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calls are made upon him for miles out in the country, and in 

 every case a quick response is given. 



THE EXPERIMENT WORK. 



On the forty acres of land with its attractive farm house and 

 modern, spacious barns and lots in the center very nearly three 

 hundred experiments are now in course of being worked out. 

 At times in one year over three hundred experiments have 

 been conducted. 



The experiments deal wdth the adaptibility of the soil of the 

 State for all manners of crops, with especial reference to the 

 soil of the Canebrake. In the past the large number of exper- 

 nnents have dealt with the growth of cotton, its proper fertili- 

 zation, its cultivation and the reliability of that are advertised 

 for sale. The experiments' have been worked out with a view, 

 too, of ascertaining what was lacking in some of the favorite 

 soils of the Black Belt whenever such deficiency was found. 



The experiments made at the station in forage plants have 

 been especially valuable. The station has done perhaps more 

 than any other agency towards' arousing the great interest in 

 alfalfa now manifested around Uniontown. It is said. too. that 

 in Alabama the Uniontown station was the first to ascertain by 

 practical experiments that alfalfa was very near a perfect ration. 

 The experiment station people were first to demonstrate in Ala- 

 bama that work animals on the farm could be fed throughout 

 the entire working season upon nothing els'e but alfalfa. Since 

 April 12. the work animals on the experimen*^ farm have no 

 other feed than alfalfa. 



The demonstration of the possibilities of alfalfa made at the 

 experiment farm have had a quickening and inspiring effect 

 upon its status in the Canebrake. Take, for instance, the show- 

 ing that three-fourths of an acre of alfalfa has made at the sta- 

 tion farm. From this three-fourth of an acre, 6,850 pounds of 

 alfalfa hay has been taken and it has been sold in the open mar- 

 ket for $39 and there will be other cuttings. 



Thev are doing something, too, at the experiment station in 

 the way of arousing an interest in truck farming. This year 

 they had one acre of cabbage from which $40 worth of cabbage 

 was sold to the people of Uniontown. 



