The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20
Description of Marengo County PIanta-
 ton for Sale or Exchanue

This plantation is located In Marengo county, Alabama, and consists of about eleven hundred and twenty Q120) acres, one hundred GOO acres in cultivation, seven hundred and fifty G50) to eight hundred B00) acres are In pasture. the balance In woodland, in which there is growing mostly oaks and hickory. Prac- tically all of the pasture land can be put in cultivation with little or no cost; this land Is mostly black soil and Is well adapted for grasses and is very valuable for the purpose 1t Is now being used. If put under cultivation it will produce all the staple crops common to this potatoes, etc., and will also grow all kinds of fruits and vegetables. This land Is very strong and will raise as much as one bale of cotton per acre without the use of fertilizer. and as much as sixty (60) bushels of corn per acre, sugar cane grows well on the land There is land in this neighborhood where the owners have made fifteen hundred Q5O0) gallons of fine syrup from less than ten O0) acres of land planted in cane. This is readily salable at sixty (6O cents per gallon. Rice is also easily grown on this land. as having been demonstrated by actual experience in this locality
 At the present price of cotton. produc- ing bale to the acre. which would sell lOl dDOul elXty t*Vj uOiidiS anu tHc cotton seed for about fifteen ($15) dollars, would produce gross return of seventy five (S75) dollars per acre. The most ex- travagant man could not spend more than twenty ($2D dollars per acre In the cul- tivatlon of same.
 These lands are slightly rolling, just enough to give proper drainage and not to wash the land. They are described by experts as rich, strong and very produc- tive.
 Now as to the cattle proposition, we are not in position to give you actual figures. but we have seen the lespedesa and other wild grasses suitable for cattle on these lands growing knee high, and cattle grow very fat without the use of anything ex- cept the grasses that are natural to the soil.
 Pecans planted on this land would in the course of ten Q0) or fifteen d5 years make it worth one thousand (sl000 per acre.
 The improvements consist of about six (6) tenant houses. ranging from two ito four rooms each. the place Is located within three miles of station on the Louisville and Nashville railroad (Myrtle- wood Branch). This station Is town of about 1000 to 15O0 people, with good schools. churches and shipping facilities.
 This is fine section for cheap labor. and industrious. hard working hands can be secured at from fifty (50) to seventy five (75) cents per day, and some labor at from S, to SIP per month.
 It will not be but a short time before these lands will be sought after at fifty ($5O) dollars per acre. as there is only a limited amount of this black land to be had. While alfalfa has never been raised on this property. 1t is believed by some that it can be raised successfully, other haps, such as clovers or Johnson grasses viii s,rodi,ra from fhroe to Ave tons per acre and enrich the land at the same time.
 If you are looking for high class invest ment in cattle or farming lands you can do no better than to see this place at once. The price on same Is thirty 00) dollars per acre.
 MiNcE MORTGAGE q REALTY co.
 2113 let Avenue
 eirminoh Ala.