The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-03
FINANCIAL BACKING BEHIND FARM FACTS !. GIVES PERMANENCE Former State Papers Lacked
 Enough Money BOOST TO AGRICULTURE Farming Interests Need Strong Paper Which Assists and
 Represent Their Or
 ganizations
BOOST TO AGRICULTURE

Continuing the narrative of what Alabama Farm Facts has accomplished for the agricultural interests of the state and what it hopes to accomplish, two chapters of which have been pub- lished in this paper, and repeating that Farm Facts is the exclusive agricul- tural and live stock journal of Ala bama and as such has had phenomenal growth in less than one year, attention may properly be called in this article to the power behind this enterprise and its capacity to make the publication a permanent force of great usefulness to the farmers of the state.
 Before Alabama Farm Facts was is- sued in it's present standardized form, as an outgrowth of Farm and Gmmigra- tion, published for five years as a Sun day supplement to the Montgomery Ad- vertiser. there had been many attempts to give the state farm journal which would, be identified with Alabama in name and circulation. Several of these began at various times in Montgom- cry the best remembered and longest lived being the cotton planters periodi- cal which was in existence about the time of the Civil war. Montgomery be- ing the geographical and actual live stock and farming center of the state several publishers in the past thirty years have attempted to build up farm papers in this city but every previous effort has lacked the necessary capital to make a success of such an enter prise.
 Alabama Farm Facts, however be- ing owned by the Montgomery Adver- tiSer, one of the states most successful and most influential daily papers, has the financial backing, the mechanical equipment and the business organiza- tion to make it permanent and valua- ble asset for the farmers and live stock interests of the state. The publisher of the Advertiser. Mir. Charles H. Allen. is also publisher of Farm Facts. He comes of line of pioneer farmers in Alabama and is a native of Sumter county. Tn the publication of that pa per he is following out an ambition of many years to upbuild the agricultural and live stock interests of the state and to see in Alabama as fine farming properties and as widespread rural prosperity as the state of the central west enjoy.
 There are three elemental things that strike an Alabamian visiting the rural districts of the great corn wheat and live stock producing states of the west the comfort of the farm homes, good roads and good schools. These things have been obtained by organization No branch of farming activity in the western states is without it's growers association. These associations are the marketing agencies of their members: i: they control production and prices Unlike the poor cotton farmer of the south, who hauls his product to the nearest town. after seven or eight whatever. price local buyers offer, the organized farmers of the west make their own prices and cooperative asso- citations do the selling.
 Only since the world war have the farmers of Alabama attempted organ ized production and marketing. and until recently organization was limited to live stock and trucking. Now the cotton growers of the state are rapidly being unified in the Alabama division of the American Cotton Association; the peanut growers of the state who produce one-fourth of the entire crop of the United States are organized; the whole of the southeastern part of the state is organized for "safe farming" and permanent abandonment of the ruinous one-crop (cotton) system; live stock producers in every county are or. ganized for cooperative selling; to-
 bacco production--one of the most promising new resources of the state mas US Fepreseptdtse aNsocldton, the citrus fruit growers of Mobile and Baldwin counties and the pecan grow CTS of the whole state have efficient organizations. In this work Alabama Farm Facts is the only agricultural journal which has taken an active part ; and it is the official representative of each organization. If any of their members, or any members of the vari- ous live associations of which Alabama Farm Facts is the official paper are not receiving it. they should lose no time in writing 10 P. o. Box 759. Montgom- ery Ala--Adv