The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-21

gave birth to a political party even worse
 than all her other afflictions.
 But the people saw their great mistake
 and began system of diversification and rotation-a dividing up of their crops. They
 introduced alfalfa, other grasses and
 clovers, poultry, hogs, sheep and dairy
 cows. What has been the result? In ten
 years the farmer and the banker have ex-
 changed places. Ten years ago, the ban
 kers of Kansas stood on the inside of the
 bank window and dictated to the farmer
 on the outside the terms on which he
 would loan him money. Today the farmer
 in Kansas stands on the outside and says
 to the banker, q want so much money,
 for such length of time and I will pay
 such rate of interest for it." Should the terms not suit the banker and he re- fuses the loan, the farmer says, "All right, l can get it from some of these dairy farmers"
 Since the introduction of this improved system of diversification, the farmers of Kansas have rid themselves of debt, the
 farm mortgages have all been paid off
 the farms are covered with the best of
 stock of all kinds from poultry to the
 thoroughbred horse. They have the best ,, of schools. free rural mail delivery and
 many farm homes are connected with the
 markets and outside world by telephones. This diversification has made Kansas the
 third state in the revenue derived from her poultry industry. In this industry Missouri ranks first. Iowa second. Kan sas third and Texas fourth. But this is not all, for until recently Kansas could boast of having the largest creamery plant in the United States. and she Is selling every week to our greatest cotton producing state, s6o,oOO worth of butter | from this one great creamery. She Is also selling car loads of hogs to this same l state to be packed in one of the recently l erected packing plants.
 Conditions in Wisconsin. ! Let us look at the conditions in Wis | consn Some mention was made of this | state recently. Only a few years ago, | Wisconsin was producing too great per- ! centage of what and potatoes. Her farm | CTS were in debt and had hard work to | get along. They, too. changed and went ] into grasses. stock and dairlying. Today i they are producing wheat and potatoes | just as the farmers of the south should | be producing cotton, growing more wheat
 and potatoes on less than half the acreage that they were giving to these crops twen- i ty years ago.
 | Wisconsin has placed herself at the | head of the great dairy states. and last | year she exported sl0,000,oo0 worth of | cheese and her best patrons were the cot 1 ton farmers of the south. Recently while 1 in Milwaukee l chanced to meet one | of these rich Germen bankers and during i our conversation he stated that his bank | was loaded with money belonging to the 1 thrifty dairy farmers of Wisconsin, which
 he could not loan to advantage at per i cent. The dairy cows of Wisconsin give
 greater net profit than cows of any oth- 1 CT state.
 I remember when Iowa was growing 1 corn to burn. It was cheaper for flei | than coal. Like Kansas and Wisconsin, | Iowa saw and felt the need of dividing l up her crops. What has been the result? | She stands second in poultry. and in