The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-27
as to who the purchasers

particular as to who the purchasers
 The Boiling Demonssraslon. looking for any and everybody. We don't want a man to come down here who made a failure in his old home. Naturally we do not want a pauper, a have to carry When a man has lived to 40 or 50 years of age and farmed since he was a. boy and Is not able himself in a new country we think he Is poor sort of immigrant.
 Nor are we advertising that man can live here. without working. We do make the claim that a man can get equal or greater return for his labor in this section than in almost any other section of the country. We are pre-
 s1 tss ands bere with soSr sSs and cellcnt cor ditions that surround him. the intelligent and industrious man can do much better than make liv- ing on truck farm where the soil and the climate are so suitable and where hi smarkets are so easy of access
 This is the intent and purpose of the demonstrations we are carrying on. hence to strawberry culture. When we make a claim of a return of $200 each year from each acre of strawberries we are prepared to prov, prove the claim aim lands. We have here sixty acres of this 'cut over" land set in strawber- ries.. The plants were set out last Mo- and the first crop win be yielded next year. We have an expert in charge of this strawberry farm, Mir. Guice of Brewton, and we believe that we have farms in South Alabama.
 The other strawberry growers in our neighborhood have proved that a $200 income from an acre of straw hQFriaa Ia n xrin O
 "An acre of berries will yield cer- tainly l50 crates of berries and in all
 most anu self for :a2s cfatap very low price for them. For instance who has two acres in strawberry. .gns These two acres last year netted him
 But we grow other things here be- sides strawberries" continued Mir. Lee. tomatoeS rom @ tsese haa iffe fiffeen acres serea @ matoes The careful bookkeeping re- of s1.2o0. In fact the profit from the tomato field amounted to s1,7oo: for we Improvements that we might grow to- matoes each year;
 But straweerEies and tomatoes are Ire grown with profit and with success. We have for Instance as fine a cane field as you can find in the State. This pine land beyond doubt Is specially adapted for cane growing for syrup or for sugar. And potatoes do splen didly. We have been fortunate with our potato crop, but for that matter we have been fortunate with all we have attempted to grow here.
 Tn short the land about here is suit able for any sort of farming. Why the cotton patches around here grow bale to to the acre and three-quar- ters of a bale to the acre crops. It is a natural farming soil, the sort that responds readily to fertilizer and which cherishes and stores up the fer tilizer put into the soil
 we and the other towns in this section have another great advantage to truck farmers. We are right on the main line of the Louisvilel and Nashville and a score of trains pass each day Why last spring we start ed to load a car of tomatoes after 1 o'clock in the afternoon. The next morning that car was in Birmingham ready for unloading when the produce houses opened for business. The same afternoon the care could have been put in aNshville and the following morn ing could have been unloaded in Louis vile. And every day the truck farm CT along the> main line has the same sort of a chance as the more northern markets"