Arizona republican., 1920-11-23
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"cotton Or Cows?"
 Under the caption, Cotton Or Cows?8 the Wall Street Journal gives sound advice to the cotton growers of the southern states. Recent experience here has made it in part applicable to the cotton growers of this valley The article in the Journal was suggested by experiment being conducted by the agricultural extension department of the Inter national Harvester company farm of 16O acres in Mississippi It cotton farm, typical ex- ample of the run down cropped death southern farm with soil devoid of dry, baked and gull lied and which could produce only mediocre crop with the aid chemical fertilizers" It selected by the L H. C. people it the worst that could be found.
 Cotton was discarded and a rotation system put in The fields made green with clover and other crops which gave humus to the soil and fed a small herd of dairy cows. The second year this farm yielded net profit of s2.oOO. half of which from the cows
 After describing the experiment the Journal says:
 The story is told here not suggest any general abandonment of cotton growing but for the benefit of farmers in other communities of the South who complaining of the low price of cotton. The true remedy is not In burning gins, holding cotton. or frantic appeals to the United states treasury for relief. Acres or diamonds" are in the soil of the South if the farmers would look for them instead of chasing rainbow gold in Washington.
 Permanent prosperity can never be built upon alone Such thing is not in the soil. But the South has the opportunity of becoming the richest agricultural section of the United states if it will the advantages nature has given This enviable position is to be at tained through system of corn, clover, cows and cotton.
 Our case is only somewhat different from that of the southern states. We only begun drifting into the one-crop folly had not gone far enough to injure lands materially, doubt but for the check that has been put upon would have until much of the land in the Salt River val- ley would have robbed fertility In years to this check painful as is now will be looked back upon as a blessing.
 Less than half dozen years ago daryng was the most important of agricultural industries. It had laid the foundation of many snug fortunes It was lifting mortgages and profitably extending it. self, and was png deposits in the banks. and all the time it was making rich lands richer
 We have seen the dairying industry dissipated Our have been of the country or sent to the butchers block. In the present situation many of our farmers thus deprived of strong prop which had faithfully supported them themselves with out anything which to lean. They will not, we are sure ever be caught in this fix again.
 The causes of their misfortune are not quite the same in detail those which not only this year but intermittently for half century have brought dis aster to the cotton growers of the south Cotton growing in the Salt River Valley is one thing while in the socalled cotton states the south it is an other But the ruinous one-crop method is the same In its results everywhere. is every scheme for sudden enrichment however legitimate it may be.
 It has been demonstrated beyond cavil that we can raise high grade of long staple cotton this valley. For those who go into it without gamb- ling in it. and who are wise enough take precau- tions against the impovershment the soil, there will always be money and big money It may not always come at the end of season but it is sure to come to those who afford to wait
 Gambling is always bad business whether it is gambling in cotton futures in the market or in the field, and it is necessarily gamble for the man who stakes everything, and than he has, on it.