The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-06-04
Mr.. Farmer. Mr.. Planter,
Mr.. Renter.


farmers of this section with the
threatened shortage Of food and
stimulate them to plant every
acre possible to that kind of crop.
The men whose names are sign
ed to the article are agricultural
and marketing specialists. They
know whereof they speak and it
behooves every farmer in the
country to heed their timely
warning and advice:
Are you going to be short of
feedstuffs again next winter? Think
of what feeds have cost you this.
They will not be cheaper next. Do
not conditions call for little sober
thought and immediate action?
Owing to the wet, backward spring
many acres are still to be planted
to cotton. These wet acres planted
now mean late cotton and a poor
crop, or perhaps no crop at all
where the boil weevils are present.
Why not put this land into feed
crops? You will have enough cotton
without this last planting; but un
less you plant this wet land and
all other land possible in food and
feed crops, the profits from the
cotton already planted will go for
high priced feeds. No one doubts
that feedstuffs will be higher priced
next spring.
II What crops May vet be planted?
Corn, sorghum, COW peas soy beans,
peanuts. Sudan grass. etc.
But don't put corn on poor land!
Give it the best land available. If
you have no good land. plant sor-
ghum.
Srrghum-Amber or Orange
sowed one bushel to one and one
half bushels of seed per acre will
make three to FIVE tons Of hay. or
80 to 200 gallons of syrup, or may
be used to fill the silo.
Peanuts will make from 80 to IS
bushels per acre and one to one half
tons of good hay.
Soy beans will make from one to
three tons of hay. or one to two tons
of stoyer and Is to 25 bushels OF
beans, or smay be used to mix
with sorghum in the silo.
Cow peas will make from one to
one and one-half tons of fine hay
which will keep the idle mules in
good condition without grain.
A poor stand of cotton will not
pay for the high priced labor nee
essary to clean, cultivate and pick
There will be plenty of cottor
grown, for we get as much for 6
small crop as large one; but feed
stuffs are short everywhere. The
whole world is hungry, and the south
cannot afford to compete with
Europe for the corn and other iced
stuffs produced in the nertherr
states.
The south has never produced al
much food and feed as she consumes
because she has never planted
enough food and feed crops. Thi
year the seedmen in this eectior
have onlyNsold one-half the usua
r amount of seeds for garden and feet
crops.
What will be your condition ant
what answer can you give if mex
winter your entire cotton crop i
consumed in paying this yeas's bill
and you must go on tight marke
to borrow money to buy high price
feeds to keep your live stock fror
starvation and to make next year
crops2
Be sensible; plant more food an
feed crops: keep the money you g,
for your cotton crop IN the south.
To buy hay and corn at the big
prices which will prevail. wit
borrowed money. is suicidal. Whe
food and feedstuffs are high price
the farmers of the south shoul
grow them and get the profits il
stead of giving them to the col
belt"
E. r. LLOYD, Director,
C. w. WATSON, Marketil
Specialists,
Farm Development Bureau.
Memphis, Tenn. May %.
p. S.-Also keep the gard,
going. The south can keep fat
sweet potatoes alone.n