The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-08

but there Is no place in the United
States that can compare with Escam-
bia county in climate, pure drinking
water and healthful surroundings and
no place that will give you as fine
return and recompense.
Escarnbia county is unexcelled for
stockraising. from q goat to cow.
and for poultry You can raise cattle
cheaper because you can grow the
/ finest and strongest forage crops
cheaper than in any other state. 4
constant green growth averaging nine
months in the year. the strongest and
best Iegum crops, such as kudzu, vel
vet beans, cow peas and burr clover,
these are all soil builders, the yield
J from the kudzu is on an average of
ten tons to the acre, and the napier
grass averages as high as 10 IL tons.
In kudZu there is no replanting after
the first year. neither in the napier.
and both makes the finest pasture in
the world for all stock, including poul-
try also. Northern and western farm
ers are all acquainted with the alfalfa.
and while the alfalfa is great you can
not pasture your stock, except the
stock for butchering, as the alfalfa.
/ like the velvet bean and COW peas
must be fed in limited quantities be-
cause 1t Is destructive to the kidneys
If fed or pastured permanently. In
the meal from the kudzu the cattle
don't require but one half of wheat
bran and cottonseed meal and they
will give more and richer milk.
Time is too short and the subject too
great to tell the homeseekers all of
these wonderful blessings we have in
Escambia county.
Pure air is constantly coming in
from the gulf, laden with life giving
ozone from the salty gulf streams, and
the hills are 40 feet and more above
tide level. and the waters from the bay
springs surpasses the nectar of the
gods in ambrasial purity.
The waters furnished by these
springs have been known for years
for their medicinal virtues for stom-
ach and kidney troubles and also for
indigestion. The writer has had many
drinks from these springs As years ago
but all things must have a beginning
and you cannot come to any other
place on the globe from any country
or any other county in the United
States that possesses as many and
great blessings as have been given by
the heavenly Father to Escambia
county.
In my minds eye I can picture that
inside of another twelve months you
will have in Bay Springs. churches,
hotels, banks and schools and the
community building for social enter
tainments. 1t will be almost called a
magic city. and the members of the
Alabama Florida Land Company, who
are making such extensive develop
ments viii be entitled to the highest
praise and honor and will be entitled
the name of life savers, as many fam
lies viii come here broken in health
from the cold bleak northland BY
living and enjoying every day, breath.
ing wonderful atmosphere, and bask-
Ing in this blessed sunshine their all
ments win soon disappear and be
changed like magic into health and
strength.
The writer has no axe to grind. /
don't own a foot of land, and have
none to sell, but I feel it my duty to
give these undisputable facts 70 the
strangers. tourist and homeseekers
from personal experience of 55 years
in Pensacola, Escambia county, and
have had the experience of a farmer.
fruit and stock raiser and the only
nursery man in West Florida. Florida
people should especially stand by
Florida's Industry When you hear
man knocking Florida's enterprises
he or they should be induced to move
to some other state, and they should
learn by my little poem, II want to
be a booster and with the boosters
stand and knocker over barrel and
a spanker in my hand"