The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
ALABAMA FARMERS l SHOW AT FAIR WHAT
 THEY ARE DOING T. U. Jones Tells What Can Be Done By Raising
 Hogs Here PULLMAN AS USUAL
 SENDS FINE EXHIBIT The Fourth District Agricultural School Has Some Very Fine Corn and
 Quite a Unique Kind of
 Mixed Hay
BY WALTER HARPER

BY WALTER HARPER During the first four months of this year T. U. Jones of Orrville sold s2500 worth of pigs. The pigs were raised on his 40-acre farm near Orrville. He will sell as many or more during the fall months.
 Mir. Jones grows some corn and cotton and other stuff but he devotes most of his time and labor to raising hogs. He breeds the Poland China and has the finest herd in the south. He has enough ribbons taken at state fairs and other fairs to cover one side of a small barn.
 He has an interesting exhibit at the Alabama State fair at Birmingham and every visitor should not fail to inspect 1t.
 MT. Jones was born not far from Orr vile and has lived in the town and com munity all his life. He has devoted most of his years to agricultural pursuits, but has done a little merchandising. though he always kept good stout string tied on to the farm.
 ''The farm offers the best opportunity for financial and all-round success of all the trades or professions" he said. 'The small farm, well managed. will bring any man not only good living but sur- plus for all the possible needs of life. What more can any man desire? "I have nothing but the very best breed of hogs on my place. I have found that 1t pays to have nothing but the best of anything It is expensive, of course, for the small farmer to begin in stocking his farm with the best breeds but he can be- gin in small way.
 ''I started four years ago with one SOW. I now keep 15 sows and three boars. One SOW will produce an average of 15 pigs a year.
 r Any farmer in Alabama can produce his own meat with but little expense and will pay to use the finest breeds of handle and it's costs less to feed them than the ordinary stock. "The people of Alabama are becoming more and more alive to the necessity of producing more foodstun at home and the farmers are buying and raising more and better animals
 'The Alabama farmer can produce his own meat at cost of about AZ cents per
 
 a reasonable market price for feed for the hogs, which should be charged in the ex- pense Oats and cowpeas are the best feed for hogs, though there are num- mer of other things that may be grown profitably and that are good for feed. To | fatten hogs for butchering some corn | is necessary. -.s s.saz.. -f-..' .s.- --
 Alabama is well adapted fbr the rais- ing of hogs. Our climate Is perfect and t.<. nysr a5ef,o hln ctfo cess"
 l Cullman county comes forward as usual with a magnificent agricultural exhibit l at the State fair. It has by far the larg- | est exhibit and the variety of products shown is interesting and inspiring. | The exhibit is in charge of John Rehl- | berg and 1t Is well and artistically ar- ranged.
 J. M. Crutchf1eld and E. IL. Baker have interesting individual exhibits from their farms in Cullman county | One of the most interesting small ex- hibits Is that from the Fourth District Agricultural school at Sylacauga. This is in charge of President G. H. Thigpen of the school
 The main exhibit is made up of three rows of corn standing just as it grew in the field, the rows four feet apart and the stalks eight inches apart in the drill. Every stalk has from two to three well developed ears.
 Two acres from which this corn was taken will produce 25O bushels of corn this year.
 Another interesting feature of this exhibit Is sample bales of hay com posed of oats and hairy vetch, which was planted, harvested and baled to- gether. The vetch adds wonderful flavor to the oats and the blend makes one of the finest hays that can be pro- duced. On three acres of this hay which was followed by heavy crop of peas. President Thigpen says the hay will bring 330 per ton.
 Some cotton stalks 10 feet high are exhibited The stalks average 150 bolls to the stalk The school has already gathered two bales from two acres and two more are to be gathered.
 President Thigpen is making a prac- tical success of the experiment sta ton in connection with his school He
 is not only giving his pupils prac- tical demonstration of what can be done on the farm lands of Alabama but he is making the few acres con- nected with the institution pay their way and handsomely.
 One of the distinguished visitors at the state fair is R. M. Williams, for merly general manager of the fair, who Is well known to the people of Birmingham and this district.
 MT. Williams is now in charge of the Rosewood stock farm at Colum- bia, Tenn.
 Scott Maxwell, agent for the Indian Head mills at Cordova. spent yester-
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