The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-01
Creek. who has several times attended

Creek, who has several times attended the school.
 Tt is a great institution for the farmer" said Mir. Hawkins. because he gets something. They invite him there and tell him that they have some thing for him. And if he goes he al- ways gets it. For one I can hardly tell you of the benefits have gotten from Auburn and I hope am spread ing those benefits at Clear Creek
 When he ceased Dr. Cary made an- nouncement of the Auburn summer school next summer. It was hoped and expected this year that the attendance Of Alabama farmers would reach a to- tai of 500. Board at Auburn during the summer school could be had for as low as s a week.
 The Value of Good Roads" was the subject of an instructive address by Col. J. NJ. Thornton of Talladega. Bad roads, he said, were the greatest bur den the Alabama farmers had to bear, They were the worst obstacles the farmer had to encounter in his way to success. There was but little doubt that farm property enhanced in value 50 per cent. when good roads were built.
 He spoke in the highest terms of the roads of Jackson County. They were the best he had ever seen--better than the roads of Tennessee and Kentucky They were built by n bond issue and cost an average of s2,500. The people were so pleased with those excellent roads that they are now talking about more bond issues for more road build ing.
 ''The average road" said Colonel Thornton, should have width of eighteen feet, For good road, you must have a rain proof roof and dry cellar, which means that the top of the road must not hold or leak water and that the foundation of the road must | not let in water"
 New Road Machine. Colonel Thornton showed miniature of the King road machine, which Is said to have revolutionized the West. It is Missouri contrivance which costs about as much as a pocket knife. II consists of the two halves of split log, joined together one, behind the other at a distance of two and half or three feet by stakes. The split logs are about nine feet long. The contriv- ance Is pulled over the road by two horses with a man standing upon the platform. It moves the dirt to the cen ter of the road and in time when It has been dragged over the road enough it makes a perfect highway.
 DO you think that good roads can be had without bond issue? Con'mis- sioner Poole asked the speaker
 .'I do not" he replied, T have never yet seen anything that could be done without money"
 Close attention was given D.. c. Turnipseed, who is one of the largest, and perhaps the best known fruit growers of the State.
 His large orchards are located at Flora, and in season great shipments from them are made.
 Mir Turnipseed's subject was an- nounced as The Six P's'' which he ex- plained stood for peaches. plums, pe- can, pomegranites, prunes and persim- mons. By far the most important at this time. he said. was the peach. On his farm, The o. K. Fruit Farm" he had 10000 peach trees. They are all f1ourishing, growing. right now are In their prime This winter he had a Georgia man and Chicago man at the farm who figured on the possible in come from the farm. They figured that the orchard might bring in this year at much as $165,000. but of course he did not expect any such income. But figuring on the price of peaches next year at 50 cents a case, he showed the possible income from such an orchard as being S55.000, saying though he did not expect that from his peaches, al- though they had always proved prof itahIa
 His section, he said, was much fav- ored for peach raising. for there the growers were able to ship from ten to thirty days earlier than the Georgia and the Carolina growers. The vari- ties of the peach which did best in their order of importance were the Greensboro, the Carmen. the Early Belle, the Belle of Georgia and the Elbarta. By planting and carefully attending to these varlties, he was en- abled to have a shipping season from May to the first of August. To one extensively engaged in peach growing. 1t is necessary for success to have these different varieties and to have at least 5000 trees in order that the shipper can have sufficient fruit to make a car load shipment on any day. and to keep the peaches constantly at work
 The Different Varieties.
 He treated the peculiarities of each variety in detail, and with special ref erence to their shipping qualities.
 In his full and complete paper. Mir. Turnipseed dealt with the other sub jects in his comprehensive title He drew attention to the comparatively newness of the prune, and the pome- granate. and of their growing import ance as commercial fruit.
 The pomegranate, Mir. Turnipsecd said, was the lazy mans fruit It was native to his section and 1t was the only fruit he ever saw that needed no cultivation. It was fruit that was growing rapidly in favor in the North and that it's growth has now become profitable
 There was also money to be made in growing prunes, as he had found out. Prunes had sold in Pittsburg at auction at high as $4 case
 President Heikes announced the fol- lowing Committee on Resolutions: D. c. Turnipseed, R. w. Barnes and C. A. Carey.
 On Growing Pecans.
 J. F. Wilson, of Poulon, Ga, editor of The Nut Growers Gazette, delivered an interesting address on the pecan He called 1t the greatest nut grown in the world. It was more than a nut It was a food. Five pounds of the nuts would produce nearly q gallon of oil. To show the amount of oil In F. 1tI, fto