Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1911 — Winifred Pullin Tells About Possibilities in the Southland. [ARTICLE]

Winifred Pullin Tells About Possibilities in the Southland.

Winifred Pullin, whose study of the soils and crops has. made him one of the best posted agricultural scientists in the country, is home for * couple of weeks from Alabama. He came back particularly to try to buy a car load of young draft mares for whieh he hi advertising in The SemiWeekly Republican. The first question put at Mr. Pullin when he came to The Republican office was. ‘'Well Winifred, have you discovered the land of milk and bonhyF • “Mighty near," was his reply, “we have sixty head of dairy cows and made $1,200 worth of hnney off t'.i clover on the lawn this summer." Winifred talked willingly of his experiences and prospects in the southland. He made only one request and that was that we should not say he was getting rich. Possibly it wa ; modesty that caused this request and possibly it was because he is not just sure what “he will be able to accomplish. But he kept his face wreathed in happiness as he told what he was helping to accomplish and what the present outlook is, His postoHic-' is Prairieville, but bis trading' town Is Demopolis, a eity of several thousand people. The Tombigby and Black Warrior rivers combine at that place and the Tombibgy is navigable all the way from Mobile and. north almost to the coal fields. It will be the nearest coal fields to the Isthmus of Panama that belong to the United States and it is expected that a port of entry will be established at Demopolis. Winifred has had great success in all crop growing so far and considers the soil . wonderfully productive. Oats and corn and alfalfa and all sorts of crops grow abundantly. A crop of com will grow after a crop of oats is harvested. Corn may be planted in February, while oats is seeded both in the fall and early in the spring. At the Marengo county fair a prize was offered for the largest number of grasses found on any one farm and Winifred won with fif-ty-three distinctive native grasses. In his search he found one kind of clover that puzzled all the botanical experts of the country and finally an eastern college professor identified it as an European clover not mentioned in any American botany. AU farm labor is colored there, but the foremen are frequently white. The land owners are not expected to work any but they direct all labor through their foremen. Next year Winifred will have for his foreman a young white man, born of Atlanta parents in Japan and a very shrewd and energetic young man. The farm Winifred is engaged in improving is known as the Bermuda Hill farm and consists of a half section. The residence is of colonial architecture, a kind found commonly among the southern aristocracy of a half century apo He is well pleased, with the conditions he has been able to establish there and believes that the future holds great possibilities for him, and we hare no doubt be is right, for such energy as he possesses coupled with his scientific knowledge of agriculture are certain to produce success,,, wherever there is half a chance and in that section of Alabama the chance seems to be a much bigger percent than half. Get th* *CtaMlfied Ad" habit and getrid of the things yon don't need. You will find that there is some good money in a. judicious W of The RppuMtcWn’s Hatmiflpd folnmn yX