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Engaged in the same sort of agricultural endeavor is William 

 Deitchmeyer. His place is across the Central Railroad adjoin- 

 ing that of Hunter Vaughan. He is to engage in stock-raising 

 and the growing of cotton. Mr. Deitchmeyer only took posses- 

 sion of his present places' the first of January. He proposes to 

 raise both mules and horses. He also comes from Kentucky. 



A KANSAS FARMER. 



A Kansas man has bought the old Farley place, on the 

 Woodley Road, in the same neighborhood. He has built him- 

 self a two-story home with rounpd white posts on the veranda. 

 This is Jesse Jones, a young man, who is farming on the Kan- 

 sas plan and who has a barn yard full of Percheron horses, 

 strong and heavy wagons and shining harness. He, too, is 

 raising grain and stock as well as some cotton. 



Hard by on the Woodley Road and closer to town is the 

 fine farm of J. A. Barnes. Mr. Barnes is a great raiser of 

 alfalfa and is an authority upon that fine forage. 



A circle with its' center in the proper place and with a radius 

 of about a mile and a half would touch each and every one of 

 these grain stock farms. While especial stress is being laid 

 upon the growing of grain upon these farms it is not to be for- 

 gotten that there is not one of these farms mentioned which do 

 not support and feed hogs and cattle of the proudest birth. 



ON OLD COTTON FARM. 



The new idea, the idea of this neighborhood is a thing of re- 

 cent birth. These farms are established on old cotton planta- 

 tions, on the rich and hardy prairie acres, acres upon which 

 time seems hardly to make an impression. Hard by these hay 

 and grain fields' are prairie lands which this last year, without 

 d hint of fertilizer produced a bale of cotton to the acre. The 

 native Alabamians have been upon the farms thereabouts for 

 several years, but the growing of hay is a thing of recent his- 

 tory. That which most impresses, however, is the influx of 

 the new idea farmers who have come in and settled down in 

 this one neighborhood. 



There must be some inherent richness, some inherent adapt- 

 ability in this land to draw these immigrants to Montgomery 



