The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-08
CROP CAMPA|GN-
 ID RESUME TODAY Workers Will Invade Madi-
 son and Colbert WARMLY RECEIVED Lindsey Reese, an Illinois Farmer Connected With Campaign, Talks on Opportunities For
 Diversified Farming
WARMLY RECEIVED

Reports continue to reach Birmingham of the enthusiastic reception being ac- corded the workers in the diversified crops campaign in north Alabama. Yes terday the workers were either resting or travelling. but this morning bright and early the crews will invade Madison and Colbert counties.
 Crew No. l will work in Madison, while Crew No. goes to Colbert. The itin- erary for the crews has already been pub lished. Tomorrow the workers will go to Lauderdale and Jackson counties. The next to have the campaign will be Call houn and Walker and the latter part of the week will be spent in Lamar and St. Clair counties.
 Those connected with the campaign are delighted with the opportunities for di- versified crops which they see before them and talk of little else. Lindsey Reese an Illinois farmer connected with the campaign, in discussing Alabama and Alabama's s opportunities, had the follow ing to say:
 Opportunities in Alabama
 Being connected with the agricultural campaign that is in progress in Alabama, ] have thought few words as to the scope and intent of this great work would he welcomed. The truths that will be most emphasized in this campaign cluster around two great historical facts First, a one-crop system makes the people who follow it poor;' second, a one-crop sys- tenn depletes the fertility of the soil and leads to final abandonment for agricul- tural purposes
 .As proof of the first proposition we hold this to be true. The people, states or nations who furnish the food supply hold the pursestrings of the financial world. If it were possible for some man or firm of men to gather in one vast warehouse all the cotton of this genial sunny south land, it would make them rich even to the dreams of avarice. But there would be limit They could raise the price of cotton higher and higher until the pa- tience of the people was exhausted or their money gone, and they would right fully say keep your cotton. and we will clothe themselves in other materials But suppose on the other hand it were possible for me to gather all the food supplies of the world in this great ware room, then there would be no limit to the price I could ask and obtain. You would flock to me- no matter what demanded.
 Markets at Home
 This is not so much an exaggerated picture as you may think, For 50 years your smokehouse has been in Iowa, your corncrib in Illinois, your canning factories in the east and west and your meadows in Kansas and Colorado. The north has practically all the money you ever re- ceved for your one crop outside of a bare living, and own vast acres of your richest and most fertile lands, bought with the wealth you ought to have kept at home had you only fed yourselves by diversiged farming.
 Markets at Rome
 Let Alabama feed herself for one year and the crisis will be passed and your people will have entered the royal path that leads to prosperity. Don't cry market. Your first great market is t., k feed yourselves and stock. A market was found among you last year by northern men for $90,000,000 worth oi food and feed to supply your own peo- ple Can you not find this market as easily as the people north. east and west who come from 1000 to 300I (Continued on Page Eighty