(DOTHAN) On Saturday, May 23, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Landmark Park show visitors how to plant cotton the old fashioned way--with draft animals. This program will be presented by Landmark Park Farm Manager Sid Brannon and special guest Joe Capps, director of the Farm Service Agency for Russell County.

Participants will gather on the Wiregrass Farmstead, and Brannon and Capps will demonstrate some of the methods used to plant cotton on a farm 100 years ago. Capps will bring his Haflinger horse to help with the demonstration.

These farm programs will be offered on the fourth Saturday of every month except October and December. Other tentative topics for the year include syrup cooking, stripping fodder, watermelon harvest and sampling, blacksmithing, soap making, hearth cooking, clothes washing, chair caning and peanut stacking.

Registration is required. The programs are free with paid gate admission, which is $4 for adults and $3 for kids. The Farm Programs are co-sponsored by the Alabama Agricultural Museum.

Landmark Park, home of the Alabama Agricultural Museum, is a 100-acre historical and natural science park located on U.S. Highway 431 North in Dothan, Ala. For more information and to register for a program, contact the park at 334-794-3452.