The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06

ton. Middle and south Alabama
 farmers, to be reasonable, should
 plant about one-fourth of their crops in cotton, which would be five or six acres to the blow. If this is nor
 enough cash crop, then plant as many
 acres in peanuts, or something else l equivalent, other than cotton. They 1 should plant half of their crops to
 corn, beans, peas and hay. They
 should give great deal of their at tention to pastures, hogs and cat tie, and sometime to fruit and vege- tables. A crop schedule of this kind
 would be based on common sense and safety. Should Congress pass a law : which had for its purpose the regula- ton of production, then the above crop schedule would be safely within the government requirement.
 The Age-Herald has long empha- sized the value of intensive cultivation for all crops, but more especially cot ton. Five or six acres to the blow will pay better, as rule, than fif- teen or twenty acres-a common prac- tice several years ago. l Five acres we'll fertilized and we'll worked can be made to produce, under average weather conditions, bale to 1 the acre. In the less intensive way 1 fifteen acres produced only half or a third of bale to the acre. A bale to the acre would not only mean progressive farming, but the very fact that it would mean also relatively smaller acreage would strengthen prices and add to the wealth of the country. MT. Wade gives excellent advice, indeed, and it should be generally needed in this state.
 There are no more Grman measles They are Liberty measles now, but that doesn't make the disease any more 1 enjoyable for the luckless ones who are brought down by Liberty measles
 and go the pneumonia route. * * * The Kaiser's sons are still doing pretty well. thank you, and 1t isn't likely that ! the end of the war will find one of them l hobbling around on crutches or feeding l himself with pair of those dandy arti- | ficial arms.
 l With only about 100000 gallons or
 whisky reported left, is it any wonder that numerous old-fashioned gentlemen !, are beginning to fidget in their chairs? 1 y: # # l Prison life in Germany must be douny | irksome to that American soldier who 1 learned that a daughter had arrived at l home while he was swatting the boche. # # x 1 The Puff, Puff kiss is said to be the l latest craze along Broadway. Presum-
 ably the Puff, Puff kiss leads sooner or later to an explosion. | E' # < l You may not know it, but many a spring poem for 1918 has already been
 written and is now in cold storage, wait 1 ing for spring to arrive. 1 # as T M l It may be some satisfaction to the l allies to know that strikes in Germany
 could only be settled by the last resort soldery.
 | Every time we see a picture of Lenlne 1 and Trotzky in a newspaper, the more we wonder what Russia is coming to. l < * * | The late John l.. Sullivan had a farm when he died and that's more than 9s out l of 100 pugilists possess when they die. l The fellow who never carries matches
 on his person is not necessarily an ad-
 vocate of fuel conservation # # # l A heatless day in Chicago, with the
 mercury doing the Steve Brody" is something to talk about.
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 DO the dead ever come back?" asks
 the Washington Times. The politically
 dead? Seldom, if ever.
 # # ,s
 No correspondent has yet had the
 words to picture the horrors of the soap
 shortage in Germany.
 ' E Y
 A head that might as well be kept
 standing is: Venice Bombed by Teu- ton Airmen'
 POLITICAL PROHIBITIONISTs From the Houston Post.
 Gilson Gardner says seven quarts oi