Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-09-29
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Is largely responsible for the satisfactory state of
things in the warm belt" Last years cotton crop
was thoroughly satisfactory in quantity and
brought gratifying prices Indeed tie returns
we're so satisfactory to the planters that this year
has found heavy increase in the acreage put out
In cotton-always a sure Indication of the senti-
ments of the growers
And for all that the skeptcal folk have been
wont to declare that such run of luck cannot be-
expected to continue for more than one season
there Is every indication at this writing that this
years crop conditions will measure up well with
the showing of twelve months ago The yield ia
liable to be about good as that of last year or
at least is almost certain to be above the ten
year average, and if the prices that rule are
1ot quite so high as last year lowing possibly to
The increased acreage) the returns will yet be
SUFFICIENT to give the cotton growers a very sat
ksfactory return upon their investment and labor
few years of rich cotton yield will do more
than anything else to help the south along toward
par with other prosperous sections of the coun-
try. Particularly is this the case In rural Dixie
Tor although the country residents of the south
are gradually adopting agricultural policy
whereby all their eggs win not be In one basket
the TACT remains that they relying upon cot
ton for the funds that will beget better things
and permit, shall We call 1t experiments In other
means OF deriving livelihood from the soil The
nrst and most significant evidence wof better
things in the south is seen in the measures taken
to restore or sustain the productive qualities OF
Sno Soii A4ahu uaS Deeu abused In the south,
Just as 1t has been in other section of prodtgal
America, but in few cases has the damage gone
beyond repair except, mayhap, in some of the
land devoted to tobacco culture Now efforts are
being made to rejuvenate 1t either by means OF
rotation OF crops where that is not prac-
dcable, through the instrumentality of the scien-
dhc methods prescribed by experts
However. this soil Improvement is OF course
nnore real than apparent The evidence OF better
taings in Dixie that forces itself most emphatic
ally upon the notice of the traveller or stranger
Is found In the better houses that now shelter the
Inhabitants. The change that has taken place in
this respect is especially impressive to the out
slaer who visits today a representative district
with the conditions in which he was familiar ten
years, or even five years ago 1t is not necessary
to compare the state of affairs with the status
jugt after the Civil war. as late as twenty
years ago. The pace of improvement has been
so rapid that 1t may be gagged within a much
mere recent interval
That there need OF Improvement In the
housing conditions prevelant throughout most
parts OF the south has been all too manifest fol
these many years past. Indeed the wretched con
ditions in which many of the poorer inhabitant
dweit has invaribly been shock to persons from
the north or west visiting the south for the frs
time. Log cabins the most crudey CONSTRUCTED
frame houses. with mud chimneys and like as no
earth for floor have been too numerous to b
considered exception. Moreover, such habitation
have by means been restricted to the colore
Inhabitants. Indeed. In many instances the POI