The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-15
AGRICULTURAL.

Some facts have been developed along the line during our past weeks series of farmers institute meetings which arc we'll worth being considered by our readers. I propose here to mention a few of the many experiences with which we are meeting, and these are to be given as ob- ject lessons as to what has been done and as to what may be done by farmers all through the south if they will only try.
 will first go back little and write of some things we met with during our meeting at Jasper, Ala, for here we found some valuable object lessons.
 Wheat in Alabama.
 We have heard 1t repeatedly stated that wheat could not be successfully grown in Alabama. The readers of The Age-Herald will remember that this de- partment has from the start-ever since the writer has been with the paper urged winter wheat growing in north Ala bama, and has given full directions for preparing the soil for the growing of wheat. Now, at Jasper we found farmer, J. R. Kilgore, who has been even more successful in the growing of wheat than we had expected to see. MT. Kill gore produced 300 bushels of fine wheat. weighing sixty-two pounds per bushel on eight acres of land. This was thirty seven and half bushels per acre. MT. Kilgore sold his wheat for S1.20 a bushel or $561O per acre. Besides this crop of wheat the land, when the wheat was cut, was sown to stock peas and gave two tons of pea vine hay per acre, worth at least $6 per ton. Nor Is this all. for the land was left in a higher state of fer tility than it was before.
 Mir Kilgore is a believer in the free use of lime on his land and is using lime after the plan as given in these papers from time to time He says 1t pays to farm in an intelligent way and 1t pays to read and to attend farmers institutes, and that combining what he learns from these sources with his practical exper- fence, he is able to make the farm pay.
 Now I want to give here what a man up in middle Tennessee did with a crop of wheat and potatoes on the same land. He sowed his farm to winter wheat, har- vested the wheat, then planted the land over 200 acres-to a fall crop of Irish
 
 hand to show what each crop produced, but the two crops gave net profit of S125 per acre. This is a big showing for 200 acres. What this Tennessee farmer did may be also accomplished in Ala bama when our lands are cared for and properly fertilized as they should be. The Tennessee farmer had the advan- tage of lime in his soil as they soil on which he grew his crops is underlayed with lime rock which is constantly dis integrating and furnishing what lime is needed, while the Alabama farmer in many cases, as that of MT. Kilgore. will have to supply the lime needed.
 Now suppose that Mir. Kilgore had planted his wheat land, to 2, late crop of potatoes as did the Tennessee farmer. what would have been the result? We find that potato growers on land not so good as that of Mir. Kilgore's, have pro- duced 100 bushels of potatoes per acre, which are selling freely at 75 cents per bushel. that is the price at digging time This would have given MT. Kilgore s75 more per acre, or a total of s13l10 per acre. This would beat the Tennessee farmer, as far as it goes, MT. Kilgore get ting this for his eight acres, while the Tennessee farmer got s125 net per acre on his 200 acres, which is a great record.
 l know that some one is going to say you are another" when they read this but we have the statements from the farmers, and they are truthful men and stand high as such in the communities where they live
 But these are by no means the only cases of this kind. as we shall show later on. but these and other experiences are given to show what intelligent farming can do in our southern soils.
 Corn in Alabama.
 We have also often heard the statement made that corn could not be profitably grown In Alabama. What about this?