106 THE ALABAMA OPPORTUXITY. 



the fine hunting- preserve of the Eutaw Gun Club and it still 

 abounds in deer arid other game. It is an enormous place, 

 embracing- 7,000 acres' fronting for nearly fifteen miles on the 

 Warrior River and all of it fenced in. 



On "The Ranch" Mr. Murphy now has 250 acres in hay from 

 which the cattle have been kept. This is in mellilotus and John- 

 son grass for winter feed. For pea vine hay during the winter 

 he has planted 200 hundred acres in peas. He is another ardent 

 believet in the great possibilities of Alfalfa and it is his' pur- 

 pose to put in 200 hundred acres of that promising forage. 

 "The Rranch" boasts a fine drove of Berkshire hogs and a good 

 collection of poultry but these are side issues to the main bus- 

 iness of the big institution. 



In the fall Mr. Murphy, the younger, the manager of "The 

 Ranch" will put in 500 Angora goats and raise mutton for 

 Northern and Southern markets. 



