The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-14
By Win T. sheehnn.


 When a neat little waterworks sys- tenn is built for them, with a big wind mill and cemented surface cisterns; when their food is cut and chopped for them by specially built machinery; when practically the whole farm has been laid out for their advantage and their benefit. 1t would seem that the horse, the COW. the hog and the sheep are coming into their own in the agri- cultural economy of prairie plantation of Montgomery County.
 This is the condition on the Hunter Vaughan place six miles southeast of Montgomery. There cattle of all sorts are given the highest sort of consider ation. There is money, much money In cattle in Montgomery County. more money making possibilities Of stock raising is fully appreciated by the en- ergetic and intelligent proprietor of the big farm.
 pools in his great pastures, and these pools are for all the world like little fountains. They are more like Noun tains because of the iron posts fixed to the bottom of the pools, and through which iron chains are run. These iron chains and pools are not, however, for the purpose of ornamentation. They are there to keep the cattle from taking a bath when they should only take a drink. These cemented pools rising more than mere details. They are symbols of the high standing of stock and cattle on that particular farm. They. are symbols that the great mo- nopoly of cotton upon the lands of Montgomery County has been broken. that at least some of the tenacles of the royal octopus, King Cotton, has been broken loose,
 Where cotton raising has full swing. everything else is subordinated to 1t. Cattle and other things are mere side issues to be brushed aside If they in- terfere in any way.
 Reign of Cotton Disputed.
 And if the supreme sway of cotton can be successfully disputed on prairie acres and prairie plantations, why it can be disputed and set at naught in any section of Alabama,
 So these cemented cisterns are things of special significance. They show for one thing that the question of the pro- verbal dryness of the prairie pasture has been solved. The cisterns are con nected with storage tank of 5000 gal Ions, a tank that is filled and kept full by the big wind mill on the hill. This comprehensive water works ar rangement Is a necessity for MT. Vaughan, who has so many dollars of takes other peoples cows and horses to board during the spring and sum- mer months. Mir. Vaughan has for in- stance 250 sheep. This drove of sheep IS or value TOT US WOOL dlOn6p TUT LHt sheep are sheared regularly. But it's chief value lies in the rapid way in which the size of the drove increases Now, young lambs in the spring bring 8 apiece when they are carried to the city and sold for Montgomery,s tables and lambs from a flock of 25o sheep are frequent and numerous.
 There are cattle of proud ancestry on the Vaughan place. There are fif- teen head of Hereford stock, standard hNo viu The nf the herd cost MT. Vaughan $325, and several heifers were bought at $200 or $225 each. And then there are scores of native cattle feeding upon the farm this well known place may be estimated when 1t Is understood that 800 acres of it alone are devoted to pasture. Over 200 Of these acres are grazing a big drove of native hogs, hogs that are be- ing raised for the market.
 Two Plantations In One.
 The Vaughan place, ali in all, is re- markable farm. It Is composed of two plantations as plantations went in the old days, and it contains about 2500 acres. The two plantations which com prise it are known to the older citi- zens of Montgomery County as the Remsen place and the Davidson place The Woodley Road runs between.
 property. these two plantations, amounting to 2,500 acres. And 1t is owned by young msn. a young man on the sunny side of 30 who started ten years ago with eighty acres of this land and some few debts. The big farm. It's splendid equipment, its fortune in stock and cattle, he has acquired by intelligent perseverance in the past ten years.
 One thousand acres is devoted to the raising of hay. It is a big industry, The crop this last year amounted to 1,500 tons Much of the hay is yet in the big dark colored stacks that are seen on nearly every hill. But the traction engine with its twenty-horse power is constantly puffing away alongside the big square stacks and the steam hay press is constantly digging into the piled up hay One can hardly drive along the beautiful Carter Hill road without meeting one of the four mule wagons piled high in the air with baled hay. It is all Johnson grass hay, too. No other sort is grown upon the Vaughan place.
 Two Crops Grown.
 The acres that grow hay are made to grow oats too, in many instances. The land is narrowed, the oats are broad casted. allowed to grow and then cut. After which the land is permit ted to grow up in grass for the pro- duction of hay. Every sort of modern