90 the: ALABAMA Oi'POKTUNlTY. 



Alabama has not yet been able to avail herself of. for she has 

 no immigration bureau, no organized efifort to carry into the 

 North and into Europe the recorded richness of her soil and 

 the beauties and delights of her climate. 



When Alabama gets her share, or only a part of her share 

 of the immigrants, whether they be European new comers, 

 Northern or Southern farmers the county of Covington, and 

 her sister counties, will each become a political sub-division of 

 pride and of riches. 



With its' soil and its climate Covington's agricultural resour- 

 ces are undivined. Plain farming is the rule now — the grow- 

 ing of com and cotton. The farmers who people Covington 

 County are Southern born and Southern bred. They were 

 originally small farmers who came from Mobile and Southeast 

 Alabama counties where they grew up in the cotton rows. 

 They can grow cotton here, a bale to the acre, if they so 

 choose. But as to truck farming they have never done it and 

 they have never seen it done. 



LACK OF TRUCK FARMERS. 



I talked with L. J. Salter as to the land's possibilities for 

 other things besides the staple articles of cotton and corn. 

 Mr. Salter is an old citizen who knows the county from end 

 tc end as he knows the way from his home to the public square 

 of Andalusia. 



"Its as fine a truck farming country as there is in the State 

 and yet there is not a truck farm in the whole county," said 

 Mr. Salter. "It's as fine a county for raising strawberries as 

 that country about the big strawberry field at Castleberry ; 

 yet there was not enough strawberries raised about Andalu- 

 sia last year to supply the tables of the town's two hotels. 



"Why shouldn't it be a fine truck country. We are on a 

 Ime with the truck raising section of Conecuh County and 

 our climate and our railroad facilities are as good. As for 

 strawberries, our soil and our climate is the same as that of 

 Castleberry. 



"But our people don't know about truck farming. They will 

 have to be shown how it is to be done and where the money 

 will come in." 



