Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-19

Vow thai the Georgia farmer IS
70 sling IN the profits Of a year OF
toll. and for the first time since 1871
has comparative plenty, the kindly
gentlemen who always stand ready 20
give the farmer advice are extremely
laxative
"Economi ze. SAYS the banker 70 the
farmer Remember that in 1911 you
made a big crop and spent your pIsn-
tfful money with a lavish hand, 30
that last year. with short crop, you
felt tho sting Of poverty. Your money
~ns gone. your credit curtailed; you
we're in the plight Of the grssshopper
winter, when you might have been
an ant"
Then comes the agricultural sH-
pert.
~D+verHfy,- 10 his message. Don't
plant 80 much cotton. Live of your
farm You should raise everything
you and your animals need 10 eat
and you won't have 10 borrow Ths
one crop plan 10 running your farm
and impoverishing you. Grow corn.
potatoes, vans, soya beans, field peas
and vegetables, oats, cattle and alfsl-
fs and he indepedent like your
Northern brethren"
Won't Let Him Follow Advice.
Good advice from both-excelleut.
The only trouble with Il Is that the
banker will not let the farmer IL
Verslfy and the merchant will not
help him economize.
When the Georgia farmer comes 10
l.. - l. 49,
supplies, or asks for a loan from the
bank. the first question he Ia asked IL:
How much cotton are YOU plant
ing this spring.
Five acres" saws the farmer. I
planted eight last year but I'm GO
ing 70 Diversity like tho experts tel
me to this season. I'll put the rest
Of my place into corn and potatoes
and"
He never gets any further.
I'm not interested IN all that" SAYS
the merchant or the banker Your
line OF credit will be 5000, secured by
a mortgage on your cotton"
Not one cent OF credit can the
farmer get on his corn, or his alfalfa
or any OF the other things on the long
list the expert tells him he should
grow.
He can't get along on $500 through
the season. he changes his plan and
puts the whole farm into cotton, JUS.
as he has for the past twenty years,
or longer II he is older.
Lesson Of Test Farm.
Here's another angle TO this cues
tion Of improving Georgia's farming
methods.
one OF the best known men IN
Georgia, an authority on matters ag-
ricultural, and one of the most con
Sistent foes Of the one crop system,
recently took hold OF q 250-acre farm.
He owns II. in which he is better on
than two out OF every three farmers
In Georgia.
The farm has yielded cotton year
after year until nature has rebelled
and refuses longer TO bring forth this
single crop.
The agricultural expert has taken
II over and VIII start scientific farm
ing on IT, The third year he looks
for a profit Of $4,000 from this 250
acres
But
The first year he looks for a dencit
of S25oO-$10 an acre. The second
year he thinks the best he can do is
recoup half this loss The third years
net profit will be only S2.75o. That
amounts 10 81 an acre. and as Il viii
1856 per acre per year. The fourth
year and every succeeding year viii
bring him profit OF SIC 10 $50 an
acre. and even more, az his scientific
knowledge viii increase steadily the
productivity OF the tract.
On Average Mans Land.
Apply the careful computations OF
the expert TO the average poor mans
tract OF so acres. His deficit the first
year under the best system the eN-
pert can reason out would he $500
The next year would reduce the def
cit 10 $3.50 and the third year would
leave him a profit OF $500. which
would pay of his debt and leave him
$3.50 or 1915 year for the three
years.
Now who viii lend him $500 for
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