The Pulaskian., 1919-04-11
ADVANTAGES OF DIVERSIFIED
 FARMING.
(By H. L. Gardner, Special Cores
 pondent to 'The Pulaskian."

Farming is profession in the same sense as any other trade or pro- fession-A profession that requires just as much, if not more, training and diligent study as any and all others.
 All who are engaged in agricultural pursuits have one of the most in dependent methods of securing an ex- istence known since the beginning of time, but to make a success, the farmer must consider and stop to realize that he cannot "get by" with the one crop system-he must diversity and rotate his crops and en- deaver to raise everything that is possible to be raised or produced under the climatic conditions in which he is situated.
 One of the most abused one-crop systems is that of cotton; the farmer who depends solely upon cotton as a support, is not as progressive, and can not be, as one who farms on the diversified scale. Even though the one-crop cotton farmer produce the feecy commodity in large amounts and secures the highest price obtain able for the marketed cotton he has to pay out what money he receives for it for food and clothing for him. self and family, food for his stock and for the general up-keep of his farm establishment, if on the other hand he rotates and diversifies his crops and raises his own hogs, poultry and stock, he is on the right road to success. Not all of us have stopped to realize the profits that can be made from the different fruits, poultry, etc; even if grown and produced on small amount.
 Apple trees set 30x30 feet each way, 49 trees to the acre, each tree easily producing on an average of four bushels of fruit to the tree, one hundred and ninety-six bushels to the acre and at only a dollar a bushel, or even fifty cents bushel it would only take very few acres of we'll bearing apple trees to bring in as much money as the large cotton planter.
 Other fruits and berries in propor- tion to the apple. Alfalfa will easily produce two to three tons of market able hay per year to the acre and at only S15 a ton, 40 acres would sur prise you when you had your bank book balanced. No cultivating like cotton either.
 The Tamworth hog is the greatest pork producer known, an average of four pigs at litter-each easily dressing for market 200 pounds when grown, and at only 10, cents a pound for the pork, each brood SOW brings in an income of $80 year.
 An ordinary common sheep will clip six pounds of wool year and at the present price of a dollar a pound for the marketable raw wool the ''small" profit of $6 alone for wool is to be added to the $10 that the lamb will sell for when grown.
 The greatest producers known are the white Leghorn chickens, each hen laying on an average of a gross of eggs a year and at only 25c a dozen for the eggs each "Biddy, gives you three dollars every twelve months. The Indian runner ducks are cousins to the Leghorns, when it comes to the egg producing quantities averaging the same if not more eggs-If only hundred eggs are set matched and ducks raised and sold at only 35c each, there's only $35 in- come from each "quack." Seems too good to be true, doesn't it?
 Another six cylinder car producer is that of the Belgian hare-that which has not attracted very much attention in a very few years back but which is coming to it's place and prestige of the present times-One doe rabbit has two filters of young a year and on an average to the litter each rabbit easily dressing three pounds for market when six months old and is greatly in demand at 15c a pound for the meat by the better class restaurants and hotels.
 Other crops, stock, poultry not mentioned bring in equal proceeds tc the ones mentioned, still there are many who will say that cotton alone must be raised in Arkansas that the farmer may live.
 Anyone can be a gentleman that