The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-15

, the corresponding month of last year.
 If the average of the five years, 19l0- 1914, is taken as 100 for each month the average price for the seven months from
 January to July 1920 is 21 per cent above
 that of the same period in 1919" JAS to present crop conditions and the necessity that the high prices be main taned, the secretary, in a prepared statement, says:
 Tn spite of generally unsettled con- d.tions, unprecedented difficulty in se- curing labor and transportation facilities high cost of materials and uncertainty Jas to future prices for farm products, tine farmers of the United States have proceeded in good faith this year to raise d crop better than the average. They are repeating, under the difficulties of read justment the assurance given by their magnificent achievement during the war, that they are not to be daunted or de- tered by adverse conditions from con- tributing their full share to the welfare
 of the whole country. Looking upon the record of the American farmers during | these two periods of extreme stress and | strain, the one following the other so l closely that there was no chance for | relaxation, I have absolute confidence 1 that the future efforts of American farm | CTS will fall nothing short of their full
 duty to society
 | ID u LN SItOl to 1 "Specifically there IS prospect of a | wheat crop exceeding pre-war average
 about 1O000O,0O0 bushels; corn crop of 1 Z, ,275, ,0O0 GOO bushels. or 900 bushels more than the pre-war average; oats 1 L 13S, ,O00O00 bushels, or 150,0000o0 more 1 bushels than the pre-war average bar ley in excess and rye more than double the pre-war average potatoes exceeding the five-year pre-war average; cotton grain, sorghums and apples better than
 last year and record sugar beet and sor- ghum syrup crops.
 "The cost per unit in producing these crops unquestionably considerably , greater than for any previous crop in th'
 last half century and business men, a'
 well as all other clements of the popu lation, must realize that. if the recore
 made by the farmers during the wal ], ant period of readjustment is to be main tained and the food requirements or th' Ination met, producers must receive ade , ouate prices for their products-price which will enable them to continue tt . produce, to secure a reasonable returi
 for their efforts and to maintain sat
 isfactory standard of living for them
 selves and families"
 VALUE OF ROTATIONS
 The secretary then proceeds to urg
 rotation in crop production. As resul 1 of an experiment, he says: Cotton, tol ) lowing cowpeas, gave 511 pounds to tn acre; cotton following cotton yielded onl. 279 pounds
 : 'In the above instance, both plots wer ! of similar soil and each had received S5 pounds of fertilizer to the acre! Oat , planted to follow crab grass, gave '. bushels to the acre. but coming after vel , vet beans, the yield was 2S.6 per acre. Land left to rest does not improv !, as rapidly as when worked with goo l cover crop. When corn was plante :, every three years and the land left | weeds in the interval. the yield was onl :, eighteen bushels per acre. but after fiv II years of corn and crimson clover, tn Il yield increased to fifty bushels