Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-01-28
MORE FOOD is
NOW IN
SOUTHERN STATES



the Mason and Dixon line.
Great credit is given to the county
agents, who have not only shown
southern farmers in Is states how to
raise and produce vegetables, truck
crops, field crops, and meat prod.
ucts, but have been successful in
getting the farmers to raise such
products on a large scale. Despite
cotton has operated against the pop
ularity of other crops, the average
farmer backed up the food program.
Southern farmers and toWnsmen
sorghum for syrup, in their home
gardens. The farmers increased
their production of small grains,
corn, hay, peanuts, velvet beans, soy
beans, cowpeas, as well as meat,
bama Increased its production of
potatoes IS per cent, cotton 80 per
cent, hay II per cent, oats 8 per
cent, hogs 81 per cent, sheep 10 per
cent, and sweet potatoes Z per cent
over the yields of 1912
The south has been a heavy buyer
of hay, the majority of her yearly
forage coming from the western
states. The services of the south
ern county agents have increased
the local hay production to the ex-
tent that Alabama produced l,293,-
600 tons of hay during the year 1918
as compared with 10000 tons in
1909; During the period from 1903
to 1918, Georgia increased hay pro-
duction 426 per cent; North Caro-
lima, 1873 per cent; Florida, 1862 per
cent, and South Carolina, 253 per
cent According to recent crop es-
the farm crops of Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Mississippi. North Caro-
lima and South Carolina amounted
to $S39,213,000 in 100 and S2,1O6,-
1850 in 1917, an increase of 25O
per cent.
Gains in Live stock
1t is only logical that as the pro-
duction of corn and hay increases
in, the southern states, the number
of hogs and cattle raised and kept
show corresponding gains. The ra-
zor-back hog has been traditional
of late years these native rustlers
have been replaced by well-finished
porkers of desirable conformation
and breeding which are more eco
under southern conditions than are
the granted hogs of the corn belt
in that middle western territory.
According to recent estimates by
the bureau of crop estimates, there
are $685. 900 hogs in the United
or 45.5 per cent, are on farms in
the six corn belt states of Iowa, IL
linofs, Nebraska, Missouri, Indiana
and Ohio, while 21,756,0 600 porkers,
or 1874 per cent, are located in the
Is southern states, and the remain
ing 21.1 per cent are distributed
over the remaining 27 states of the
union. Under present conditions the
south ranks second only to the corn
belt as the leading pork-producing
able fact about the growth of the
hog business in the cotton states is
that it has developed rapidly during
the last five years as a direct re-
suit of the untiring efforts of coun-
ty agents to .popularize pork produc-
ton. Dramatically the south is the
ideal live stock section of this coun-
try, and present indications are that
it is en- route to come into it's own
More Food Saved
Reports show 1,470,4OS women &C
lively engaged in regular and emer-
states during 1917, while 980,272
girls assisted along similar lines; a
total of 2,606,213 women and girls
worked to help win the war by gar
and drying fruits. vegetables. and
meats, butter making, and cheese
making. Their achievements are
partially pictured in 100000 cans
of fruits and vegetables now await
ing consumption in southern store
rooms and pantries. Impartial
opinion states that during the last
twelve months the southern states
have canned and preserved 500 per
cent more fruits and vegetables
than in any similar period in the
last half century.
The 62,227 women enrolled in s.
S12 southern clubs recently have put
up 34,993,677 cans of vegetables and
fruits worth over $7,OoO,000. In ad-
dition they have prepared over 1850
tons of dried fruits and vegetables
and brined picked and stored 500
additional tons of vegetables. The
1896 southern girls engaged in
regular club work raised and can
ned 8,SS2,000 cans of vegetables
worth $1,5OO,000. as we'll as canning
an additional 1861, 600 containers of
fruits and veeeto bles which they
did raise themselves.