The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-27

| A strawberry raiser stood at his fence looking over his feid and snow
 ing his crops to w0el ,n nat tba aasine pine isnSs MnS nag rhep speida oid man @ Viewed the straw berry proposition of his friend with obxtSSS tSSS aisSapprSxydal' SJ rSyd .,,s such a pity to put that land in strawberries; That land is good for bale of cotton to aese sns aSTs spop RroWn Raye on sesn it 0aie to
 "No doubt no doubt, said the straw berry man. And when the acre produe- id Seid last ln 'ysa year % and if should get less than ss5o Sndin.. this year I would be might
 Sure nSufRR" ,Ins wss ,a1s the nstIYs adTgips ,s of Aiabamians the yield of 2 bale to acre acre of s5e. was the climax. the sum | ly, as agricultural lands go. It IS a
 light sandy soil with ans hssayy ssat is ces of a high degree of fertilization. + is a fine sue for truck farming and in the ane p s wso9 a superior in all the country.
 | Outside of the land much of the ex- If ths c9Sntfy bs guf s of r Mexoo E | min town of Boiling. It is within easy reach of the daily breezes rom the Gulf Which means that the heat and that the nights are breezy ana comfortable. They have longer sum mers here than the Northern states have, but the summers are not so eud- | den and the mercury does not run so high up in the tube or often up ana The agreeable and climatic condi- l tions have had an important bearing upon the unprecedented growth or the | strawberry industry. The pioneers n the North Castleberry Strawberry Com pany some four years ago These men were in the main men ., who & had S,,,sn,is sons sore of connection wdth tns nsa LosnsWue Uensy,re was a go and a success from its incip- | iency. Its success was an eloquent per l suader to others to go in for fhars st Of conSitioas sni ss Ehey along the Montgomery and Mobile Di- vision of the Louisville and Nashville | shows how the new industry mas oeVel- N'e'- " Growth of Interest.
 c. c. Packard. the South and North man who has done so much towards ex- plotting the resources of south Ata. ha- section last spring gathering and conn piling information for a specal straw | berry issue of his journal, It was ready helped the strawberry section. | The statistics he gathered during his stay in the Spring are of special inter"
 They show for one thing that all though strawberry growing in South | Alabama is only four years old. thai there are now total or Z9sS acres ins l land cestlon l considering the fig ures 1t should be remembered that the cultivation of an acre of straWSiRertrjhes Sti%atjon of an acre of cotton. For one thing 1t is estimated that 1t costs no less than SSo to clear the land @ euitiVate ratha aho cred. While this is treu 1t Is none the less true that the first crop more than brings back the money spent and re-
 The South and North man found these strawberry acres distributed as fol- | lows: '.:s
 At Greenville 100 acres.
 | At Georgiana 25 acres.
 At Fort Deposit 20 acres. .. l At Boiling 50 acres.
 At Dunham 100 acres.
 | At Garland 20 acres.
 At Evergreen and Owassa S75 acres
 At Castleberry and Marble 500 acres | At Kirkland 40 acres At Pollard 40 acres.
 | At Flomaton 125 acresA
 At Canoe 100 acres.
 At Atmore 150 acres.
 l These figures carry the story or the wide and sudden development of the strawberry raising industry.
 Conditions at Boiling.
 The conditions here at Boiling are especially agreeable to the growth ana development of these and kindred branches of farming. It is the heart | of the old saw mill country. Here at Boiling for a full forty years was op-, l erated one of the big lumber mills Of the Flowers family In late years II l t6n m n n MIlner, Caldwell and Flowers. the two former being well known Birmingham capitalists and the latter the late John lJ Flowers who retired from the lum- her business with a large fortune at the end of an active and successful fife. a.
 moved The timber in this section had | been cut away and there were no long CT food for the unsuitable ssWs aVSo The
 Ut It was good farming land It is of lands of East Alabama which have been made to yield such fine returns and upon which has been built perhaps ro9ss TSe itrp of SSd ssSos so 0 we told, upon which Boiling and it's sec tion surrounding country Is located prosperous country about Luverne on to the farming counties farther east. The yellow pine lands of South Ala bama are much the same everywhere.
 There was but one thing to do., to make a farming country of what had been a lumber country But how! That was no easy question. It was to he made a farming country by bring Ling in farmers and selling them land on easy terms, but bringing in farmers to new country Is task that de- mands time, brains and energy. All South Alabama is interested in this question, and the hope of successful | solution of 1t in the coming of immi- grants of considerable numbers Rrows bright.
 A company was formed to exploit and sell the lands here at Boiling. The company bought in a body of 2s.o0O Miner. Caldwell Flowers Company. The moving spirits of the company were Captain K F. Kolb. Syd Jones and w. C. Shackelford, all of Birming- ham, and the company was organized md did business under the name of the company dissolved and MT. Shackel- ford became the owner of the 23,00O acres of land. MT. Shackelford is one of the leading capitalists of Birming- ham. He Is at the head of the well known Ivy Coal and Coke Company. gomery, is the local manager for Nh lShackelford The movement now on is ! 10 sell the lands about Boiling to in- dustrlous and thrifty newcomers. A 1 strawberry farm and truck farm have been pitched to show the inVesti- gators what can be done-on the yellow
 What we have here" said MT. Leo. 'Is a demonstration. We want to show the man who comes down in