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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03

truck patches of those nine acres with their owner, however, there is no need of explaining why Farmer Burrows is successful. The main reason why farmer Burrows Is successful is Farm CT Burrows; the second reason is that terribly maligned and abused compo- sition best known as Jones valley dirt. Either one alone, perhaps could not do much but allow Farmer Burrows and little Jones valley red soil to associate together very long and there's going to be something doing in the springtime" All his life Farmer Burrows has wooed the soil and what he doesn't know now about her moods and idiosyncrasies isn't worth know ing.
 As to just "how he does it," MT. Bur rows is reticent. That would be giv- ing away the tricks of the trade But the main lesson gleaned from Farmer Burrows experience Is that it can be done and done right here in and around Birmingham where they usual ly make you give surety bond every time you buy a half peck of pota- toes to guard against default of the mortgage on your property you had
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two-story frame house. with a spring just in front. and the churchyard and ceme- tery nearby-and the horses hitched to the trees. This indicated busy place. and we found it very interesting from many points. Anywhere ever you find an institution feeding the minds and train- ing the hands of as many as 140 boys and girls, you realize you are in the midst of something worth while. This Is what we find in the public school at McCalla. A set of rosy checked happy looking children making ready for use full life, a graded school; four teachers besides Professor Lee are employed; and the teachers had rosy cheeks, too They live the simple life of the country and walk to and from their boarding homes anc eat pure country foods and sleep a good nights rest, and they are ready and fresh for their tasks.
 We do not believe one half the mothers in the rural schools realize what the Some of them think there is too much ''red tape" too much science This in- troduction of drawing, manual training, in the schools is a wonderful accessory to the home, and strong branch of school work. When an indolent, unre- sponsive pupil finds he can use his hands he will soon begin to, use his head, and the two combine for the best that is in the boy-and he grows. This is true of the girl if she is sluggish in her studies and finds there are other things she can do she begins to develope-to become in- terested-and then the science of applica- ton is recognized. Only recently the branch of domestic science has been in- troduced in the rural schools, and prob ably the mothers find themselves un- willing to have their child devote school hours to other causes than their books. Science puzzles the most of the everyday folks but once they begin to realize thiA is the training to make girl useful in the home-her own he4pmate- the interest is double. Thif class of young girls bring each article, to be prepared
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03

expenses of the war have hitherto the whole of the revenue of France.
 The object I propose is to establish, in the great ocean of the atmosphere, a general navigation. infinitely more cer- tain and more advantageous than mari time navigation, which has ever dis turged the tranquility of mankind-to restore the perfect liberty of commerce and unite them as one family. By great labor I have surmounted the multiplied obstacles which presented themselves before me; and my progressive discov- cries are developed in work which have prepared, consisting of about 400 pages and divided into five. parts.
 have shown my work to several learned men of this Capital ( The com missioners appointed to take my plans into consideration (two of whom are members of the national institute and formerly members of the academy) have long medfated on my data, which they haver freQuently examined with the greatest Rttention: at last, after d long series Of conversations with me they have testified their approbation in the most unanimous aid most earnest manner.
 In my teatise on aerostation pro- pose that the capital city of each eoun try shall have dock for building aerial vessels, and an nerostattc port, having 2 number of wharfe. on which foreign vessels may at all times de- 5cend; and remain without danger a sufficient time to unload, make com mercial exchahges take in fresh car- Goep, reflt' etc But while these ves-
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sels are under sail. the smallest of which will carry more than 200 per sons, they will have no occasion to descend for the purpose of exchanging or purchasing commodities. Their powers of direction. by which they are enabled to make way against the strongest winds, will serve to make them ascend or descend. or remain sta4 tfonary at any height required. Tw6 atmospheric buoys. each surmounted with a parachute to be used in case of any accident, must be placed in the two pavilions with which the two ex- tremeties of the gallery of the ves- sel ought to terminate. and may be let down and taken up at the pleasure of the crew, with men, provisions or articles of any kind necessary for ma neuvering the vessel
 My work, besides, contains all the details necessary to this kind of sail ing. ana an atmospheric code, the regulations of which have for sole ob- ject the peace and happiness of all the people of the earth.-) Campenas, Hydraulic Engineer.)
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eyes that ever twinlSled over a three quarter acre of cabbages or watched the tops from an onion patch almost magica1ly climbing toward the clear blue sky.
 Farmer Burrows is a philosophers philosopher of the red, red soil. Many "a man there is who would scoff at Farmer Burrows avoeation and many a man there Is who would give any thing but their lives for a little bit of that fresh philosophy. that sturdy muscle that keen eye, that knowledge of the things of nature, gleaned not rom college but from clods, which radiates from this little farmer man like light from corner street arc.
 There aint no gold mine in this farmin' business,' says Farmer Bur- rows. But Farmer Burrows himself confesses that this farmer business" with little Jones valley red soil to work with as capital stock has proven mighty near. a gold mine to him. al. though he said that he did wish there'd be nothing printed in the pa pers about that. Foolish man. And then after he had told it to a news paper man, who was hungry for at least respectable story. q wouldn't have anybody go into this thing think Tn that because I've made little coin they could start a national bank and then lose everything they got and be disappointed and maybe blame the whole business onto me No. sir. Bobl''
 Ihat what Farmer Burrows says He does not say, however, which with out any doubt would be the truth. that II anybody makes failure of farm-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03
POINTS TO PROFITABLE
 THREE-QUARTER ACRE

What has been in that patch?' Farmer Burrows was asked. three-quarter-acre bare patch of ground being designated.
 ''Turnip and mustard greens, sold 'em all out last month" he responded.
 How much profit?'
 Two hundred and fifty dollars; the fourth crop cut off there since March, 1915"
 Four $250 crops cut off a three-quarter- acre patch in the space of 12 months! Oh Croesus Guard well thine reputation!
 "I don't think nothn' of spending $200 or $500 a year on fertilizer for these nine acres.'' says Farmer Burrows. That 8 probably more than the average truck farmer about Birmingham makes in a whole summer. Burrows uses both farm yard fertilizer and commercial. He mixes his own commercial fertilizers. Its cheaper he says. and by cracky it's better And he knows.
 The instantaneous change from one sub ject to another in Farmer Burrows con versaton as he and the reporter and the photogra pher plodded over the tops of his soft plowed fields was refreshing. He was talking about pole beans on one oc- casion and his next sentence was on matrimony.
 .I believe in gettin married young. he said q got married when l was jist kid and l didn't have cent in the world. Not even a chew of tobacco
 When l come home with my woman, dad walks up to me and he says: Well kid, you got everything In the world you need now but woman. I thought he was tryin' to say something against my new wife and I got sort of mad. How's that, dad?' I asked him kind of mad like. We'll he says, you've got her.
 "Now there's that boy O mine! Con sarn him. I give him that house and lot over there couple years ago but he ain't never got married and don't reckon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03
HIGH COST OF LIVING
 NOT FAULT OF FARMER

farmer Burrows says the high cost of nVine IS not the fault of the farmer. The farmer IS not getting too much for bis prooucts and in most cases not enouph ne claims. He says that "half ro,ter stun Is shipped into Morris avenue. down here' and the wofnen buy it and don,t Know the difference between 1t and home grown fresh stuff and so we got to so,, o'i stun as cheap as they do.-
 put these here merchants here in town, they don't use us right. neithe, !" ne said. If they'd take a decent nr,ce TOT their shoes and boots and suits of clothing and such stun we could take less Tor our cabbages and onions. been sendin' to Chicago for most O my stuff. Just can't pay whut them suckers in there ask fer it. 1 was in the other day ana the very same suit I used to pav s15 ior-yes siree, the very same glad rag and by cracky they wanted S25 fer it and 1 Jist had to pay it. Now hows that?''
 The red clay is much better for farming than the sandy loam which so many peo- pie think is best in this section accord ing to Farmer Burrows. The sandy loam Is too cold in the spring and tll< seed won't sprout and it holds water just like bucket he says, contrary to the com mon belief. MT. Burrows employs ne- groes when he needs them to help him. but he states that he never does until there is more work than he and his boys can do themselves and then when he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03
BY MRS. J. B. REID

in the lesson, thus they are really being taught to use such materials as they use each day, and to prepare such dishes as the family may want
 Professor McAdory took great pride in this branch of the school in his own neighborhood, and through his interest the kitchen was equipped. As we opened the door of a great big, old-fashioned press, used now for kitchen cabinet, Mrs. McAdory told us ''This was my mothers press in this she kept all of
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mer on the street car, stirs ones desire to be out in the
 24&J open-peeping through the win dows passing glances are caught at cottages situated beneath branches of great shade trees and the verandas are being covered with the budding Branches of the early vine clinging to comfortable porches. Many small gar dens are beginning to peep through the soil, indicating the love of working in the earth, and the necessity of raising a part of the home living. Each neigh borhood seems to have local school and church, to these lead the country paths that are hedged with an array of green making the walkway stand aut distinctly to those who view the scene from a distance. Few can glance over these winding ways. who ever at tended a country school do not recall Che time they
 "Sometimes would a fishing go-
 With spcols of thread for fishing lines And pended pins for hooks
 Only a short period of time included this retrospection of a country life and we were waiting in Bessemer There began the whirl of busy city again. the shops and the streets were well filled as if Fashion Week" might be visiting our neighbor. A very pleasant half hour was spent, jut taking in the hituation waiting for the Jonesboro car. That very fact seemed strange to us--we had driven just 46 years ago to this little town in "a covered wagon" from the black belt of south Alabama winding our way to the mountains of Blount county where we found pa nacea for our chills and malaria Now instead of these journeys, science has taught the flies and mosquitoes must do the tripping. But We are glad of those days--because today we can ride over the same old scenes and see the hand of progress, and the change of Fortunes. We were not wandering around to kill time. there was an inter- estfng puprpose. in view-and before us we had fite mile ride along the macadamixed road. after leaving Jones'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03
BURROWS FARM
 IS IN CITY LIMITS

Farmer Burrows lives at West End about mile from Beverly station and just within the city limits Think of it. A farmer like that really within the city limits of this metropolis and industrial city of the south. But there he is and there's his farm and there also is one of the most remarkable displays of the art of farming that has ever In this state been beholden.
 His whole name Is w. T. Burrows
 His whole farm measures nine acres
 Year before last he admits he cleared $7000 in one summer from the products of those nine acres.
 Whats more, he has $30 900 in the bank, has traded his nine-acre farm" for a 5S0-acre stock farm in Calhoun county with $1000 ito boot and he's going to move there this fall.
 Farmer Burrows-he says he used to spell 1t Burroughs but when he came to Birmingham people began to spell 1t Burrows and so he "jist let 'em go" was born in Kentucky and is proud of 1t. He was reared in Ohio-and he's proud of that He's now in Alabama and he says he's might proud of that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03
HAS LIVED ON PLACE
 FOR PAST FOUR YEARS

MT. Burrows has lived on these nine acres in West End about four years and he has lived in Birmingham about nine. He formerly ran a truck patch near Gin cinnati. Heshas now traded his nine acres here for the farm in Calhoun county, which he says is exceptional on account of it's water facilities by which he in- tends to pipe running water all over the place and make general stock farm out of it. He intends to move onto this ESQ., acre farm this fall.
 Now don't go and write up lot of stuff and make this look too big" he remonstrated as the camera man folded up his machine. I'm Just plain, old farmer and l ain't doin anything wonder full out here and I wouldn't want any body to think that they kin just get a patch of ground and bake it into gold bricks, cause they can't. There ain't nothin' in this farmin' business. Once in awhile when you're close to good mar ket you can make a little. but not so often. This market business the city commissioners is startin is all bosh It won't work and it's goin to hurt the farmers and the peddlers. Well, since you won't come in to dinner. good by. But remember now, don't make it look to much like pack O lies.'
 And the owly wielder of the pen and the humble craftsman of the senstized plate wended their steps toward the sky scraper district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03

so filled with so many new plans for schoolroom execution. and again Mir. Me- Adory was so fresh with "reminiscences that we were sorry to see the sun go down, although it sunk amid panorama of beautiful scenery. So we left the doorway and entered the back yard where conveyance was awaiting us. MT. Me .Adory, pointing to some huge white oak trees. said: Those trees were topped years ago by Rev. Dr. Hosmer when he was young minister in this church, and over wonder see that little house. We'll, there he lived with his young wife and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03

her bed clothes, and we have given 1t to this school.' We took great inter- est in this cabinet. whose history ex- tended back many years. and we could see all those shelves, now filled with china and kitchen accessories as they were wont to be, burnedend with the beautiful old time quilts and home woven comforts that were made at home in those days. The hours passed 50 quickly there was so much to be seen that was being done today, and Mrs. McNeill was
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their first badly" And from this early service he grew into the great, broad Christian whose influence was felt over all Alabama. We glanced toward the cemetery and saw the towering markers and we knew there slept some of the characters who had lived in service for this same old church and schoolroom. and this generation of school children has even greater advantages than they. Who seeks and will not take when once
 tis offered,
 Shall never find it more"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03

week there is no doubt but what he could give advice if he were not too modest and this is about what 1t would be:
 Quit sitting about the village drug store and the blacksmith shops and get out on to the farm and work like nigger is one of the sentences Farmer Burrows emitted as he stopped over an onion row that stretched as straight as an arrow for about 40 miles due west" with the plants re- sembling young eaplings. Next, the southern white farmer must raise stock feed up his stuff on the place and put the fertilizer back onto the fields; he must divide his great plant ation up into small farms not over 200 or 300 acres at the outside, which if cultivated correctly will yield more profits than his plantations of 2000 or 5000 acres now do. He must use fertilizer, both manure and commer- cial; he must use modern farming inn plements; he must blow deep and cul- tivate deep; he must boss his own ne- Rroes and work right with them in the fields he must know the chemical analysis of his soil, the chemical needs of different crops; he must forget there ever was a stalk of cotton raised south of the Ohio river; and he must nourish and study his farm like doctor does his patient.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03
Made Too Much Work

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
 Why don't you advertiser" asked the editor of the home paper Don't you be- lieve in advertising?''
 I'm agin advertising.s replied the pro prietor of the Hayvifle Racket Store
 But why are you against it?" asked the editor
 It keeps feller too durn busy.'' re- piled the proprietor. "T advertised in q newspaper one time about 10 years ago and never even got time to 60 filming. g
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03
RED DIRT AND BURROWS
 MAKE THE COMBINATION

Farmer Burrows says he don't know why he Is successful in truck garden ing on his little nine-acre plot in West End. To the person who is privileged with the honor of walking through the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03
DECLINES TO GIVE
 ADVICE ON METHODS

Mir. Burrows was asked to give ad- vice to his Alabama compatriots of the calling agricultural, but he declined. stating that they were inclined to call him damned old Yankee, anyhow" and If he was to give them any ad- vice they'd jist think he was trying to butt in again." But, nevertheless, rom his various remarks gathered while he and the reporter were wading Knee deep through patches of turnip greens, lettuce, cabbages. onions and so on, some pertinent advice relative to the truck gardener and the farmer of the south might be adduced. Under stand this Is net--from Farmer Bur- rows, own mouth, for he refused point blank to take the time or trouble to give advice to anybody. But from dif- ferent things he said during the fore noon spent on his plantation" last
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ing or truck gardening in this old red soil of the Birmingham district it's because they are deficient in the craft that Farmer Burrows possesses and which no doubt more than the Jones valley soil is responsible for his won
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he ever will. That bachelor business sort or runs in our family and I guess he's got it, but I don't believe in it, nohow. Now that tomato field there was turned under with about six inches of manure layln' on top the ground. That's the way l farm, you bettcha
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03

RMER BURROWS is a little man, with a sharp, wrinkled face, thin lips and scraggly
 hair but the kindliest little
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03

RIDE from the city to Besse-
 mer on the street car, stirs ones desire to be out in the
 open-peeping through the win
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-26

had are having at the present
time any adequate chnncH TO secure
training"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-26

ing friends In I.ynchburs during part OF
last and this week. returned home on
Wednesday.
Miss Matte Mccartney. of Hinton. w.
Va. Is here Visiting her brother o. X
Mccartney, on Bedfotd Avenue. She will
remain several weeks.
Mrs. Henry Wilkinson and Miss Kath-
crime Wilkinson left on Sunday for virginia
Beach. While there they will be the cot
tnge guests OF Mr. and Mrs. II. e. Dunn OF
Enfield. y. c.
Miss Susie Blair. who has been n guest
OF her aunt Mrs. A. G. Bell. for several
weeks. returned to her home at ScottsvilIe
on Monday. She accompanied an far
as Lynchburg by Mrs. Bell and the Misses
Powell.
Miss Dorothy Steintorf has been visiting
friends In Lccsvilie.
Mrs. W. ID. English and two children re-
turned from an extended visit to her parents
at jaN Wednesday,.
Miss Resale Cooke. OF Montvale liz being
entertained by DR.. AMI Mrs II. f. Price
Broad Street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emory Curdin and family
are visiting relatives at StcwardSvilIc, Va
Mrs ". q. Smith and children are visit.
Ing Mrs Smiths brother. q. q. Turner, OF
Iuddleston.
Marion Wilkinson. OF Winston Salem, N
g.. Is visiting his parents. Mr.. and Mrs
Wilkinson. on Bedford Avenue
Mrs William Kempton and son. Forest
OF centcrville. Ind. arrived here on Wed.
MIR. Forest Kempton Is a student at tho
University OF Illinois.
Mlss Elizabeth Williams. OF Alabama and
her sister Mrs. Ward Pcrrow, OF LecsvtIle
are being entertained by Mira Julia Spencer
on Bedford Avenue.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-26
v. M. |. NEWS

BlacksburE. Va. July 25.--The Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute summer
school will end Its six weeks session
July 81. but not even the departure OF
most of the fifty students will give the
buildings and grounds n marked vaca-
ton aspect, as there has been large
increase In the force OF workmcn en-
gagged in the construction of the new
shops buildings and the athletic house.
Much Of the necessary repair work and
improvements about the barracks have
been delayed by the summer school
and tho remaining half Of the summer
holiday promises to be busy one:
with number of the students en-
ployed in the various departments of
the college.
The summer school students will
give II final BALI on the evening OF
Friday. with an orchestra from Roa
noke to furnish the music. and during
August most OF the professors who
have been kept here by extra duties
this summer will leave for few
weeks vacation The first term OF the
session 1o14-l5 begins Wednesday, Sep
tember %.
Professor Ellison y. Smytho and
Thomas Smythc arc spending ten days
ut Black Mountain, n. G.
James II. Dushane left on Monday
to take charge of the subbureau OF
plant pathology. at Middietown, Va.
for a month. and will then go to his
home In st. Paul, Mimi, for short
vacation.
Dean II. l.. Price. of the agricultural
department, is with party of friends
on a fishing trip In Grayson County.
Miss Laura l.. Sawyers. private sec
rotary to Dean Campbell, has been
taking a months vacation at her home
in Norfolk.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-26
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