. Alabama. Agriculture. Page Thirty-eight ALABAMA. Baby Beef on Alfalfa Pasture in February. Many Settlements of Northerners. In many parts of Alabama there are colonies of Northern and Western people who have settled together because of sharing the same religious beliefs or racial blood. Feed Mills. While velvet beans are most economically harvested by allowing cattle and hogs to range through the fields, where they consume practically 100% of the entire crop, the demand on the part of dairymen and cattle feeders for a concentrate has caused many mills to be established throughout the State,
. Alabama. Agriculture. Page Thirty-eight ALABAMA. Baby Beef on Alfalfa Pasture in February. Many Settlements of Northerners. In many parts of Alabama there are colonies of Northern and Western people who have settled together because of sharing the same religious beliefs or racial blood. Feed Mills. While velvet beans are most economically harvested by allowing cattle and hogs to range through the fields, where they consume practically 100% of the entire crop, the demand on the part of dairymen and cattle feeders for a concentrate has caused many mills to be established throughout the State, where the ear corn, stalks, blades and the velvet beans, vines, pods and stems are all ground together, making practically a perfectly-balanced ration. The demand for this concentrate is much greater than it has so far been pos- sible to supply, and the raising of velvet beans for grinding into meal gives prom- ise of becoming an industry of almost as great economic wealth as the cottonseed industry has already proven to Alabama. The City Man On An Alabama Farm. Whether or not the city man can succeed on the farm without previous ex- perience is a question frequently asked. As far as Alabama is concerned, there is no question whatever about his being able to succeed. The modern farmer is not the rustic "Rube" pictured on the stage who rises at dawn and finishes the evening chores by lantern light. In this age of efficiency the farmer who, by adopting modern methods and machinery, gets a maximum of efficient labor from his employees and raises products where the margin between the cost of production and sale is sufficient to show him a profit is the man who will succeed on the farm. While labor is cheaper in the South than in other sec- tions, the man who gets most for his labor is the one who provides it with modern machinery that increases the productive capacity of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digi
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