The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28

"HREE years ago I was a bankrupt.
 I had borrowed all the money ! I could on my farm and my credit was so bad at the stores that they would not trust me for plug of tobacco. I could not pay my interest, and I had de- cided to give up the farm for the debt and go back to renting. Then one of Uncle Sam's demonstrators got me to plant corn and cotton, and to work it after the plans of the agricultural de- partment. I thought him a fool, but I was desperate and I followed his rules. The result has been that the merchants are now chasing me for my custom I have paid off my mortgages and I have money in the bank
 The man who spoke thus lives in Alabama.
 A Voice from Georgia
 'T had always laughed at book farm ers.' It was a Georgia man who is speaking. T was bred and bawn like Brer Rabbit. in a brier patch I was brought up in the cotton fields and corn fields and [ thought I knew all about my land and what 1t would raise. I didn't want no white-shirted man from Washington coming round to tell me how to manage my farm. I was raising from 100 to 200 pounds of cotton to the acre, and when my crop of corn was over 15 bushels I thought I did well. Then one of these demonstrators of the agricultural department came along, and asked me to set out an acre and culti- vate 1t his way. He told me I could double my crop, and that I might raise 40 50 60 and even 80 bushels of corn on the sames ground where I had been raising F or '15 laughed at him, and told him he did not know what he was talking about. That land,' said I, 'is just naturally poor. and it won't raise corn anyhow. I aint going to waste my time for nothing
 "Well. at that, Mary came, out. Mary's my wife, and mighty good wife, she is, too. She leaned beside me over the fence and we talked to the agricultural man who was out in the road Mary begged me to try it, and the man begged. He was a powerful nice man, and so to oblige the two I said I would do it. I put out that corn. He made ne tate my old mule team and the heaviest blow and throw up the ground to a depth Of 10 inches Then he made me harrow 1t. never heard of narrowing for corn. We did this in the fall and the next spring we plowed deep and narrowed and har- rowed again. I got the best seed I could find and cultivated the corn as he said.
 At the same time I concluded there might be something to it. and that if one acre was good. 40 acres was better So I took field of 40 acres away off behind some woods on another part of my farm and cultivated it just the same way. My acre near the road, which the man watched and told me just how to handle, grew so that everybody stopped to look at it, and to make long story short, we huslSed @ bushels of shelled corn from that ncre. When, the corn was x.pe the agricultural agent asked me whethar I thought he had made good. I .-piied that he had, but that had other corn on the place that was worth look ing at I then took Elm through the woods to my 4o acres, which was just as fine that on the road. You'd ought to seen him food. Well, I got 2QOo bushels off of that 40 acres, and now do all my farming that way.
 What a C0lored Man Did
 My next human document comes from . colored man. . He writes from Mssis- sippi to the head>.of the farmers CO., operative demonstration work fin the south. After years of po,aerty and de- rpair. he has started raising cotton under government supervision. The spelling of