. and this saves the farmer much labor for there Is a continuous breeze which keeps the wind mills in con stant action, ard the water Is deposited in large troughs vats from which the stock help themselves at will.
 Where wind mills are used the wells are usually from fifty to ninesy feet deep.
 Wha; Is Required. The farmer will require for the first year one or two pair of mules or horses. one fourteen inch sod pIow, which will cost S125G, and one disc harrow at $35. The second year he iust add to his farming implements one riding Lister blow at $40 one double disc Deere blow at $65, one Deere cultivator at $32.50, anG if he goes into alfalfa and other feed crops, he will need a row binder at S135, and one baiing machine at S70 But while the farming l implements may seem dear, yet they are of the very highest quality, and moreover, one hand can cultivate from ninety to 120 acres.
 day or two ago I called on a MT. Nelms, formerly Alabamlan. He and
 
 cotton from which he expected to realize from thirty-five to forty bales of cotton I counted eighty polls on one stalk thirty-f1ve acres in milo maize and Kafflr corn from whi he expected to realize fourteen hundred bushels of grain, and fifteen acres of Indian corn.
 What Mir. Reed Has Done.
 Some days ago I called upon MT. Reed, whose farm Is situatI.. ono mile south of Mobeetie, in the Panhandle of Texas. He had in cultivation fifty acres of cotton fro m which he expected to gather bale per acre. He also had in 125 acres of al- falfa, but being an unfavorable year he had only gathered one crop of hay of one ton per acre, from which he had real ized SIP per ton. or l,5U0 for the crop. There was at ti.is time another full crop which he was letting go 70 seed. He ex- pected to realize five bushels of seed per acre. which would bring him s9 per busAel or S45 per acre. anu the hay after being threshed would 1ring him $1C per ton, and then after this he expected to get still another crop of hay. Usually alfalfa yields four crops of hay annually. Mir. Reed and slxt een-year-old boy had cui- tiVated this entire crop of cotton and ahalfa without addi -4onal help. He will have to hire help to gather the cotton crcp, however.
 Five years ago MT. Reeu arrived in the Panhandle with eight yearlings and fifty cents in money He hired out as laborer the first year and saved almost all of his money. In the meantime, he bought two sections of wild ,rairie land, but sold one section the next year at an advance and for cash. He bought the two sections on time. He has cultivated part of his one section for two years Now he is out of debt, and before the end of this year will have considerable money to operate on.
 from the prairies and plains but there still remains to the sportsman the coyote antelope, blower prairie chicken, teal mall lard. chapparall. and jack rabbits, to say nothing of the immense cities of the prairie dog.