80 THE ALABAMA OPPORTUNITY. 



THE KANSAS METHODS. 



A year ago he bought the old Farlet place and brought his 

 lather and brothers from Kansas to help him in his Montgom- 

 er}' County farming operations'. His barn yard after one year 

 of farming is good to look upon. It is filled with hay and fod- 

 der Ft-icks, and the corn cribs and the barns' are bursting with 

 hay and corn. The stalls are full of fine bred stock for he will 

 raise horses and cattle as well as form products. Of his' thir- 

 teen head of horses, eight of ihe mare strong and powerful 

 Percherons and there are two fine head of mules with the 

 horses. 



"I am going to put in a large acreage of corn this year," said 

 Mr. Jones. Last year we did not get our corn in until the 

 23d of April, still the yield was very satisfactory. Of course 

 I am going to plant some cotton. We will have to do that, but 

 cotton will be of secondary importance with us. 



"In planting our corn we are going to use a pure bred seed. 

 We are going to devote particular and special attention to the 

 selection of seed and only the best will be permitted to go in 

 the ground. This is an important detail and we propose to 

 attend to it carefully. For that matter, however, we try to 

 have pure bred seed of all sorts as well as' cattle and chickens 

 of the best breed. 



"Our plowing is done a little differently from that usually 

 seen about here. We use gang plows with three and four 

 horses. One of these i;](iws cut twelve inches and the other 

 sixteen inches. We have been accustomed to break up the land 

 deeper th?n is usually done. 



"T am a great believer in alfalfa. I think that is the best 

 fo'"age that can be grown in this country, either for use on 

 the farm or for sale in the market. We plan*:ed some alfalfa 

 l"st ve?ir and gi.t a surprisingly pood yield. This year we will 

 put in quite an acreage of it. We expect to grow large quan- 

 tities of it." 



Mr. Jones is' a chicken fancier and is going extensively into 

 diicken raising. He has three first-class modern incubators, 

 '"'^hese iiicubators when doing their full work as substitutes for 

 h'^ns can turn out 500 chickens a month. As a starter for his 

 ^^--i'-ken fprm for the coming year Mr. Jones' has 100 chickens 

 on his place. They are the pure blooded Tangshang. 



