Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-13
much of it's own living.

stitute your program:
l. A home garden for every family
on the farm. From one-tenth to one
fourth acre, we'll located, well titled
and tended as carefully as any other
crop on the farm, planted in rotation
tn time the vegetable crops so as. to
have a continuous supply for the
family table as many days in the year
as possible. To this should be added
one-fourth of an acre of potatoes, eth
err Irish or sweet or both, to be used
as food for the family. An acre OF
sorghum or sugar cane should be pro-
duced to supply the family with syrup
if a means can ge found for grinding
the cane and making the syrup.
2, Produce enough corn on each
farm to last the family and the live
stock with certainty for one year, with
a little excess for safety.
8. Produce sufficient oats and other
small grain to supplement the corn as
food for one year with certainty, re-
Numbering that these small grains
conserve the soil in winter and pro-
vide some grazing for livestock.
4. Produce the hay and forage crops
necessary to supply the livestock on
the farm for one year, with a little ex-
cess for safety. not forgetting the le-
gumes which add fertility to the soil
and produce the best hay.
5. Produce the necessary meat,
eggs and milk for the family. me
meat should be produced by Increased
attention to poultry and hogs because
of the rapidity with which these can
be produced Every family should
have al least two cows so that one
can be in milk all of the time. "A
sufficient number of brood sows should
be kept to produce pork for the family
with some excess for sale. The num-
ber of laying hens should be increas-
ed and carefully tended to produce
eggs and poultry for the table with a
sufficient excess for sale. The average
number of poultry per farm should be
gradually increased to at least nifty.
The livestock on the farm should De
gradually increased as a whole so IS
to consume the otherwise waste pro-
ducts of the farm and make the I'M
profitable and untillable lands produc-
tive. This means attention to the
breeding, care and feeding of poultry
and hogs, beef cattle, mich COWS, etc
6. When the living has been amply
provided for, grow cotton for the
main money crop.
z. Plan to sell or exchange the
surplus products of the garden, the
orchard, the poultry, the livestock, the
eggs and the feed crops, to cover the
necessary running expenses of the
farm and save the cotton as the rea
cash crop.
The fact that cotton has been up tc
eighteen and twenty cents per pounc
should not in any sense tempt farm
ers, merchants or bankers to depart
in practice or in influence from this
program. Are you going to play SAFE
or gamble on the European war anc
bet that cotton will be high and fooc
products low? One OF the serious
problems of this nation to-day is pro
duction of food At this time no mar
in the South can afford to be tempted
to reduce the production of food anc
feed crops. Rather should they be In
creased. 1t is the only SAFE plan.
The agricultural colleges of the
Southern States, in cooperation VIII
the United States Department of Ag'
riculture, are conducting, through the
Extension Divisions and County Agents
in every state. campaigns to sustain
the production of food and feed crops
| in the South.
We need more of the three Fs
FOOD, FEED and FERTILITY. Lei
us feed the people, feed the livestocH
and feed the soil. When we have done
these three things, then raise such
acreage in money crops as we have
the labor to tend.
BRADFORD KNAPP, Chief.