The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-15
Favorable Weather
 For Corn and Cotton


 ,. # # Favorable Weather
 For Corn and Cotton |1MEsPITE the late planting, the @O promise of good crops is very bright. A month ago it looked as if barely minimum production of cot ton would be ginned this year. But the situation has improved, and while only comparatively small crop can be expected, it will probably be as large as that of last year.
 Alabama no longer strives to make a big cotton crop. It plants only a small acreage Crop diversification pays better. But if this reasonable weather continues, there is time for fairly good yield of the fleecy sta ple-in Alabama about as much as last year; that is to say, from six to seven hundred thousand bales, rather than a million and half bales, as in the noted bumper year. Of the four crops now being planted, corn, of course, is of prime importance. There is danger of drouth, of course, but without ex- cessive heat and with gentle show CTS in July and August, it need be no surprise to see a fifty million to sixty million bushel crop in the au- tumn.
 Under favorable conditions Ala bama some day should reach the one hundred million bushels. But with fifty million bushels a great hog pro- duction will be assured. And that, after all, is where the bulk of the farm money is made.
 As long as Alabama pushes diver |sification, there will be little chance of crop failure. If one crop fails another will make up for it.
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 Of course. it's none of our business, but Uncle Joe" Cannon ought to know that a nail is much more dependable than toothpick for keeping ones gal fuses attached to ones trousers
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 The tip pirates of Chicago say dele gates to the republican convention were rather near" However, the Chicago hotel proprietors engineered d drive on thrift that was a great suc- cess.
 Any kind of nature faking seems permissible in campaign year. For delphia Inquirer attaches a rats tail to the democratic donkey
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 Brother Adams, the apple" candi- date for the republican vice presiden- tial nomination, is probably convinced that the serpent was somewhere around.
 The suffrage picket who sacrifices complexion and blisters her nose for the Cause" is going about as far as man can go in self-immolation. <. E *
 With an annual salary of s3,750,000 the King of Italy can well afford to shed sympathetic tear when his sub jccts cry for bread $S # * Judging from the comment in some of the most militant democratic pa- rers, it Is impossible to see Harding and Coolidge with a microscope. * # * Incidentally. the middle name of Harding is "Gamaliel." By concen- LTdllHS Ol that tHe ucIHOCtdtS Cdu win. E * bottle of beer caused much excite ment in Tuscaloosa recently. It is probably being preserved for a mu- scum piece.
 F E E If the average propagandist had to spend his own money for propaganda, hard-worked postal clerks would have considerably less mail to handle.
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 The present calm in Mexico may turn out to be nothing more than breath ing spell.
 An etymologist says "booze" Is an English word. And in England it is still a commodity.
 * E E The Caruso $500.000 jewel robbery is enough to make the ordinary stage star turn green with envy. No matter which party Is holding . convention, the House of Morgan comes in for a few hard knocks. Senator Lodge wears small collar. His hat is not much larger. x * It begins to look as if Secretary Col