The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-05
Real Farm Paper Is Not Mere Glossary For Advertiser
Should Be Instructive and
 Helpful to Farmers
PLACE OF FARM FACTS
Alabama's Agricultural Week. ly Carries Authoritative Advice on All Phases
 of Farming

The place of Alabama Farm Facts, The
 Mentgonery Advertisers agricultural weekly, published exclusively for the far. mers and live stock raisers of this state. is not unique in the limiting of it's in- Formation and activities to one state Oklahoma, Louisiana, Illinois, Ohio, In. diana, California and several other statea nave individual farm papers which serve tEeir own commonwealths and represent exclusively their own agricultural hor- ticultural and live stock interests They have found that they can better serve the farmers and live stock raisers of one state because the special problems that apply to that state are not found else- where Like Alabama Farm Facts these papers are able to give specific answers to farming questions. instead of general answers. For instance, g question about cotton growing in the Mississippi Delta could not be answered by an exper!- ence in cotton growing ill South Caro- ina. There are certain wellknown rules Tor growing Niagara grapes in New York state which would wholly fail to answer the question of a California grape grow CT. The answer to wheat growing or marketing problem in Oklahoma would not apply to wheat growing in Alabama.
 The Georgia sugar-cane growers would hardly be satisfied with an answer that would entirely cover the problem of q Louisiana cane grower. Of course there are certain general principles of farming that apply in all states, but every farmer knows these principles or he would not ue . farmer. What he wants in his farm paper is specific information aoout his own state, its soils. crops. marketing fa- cilities, what his neighbors in the same or adjoining counties are doing. what fer tilizers to use in given localities for ccs- iain crops, what 1egumes wifi grow in certain counties and not in others what root crops are suited to his soil, what fruit trees. what pasture crops for his sattie and hogs. what breds Of animals do bose on these crops and all other agri- cultural Information which is of dlrect benefit to him.
 The Alabama farmer is not interested n wheat smut in North Dakota. but he .s intensely interested in fungi or par nsilos atiacking his own or n.s neigh ,ors' crops and what 10 do to convoi the
 ,csts. The use of farming mach nerg n tho Biuc Grass region of Kentucky of- iers hiri n set of f.gLrea on cost Of cu-
 walton ana hnry estinG which are or no snrthiy uao 10 linn because farming con-
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 tn all matters concerning farming anu
 ivo stock raising n Alabama. the farm .npor dovotiiig itself exclusively to Ala "amn iE. therefore. the best authority
 .nd most representative of the inter osts 1t serves. That is why Alabama
 4 arm Facts bsr grown so rapidly since it wac ntandardixsd as 8 farm pubiica- ton after being built on the farming sup pie,nent of The Montgomery Advertiser,
 ..hich was published for five years be- lore the change was made in November of last year. Alabama Farm Facts has a substantial circulationa In every, agri- cultural county of the state. It Is the official journal Of the American Cotton Association Alabama division. and of dozen other farming and live stock or ganizations in Alabama whose members consider 1t invaluable in the work of their associations. If you are not already a subscriber send D cents for one year or sl for three years to Alabama Farm Facts. P. o. Box 75s Montgomery, Ala bama.vAdv.