The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-08


 growing in Sumter County Is taken. E Over in Pfckens and Sumter coun- ties. the young Csrroiton Short Line railway: almost ready to blossom into . trunk line is the Tombigbee and
 Tennessee has been christened the Alfalfa Route" And 1t is Going to
 wear its name worthy. for the lands in south Pickens and north Sumter are being rapidly seeded with the crop. and the road has already carried away car- load after carload. In north Sumter there are patches of alfalfa in the gardens and in places where the calves are turned in to graze. It can be seen growing in the front yards of several houses and seems to thrive as luxuri- antiy as if 1t were a native plant. Out at Gainesville. Mayor W. ]. Monetta grows enthusiastic in conversation on the subject. Let me give you his own expressions: Alfalfa makes people come. to town shaved and with clean collars on. They wear good clothes and drive fine horses. They even be- gin to come to church. for then they have money to pay the preacher AL falfa Is going to change this country and turn 1t upside down" Mir. Logan Waller has taken an acre Of real, genuine laand land, in the heart of the little town and inoculated 1t with limestone from the nearby prairies. Here is the result: The patch Is three years old now. hasn't been reiimed & single time and is growing better than ever. The hay has been cut ~alreaoy twice this year. yielding ton to the acre each time. with two more spleh- did cuttings in sight MT. c. H win ston. out at Bod1xa, planted a piece or %1r urhfnh hA had 0Aen getting about $40 rent in corn or cotton. The first year he sold sleo worth of hay, and had all he wanted to feed on his farm. This year ne has already sold 34s7 worth of nay, ana has six tons in barn. and two more cuttings yet to be counted. Here ls his opinion: Alfalfa is the great est thing God Almighty ever mace
 At Livingston, Mccain Bros. nave maintained a large warehouse TOT ses. eroi wears and on their farm about eight miles out of town. they nave erected A good, substantial barn TOT every forty acres. This firm has puI fin several hundred acres, and sens thousands of dollars worth or my every year. Near them and almost III the same beat Cobb and McMiiian nave combined ock-raising and aiialIa growing with the only losical result a splendid profit every year. Tney uss gasoline engines at their barns, anu all the latest improved machinery .v.
 baiing and packing. They recently made A record run of eight-five oaies. weighing 160 pounds @ch' paieo ah" packed in eight minutes Tine farms of Ramsay and smith anu q. s. Bayfess are located at sumter ville. seven miles away from the rai- road town of Epes. in the heart of a ro,Iinq prairie. There iB one piece or
 ianA out there that rented for tioo
 vaar under the negro and cotton
 s,.tem If was seeded in alfalfa, ana trts year s900 worth of hay had been
 sn,d from the field by the first or A,,.rst with a return of over 500 per oart oy the investment. Ten years ago
 th. rnaa to market from Sumterviiie
 was ,mnasEabie except in the summer
 mon+hs The citizens of the community
 a.o,,sad themseives, raised several thou.and dollars as a bonus ana went hsSore the county commissioners TOT be1O Tbis body believed Nin helping
 those who were willing to help them .a,,,a, and as A result. after the exr nenSiture of some $s0.0oo. those peo. nie nave as pretty a pike as can po sn,na in the state. The market, oy maana of this road, has been carrieo ], airnoat to their very doors. The oio
 ~-inter trip of three and four hours un
 Ssr the most favorable of conditions
 hsa been changed into thirty minute
 dr,ve behind a pair of good trotte.s.
 And tbe best part of 1t Is that tne trotters are there. too, on almost every |