The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-04
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Jefferson county has full right 10 add the prelix, imperial" for it is entitled to be so called both for it's size and its wonderful tsaoGlces in every way
 Nature was most bounteous to it when she poured into it's lap the best gifts in her cornueopia. The riches stored in its hills and hidden benea tn it's vlleys have been the mineral treasure upon which the Magic City and the other cities and towns have been reared.
 But it is not my purpose now to ex- plolt it's great mineral wealth, but rather to put it in l.ew lisnt as have any idea of its nsricui|H
 sources. To some 1t almost
 joke when any one spcsks
 son county farmers and
 neither can be laughc
 lands and it's culti1 le reckoned with.
 It's a big coun@ have had impressed on me l5 .~ntly It's a long cry from the St. Clair line to the borders of Tuscaloosa county, and from Shelby to Walker. Having practically covered it during the past week in car I am ready to say that it's roads taken as a whole are better than in any county through which l travelled on the trip with the Call houn county farmers to east Tennes- see.
 Start out from Birmingham and any road you take will lead you soon into farming sections which will be a sur prise unless you have already become acquainted with them. The Truck Growers association, was an eye open CT to many, for few realized that it was possible to raise such a variety of products within easy reach of the city, and that it was perfectly feasible to bring in truck in time for the housewives to get it before break fast from anywheer in radius of p miles.
 If you will take the trouble to ask the truckers who are lined up in their space at the junction of Morris avenue and Twenty fourth street. where they are from, you will learn that few of them have come from St. Clair, Blount, Shelby, Tuscaloosa and Walker counties It's a we'll known fact that even CullnAan coun- ty is frequently represented on the nearby streets, and I know of at least one enterprising poulterer who makes regular trips in a truck from Sand mountain
 Any one who has watched the de- velopment of the agricultural re- sources of Jefferson county will have cause for being proud. The old one- crop system gradually gave way to diversification and is passing rapidly in many sections into intensive farm ing, for trucking is the coming thing with many for it has been demon strated that the products can be easily grown, and. what is better, marketed at price which will give good returns to those who are willing to work and save.
 As have gone up and down and across the county with farm experts, they have pointed out to me the great amount of land which, is not being cultivated at present and yet which could be done profitariy. County Farm Agent Jordan told me that there was acreage enough for several thou sand more truckers. There are yet chances for men who know how to run market gardens, and if the situa- ton could be made known in its true light to the farmers of the north and west there would be an exodus to Jefferson county.
 There is much land all over the state adapted to trucking, but the advantage offered here in Jefferson county comes from the fact that be- cause of it's mineral wealth great cities have been built large indus tries are in operation and the popula tion, owing to good wages, is able 10 buy from those who raise food and ,cruite crops. Take it all in all do not know of a better place ine which, to live and make a living than in i'm perial' Jefferson.