The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-11
GRAIN PLANTED
 WITH SEED DRILL Labor Saving Machinery Is Demonstrated in Sumter BOYS RECEIVE PRIZES
Many Witness Demonstration of Sub- soiling With Dynamite at Cuba. Whole Stick Is Required
 for Fruit Trees

Cuba December 10-(SpeciaD .-Bringing improved methods to the farmers doors and giving him without cost, an eyesight demonstration of new and labor saving machinery, MT. J. Williamson of the state agricultural department, has been here for two days putting in grain crops with a seed drill that Is so ingeniously con- structed that 1t puts out the grain and fertilizer at one operation and plants live rows at a time A demonstration plot was secured on the land w. Y. Shaw where six varieties of oats were planted by the open furrow method which the of ficials at Auburn have learned is best to prevent damage from freezes.
 Other grain, consisting of rye and bar ley, was successfully put out and the entire demonstration was decided suc- cess. At o'clock in the afternoon all the day pupils of Cuba high school were talk en to the field where they saw the op- eration of the machine and listened to an interesting lecture by MT. Williamson on the value of agricultural education. lie astonished the boys with the statement that graduates inethe agricultural depart ment all had secured good positions just as soon as they got out of school and that it appeared that the demand for agricultural experts was greater than the supply More than 200 farmers and school boys were present and witnessed the ease with which improved machinery re- duces the drudgery heretofore obtaining in farf11 work.
 Money still continues to flow into the pockets of two of the members of the Boys Corn club of Cuba. A check for s100 was received by Bowman McElroy from Pinson & Geiger for first prize for Sumter county while his brother received a similar check from the same firm for S75 for the second prize They have also re- ceived advices that they took second mon- ey at the Montgomery fair held some weeks ago.
 Figuring all the prize money they have received together with the corn and po- tatoes made these two acres have brought in around $500, which seems to show that farming offers great opportunities to the boy who hustles. MT. Duncan of Auburn will arrive next week to line up the boys for next year when it Is hoped to have about 20 boys in the work.
 With a merry chug of their automobile the demonstration crew of the Jefferson Powder company of Birmingham drove in town this morning and immediately went to work preparing plot of ground for a demonstration of subsoiling with dyna- mite. In couple of hours they had the ground of w. G. McDaniel ready for the explosives which were set off this after noon in the presence of one of the best crowds of farmers ever seen in this town.'
 The work was an entire success, tearing up the ground and making it porous with out throwing up the soil as is done with subsoil methods by use of the blow. Messrs Almon and Cammeyr in charge of the work, declared that land could be subsoiled with dynamite at cost of BIO 40 per acre, by putting the shots so close together as to require 160 to the acre, it only cost about cents per shot. Their work today proved their claims. For pre- pairing land for fruit trees whole stick is required.