The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-20
Fiiue 7housand Dollars Worth
 of Produce From Eighty Acres

Five thousand dollarss This will be the farming returns from eighty acres of land almost within the city. unless the estimate of J. B. Stephens, the city's brag farmer. goes wrong.
 The larger part of the $5,00o Mr. Stephens has already taken in from the sale of his farm produce, and he says he has enough in sight to assure him If a total Sf $5.000 from the eighty acres he is cultivating on the Westcott placs near Hendrix's Mill.
 It has been al remarkable yield, that which Mr. stephens secured from the eighty acres of old plantation land. Hundreds of visitors have been to the farm and its success has been talked about on the streets of Montgomery. It was in this way that newspaper at tehtion was drawn to the wonderful litfle farm, as Mir. Stephens was him. self too busy with the operation of the farm to run around looking for news paper notorfety.
 The visitors to the state Fair last year will reeall his fine individual ex- hibit which took number of prizes ous compliments from agricultural vis- itors, Mir. stephens Is preparing an ex- hib4t from the best crop he ever made for this years Fair.
 s~rhe. Faif people have been very nice to mo and have given me the space occupied last year by the exhibit from Madison County" said MT. Stephens. .Tm going to fill that space chock full of the products of my farm and want to tell you that the man who beats me for first prize will have to make bet tor agricultural showing than has ever before been made in Montgomery. I'll have twenty-nine separate exhibits or the product of that little farm Of
 Tne question natuiaIly arises, how can any man make $5,o00 of a little eighty acre farm.
 Of course several crops had to De refsad. On part of the land as many as three separate crops were grown and on practically all of 1t two crops were grown MT. Stephens has lit- fla Ynernorandum book, such as every farmer carries and on this he has jot- ted down every dollars wefth Of stun he has sold from the farm This list will show the average Alabama farm CT the scope of the farming tnat MT Stephens has been doing on eighty acres of Montgomery County upland. As the items appear in his carefully 1ant memorandum book MT. stephens hss received his large income from the following sources:
 kYaterrne1ons from twenty-seyen acres. si,130.80; cantaloupes from three aeres. s2s6.20; turnip sales. $Ss.20; onion sales. $eS; beet sales. $15; cab bneraN sales. $27. 70; roasting ears, xse,2t. tomato sales from five rows, sevef1ty yards long, s33.45; bean sales one lacre, s1s5.45; raddish sales. rom two pounds of seed. s21; English pea safes. s2s5; Irish potato sales, ssT; olxrn sales from one acre. $2Ss.76; sweet notnto sales, $i8S.15; three bales Of cotton already sold. s20o.
 Alr. Stephens has in sight nfteen more bales of cotton which he esti- rr,akee can be sold for $1,00o. His hay orop he figures in at s40e, having twen- tv tons which he will hold for $S0 ton, His potato crop is still unsold and he counts this one of his most valuable assets. He is confident that ha will get for the potatoes he made this year no less than $f,000.
 T wouldn't take less than $1.000 for my potato crop" said Mir. Stephens. .aThe potatoes are second crop on that land. Still will get $100 an acro-from the potatoes alone. On some of inc land have built up have made as high as 1s0 bushels of potatoes to tha Acre. By the way, some of the land on my place brought me return of S4O0 an acre this year. This looks impossible, but it's so. Truck farming maid good money in the spring and when my truck was sold l put the land to straight farming. Watch that exhibit of mine at the State Fair.