The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-27
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
Movement in South Growing In
Strength and Importance.

Louisville Home and Farm.
Re viewing the situation in the
South solely from the standpoint If
of cotton, one gets a wrong impress
sion. The South has had good crops
of corn n grass, of wheat and
fruit, of early and late vege-
tables. We are having a great
many suggestions made To the
South concerning the 6iversifica~
Mot of agriculture, as though that
Investigation had not yet began.
Home and Farm has reported
by month the fine results that have
come to various quarters from the
increase in the acreage devoted to
Southern cowpeas, alfalfa. clover, pea
nuts and corn. 1t reported large crops
of early vegetables last spring and
large crops of later vegetables, bring
| ing fine prices. 1t has been a great
fruit year in the out from Arkansas
to Georgia and Virginia. The apple
crop in Kentucky is SO per cent better
than ever before, with peaches album
| dant from June until October. IN
Kentucky we nave had a poor crop OF
potatoes, because of the early drouth.
but we have had an unusually fine sec
ond crop Of potatoes.
The ruin of the tobacco crop was
predicted in May, and June, and July.
and August; but September and Octo-
Der told another tale, and W. are haV-
ing the best crop Of tobaccO that KEN
lucky has known.
We point to these facts to disabuse
the public mind of some apprehension
concerning the South. The cotton
problem is a national problem, and it
must be treated upon national
grounds. But the Investigation Of
agriculture in the South is a Southern
movement. It has been preached
l 90 Il orI 1o4O ~ 49, o~1 To rn1 n
many years. 1t is growing in strength
and importance, and it is bringing into
cooperation farmers, bankers, mer-
chantS and railroads..
For the encouragement of Southern
farmers we call attention to the re-
ports of the effect of the European
war upon Western agriculture. Kan
sas and the Western States report
heavy buying of army horses. saddles.
harness and foOdstuffs by European
bellgerentS. Sales Of army horses TO
Great Britain by Kansas City, Mo.
amounted to one million dollars in
September.
In Kansas City the wheat arrivals
IN September were 1900, 900 buShel
against 10000 900 a year ago. The out
put of feeding animals, says q tele-
gram from Western Missouri, indi-
Gates more extensive fattening opera
atons in that section of the country
than ever before. A few weeks ago
the purchase of feeder cattle was re-
stricted by the inability TO float loans.
but the cattle paper broadens daily.
Hay is weak. owing to the abundance
OF excellent ~paSturage. Hides arc
bringing good prices.
Moreover, the Western farmers VINO
are feeding cattle are profting from
the slump in c~OttOnseed: they are
getting c~ottOnseed meal from s. u
81 a ton under the cost last year.
ma Western Missouri and Kansas
can do a large part of the Southern
states can do. If you are blue about
the cotton market, take heart Of hope
as you review the prospects held out
70 n Southern farmer. who. on cheap
J lands, can raise cattle as valuable Is
those raised on the priced Of the
Western States.
Ihen make your arrangements for
more cattle, more hogs. more poultry
: more GARY products next year. and
the reduction Of your cotton acreage
one-half