The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02
NEW YORKER SEEKS . CHEAP FARM LANDS
Compromise in Tick Eradi- cation Fight Suggested
 in Sumter County

Cuba, April -(Specal.) l.)-Continued I,interest is snown in this county by the
 visit yesterday of l. C. Brown of LOCK-
 port, N. Y., who represents a party Of his section that are looking for invest
 mcnts in southern farm lands. lie was
 accompanied by T. o. Plunkett, agricui-
 turai superintendent of the Queen and Crescent lines. The gentlemen were shown
 over the truck area and the different farms Photographs were taken by Mr.
 Brown, together with a description of such lands as were for sale. His crowd
 seems to be working on the plan of se-
 curing areas of land and improving same
 so as to make them attractive to the
 northern farmer of means, and to do this they say that they must get cheaper
 lands than shown in some sections ne
 has visited. Prices were made him rang
 ing from $S to $25 per acre on improved farm property, most of which is witnin
 three miles of town. The large numper
 of rural telephone lines radiating from here especially appealed to him. He wifi return at later date with others inter-
 ested with him. MT. Brown was disap- pointed in the work that is now under
 way to tie up the tick eradication work,
 for his people are interested in the ani-
 mal industry and would not attempt to
 raise cattle in tck-infested territory. A compromise proposition on the tick
 work has been evolved by l.. Poole of this place. who has suggested that the county commissioners reduce the appro- | .;oI, will carry the work on until about De-
 cember 1; then lift the quarantine until an election can be called to have lbe 1 people vote on the question, or call the | election some time in November. Let those opposing the law withdraw the 1 proposed injunction until such election is called and the voice of the people ex- | pressed. A committee to be made up of l J. A. Rogers, Phillip Willingham, Frank
 Derby and E. F. Allison to formulate a | plan for keeping up the work without all the extra frils that the theorists over
 at Auburn insist on having. His compro-
 mise has evoked considerable discus l sion.
 | Continued cool north winds and frosty
 weather is working serious hardship to | crops and continues to hold strawberries | back. Some cotton was to have been 1 pldDteu HIS week, put Ou dccOuul OI tne
 cool weather it will be deferred for an
 other week yet. What corn that Is up l is growing off very slowly.
 Perhaps the most novel industry ever l started here is that of squab raising, | which is being conducted by Miss Annie | Phillips. She has been growing them | for more than year with marked sue cess, and now has her farm to the point where she can supply the trade, Ar engagements have been perfected with
 one or two commission firms to handle them, and she has taken up the matter
 with the superintendent of dining car service on the Queen and Crescent to sup ply them. Poultry raising is also attract ing attention and over six people are now engaged in the same.
 | Petitions have been generally circulated | calling on Senators Bankhead and Jonn- 1 ston and Congressman Hobson requesting | them to vote against the Scott bill and l to use their best effort to defeat it.