The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-26

started and by the experiments made and encouraged by the states along the lines of dversifcation, it has been proven that the south can grow not only ali she needs in comforts, but she can grow these and also many luxuries for the markets of the world. Not only this. but we have proven that in many sections of the south--yes, in every section where the matter has been fully tested-it has been shown that the southern farmer who is engaged in fruit. truck, grain and stock growing Is in far better financial con- dition than is his neghbor who confines himself to cotton. The diversiticationist, the farmer who grows all these things to which his soil and climate Is adapted, Is generally able to buy for cash, to keep out of debt, and to live far more com fortabIy than can the cotton farmer, who has to buy his supplies on credit in or der to produce his crop of cotton.
 This proposition needs no argument at all for 1t is well known fact and l only make mention of these things here as a warning against any movement that will in any way have a tendency to clog or hinder the wheels of progress that we now have rolling for the building up of the south. F9
 Diversificatio Better Than Cotton.
 Why, even if our fruit and stock farm CTS of the south could be assured of even IS cent cotton, it should be no induce ment to go into cotton growing, for can give object lesson after lesson to show that even 15 cent cotton. where one-half hale or more can be grown, is no compar- ison to- the profits in mixed farming. l know one southern farmer who sold last year seO worth of hay per acre. and s23 worth of seed alfalfa from each acre of his land I know another farmer who sold 225 bushels of early Irish potatoes from one acre or from each of his ten acres, and these potatoes netted him H per bushel or $225 per acre, and after the po- tatoes were sold he produced pea crop worth $20 per acre, know another farmer who cleared s6soO from fifty acres of cantaloupes. know g. fruit grower who sold s625 worth of apples per acre from cight-year-old trees. l know a German farmer who sold $2500 worth or strawberries from three acres. the three acres clearing or netting him $lsoo' know many farmers who sold from $izo to s3O0 worth of tomatoes from single acre last summer. know truck farmer who grew and sold 100 barrels of radishes ner acre last spring, which netted him s4 per barrel or $400 per acre. After these radishes were sold he planted the land to beans and the bean crop netted him soo ner acre. know another farmer who planted ten acres of cantaloupes. Ihe crop netted him sl25 per acre. After the cantaloupes were sold he planted the Ian dto sweet potatoes. These ne sold as a net profit of slOO per acre. total or $225 net per acre
 Land Is Improved.
 The beauty of it all is that in nearly all sthese eases the land was left Tn better condition than when commences with. could go on and enumerate case after case of just such results put VIII onlv mention one more. I was down m soutbern Texas a few days ago, where tbev are cutting and shipping cabbage. A cold snap came up and one grower got scared and sold his twenty-nve acres or. csbhare in the field for sl5oo cash The man who bought the crop made more money than the grower, but the beauty nf If is that the man has his land and can grow another crop this season of melons or potatoes and make even more per acre than his cabbage brougnt nim. rhese orops are all purely southern, and each and every case have mentioned IS results from southern farms. But un- Fortunately they are not results brought about by native southern cotton farmers, but are the results of scientific methods brought here and put into practice by