The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-08
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS


 thing of interest to the visitor, for other worth while things call for attention.
 Great as was my interest in the mann moth lumber plant and it's baronial hold lngs after an hour spent in the saw mil watching the steam niggers' handle huge logs as easily as one would shuffle lead pencils, and seeing the saws bite their way into their very hearts more easily than one does an apple, I wal ready to visit the farms.
 I found that the same care which saw to it that no tree was cut until it was mature, or robbed of it's strength by the draining process of extracting the tur- pentine, was applied to all of the agricul- tural experiments, and that a system of bookkeeping had been installed whereby the profit or loss of each separate farm was shown at the end of the year. |
 ] It was marvellous as I rode mile after mile with E. M Cannon, manager of the farms, to see large fields which last year were in standing timber waving with growing corn or cotton. By the way, the best 20 acres of cotton seen by me this season was just ripe for the new trying out of the "dusting'' process to get rid | of the boil weevils. I am anxious to learn the results of the treatment. Manager Cannon is justly proud of his pure bred Poland China hogs. He has everything provided for the physical com rather wallowing pool, dipping vat, ample yards, and well built houses, all evidenced the fact that he was giving MT. and Mrs. Hog the best to be had in the kingdom of pork. I saw some show specimens in his pens
 l He is justly proud of Percheron stall lion and spoke with pride of his barn full of mule colts. I was glad to see in | the distance large herd of fine cattle on the range. I asked MT. Cannon, How many months out of the year can you find grazing for your stock?" He laughingly made answer: "Only 13.'' I was astonish- l ed to find that actually thousand head or more had been carried 12-month in good condition without feed of any sort except that they got on the cut over lands.
 l found the dairy on the Harlan farm, run by J. w. Andrews to be well worth a study. He has under his care 75 pure bred Jerseys, and is just beginning to take on about 20 Holsteins. I saw some fine specimens of the Island Cattle, and two unusually well built herd bulls. Some of the older cows had the lines of high breeding so sought by lovers of the great milk and butter producers. l The dairy itself is a modern one with every convenience both in barn and in the butter making end. It is screened and everything was in fine shape in spite of the fact that our visit was unannounc- ed. It is hard to realize just of what value such an enterprise is to the sur rounding country, for it is daily lesson showing forth the virtue of high bred cattle and that in the end it pays to handle dairy products scientifically.
 
 1 I have visited larger and more costly built chicken yards. but have never seen l any which in my opinion were better adapted to the rearing of fine breeds of chickens It's no small one for 15,o0t chickens and 2OOO ducks are matched an- nually. The thing which caught my fancy was to see the lovely ranges and the charming runs. Can you think of any, i thing prettier in the way of chicken run than to have score or more shaded by great scuppernong arbor. | One of my great disappointments was to find that Colonel Harlans racing string I mered in Tennessee, for be it remembered that while the colonel is strong for pure bred chickens, hogs, and cattle, that his best love is reserved for his horses. It is some feather in his cap to own East CT, the champion three-year- trottin2 gelding of the world with record of 2O61@
 But other things are being tried out by
 
 for his nursery are famed throughout the country. It's something to be able to sell 750O0 pecan trees and 25,0O0 mulberry trees and other shade trees in a season. I have been through many pecan groves throughout the south, but have never seen a. prettier grove than is to be found at the Harlan nurseries.
 
 I was much taken with the South Cov- ington Land company's venture. They have tract of 10000 acres of cut over land, which they have subdivided into small farms. It was the hobby of the late Judge Gaston Gunter of Montgomery. Now, am no promoter or booster for it. but in my talk with some of it's officers, it seemed to me to have genuine merit. I saw what the lands were doing under the direction of Manager Cannon of the Jackson Land company, and also on the Harlan farm
 Now, another thing, the cold storage facilities at Lockhart are sufficient tc l take care of the local supply of meats. fruits and vegetables, delivering them to Ithe consumer through the company's large store quite as advantageously as is done in larger trade centers. Wagon loads of hogs find their way weekly from the Harlan stock farms to the packing plant at Andalusia.