The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-19
HEARD AND SEEN UNDER THE GREAT WHITE DOME
BY WALTER HARPER

pertinent of agriculture on Hog Raising in the South.
 The bulletin gives some recent experi- ences with the raising and fattening of hogs at a number of the experiment sta tions located in the south including that at Auburn. The information is of prac- tical value and will no doubt be re- celved with satisfaction by the farmers in MT. Hehins district
 An old Washington correspondent who represents one of the big New York papers has the farming bug and is just now studying the advantages of Alabama. He is planning to buy farm in the al- falfa belt near Demopols, and will give up his newspaper work to devote his en- tire time to it's attention.
 And this journalist is not a dreamer. He has had some experience in actual farming He is of the class that does not have to toll and slave at his desk in Washington day and night. He has been able to accumulate a small surplus of money and has planted it in small farm over on the Blue Ridge in Virginia. For several years he has been growing about three tons of alfalfa per acre on this hill farm, but has had to bear the ex- pense of hauling lime 10 miles up an alti- tude of 10c0 feet There is practically no lime in his farm, and he has not only had to supply this deficiency, but has had to inoculate his soil artificially. But he has been tolerably successful in spite of these difficulties
 But he heard of Alabama through his browsing in the agricultural department and has started an investigation. He has gathered all the pamphlets and bulle- tins in the department bearing on the al- falfa section of Alabama and Mississippi and has also communicated with people living in the section.
 He has selected Demopolis and will visit the section this spring for a personal in- spection.
 The prospect of growing four and five crops of alfalfa without the expense of lining and inoculation appeals to him strongly, and while he is not an extrav- agant dreamer he sees money in such favorable conditions.
 If he finds what he wants he will trans fer his holdings from Virginia to Ala hama and will give up his journalistic work in Washington to become an active citizen of Alabama. He is the kind of man who will make a success and he will also make a good citiben of the state.
 If he goes to farm in Alabama he will carry a good sized package of books, newspapers and brains. And these are all necessary in successful agriculture.
 Washington is the laziest city in the United States.
 Now don't get shocked | am patriotic enough and all that Perhaps the Wash ington laziness is a virtue. It is at least painless There is not a better city in the world for walking and yet nobody walks when it can be avoided. Though the average man in the prime of condition can walk almost as fast as these cars run, he seems to prefer riding if it is only for a few blocks. I have seen people get on the cars to ride only two and three short blocks. have seen people remain on cars that were blockaded within half a block of theii destination until the congestion was re- lieved and the cars pulled up to the cor ner.
 And yet Washington is said to be the most fascinatingly beautiful city in the world, taken as a whole. Walking is good It is superb Every nook through which you may stroll is interesting. There are no dull corners anywhere from China town to Connecticut avenue. from Cap itol Hill to the fish smelling wharves ! down by the river.
 Though was infected with the lazy bug. the minute I first emerged from the Union depot l have walked perhaps hun- dreds of miles over Washington and have yet only skinned the surface of its fasci- nations.
 There are hundreds of people. 1 dare say. who have always lived here who have never enjoyed the view from the top of Washington monument. They think they may take time to go tomorrow, but i it involves a walk of about two blocks