| DR. | CR. | |||
| Wear and tear of mules, tools, etc., | $200 00 | |||
| Feed of mules, | 200 00 | |||
| Wages and rations 10 hands, | 1,250 00 | |||
| Extra labor during harvest, | 200 00 | |||
| Fertilizers, cotton seed meal and acid phosphate as adjunct to home manure, | 2,000 00 | |||
| Yield of 80 acres of cotton, 160 bales at $40 | $6,400 00 | |||
| Yield of 60 acres of corn, 3,000 bushels at 50 cents, | 1,500 00 | |||
| Yield of 80 acres of oats, 4,000 bushels at 40 cents, | 1,600 00 | |||
| Yield of 5 acres of cane, 2,000 gallons syrup at 35 cts., | 700 00 | |||
| Showing net profit of, | 6,350 00 | |||
| $10,200 00 | $10,200 00 | |||
The above estimate shows the possibilities of good farming. It is not overdrawn, as five bales of cotton and one hundred bushels of corn and oats, respectively, have been grown on single acres. These figures show 225 acres under cultivation, leaving ninety-five acres of the farm to be devoted to pasture, orchards, etc.
MARKET GARDENING.
Market gardening, or truck farming, around Montgomery, offers a number of advantages over other sections. As stated elsewhere, we have a great variety of soils that are suited to growing fruits and vegetables, while our climate is all that could be asked, with a mean annual temperature of 64 degrees, the last frost occurring from the 5th to the 25th of April, and earliest killing frost in the fall, in November, with an annual mean precipitation of rain of 55 inches. The conditions are therefore favorable for growing all fruits and vegetables not natives of extreme northern or tropical climates, and we can have some crop growing all the year round for marketing.
