Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1912 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

What W. J. Spillman, Alfalfa Expert, Washington, D. G., Says About the Prairie Region of ALABAMA

/; When nature made the southern state* she made a strip of prairie land beginning just south of Montgomery, Alabama. extending westward to the Mississippi state ltne, then curving northward in Mississippi and extending In that state to the Tennessee line. This prairie region is variously known as the black belt, the prairie belt and locally as the canebrake. The soil of the region was made by the disintegration of A soft limestone rock, and Is heavily charged with lime. •In many places, lime gravel occurs in the soil. ThsS soil is rather sticky clay, and was originally some of the richest soil in the south. Some of it has been given good care, and is still rich. A great deal of it has been more or less worn out by cotton growing. Like ail limestone clay soils, it is comparatively easy to build up this soil.- The most essential step in doing this is to put Into the soil a good supply of humus. The Canebrake soils do not need phosphates, ox potash fertilisers, but nitrogen whether applied in the form of nitrates, barnyard manure. or leguminous cover crops, produces - marked results. The soils of this prairie region when in good condition, axo eminently adapted to alfalfa growing. The Canebrake farmer has a monopoly on this crop, since aside from the restricted areas in river bottoms, he has the only alfalfa soil oast of the Mississippi river and south of the Ohio. It is true alfalfa can be grown in other sections, but this is the only soil eminently adapted to this crop. I have been advising Canebrake farmers to grow alfalfa very generally. It has a remarkable effect on the solt On the plantation of General M unford, four miles from Uniontown, a few years ago a two-year-old alfalfa sod was plowed up for corn. The crop of corn just before the alfalfa had yielded eighteen bushels per acre; the *:rop after the alfalfa yielded forty-four. The next year a three-year-old alfalfa sod produced fifty-four bushels. It Is hardly probable that Canebrake . farmers will ever produce more alfalfa hay than there will be sale for at good prices, but if there Should be an oversupply and prices should get so low as not to be remunerative, these low prices for such good forage would form the foundation for a splendid live stock’ Industry. An alfalfa region is Always a good stock country. The Canebrake is no exception to this rule. It is decidedly the best live stock region in the south, and in my opinion is as well suited to livestock production as any section of the north. Nearly all of the great livestock regions of the north are in limestone regions. Grasses are apparently more nutritious when grown on limestone soils. At least the best livestock in the country are grown where the soil is well supplied with lime. In this respect the Canebrake region is eminently suited for livestock production. No part of the United States is better adapted to the production of forage for livestock than the Canebrake. Successful livestock raising means good pastures. in Bermuda grass tbs Canebrake farmer baa a pasture grass that Is not surpassed by any grass grown In this country. The best Bermuda pastures wW carry two to four times as many cattle per Sere as tbs beet blue grass in the north. For hay the Canebrake has two magnificent hay plants. First and foremost Is Johnson grass, the greatest hay grass In this country. Johnson grass has the reputation, in some sections, of ‘being a troublesome weed, but if a farmer knows how to manage It,

-- . • We have lands in this district for sale at from $25 to #4O per acre: For information, see J. A. PULLIN, Phone 534-I. R.-D. No. 1, Rensselaer, Indiana. . A\ ;|jg;

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