The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-20

sell their crops as fast as gathered. In other words, he said that 1t had been s. timated that TO per cent of the money derived from the cotton crop of the south was sent to other states or to for elgn countries, to buy products that the farmer of Texas has every facility for raising He asserted that the greater number of diversifiers in Texas, the few CT the number of those forced to sell cotton or any other crop as fast as they can gather il.
 It was shown a fact that country that Is a great corn country Is always found 10 be prosperous; that where there is plenty of corn there Is plenty of good stock and poultry. and 1t Is stated by a text book on agriculture that this class of stock raised in a country is indicative of the progress of the country; that Is, the finer the stock the more progressiv c and Independent are its citizens. So that 1t is found that the man who raises plenty of corn. cattle and other neces- sary stock especially hogs, and who also produces potatoes, fruit, etc. is in po- sition to keep his cotton until he gets ready to dispose of 1t. He could make the other man ask him how much he would take for his cotton instead of telling him what he would condescend to give.
 The speaker showed how. although cot ton is what is called a money crop and even if it brought 15 cents per pound. 1t would not be much of money crop If 70 per cent of it had to be sent into some other country for corn, meat and other necessaries that the grower should him self raise. Special stress was laid upon the fact that ii Was not meant to stop raising cotton-by no means-but that as long as the raiser had to dispose of 1t at any old price' in order to pay debts con fF9ctp1 fQV und hHrOn if would not profit the man who grew Il like 1t would if he by dlversification would put himself in g position to raise what he eats, both in the way of hogs and poultry. potatoes and other eatables
 The question of education was then taken up. This was followed by some very pointed remarks as to tho home and the little children. The speaker closed with tribute to the mothers of the land saying: "Do you know the greatest force for good in this country? IL is not in the platform of any political party, it is not in anybodys system of philosophy, 1t IS not in the work or opinion of any man. no matter how high his position but n the influence of the mothers of the chill dren of our country
 Agricultural News.
 For several weeks l have been holding institute meetings with the farmers in North Missouri and Iowa. From August 25 to 29 l was al Des Moines with our ex- hibit car attending the Iowa State far. There I had great opportunity to gather information regarding crops. The oat crop now Is nearly all thrashed AZ we predicted some time ago, it is q very poor crop. There is great anxiety for the corn crop in Iowa With a favorable September the central and southern dis tricts of Iowa will mature a fairly good crop of corn. The crop in the northern part of the state cannot mature without all Of October without frost. which cannot happen. The corn crop Of North Ms souri is the best in the United States, and this is about the only section where the crop Is as good as 1t was last year. The corn crop this year will not be oyer @ per cent of last years crop, at least this is my estimate on the crop at thls date, September 10.
 l find that in Iowa that both the po- tato and onion crops are short In fact. my predictions on the crops of the coun- try, made through this paper several weeks ago, are being verified As pre- dicted then, the hay is the only crop that comes up to being anything like full crop.
 I give here quotation from the Des Moines Register ond Leader of Septem per 5, which gives an idea of the gram sft- uation in Iowa:
 Tt >~practieally impossible to secure grain said Eugene D. Hanllin. secretary of the Marshall Elevator company of Des Moines, yesterday. q never saw Il as bad in the dozen or more years 1 have been operating elevators In Iowa. And what 1t worse. ! can't see any signs of in- provement until another crop is made. Farmers simply will not sell their oats.