Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-01-14
council decided. however. that 1t was
out Of its province to endorse the IL
quormen's petition.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Way Down in Alabama.

Mr.. Editor: Having been a satis-
fled subscriber of your paper for the
past 20 years, off and on, I wish to
give the general public a few point
ers and real facts in regard to the
south, especially the gulf coast and
more especially Alabama Her re-
sources as far as transportation ia
cilities are concerned are of the best
and if you want to get help for me-
chanical work, Just light in Mobile,
tradesmen looking for work, bricklay-
ers, $3.50 to $3.50 per day, carpenters
IS cents to 81 per day, helpers in all
classes Of labor so cents to $1.25 per
day, and they almost tight for job
at that and yet the Mobile papers
state that 1915 was one Of the most
prosperous years the country here
ever knew. I came here in May, 1914,
and have investigated business of
nearly every kind to really know first
handed just what the inducements are
for any honest man to stay here and
so far hG~e found nothing but cut
throat contractors and miSrepreSent-
ing land agents and cock reaches, they
all belong in the same class. and all
get their living the same way. One
lot seems to be just about as plenty
as the other and need the same kind
of treatment. / came here after
reading some of the advertisements of
the wonderful advantages of this
spot OF the United States with three
crops year. 81 inches Of rain fall
per year, fine grazing the year round,
all kinds OF fruit in abundance, all
kinds of wild game. hunting unsur-
passa6le. Well. as to being the gar
den spot of the United States there Is
not enough soil. good soil, in Mobile
county, that has not been made, to
I'LL hand basin. The raw land
plowed and narrowed and plant
ed will not raise black-eyed beans. Po-
tatoes go about so to rs bushels per
good ones. Corn about 10 or IL
busheI and this is after liberal COM
mercial fertilizing.
Three crops a year, yes.
Corn eight feet apart in the row.
planted between string beans, the
middle of May or between potatoes,
just before digging in May. Potatoes
and beans planted in February. Rows
eight feet apart with corn in between
for second crop, left unhoed. The corn
Is picked of and crab grass and weeds
are cut and cured for hay as crop
No. g. This is what I am feeding my
colt for hay now at 10 cents per hum
dred.
And grazing the year around. the
only thing that can get a living here
without feed even in the summer
time is pine woods cattle and hogs. The
cattle are worth at the present time
on an average of $3.50 per head and
possums are worth rs cents for
good big fat one, but they go in the
game list which includes possum or
flying squirrels. If you want to hunt,
just drop down this way and put
up at the hotel. You don't need to
bring any gun or dog, as all you will
need to do is hunt. If you want wa
ter why we have 81 inches per year.
Mobile has just had about five feet Of
1t last week so we won't have to both
err with any more until about next
September and then we will get the
other inch. Milk is worth ten cents
quart and very scarce at that.
suppose because cows can't make
much milk from red sand and pine
straw, which Is very abundant. Well.
they say times are picking up but I
hope not the kind of times we ara
having. AS to fruit, some say you will
know where to get that when you get
here but just stop of at New York
and order you a barrel OF good mixed
apples IL you want good ones, because
none grow down here, not even the
trees, and oranges, wen, we have some
OF the Sunkists from California, and
a few satsumas on Satsuma day
they are only 80 cents q dozen. And
our peaches are grown in Georgia A
to grapes, well, there are a few vines
around the woods, yet they taste al
most as good as eoperas water. My
wife's sister sent US two bushel OF
dried peaches from Missouri short
time ago to kind Of stunt cur fruit
appetite until we can get back to New
England where It isn't such . good
country for such things. Well. have
been here now nearly two years and
have got to stay until some one helps
me get away. whiol, see no prospects
Of now. 1 viii be pleased to answer
any ones inquiries IN regard to this
section OF the country and now wish