The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-05
Amateur Gardeners Experience

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 Amateur Gardeners Experience The days of the amateur gardener are very much in evidence in the district both by the number of gardens that are in course of preparation, and the many per- sons you meet carrying recently pur- l chased garden tools," said an observant citizen who travels the street cars ex- tensively.
 Now, next to the fallacy that there are millions in raising chickens, is the one that there is much pleasure and profit in truck gardening. Of course, if a fellow has some one else to do the work l there is certain amount of pleasure in watching tue green things sprout, but when 1t comes to working a garden your self, just take it from me there is no pleasure and precious little profit in am- ateur gardening
 "In the first place. the preliminary work is killer-spadng 8 garden is a tough job-and after fellow has put in all his spare moments on the garden spot and got everything planted. and thinks his labor is practically over, just at that mo- ment he has disillusionment coming to him, for then it is his real work com- mences.
 "As the seed begins to sprout and the little green shoots appear, he feels like batting himself on the back and is sure had he taken up truck gardening as a calling ne would soon be rolling in riches but in few days he notices that some of the plants look withered and on an investigation discovers a bug that has a fondness for that particular plant, and also that his bugship has a large and rapacious family connection with the I same taste, The same thing obtains with the other things he has planted, and he gets wise to the fact that there are at least two million varieties of bugs whose chief and only articles of diet consist of garden truck.
 Then he gets wise to another fact, that. like Banquo's, will not down weeds. for after he has tackled them for a few days in succession he is firmly convinced that the more he cuts down the faster they grow. So when he views the result of all his labors which will ag- gregate a few stunted vegetables that he
  what the bugs didn't eat the weeds choked to death-he comes to the conclu- | sion that the game is not what it is cracked up to be and quits much wiser by | his experience and spends his spare mo-
 ments in the future at his ease"
 Bank at Childersburg q have just returned from Childers-
 burg, where I assisted in the organiza-
 ton of a bank for That town said Mo
 Land Triton of Pell City, who was in
 Birmingham yesterday.
 '.The business men of the town and com
 munity responded magnificently 10 the call for subscriptions and all the stock was disposed of at once. The bank will
 be ready for operation in about 60 days 1 A new building will be CT scted and vii
 be fitted out with the latest and most up
 to-date furniture.
 "Childersburg is an enterprising little
 town and is located in the midst of one
 of the best agricultural sections in this part of the state. Yhe business men are
 enterprising and public sprised.' | -A
 Healthy Business Conditions "If the Interstate Commerce commis- sion had allowed the railroads to ad- lvance rates there would have been g sudden upward movements In Wall street values. and I have no doubt but that the price of iron would have gone up," said Henry T. Browning of Chi- cago. but in business circles generally the feeling is prevalent that the com mission not only made just decision ia view of the facts presented, but that