The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-25

According to the United States census report Baldwin county has the lowest death rate of any county in the United States. There is a total absence of ma larial conditions. The water is pure, plentiful and wholesome. You get salt sea breezes from three sides.
 The southern half of Baldwin county is almost surrounded by salt water. The Gulf of Mexico is to the south- Perdido bay extends up the eastern side from the Gulf, and Mobile bay IS on the west side.
 There are but few negroes in this fla vored territory, and most of the new set tiers are well-to-do and experienced far mers from the north and west They are coming with money, brains and methods that are destined to make of this section the show region of the south within very few years.
 visited many of the farms in all parts of this southern peninsula last week and was amazed at the variety and quality of the products that were presented on al most every farm A list of the products that are actually being grown here looks like the index to a seed catalogue.
 Beginning with most ali the crops that may be grown in the north you may add the finest quality of Sumatra and Havan- ma tobacco and the following partial list:
 Cotton. corn. hay. oats, rye, upland rice, millet, alfalfa. vetch. rape, sugar cane. sorghum, cassaYa, sweet potatoes. Irish potatoes, walnuts, chestnuts, peanuts, all monds. English walnuts, oceans, cabbage, beans, asparagus, caulifower, carrots, celery. turnips, cucumbers, onions peas, tomatoes. radishes. lettuce. mangoes. rutabagas, egg plant. okra, peaches, plums. watermelons, cantaloupas. figs. rears, strawberries, grapes, raspberries, hlackberries. oranges (Satsuma), persim mons, ouince. pomegranates. dewberries, mulberries, etc.
 In growing early and winter vegetables in Baldwin county $500 is an average profit on a single acre and there Is not a week in the year that paying crop can not be sold.
 I saw nine acres of shaded land east of Robertsdale, on which Harvey & Co.,, an association of tobacco growers, produced this year 14,S00 pounds of fine Sumatra to- DdccO- lHlS lOUdCCO DiOuSHl @lOtSoV c<loi4, or $1120 per acre. This same land is now growing a fine crop of radishes, cabbage beets. onions caulifiower and other veg etables for the wfslter market. This stun will be ready for shipment to northern markets during December and January The manager of the farm declined to give me any figures as to the profit he expect ed to derive from this second crop.
 rFha ITr4tad Cfafae cofI siirQex- axuerfc have mapped 20,00O acres in Baldwin coun- ty as first class tobacco lands, and prac- tioally all the land in the county will grow the vegetables. However. Ifwill ex- plain that this nine acres is shaded for the growing of the tobacco and this gives protection to the winter vegetables that they would not get in the open fields The immense profit from both the tobac- co and vegetables more than pays the expense of shading, which is about 5000 for every ten acres. The shading Is per manent with the exception, of course, of repairs every few years, which Is an in- significant tax compared with profits
 The first crop of tobacco more than pays the expense of preparation. l will have more to say on this tobacco indus try in a later article.
 Near Foley I saw an acre of average Baldwin county land where Adam Fish korn, a German immigrant, had Just gathered $40 bushels of sweet potatoes. I saw the acre of ground and also the immense heaps of potatoes that had been gathered from the land in the presence of reliable witnesses.
 Mir. Fishkorn has not depended entirely on the native richness of his soil. Dur ing the three years that he has been on the place he has done wonders in im- proving It's productiveness. A govern- ment soil survey man who recently made second examination of the place was astonished to find the great improvement that had been made in the soil. He made tests on the inside and on the outside