The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-19

In addition to. the .thirty-two varie-
 ties on large plots, flfty-two other va
 rleties were grown in 1905 on plots
 too small to permit an accurate deter
 mination, of the yields. The limited amount af uniform land made it neces- sary to exclude these varieties from the quantitatiYe test reported above h. stead. these ffty-two varieties were 1 grown for the purpose of making ae- scriptions and photographs.
 It will take several months to pre- pare for publication the descriptions | and illustrations of varieties grown on | d small scale in 1905 and in other re- | cent years Parties who furnished small | amounts of seed are requested to have | patience to await this publication and | not to write for reports by letter as i to the conduct of their varieties From l the nature of the case adequate re- | ports cannot be made by letter and the l time devoted to answering such in- l quiries merely postpones to that ex- l tent the preparation of the complete i printed report of our studies Of yaris-
 ''s' '' J. F. puggaf,
 Director Alabama Experiment Station. |
 ARrleuIturaI Progress in the south l The South is in the throse of
 wonderful and bewildering prosperity,
 It comes from the combination of faYor- | ins seasons and nigh.pEieeu cetton;. sn ~ crop of this year VIII bring to kne ! southern farmer s450Vo9OOo. t ls an inconeetvapie amount. us eVluehee is
 seen on all sides in new houses. new stores, whole streets of new stores, in cottonfieids stretched wide, in cotton patches in vacant town lots. It is an | era of cotton planting.
 Ie may be news to northern folk that the south is now producing several
 times as much cotton as It did at the Ibegining of the Civil War, that 1t ia
 producing many times as much wealth lin other commodities. Probably ten | times as much wealth is now being
 produced in the South as couple of
 decades ago. As a whole 1t is not an
 old and worn.out land; 1t is land Ibeaming with hope, awakening to its realization of powers hereto ore un-
 known and unsuspeoted,
 1 And yet there is whispering of fear among the most thoughtful southern men. Is this high priced cotton surely | Rodd thing? Will 1t end in building lthe South, or will 1t end in terrible de- pIetion of soil and greater improve
 inent of the people? It all depends, hl
 doubt, upon the wisdom of the in dividual. If he unwisely strains every
 
 and only cotton. if he spends his in come lavfshly, he may awaken to t. cent cotton, no money in the bank and
 wasted fields. That is the serious dan
 ger of the situation.
 But there are great many intel lligent and thoughtful men in the South
 who are reaching out for better things, who are seeking to build well and from the foundation, They are
 seeking to grow legumes between cot
 ton crops, to IIversify, to build soils, to husband resources. There are ad- vantages of great note. The cowpea lis a GodsRnd. burr clover thriYes pea nuts enrich soils and make pork cheap
 er Some of the eiovers will grow spring weather which almost overlap in this land; burr clover Is such IIeeume, and in intelligent hands In this
 way the land is readily bullt.
 Indeed it is not generally knNwn but much of this southern land has first to be made into productive soil.
 Tbe GImighty when He set it wILn hines and oaks had not stored 1t with aT that 1t needed for intensive agri- culture After the forests are cut away and man takes 1t in hand he can wonderfully add to It's richness by growing upon 1t clovers or cowpeas
 bv adding to 1t phospharu and lime TbeTe is in some of the upland of South Carolina a great deal of potash which mavA be made available. There Is lahove each acre many hundreds oi thousands of dollars worth of nitro gen. This is easily caught by the cow meas and cloYers. Thus phosphorus chiefly is needed, and this fortunatly l. found in great amounts in the phosp !. ihate beds Of the State.
 aI \ Unfortunately there Is no great live N stock industry as yet There may b. ll one built up, but the first requisites arr N a knowledge of the use of grasses ana a iegumes, the use of fences, and { L. chanUe that will eaug