. Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama ... r 1,100 miles of wagon roads, 220miles of which are macadamized. Be-sides these public roads the county ispractically covered, as will be seenby the map on the back of this pub-lication by a net work of railroads, sothat almost every region of thecounty is easily accessible to localmarkets and shipping points. Notwithstanding all these favorableconditions for agricultural pursuits—advantageous location, great fertilityof soil, splendid market facilities andhigh prices for farm products—landsin the county can be bought for $ $ an acre. T
. Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama ... r 1,100 miles of wagon roads, 220miles of which are macadamized. Be-sides these public roads the county ispractically covered, as will be seenby the map on the back of this pub-lication by a net work of railroads, sothat almost every region of thecounty is easily accessible to localmarkets and shipping points. Notwithstanding all these favorableconditions for agricultural pursuits—advantageous location, great fertilityof soil, splendid market facilities andhigh prices for farm products—landsin the county can be bought for $ $ an acre. The price of these lands bears nojust proportion to their real intrinsicvalue, as a comparison of them withthe price of lands and their cropvalue in the North and West willeasily prove. For instance, in Il-linois the average land value is$ per acre, the average cropvalue being $ In Indiana theaverage land value per acre is $,the average crop value $ InIowa the average land value per acreis $, the average crop value. Ttn NEW TWO MILLION DOLLAR TERMINAL STATION, BIRMINGHAM ^rM 1 w wk>0 ~ . ^ F v^iii mii-^ssx* C^ ^ Q r \k 3 5^^ ^ inP^^^^^ w SCENE AT EAST LAKE, BIRMINGHAMS BIGGESTAMUSEMENT PARK $ According to these statistics,it is a fair estimate to say thatfor instance in IlHnois it wouldtake the proceeds of five to eightyears to pay for a farm of twentyacres, while here, according to theUnited States Soil Survey of JeffersonCounty, Alabama, it is not unusualfor a farmer to buy land and sellenough truck to pay for it in from oneto three years. Dairying and Hog Raising In summing up the unsurpassedagricultural opportunities offered tothe homeseeker in the BirminghamDistrict and Jefferson County, a fewthings in regard to two importantbranches of agriculture, the raisingof hogs and the dairying industrymight be of some interest to home-seekers. In Jefferson County and, for thatmatter, in the entire South a greatervariety of forage plants can be pr
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