The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-02
CORN YIELD IN COTTON STATES
by MARTIN v. CALVIN
President Georgia State Agricultural Society


els. South Carolina produced 25,1%.ooo
bushels. Georgia produced 64,95o0o0 bush
els, Alabama produced 66.3o0000 bushels,
Mississippi produced 47,450000 bushels;
Louisiana produced 100000 bushels, Tex
as produced 166.S50000 bushels, Tennes-
see produced 90, 10000 bushels; Arkansas
produced g., 10000 bushels, Oklahoma pro-
duced 1l2, 10000 bushels-a total of 774,-
045, 900 bushels.
Pennsylvania produced 5S,52O,000 bushels,
Ohio produced 153,55O.0Oo bushels; Michi-
gan produced $4,000 900 bushels; Wisconsin
produced 40S25,000 bushels; Minnesota
produced Ga, 400 900 bushels; Kansas pro-
duced 172,050000 bushels North Dakota,
produced $500, 000 bushels, South Dakota
produced 94,25O,0O0 bushels; Colorado pro-
duced II, $4,000 bushels; New Mexico pro-
duced 2,730,000 bushels--a total of 663, 4o5
900 bushels
Total crop cotton states, 600 BUSH
els; total crop eastern and western states.
663, 405, 900 bushels; difference in favor
cotton states, 11O,64o,0o0 bushels.
The figures for 1917 are as follows:
North Carolina produced 60,000000, South
Carolina produced 43,947000 bushels, Geor
produced 100000 bushels, Mississippi
produced S1,O5o,0o0 bushels, Louisiana pro-
duced 42,216. 900 bushels, Texas produced
II S25 600 bushels Tennessee produced ILL.,,
$50, 900 bushels, Arkansas produced $780,
900 bushels, Oklahoma produced 33,150,0oo
bushels-a total of e65, 73S,0oo bushels.
Pennsylvania produced g., 212,000 bushels;
Ohio produced 510 100000 bushels; Michi-
gan produced 37,625,oOO bushels; Wiscon-
sir produced 1885, 600 bushels; Minnesota
produced 100000 bushels; Kansas pro-
duced 12S, 1874, 900 bushels; North Dakota
produced o,310,0O bushels; South Dakota
produced 81, 10000 bushels; Colorado pro-
duced 10,640,0O0 bushels; New Mexico pro-
duced 3.4OO, 900 bushels-a total of 626,S17.-
900 bushels.
Total crop cotton states, 665, 73S, 900 bush
states, 626,S17O 900 bushels, Difference in
favor cotton states. sS,921,o 900 bushels
SOME FACTORS
There are several striking factors in
the situation developed by the compar-
isons instituted and given in detail as
follows:
First-The rural population cotton
states, per cent of total, S07. The rural
population eastern and western states,
per cent of total, 51.2.
Second-Population cotton states per
square mile, AS. Population eastern and
western states per square mile, 49.7.
Third-Per cent cotton states farms OPP
Grated by tenants, $50. Per cent eastern
and western states farms operated by
tenants, 1877.
Fourth-Cotton states general average
| yield corn per acre, 1871 bushels. East
| ern and western states general average
| yield corn per acre, A.3 bushels.
| cursory examination of the figures
| given as to the cotton states will reveal
| to any reader of this great newspaper the
magnificent agricultural possibilities of
1 those states.
| You will get clearer and more com
| prehensive conception of the possibilities
4 agricultural and otherwise-of those
states when told, as the record authorizes
| that you may be told, that, in addition
to the corn produced in 1917, there was
| picked and ginned an extraordinarily
large crop of cotton; there was harvest
ed: Wheat, 100000 bushels; oats. 120.-
| 900, 900 bushels; IRISH potatoes, 26,0OO,0Ol
bushels sweet potatoes, 70,000,00o bush
els; hay, 100000 TONS and large crops
| of other valuable farm products.
The farm labor problem, perplexng as
it has been the two decades Just past,
more disturbing now than ever, VIII be
| solved, is being solved in a number OF
| cotton states, by the introduction and use
of improved labor-saving farm nipple
ments and farm machinery.
| 1t is we'll known that. since 1874. cot
I ton states have been using commercial
fertilizer in large quantities. The fact
that potash, so necessary to complete
fertilizer, is not available, makes prac-
tically impossible the complete fertilizer
so largely used UP to and inclusive OF
1914
Manufacturers. with the fertilizer ele-
ments at command. have done their very
Fbest to supply the long felt want The
situation has developed resourcefulness
~, Fa 1lU ThaU have turned
and will continue to turn, to good pur-
pose a large tonnage of fertilizing ma
terial which, heretofore overlooked. went
to waste.