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cotton to control labor. We can not get negroes to stay on the 

 place if they are not allowed to raise cotton. This situation is 

 not generally understood by people who have not had the ex- 

 perience. The lack of labor is the thing that most handicap-: 

 us in hay raising V\'liy. l^st season during the cutting season 

 I was paying a dollar a day and board to field hands and I 

 could not get allT needed at that price. 



REDUCING COTTON ACREAGE. 



"I have, however, reduced the cotton acreage to the lowest 

 possible limit. The negroes who live upon and work on the 

 place are not allowed to plant but twenty acres of cotton to the 

 mule. If I had my clioice iibout it, if it was so I coul dget all 

 the labor I needed, I woud not plant any cotton. 



"The land about here is especially good for raising corn, too. 

 1 have gotten a yield of forty bushels to the acre with but little 

 trouble.. Of the three years I have farmed here I have sold 

 home-raised corn in the Montgomery market every year except 

 the last. I would have sold corn this last fall except that I 

 bought an additional tlve head of horses and mules. My stock 

 of Berkshire hogs has largely increased. They now number 

 about fifty and by next fall I expect to have 200 head. More- 

 over, on my place we put up 2.000 pounds of meat last year 

 from home-raised hogs. 



"By the way, I have started an experiment in raising onions. 

 There was such a fine yield of onions in my garden last year 

 that I was impressed wit iilheir possibilities. I am confident 

 that from the one acre of onions that I have planted I will 

 make at least 150 bushels. I expect to sell these onions from 

 this acre for at least a dollar a bushel." 



The Kansas farm of Jesse Jones' is a mile southeast on the 

 Woodley Road. It is somewhat different from that of his 

 neighbors, because Mr. Jones has introduced some of the dis- 

 tinctly Kansas methods in his farming operations. Mr. Jones 

 was educated in the science of agriculture and the education 

 was coupled with a thoroughly practical experience. He has 

 been an assistant in the Agricultural Department of the Ala- 

 bama Polvtechnic Institute. He will be recalled by many far- 

 mers of Alabama who met him at various' institutes held under 

 the auspices of the Auburn faculty. Mr. lones was reared in 

 Kansas but came to Auburn to assist in the demonstration of 

 the science of agriculture. 



