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State looking to agricultural development, and has 

 recently been elected a Trustee of the Clernson, or State 



Agricultural College. 

 During the late war 

 he served in Long- 

 street's corps, and sur- 

 rendered as Colonel of 

 his regiment. 



He fertilizes 

 heavily, spending an- 

 nually $6 to the acre, 

 and has always made 



: Wmmmmi^mmiim^ money farming. For 



the last thirteen years 

 he has averaged on his 

 wages farm, 660 pounds 

 of lint cotton to the 

 E. T. Stackhouse. acre. Last year the 



180 acres cultivated on his home farm yielded 179 bales. 

 This season he picked thirty-six bales from thirty acres. 

 His wages farm, during the last thirteen years, has yielded 

 an average of forty bushels of corn to the acre. Since the 

 war he has doubled the increase of corn to the acre, but 

 has not been able to make much improvement in cotton. 

 He has no bottom land. He fertilizes corn heavily and 

 plants it 6 feet in the row and 18 inches in the drill. He 

 believes in giving good distance to cotton, and thinks that 

 the importance of grass crops are rapidly becoming known. 

 A man of character and intelligence, he admirably 

 fits his position as President of the Farmers 7 Alliance. 



JASPER NEWTON Coe. 



Jasper Newton Coe, President of the New Mexico 

 Territorial Alliance, was born in Marshall county, Vir- 



