The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-17
ALFALFA MAY BE THE SOUTRS SALVATION
Monts spmery County Farmer Who Raises Hay Telb of His Experience--Kansas Methods
 e Applied to the Black Belt.

to grow cotton to control labor. We can not get negroes to stay on the place if they are not allowed to raise cotton. This situation is not generally understood by people who have not had the experience. The lack of labor lis the thing that most handicaps us In hay raising. Why last season dur ing tho cutting season I was paying dollar a day and board to field hands and could not get all needed at that price,
 Reducing Cotton Acreage. a q have, however, reduced the cot ton acreage to the lowest possible limit. The negroes who live upon and work on the place are not allowed to plant but twenty acres of cotton to | the mule. If I had my choice about 1t | if 1t was so I could get all the labor needed would not plant any cotton. | "The land about here is especially good for raising corn. too. l have gotten a yield of forty bushels to the acre with but little trouble Of the three years I have farmed here l have sold home-raised corn in the Mont gomery market every year except the last. I would have sold corn this last fall except that bought an additional five head of horses and mules. My stock of Berkshire hogs has largely in creased. They now number about fifty and by next fall expect to have 200 head Moreover, on my place we put up
 2,000 pounds of meat last year from | home raised hogs
 By the way, I have started an ex- l pertinent in raising onions. There was such a fine yield of onions in my gar den last year that I was impressed
 with their possibilities. I am confident that from the one acre of onions that IT have planted l will make at least | 150 bushels. I expect to sell these onions from this acre for at least
 dollar bushel." | The Kansas farm of Jesse Jones is
 a mile further southeast on the Wood-
 ley Road. It is somewhat different
 from that of his neighbors, because MT Jones has introduced some of the dis tinctly Kansas methods in his farming operations. Mir Jones was educated in the science of agriculture and the ed- l ucation was coupled with a thoroughly
 practical experience. He has been an
 assistant in the Agricultural Depart ment of the Alabama Polytechnic ln- | stitute. He will be recalled by many farmers of Alabama who met him at
 various institutes held under the aus pices of the Auburn faculty. MT Jones
 was reared in Kansas but came to All
 
 Ethe science of agriculture.
 The Kansas Methods.
 A year ago he bought the old Farlet
 place and brought his father and
 brothers from Kansas to help him in lhis Montgomery County farming oper- lations. His barn yard after one year
 of farming is good to look upon. It Is filled with hay. and fodder stacks. and
 the corn cribs and the barns are burst
 ing with hay and corn. The stalls are ] full of fine pred stock for he will raise
 horses and cattle as well us farm pro-
 ducts. Of his thirteen head of horses
 eight of them are strong and power full Percherons and there are two tin' ) head of mules with the horses. "I am sulHg to put in a large acreage of corn this year." said MT. Jones. Las
 year we did not get our corn in unti
 the 23d of April, still the yield was very
 satisfactory. Of course l am kgoing t' . plant some cotton. We will have tt . do that, but cotton will be of second ary importance with us.
 l 'In planting our corn we are goinl } to use a pure bred seed. We are going
 to devote particular and special .atten 2 ton to the selection of seed and onl. . the best will be permitted to go in thu ; ground. This is an important detai / and we propose to attend to 1t careful } fly. For that matter, however, we try 7 to have pure bred seed of all sorts al !. well as cattle and chickens of the bes 7 breed.
 Our blowing is done n little differ ent from that usually seen about here We use gang blows with three and fou l horses. One of these blows cuts twelv' 3 inches and the other sixteen inches l We have been accustomed to break ul the land deeper than is usually done T am a great believer in alfalfa. Q think that is the best forage that cal
 be grown in this country, either fo
 use on the farm or for sale in the mar ! ket We planted some alfalfa last yea l and got a surprisingly good yield. Thi t year we will put in quite an acreag' of it. We expect to grow large quan
 titles of it.
 MT. Jones is chicken fancier ant . Is going extensively into chicken rais I ing. He has three first-class moderl I incubators These incubators whei , )doing their full work as substitute fo I hens can turn out 500 chickens ! month As a starter for his chickel l farm for the coming year Mir. Jonei 5 has 100 chickens on his place. The! are the pure blooded Langshang.