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and the result of the } ear's business is known at a glance. The 

 expenses of farming, of raising cotton in this way, have grown, 

 however, since we started nine years ago. For the first three 

 years we were able to get labor for $8 a month, but the farm 

 hand demands and receives' $12 a month now. 



"Our yield from the cotton lands worked by the w-ages system 

 i'5 to say the least very satisfactory. Now from the old Tisdale 

 place, near here, which is the richest we have under cultivation, 

 we got last year an average of seventeen bales' to the mule. 

 From the Stollenwerck, the Pitts, the Kennedy places, we got 

 an average yield of fifteen bales to the plow, which is a very 

 good showing for the negro laborers. We only employ four or 

 five white men who have the general supervision of the wages 

 hands." 



Others in Uniontown who have found the same style of farm- 

 ing profitable are R. A. Comer and Son and Adair Brothers'. 

 All of them have made money at it and will continue to follow 

 it 



The Canebrake experiment station is only a little ways out of 

 Uniontown. A little over three miles out on the same road is 

 the line Black Belt plantation of General T. T. Munford. where 

 the Agricultural Department at Washington is conducting its 

 well known demonsfi-ation of the advantage of diversified crops. 

 It is on this road leading by the Experiment Station that the 

 National Government is just now giving a demonstration in 

 road building. The government will superintend the building 

 of this road and furnish the machinery for its construction. 

 The planters who will be benefitted by its construction will fur- 

 nish the material for the road and the labor and the teams nec- 

 essary for its construction. 



GOVERNMEMT .\ID. 



The machinery for the building of the road has already ar- 

 rived in Uniontown and the work has actually begun. General 

 Munford, himself, is the possessor of some improved road ma- 

 chinerv and with it he has at his own cost and voluntarily, 

 graded and kept in excellent condition a large portion of the 

 road leading from Uniontown to his plantation. 



The experiment station is upon forty acres of land, on the 

 side of what was a cedar hammock. Originallv the land was 



