Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1912 — The Proof Four Inches Too Short. [ARTICLE]

The Proof Four Inches Too Short.

Prairieville, Ala., June 16. A few years ago the President of the Jasper County Farmers’ Institute said alfalfa could not be raised there. We are glad to know that he belonged to the great majority whose knowledge was not quite infinite, as evidenced from the 38-inch sample supposed to go Alabama ond better. Your report has it that the sample sent to my father by myself was 20 inches. For the last 72 years that father of mine has not been in the habit of taking dissagreeable medicine, to say nothing of doing it gracefully. We think he broke our sample in two and reported the length of the short end only. Anyway, it was 42 Inches when it left here. It looks to us as if there may be an "African in the woodpile.” Taking into consideration the value of the land, his sample should have been 49 feet high to have equalled the one I sent. Disregarding values of land, if you wish, to equal Alabama’s product. Come again with four inches more, please.. Very truly, WINFRED PULLINS.