The log cabin Democrat., 1917-02-03
FOOD, FEED AND
 FERTILITY SLOGAN
SAFE FARMING CAMP AIGN
Circular By L. s. Department 0 Agriculture Advises Farmers to
 Produce Living at Home.

Washington, Feb. 3.-Food, feed, safe farming, according to the United State department of agriculture. A circular sent to farmers, bankers and business men in cotton territory by the chief of the office of extension work in the south, says: Let us feed the people, feed the livestock, 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
 The circular points out that the true value of cotton to the farmer is to a great extent the amount of food and feed that it will purchase. The price of cotton has risen, it is true, but so has the retail price of all other farm produce. By growing all cotton,' says the author, "and exchanging it for a living you are simply swapping high-priced product produced by your labor for high-priced product produced by the labor of the other fel- low. When you follow safe farming, however, you produce your own food and feed at cost and sell your cotton for the other fellows dollars"
 Safe farming is defined in the cir cular as including these items;
 l. A home garden for every fam fly on the farm, from one-tenth to one-fourth acre, we'll located, well till ed, and tended as carefully as any oth- CT crop on the farm planted in rota- tion to time the vegetable crops so as to have continual 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, either Irish or sweet, or both, to be used as food for the family
 ?. Enough corn on each farm to last the family and the livestock for one year, with a little excess for safety.
 3. Sufficient oats and other small grain to supplement the corn as food for one year with certainty. These small grains conserve the soil in win ter and provide summer grazing for livestock.
 1 Hay and forage crops to supply the livestock on the farm for one year. with a little excess for safety The legumes, which add fertility to the soil and produce the best hay, should not be forgotten.
 ,. The necessary meat, eggs, and milk for the family. The meat should be procured by increased attention to poultry and hogs because of the rap idity with which these can be produc- ed. Every family should have at least two COWS, so that one can be in milk all the time. A sufficient number of brood sows should be kept to produce the pork for the family, with some excess for sale. The average number of poultry per farm should be gradu- ally increased to at least 50. There should be eggs and poultry for the home table, with sufficient excess for sale. The livestock on the farm should be gradually increased so as to consume the otherwise wasted prod ucts and make productive the unpro- ductive and untillable lands.
 6. Cotton for the main money crop after the living has been amply pro- vided for
 '. The sale of the surplus products of the garden, the orchard, the poul- try, the livestock, and the feed crops to cover the necessary running ex- penses of the farm, leaving the cotton as the real cash crop.
 The present prices of cotton. says the circular, should not be permitted to tempt any farmer to depart from this program. It is the only safe plan to follow, no matter what the price of cotton may be.