Denuded Timber Lands Planted 

 "With Sugar Cane 



Some Things "Which Have Been Accomplished. 



^1 DEVELOPMENT, ail agricultural development, with a scope 

 '^^•so wide and with possibilities so vast that thev mav not 

 be appreciated at this time is shaping in the Gulf States. The 

 movement now is in its inception. But the results that have 

 already been attained are pregnant with the promises of 

 riches. 



The movement is the planting with sugar cane of the timber 

 lands which the lumber men have denuded of trees. A vast 

 held is open to this endeavor. In the South, in Alabama es- 

 pecially, there are millions' and millions of acres awaiting the 

 coming of the farmer and his plow. The lumber man and the 

 turpentine man have passed along and done their day's work 

 in the woods. The scarred and seared woods now await the 

 true worker, the true wealth bringer. the farmer and the pro- 

 ducer. 



The lands upon which the pine woods stood will pay best 

 if they are devoted to the raising of sugar cane. 



This is not the writer's opinion. It is the opinion of the men 

 who have organized and who are maintaining the Inter- State 

 Cane Growers' Association. It is the opinion of men who have 

 lived in Baldwin Count\- and who have had enough experience 

 lo know. It is the opinion of Professor B. B. Ross. State 

 Chemist, and other members of the faculty of the Alabama 

 Polytechnic Institute, that pine lands are especially adapted 

 to the growing of sugar cane and that the richest results can 

 be had from growing the crop, if industry and intelligence 

 are mixed in the cultivation of the. land. 



There is, for example, the sugar cane farm of Mr. E. Smith, 

 near Fairhope. The farm has only six acres of land in cane, 

 but on each acre the enormous total of 660 gallons of syrup 



