Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1888 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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THE SUNNY SOUTH. FROGS SINGING IN JANUARY-NAR-KY BLIZZARD. A Farmers’ Paradise Needing Northern Skill and Enterprise. Your correspondent has had a rather novel experience here in this old battle scared section. It is the latter part of January, and he hears the frogs singing all night long in the meadows, as if they thought it was May instead of January. The tnermometer stands 60® in the shade. One has to make a decided effort to realize that the blizzard is still roaming over the Northwest, and that in New England the severest enow storm in years has just passed. What would our Northern farmers say or think if they were here to see the agriculturalist making for spring planting? Yet I have just met an intelligent farmer here who habitually plants Irish potatoes in February.

This section of the fertile Tennessee Valley ought to be a farmer's paradise, as its climate is neither too hot nor too cold; its seasons are long enough to enable the farmer to raise two crops tn the safne land each season, and the variety of crops that can be raised here is greater than in any section of country I was ever in. There seems to be nothing that can be raised in the North that will not grow here readily, and many things that the northern farmer has only heard of are commonly raised here, such as the sweetpotato, cotton, the peanut,and many other similar productions. In spite of the fact that nature has done so much for this section, farming is in a very backward state. The farmers have continued to raise cotton, as the principal product, and have grown poorer year by year at it If northern farmers would dome down here and buy these improved fanning ‘lands that can be had now for ten dollars to twenty-five dollars per acre, and introduce improved systems of agriculture, the country would blossom like the rose. I am pleased to see that northern people are rapidly coming in here. In this city over half the population are from the North, most of them have come within a year, and I have yet to find one that is dissatisfied, or that is not enthusiastic about the Tennessee valley as a place of residence for northern people. This place is one of the most wonderful in many respects that I have ever seen, A year ago it was a sleepy old southern town, or village, of about 1.200 people; was dilapidated and discouraged, and had a general dead and alive aspect. Now it is a bustling little city of nearly 7,000 people, with car works, foundries and blast furnaces, machine shops, saw mills, planing mills, bridge works, an ice factory, electric lightsand street cars, and all the improvements that make a northern city. No less than thirty manufacturing enterprises have been started here within the last year. many of them of great magnitude. AH this enterprise and all this development has been set in motion by the genius and foresight of one man—Major Gordon—the brother of the present Governor of Georgia. It was Major Gordon who organized the Decatur Land Improvement Company, and who is its President, and under the auspices of this company a 'most wonderful development is-in progress. In my next letter I shall give your readers some of the particulars of this interesting place. W. E. T. Ala., Jan. 20, 1888. —

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