The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-05-11

products that the south can raise
| cheaper than the north.
The noted agriculturist told his au-
1 diences in town and in country, now
| this money can be kept at nome pE
| raising dairy cows, beef cattle, ana
/ poultry in the south. He repeatedly
pointed out the advantages this part
/ of the country enjoys as live STOCK
| section. Here there are many spring.
| and streams-the joy OF a stockman-
Pasturing is possible nearly all the
/ year around, whereas. in parts Of the
/ central west feeding is necessary five
and six and even seven months IN the
| year. Legumes grow luxurlantIy IN
nearly every part of the south ana tne
varieties are many. At present lana IS
| cheap, and with but very little CAPT
| tai the enterprising man can sue
cessfully raise live stock and start on
the natural road to prosperity ana
| wealth.
| One of the prominent men who too
an active part in the campaign was
| DR.. J. A. Herman. of Birmingham, who
/ has charge of the L. 5. government
tick eradi ca ton work in the south. In
| his addresses Or. Herman showed the
people what tremendous losses they
were sustaining because of the tick
| He drove home the fact that getting
rid of the tick Immediately increases
the wealth of any community and the
possibilities of that community for
the raising Of i've STOCK.
He said that the work of tick Grad
ication should go on until the entire
south was free of ticks and able to
take her rightful place among the
stock raising regions OF the world.
The results of this extensive cam
paign are seen already in the Missis-
sippi valley. Diversified farming ha@
been given q tremendous impetus 1t
is said by those who know, that more
siios will be built this year than have
ever been built before and that the
acreage in Iespedeza and clover Will
far surpass that of all other seasons.
The president of one of the most I'M
portant banks in Mississippi resigned
his office last week to look after his
5.000-acre stock farm Thousands of
acres of the land in the southern Mis-
sissippi valley are being prepared for
beef cattle, and dairy cattle to Craze
over. Not only are men of large hold
ings going into diversified farming
and live stock raising, but the small
farmer has been encouraged q 5 never
before to break away from the one
crop system to get some live stock
on his farm and to plant legumes. In
the campaign an effort was made to
reach the small farmer rather than the
large and wealthy farmer, for the pros
perity of the south, III great measure,
depends upon the prOgTessiVeness and
success of the farmer who owns only
%. or so, or 100 acres.
Gut OF the cam I)aISn mas come -
statewide movement for growing all
the products that are used in MiSsiS-
sippi, and for advertising Mississippi
grown products to the world. The
slogan. Grown in Mississippi" has
been taken up by bankers, manufac-
tuners. merchants, eduCa tional inter
ests, professional men, growers, stock
men and farmers all over the state.
Together with the Grown in Mis-
sissippi' campaign, is a movement for
giving every boy in the state a pig
and every girl a calf, or dozen or
more chickens. The brainy men of the
prosperity Of the south in the near flu
ture depends upon the interest that the
boys and girls take in live stock and
in the farm. They believe that there
is a great future in the south for all
her boys and girls. Pigs and chickens
quickly grow into a great deal of mon
ey and will help to make any south.
ern state a rich state in the years to
come.
According to the people of south
eTn Mississippi these two great move
ments growing out of the diversified
farming campaign, are the beginning
of q new era of prosperity for the
state. They seem to herald the time
when the lower Mississippi valley will
raise all the products that il uses;
when this vast section will keep its
money at home to do its own work;
when the credit system will be abaa.
doned; when there will be more pros
porous farms, larger cities. better
schools, more efficient people an
happier homes.
And what applies to Mississippi ap-
plies with even greater force to Flor
ida