The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-21

lne palrloIlc men or Alabama country ou and fhemselves aa record es 'ns,r for gallantry and fortitnde unexampled in the history Of the world with the pos sible ns ,s sxceptien aie ef Valley Forge. sccsp- ed their faces hofneward and quietly but energeticaliy addressed themselves to the tremendous task of rebuilding conceded to be among the sairest of the land and first among the most fayyored sections of all the earth. had been their losses. so a idespread d the devastation and the denloraiization of warsaon the other hand. so wonder ,ui the courage displayed, so marvel ious the energy manifested and so overwhelming the victories achieved over situations acute and perplexing and conditions at once alarming and ciate either the conditions alluded to or the substantial results handed down to the generation of 1ss0-I90i the days thai tried mems souls TheiS the heroes and the heroism developed I There Is not, in all the eventfui his- tory of the Southern people, a period that required q higher degree of he- roism than the half decade. 1s65-7o.. Honsronted, and the complex situa- 1 tions triumphantly eompassed. during that crucial period, gave the mastery 1 1S6I-65. caused the earth to tremble I Let us study in Alabama those five years of constructive energy by the process of comparison:
 Total assessed property of Alaban.a 1860 s4ss. .isS,Tss; in is7o, s155.5s2,5sF "a loss of sixty-four per cent.
 asso vaInatIoa alssa@ psr noaaEsa aPita
 Innt isso, isSsS Alabama produced ssi .ost sS9e 1ao poJndso ns ,ss bales of cotton; in 1870
 Hersa we have a striking illustratior of the extent to which labor was dis I organized. Practically there was nc labor other than that of the mer who owned or rented the farms. n 1880. the state produced s3s,sss l%snty.sisht per cent. below the eraosiI sasi
 This fact is cited in order to enpha, sae m tbs Wake os War aus whe bring out with greater ciearness and force the. incomparable courage and energy displaysd by the people oi What was true of Alabama was true of each other sister Southern state, The. period proposed to be studied ress made. embraces the decades. 1885 improved Farm Implements a Eece~.a4, There is no better criterion b. which to judge agricultural progres, than the extent to which improved la, borTssa;ving farm implements and
 Between 1885 and 1905 Alabama far. mers increased their holdings 1T these essentials from s.,150. coo to $l0. 76s.ooo--an increase of l59.i per cent immediafs future 1t Is true beyond dis, cussion that the farmers of the Souti must adjust themseIyes to the cendl should right new begin to do theli own farm work--finding white hell whenever necessary, This points | has Been saccessfuIiy tested and | l today commanding more attention thar at any time in our history.
 Fewer acres more thorough prep eration and cnitiyatIen. the very bes seed and heavier and more 5udicioul Fertilization are in the front rank o the Iequiremsnts of the times
 In 1885 Alabama planted h corr 2.346,114 and produced sI,f05.0 900 bush els Of the cereal.
 In 1905. she gave a,soa.4ss acres t 971.54S bushels
 Tn 1885, she sowed to wheat 2ss, 4e5 acres and harvested a,s07.oo0 bush
 s1fn 1905. she sowed 1oi.44s acres t, wheat and made 1,041,0s2 bushels.
 In oats lsss and she Srdaacas sIanssd Y
 in 1905. she gave 1si.s5s acres t, that valuable grain and haryeste' 8, 3,166.574 bushels.
 Tn 1885, she had 1A.l47 acres In tn grasses and cut and cured 1S.zsS ton of hay.
 Tn 1905. she harvested 104,9e6 ton of hay from B5.245 acres.
 In 1905, Alabama made sixty-thre per cent, cotton more than In lsS5 |. In 1905, the crop amounted to I, 2SS.574 bales: in 1885, 760.Af7 bales. i Tn 1885, the yield per acre of cottol was 24-I0o of a bale: in 1905, the yiel' was 100 of bale.