WHAT ONE NEGRO IS DOING
Carter Dowdell, a Lee .county ne
gro, is an interesting character, whose
record thousands of the members of
his race in the South might contem
plate as an example of what a negro
with common sense and industry can
accomplish on his native heath. The
Age-Herald recently carried an inter
esting little story telling of this ne
gro’s achievements. He owns a farm
of 380 acres, all paid for out of hte
toil and savings. By diversified farm
ing, industry and good management,
he put his land into a high state of
productivity, raises cotton as his chief
money crop, and sells something from
his farm every month. His sales of
butter, eggs and chickens alone bring
him in about six hundred dollars a
year. He raises and markets meats,
vegetables, fruits and dairy products,
and thus has a fine lot of high-grade
livestock and poultry.
This negro, on his farm several
miles from Opelika, has demonstrated
that there is no need for members of
his race, with industry and resolution
to succeed, to emigrate from the
South. There is plenty of work in
this section at good returns for ne
groes who know how to do anything
worth doing and who will do it well.
Such workers who have the will and
common sense to save and invest their
earnings in something serviceable and
profitable of their own can succeed j
better in the South than elsewhere. I
The Lee county negro is one of many
who have demonstrated this.
