The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-08

It needs you white men who know enough about work to be not afraid to be in its company. The trail mas bean blazed to the land of opportunity in Alabama and the way is open to you.
 There in Alabama, first in the roll call of states and first In the hearts or brave and chivalrous people, you will find A welcome as warm as the breezes which blow from the Gulf of Mexico, the great thermoes bottle, the great thermostat Of this continent, With smiles of honest greeting as bright as the sunshine Of hor most perfect days.
 "Yes, and mayhap there Is waiting for you, young man of the north, the dearest creature to my mind that livfng<creator has made. to brighten l his favoritc star, some southern girl with her matchless beauties of fig ure, face mind and soul, and your home Will be surrounded by flowers that will bloom every month In the year and the mEking bird Will sins there all the day long.
 You can accomplish in that new country what your fathers have ac- complished here in the middle vest whose magnificent broad fields have just seen for the first time; help 70 make the new south an empire or wealth and perenniap garden You . operation of new settlers like your selves and of those who have long made that favorite section their homes. 1 am sometimes reminded of the 1act that Mobile Is 200 years old ana aIn asked why these lands have not ionS since been brought into general cult vation. But a few years ago. the great CT portion of that territory IT, the coast counties of Ala bama was covered by | the finest forests of long leaf yellow pine in the> whole world, and mucn- or 1t was held by tie larger land and iuln ! Der companies fer the wood wh1ch grew upon 1t. To give credit where crenie Is due the cooperative demonstration work of the United States department of agriculture showed the farmers that good crops of corn and cotton can pc | grown profitably upon the cut-over pine lands Soil surveys were made both oy the Alabama Sumatra and Havana TO- bacco company and by the United states government, ana it was demonstratea that certain, sections were particularly adopted for the growing of high grade cigar tobacco. Populous and prosper ous communities have sprung into ex- istence around this industry. The sweet oranges, the satsumas and the grape fruit cape as experiments and re- mained as demonstrated success. Then everybody learned what the natives know from the beginning, that there is the greatest potato country on thls footstool
 Tribute To Alabama Yam
 "NNhen I behold a southern Alabama yellow yam in all it's pristine beauty and grandure, hail it asja friend of my earliest youth and nehrisher of my ma ture manhood. What would this world be without the potato A potatoless world. think of such calamity, The Irishman prefers his spud and the north ern man his white Jersey sweets, but we of the south stand firm. true and loyal to the yellow yam. In the darkest days when even "grits.'' the great salvator' was scarce and hard to get the yellow yam was there as sufficient comforter. Warm from the ashes or hot from the griddle it brought it's message of joy, peace and plenty to come.
 Farming in Alabama is not the hap hazard operation' that it used to be. It is work for the intelligent, observing and careful white man. Land in Mobile and Baldwin counties, upon which negroes could not grow more than, 15 bushelSSof corn to the acre, now with improved methods and the white mans care max ss from to to 100 bushels to the acre. In