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proud and a pedigree as long as that of a Chinese nobleman. 

 There are barns filled to bursting with hay and grain, quick- 

 action, labor-saving machinery hard by, while wind mills whir- 

 ring in the breeze, fat and lazy hogs, impatient horses, high 

 caste chickens, ducks and geese. It is almost a new country, 

 this old country in its new dress. 



It lies southeast of Montgomery along the Carter Hill and 

 the Woodley roads, two of the magnificent thoroughfares, 

 broad, hard and smooth, which radiate from Alabama's capital 

 through the rich agricultural paradise known as the prairies. 

 It is pierced, too, by the Montgomery and Eufaula division of 

 the Central of Georgia Railroad. 



HUNTER VAUGHAN PLACE. 



Perhaps the richest thing in this grain section is the famous 

 Hunter Vaughan place, where the single item of hay foots up 

 to 1,500 tons a year, and where they plow the land with a 

 traction engine and gang plows. Most of those who are grow- 

 ing grain and raising stock have come from Kentucky or other 

 distinctly grain countries, but Mr. Vaughan is a native product, 

 born and reared on Montgomery soil, one of these men with in- 

 telligence enough and industrious enough to raise big crops of 

 cotton at a profit and courageous enough to cut loose from old 

 traditions and make money through the growing of hay and 

 the raising of sheep and cattle. Near neighbors of his are na- 

 tive Montgomerians, F. S. Holt and W. D. Peck, both of whom 

 run model hay farms, and both of whom make money out of the 

 raising and thes'elling of hay. 



THE KENTUCKY METHOD. 



Just bevond the Vaughan farm is the stock farm of Mrs. F. 

 J. Hagan, late of Kentucky, who has within her barn yards 

 thirty-three fine short horns with long pedigrees, and who are 

 registered as the best of their breed. 



A mile away is the new country home of Dr. W. M. Brooks. 

 He, too, is from Kentucky. And coming from 'Kentucky, he 

 is' raising stock and grain. Dr. Brooks is only a year in Ala- 

 bama. 



