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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.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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to two hundred bushels of green podsto the acre. The price, of course,varies widely but it is probably Safeto put down the average in a seasonat seventy-five cents per bushel. Nowall this crop is marketed locally sothere is no expense for crates orpacking for shipment. No uncertain-ties usually attending shipments byexpress or freight to commissionhouses, etc. It should be borne inmind, too, that a crop of beans may citizen has but a remote idea of theenormous consumption. The great-est demand lies with the laboringclasses, both skilled and unskilled,consequently Birmingham with itsthousands of workmen consume ahundred times more cabbage annuallythan is produced in her district.Notwithstanding this, there is gener-ally a period in early spring when themarket is glutted with cabbage andoddly enough some few cars areshipped away and mostly to NewOrleans. Of course, cabbage beinga perishable vegetable, it is not pos-sible for any one section to supplyits own wants the year around, except
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CORNFIELD ON R. N. BELLS FARM, FtTLTON SPRINGS NEAR BIRMINGHAM through the use of cold storage. Butif our truckers would plant at properintervals crops could be harvestedfrom April to December. The writerhas seen the cabbage at its best in anumber of southern and northernstates but has never seen better cropsthan is produced on the red lands ofJefferson County. W. T. Burrows,formerly of Louisville, Ky., and Cin-cinnati, Ohio, a local truck farmer,makes a specialty of cabbage and hiscrops have averaged him the pastfew years two hundred and fifty dol-lars per acre. Some e.xtra good cropshave been sod by him for as muchas five hundred dollars per acre.Others can do as well when they havehad the experience and become ac-quainted with the proper knowledgewhen to sow the seed, the propermanagement ofthe plants andhow to feed thecrop to obtainthe greatestyield. ONIONS.—But few drycommercial on-ions are grownin the Birming-ham district.The consump-tion, of course,is large. To besure a great

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