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

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elements so essential to theproper development of plant life.The most important of these saltsis potash, in which the red lands areespecially prolific. The deficiencywhere it exists at all is usually con-fined to thephosphates,nitrogen andtheir com-pounds.These defici-encies areeasily rem-edied throughthe applica-tion of barn-yard manure,commercialfer t i 1 i z e r s ,deep cultiva-tion, rotationof crops andthrough theuse of soilrenovati n gplants suchas cow peas,clover s,vetches andother legum-inous plants.TOPOG-RAPHY.^Much hasbeen saidabout thehills, mountains and rugged charac-ter of Jefferson County. And onewho passes through the county byrailroad is easily led into the errorin assuming that the area oftilable land is small. As a matterof fact the amount of untilable landis very small when compared to thetotal acreage of the county. Broadlyspeaking, Jefferson County is madeup of a series of hills or high plateausand beautiful fertile valleys. Thesevalleys range in width from a half
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mile to five miles or more. Most ofthe farming is carried on in these val-leys although some of the most fertilelands are on the high table lands, agreat deal of which is in cultivationand furnishes no small percent of thecountys farm products. These factsas to soil and physical conditions aregiven to correct possible error informing hasty conclusions. This sub-ject should not be left without callingthe attention of prospective settlersto the splendid public roads alreadyin service and those being built. And another thing of great im-portance is the fact that the countyis abundantly watered by numerous celled railroad facilities ought todistribute a large surplus to Northernmarkets. BEANS.—Boston is not the onlycity that consumes beans. Takinginto consideration the size of the twocities it is safe to say that Birminghamis as far ahead of her as the modernaeroplane is ahead of the old hot airballoon. It cannot be said, of course,that all commercial beans can be pro-duced as cheap her

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