The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
BOUGHT A STOCK FARM
COMEs TO MONTGOMERY.
Alexander Bruce win Raise Theroagh- hreA Hsrses and Fine Cattle and Hsgs es Plantatica on
 we0dley Road.

Alexander Bruce, a prominent Ken lucky stock raiser. has bought Mont somery County plantation six miles from the city and will engage exten- sively in stock-raising.
 Mir. Bruce comes from Shelbyviile, the very heart of the famous Blue Grass ragion and through preference. seiects the grass lands of the Alabama prai- ries. as the most promising TOT stock raising in the country.
 MT, Bruce is a son of Judge H. ". Bruce of Kentucky, who lor several years, was general counsel of the Lou isvil1e and Nashville Railroad. The younger MT. Bruce has been an ex- tensive stock grower .n Kentucky and he Is a man of means. The place he has selected for his Alabama stock farm is located on the woodley Road. six miles from the city. It lies be- tween the two well-known plantations of J. A. Barnes snd Jesse sones.
 Mir. Bruce arrived esterday with his wife and family. He has brought with him as the beginning of his stLck-rais- ins> s>operations in Alabama, fine sad de bred stallion, a blooded jack, a number of brood mares. a number of roli angus cattle and red essex ,ogs.
 What gives special interest to the coming of Mir. Bruce is the fact that he will become when he Is established on his prairie stock farm, a member of a large Kentucky colony which has been established in Montgomery Coun- ty in the past two years. There arc perhaps q dozen Kentuckians who haNe come in and bought plantations adja- cent to the city of Montgomery. They were men of prominence in the State from which they came and they came with ample means to engage prirci- pally in stock-raising. It is worldly 'f special note that a number of raem have come direct from the Blue Grass country which has been generally be- neved to be the best stock raising country in the world. Yet these men who have come in quietly and spent their money extensively have by their action shown a decided preference tor the splendid grass region of the prai- ries. So great change has been wrought in farming conditions by the coming of these stock growers that the prediction is freely made that in short time Montgomery County will be recognized as one of the big stock growing counties of the South.
 Tn that section of the county in which MT. Bruce has located. grain growing and stock-raising have become the paramount industry. But minor at- tention is devoted on these old-tiIne characteristic Southern plantation to cotton growing. The resources of the plantations are devoted to the grow ing of corn. hay and pasture grasses, for the stock, for the stock s recog- mixed as the paramount consideration.
 To these who are familiar with con- ditions no surprise is attached to the sudden and growing importance of the stock-raising industry on the prairie. The only surprise is that the move- nent did not come sooner. It is gener- ally believed that fine stock, the sort tlsat needs care and attention and .n which money is invisted. can e raised cheaper in the grass lands about Mont Eomery than anywhere else in the South. The season during which stock must be fed in the stables. the cold winter days is, for one thing. much shorter than in those sections where stock-growing is an older industry. For another thing the best grass for graxing purposes grows more luxuri- sntiy on the rich prairie soil than any where else where fine stock is raised. In the splendid climate that Middle Alabama enjoys this grass preserves its greenness far into the winter and