The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1914-03-28
THE FARMING CAMPAIGN
What it is, by General Manager
AIfOrd-LinCOIn County Points
to be Visited.

The primary purpose of the
Diversified Farming Campaign
from March 30th to April 10th
inclusive, is to show that a one
= crop system means poor, soil,
the sending of millions of dollars
to other sectiops of the country for
farm products, poor people and
the credit system and that a safe
and sane system of diversified farm
ing means fertile soil. the keeping
OF our money at home and a per-
manent prosperity.
We all realize the fact that the
most real and vital problem before
US just at this time is to work out
a safe and sane system of farming {:
one that will include crops to en-
rich instead of wear out our lands;
one that will include plenty of
good live stock to consume the sur
plus products and the leguminous
crops that must be grown to enrich
the land; a system of farming that
will grow the necessary crops for
home use and to sell,
This is a very difficult problem
to solve, but we all realize the fact
that our prosperity depends main
ly upon maintaining soil fertility
aud that any system of farming
that causes a decline in the fer
tility of the soil is a shame and
disgrace to our farmers. For this
reason, the growing of crops year
after year on the same land that
impoverish the soil and the attempt
to keep up the productivity of the
soil by the use of commercial fer
tilizer must give way to a new
system of farming. In this new
system of farming we will practice
rotation of crops including
leguminous crops and the crops
grown will be largely fed to good
live stock, the manure carefully
saved and applied to the land and
the necessary commercial fertilizer
Judlclously applied.
We have worn out our lands in
the quickest possible time by grow
ing cotton and rigidIy excluding
grasses. leguminous crops and live
stock. We have depleted the soil
of vegetable matter and it has
washed away, unnumbered acres of
land; we are not making profitable
crops, but are making poverty for
those tilling them. Millions of
acres of such land should be plowed
deep. well fertilized with acid
phosphate and some nitrogen and
some potash. when needed, and
planted in summer and winter
in legumes for two or three years.
Only by this method and stock
raising can our worn out quilted
lands be restored to fertility and
only in this way can you people be-
come prosperous.
Before adopting a system Of
farming and selecting the crops to
grow. we must consider the local
conditions, such as climate. labor
suppIy, market demands. and
transportation facilities. We cam
not grow perishabIe products unless
we have quick transportation facil,
itics. Even Ii a crop is not per.
ishabIe and we have the quickest
transportation facilities at our
door, we must be careful not to
RIut the market. These observa.
tions being true, we find that prac-
ticaIIy all Of us must devote our
energies to staple farm crops such
as graes, corn. oats. peas. soy
beans. Iespedeza. poultry, live stock
and some cotton.
The subject of diversified farm
ino will be discussed BY the best
informed agriculturists in this
state and nation. They will not
only expose the evils Of one-crop
systems, but they will show, Oh