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Identifier: jeffersoncountyb00birm (find matches)
Title: Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama ..
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Birmingham, Ala. Chamber of commerce. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Birmingham, Ala.
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hthe entire season as successfuly astomatoes. However, by selectinlg latevarieties and setting the plants outlate in protected places, a portion ofthe crop can be held back untilAugust 1st or 15th, when it willcommand a better market than theearly crop. A second or late cropcan be put out in August. This willreach maturity in November when themarket is usually good. All varieties of beans do well here.The first string or snap bean areready for use in May and by makingfrequent plantings one can have beansfor market from then until the firstfrost late in the fall. They are afavorite vegetable and are always in demand. While thecrops justconsideredare probablythe oneswhich wouldbe the mostprofitabl e ,practically allthe cropsgrown in themiddle andNorth e r nStates can beraised heresuccessfully.Grain andforage prod-ucts alwayscommand agood price.Compara-tively littlelive stock iskept at pres-ent and i norder to havethe best suc-c e s s theremust be anincrea sealong thisline. Tw^nty-Eigftl
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Extract From the U. S. Soil Survey ofJefferson County, Alabama 1910 Jefferson County, named in honorof our third President, is located innorth-central Alabama, on the south-em extension of the Appalachiansystem and in the center of rich iron,coal and limestone belt of the South.The county contains 719,360 acres,or 1,124 square miles, and is an ir-regularly shaped parallelogram, withits longer dimension, 46 miles, fromeast to west, and its shorter, 38 miles,from northeast to southwest. The surface of the country ismainly mountainous to hilly and thedrainage is well developed, as shown bythe numberless rounded hills, valleys,and the muchdissected s ur-face. In 1817 Ala-bama was or-ganized as aterritory, andin 1819, admitted as a State.At the firstsession of thelegislature Jeff-erson Countywas formed fromthe southernportion ofBlount County.Since 1890, how-ever, as partof Jefferson hasbeen annexedto Walker, anda portion o fShelby joinedto Jefferson. In1815 a fort hadbeen erectednear Old J

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