The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-10
neW$ and UieVpS
 For Farmers
CONDUCTED PROF ]. F DUGGAR OF THE ALABANA POI
 INSTITUTE

INST Far. Views >ftem virsi.is te New York.
 If were to draw a geographical | line separating Northern agriculture from Southern. think should make l 1t pass through Charlottesville. Va. On the Southern Railway north of this locality grass becomes the principal product. Much of 1t Is marketed as hay, far more is shipped. after due re- duction in volume and due increase in value, as milk and butter. It is large ly a dairy country that lies immedi- ately along the principal railways of Northern Virginia, Central Maryland and Southeastern Pennsylvania.
 MILK is shipped. not only by car loads. but nearer New York and Phil tion in the large cities, Prices on the farm are low. or usually a little less than half what the firm that distrib- The pastures are chiefly timotAy. low white clover and wild grasses. or course bermuda and lespedeza do not CT fields are abundant, but much more l frequently one finds mixture of red clover and timothy for n,r.r hay; s,or. horns or grade shorthorns dominate in here retained some of their earlier
 
 very far towards the beef type. There occasionally a Dutch Beited COW may nority in these milk shipping sections. Possibly if our observations were made further from transportation facilities form in which the products of the COW are marketed. we should find larger proportion of Jerseys; .
 The very considerable proportion of land that lies waste between Wash. ington and Philadelphia. utilized neither for crops nor for pasture, Is somewhat surprising for a region Of in the latitude of Philadelphia and southward wheat had nearly all been sf l above Philadelphia it's golden splendor l told of the harvest about to begin. while near Buffalo and Niagara Falls yellow had not chased the green from
 In Maryland I was at first puzzled to understand why the farmers had plant l ed narrow strips of oats (now head ing) through tn, wheat fields. It was l soon evident that this was simply means of more completely utilizing the l shock row where the previous fall had 1 stood the shocks of corn. In most parts of the country where wheat fol- lows corn the eld & shock tsa roy row Ganan@ can 1e by the spots of rag weeds growing l where each corn shock stood and where the wheat drill could not deposit seed i soWn 1inn crop, there is given time for the corn shocks to be removed at leisure ! One does not travel far to the north 1 west of Philadelphia before agriculture 1 almost completely gives place. to min ing. But just south of Bethlehem. Pa, the cars flashed past scenes of beauty in a land where art and nature join to embellish the landscape.
 H. ~tW cles again and again, descending the Wiikesbarre. Pa. in the valley. and
 For hundreds of miles the Lehigh Valley Railroad runs upon the bank of the Lehigh River; a stream that is too serves useful purpose for many in cession of pleasing. water views
 agsn snar beaomes ha sew the York as naus too grand, too many sided in it's beau ty and ,hd its power and grandeur & am tai that is now building power plants to utilize part of this great water nower will ,bs;r divert 50 much 1r, water mammoth turbines that the volume and appearance of the falls will be per ceptibiy affected. and this at an early day. The first trial run of one of the plants was made only few. days ago.
 A glimpse is had of the Canadian the noted fruit country that begins on the banks of the Niagara River, where the rapids and the grandeur cease and that stretches out its level vine- clad acres of LaRe Ontario. Alfalfa. too, is here. rank. thick. purple topped. prom tsIIag;,a tslng sIe yield greater than that of soon be the victorious rival
 | On the return from Buffalo eastward tor hundred miles We traverse per haps one of the richest extensive areas in the eastern United States Recent floods and heavy rains give a rather marshy appearance to the pastures and these heavy rains have made gulleys fin the pIowed fields. rare occurrence in
 In the midst of this fertile region we find in addition to the usual crops of timothy. ndiclover. of wheat (stfll unripe), of oats tnot yet heading or rsns Jrst beginning esr1aI on July July 4. the rarer an important producer of navy or Bos- ton beans, though surpassed in this respect, If my memory serves me we'll
 The fields of beans resemble fields of coWpeas. The beans are planted in drills about two and half feet apart Our interest in this crop ir Alabama centers iil the methods of harvesting, which consists largely in the use of a blow that cuts the roots just below the surface. a method perhaps adapt able to cowpeas, but which would doubtless leave the land Impoverished because deprived of the fertiiizing lyalue of long cowpea stubble In spite of difficulties in Alabama from weevil and disease I am encouraged to re- lnewed effort to continue experiments q with Boston beans
 i No mules arc to be seen, only horses Mares constitute large per centagc of the farm teams. The two ho, se clIl- tivator and one-horse cultivator of the Planet Junior order are evidently the popular implements for corn culti- walton here. Corn, only eight to twelve inches high on the Fourth Of July must race to mature It's ears before the carly frosts of this latitude But here the varieties of corn usually grown make but small stalks and three and four of these grow in each hill. Eacn plant needs less water than a plant of Southern corn, its roots doubtless pen citrate deeper into this soil, and the humus- holding soil retains moisture better. All this by way of explana- tion of why New York grows three stalks per hill against our one.
 Travel where one may, melilotus or sweet white clover Is on hand. re- deeming the waste places but un- dreamed of as a plant for hay or pas ture A little bitterness in taste and q great profusion of more paltable hays have kept the north from finding how useful a friend this plant may be made.
 An occasional windbreak may be seen. usually of some evergreen. pine like tree. These are to shelter fruit trees or fields from the severity of the