The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-05

the pfouts also, while tnose Wno " mafa over ten years are entitled to an interest in the land. in addition to wages and profts. and become joint owners. Should the colony at any time after ten years wind up It's af- fairs the members have a just dis tribution of all the assets. Care Is taken in the admission of persons to membership and only those accepted who have an established reputation for honesty and capability.
 Some of the members have lately come from their native land. and while there they did all their culti- vating by hand, here they at once bought the most approved agricul- tural machinery, buying a Twentieth Century stump butler from the Daphne agent. Mfr. Kenneth Leighton, and Hoover-Prou Company potato digger. of which latter they are the local a. gents. With the stump butler three men clear up two acres in a day pulling green or dried stumps. With the potato digger three carlaods of barreled potatoes can be dug week all being run through q grader. The best are shipped to Chicago, whe g other members of the colony use them in their restaurants and hotels or sell them to consumers from their pedlars' carts. thus getting the high est market ptiCtSs ms tfOp W6S planted Jan. 10 to f5, using one ton per acre of fertilizer, three sacks of cotton-seed meal to two sacks of phosphate. and digging began April 20. with the first carload shipped May 3. The cost of thef barrels and freight to Chicago was 55 cents barrel. and they sold for $e.25 barrel, their crop averaging f4o bushels to the acre. One hundred bushels were sold in Mobile June 20 and 25 and brought 75 and 95 cents per bushel at the Greek restaurants and boarding houses
 There are over four hundred Creeks in Mobile and nearly eleven thousand fin Chicago. many fin both cities being in the catering and peddling business and to these persons their entire out put is sold.
 All the potato land has been re- planted with corn and sweet potatoes, there being now eight acres of the latter and the balance in corn. all of which was planted May 5 and the following few days, and Is an assured good stand, nearly all stalks showing two ears. The ground was given one blowing after taking out the Irish potatoes, and will have one more blowing before the corn natures. One more acre will be set out in sweet potatoes: thees second crops being made with fertilizer remaining in the ground after the first crops have been taken on One acre was planted in potatoes. which, however, did not turn out as we'll as the other crops, owing to the lack of water at the be- ginning of their growth. Before an- other year. Turkey branch. which runs for half a mile through their land, will be damned and a ram or engine installed to force the water over the fields and gardens, wherever It may be needed. Another stream of water runs through the second of their land, which latter will be used entirely for the pasturage of stock. They now have two cows, two horses, sixteen pigs. 150 chickens. together with hens. ducks. geese and turkeys For the fall season. their incubators will be started and the poultry business made speciality by experienced members of the colony. More high-grade cows will be bought in the fall, and a good pair of mules are new being looked for, for the heavy work Of the farm.
 Two thousand table and wine grape vines have been planted, and may more will be put out the coming fall. Fig. pecan and bananas have been set out in the hollows. where they will find their natural sites along the hillsides.
 
 that may come. Nurseries have all ready been started in the bottmos. where there is an abundance of rich, black sol. and for this purpose and for starting tobacco plants especially, will there be more of the bottom lands cleared at once. On one of the side hills, a cellar has been dug six feet below the surface, the soil banked up. a double partition wall and roof, with the space between filed saw-dust, and the whole properly drained and yen- tilated, and here will be stoRed their seed for fall planting of potatoes and other crops, together with whatever other produce they may wish to keep in dry storage. Ice cold storage will be provided for in another building. which, together with a larger and permanent living house. will be built as soon as time and labor will permit. An oven suficently large to bake twenty-five loaves of bread and do a wide range of other cooking. is located next to the kitchen which lat ter adjoins the dining-roon, all under & separate roof. carefully screened from flies
 Around the house there have been planted flowers and rose bushes; some of the beds being laid out to grow notices, one of the being Dig the earth and find the treasure" The colonists are doing the one and find | ing the other. They have also solved | the question of shipping their produce l profitabiy and will be glad to have the members of the Farmers Union | join them in marketing their crops.