The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-04
Alabama Farm Facts
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 States Agriculture REPRESENTS PROGRESS Farm Weekly the Publicity We hicle for All Phases of
 Rural Development | in Alabama

Ths v1d- time farmer had DEns book learning and was suspicious of every attempt to introduce new methods of agriculture The methods of his father and his grandfather were good enough for him. They had been successful in eat, to humbly clothe his family and to pay interest on the farm mortgage at the close of a season, he considered Inc was DO worse off than his fellow farmers. The old-time farmer of Ala bama grew all or nearly an cotton for which he received just enough to keep the wolf from the door. A few of the moro far-sighted raised enough feed for their mules and a ticky COW or two, but the majority bought their feed and paid freight on it to the nearest haul ing center. There is 8 great outcry now against Alabama farmers leaving their farms, but the wonder is that so many of them remained on the farms as long as they did.
 In the past 1s years-ehe time might be reduced to 10 years-a great change has taken place in agricultural con ditions in Alabama. The majority of farmers in every county have aban doned tho one-crop system. Where before they bought their corn in the west, they are now raising their own corn and this year. for the first time, will raise enough to supply the entire needs of the state, over 10000, 900 bush els. Oats used to be & rarity in the state: they are now staple crop.
  medically for home consumption. are now produced in commercial quantities Velvet beans, soy beans, alfalfa, bur and white clover give millions of dol lars additional to the states re- sources, and in the case of the Iegumes, further millions in re- turning natural fertility to the soil In the production of peanuts and sweet potatoes Alabama leads every other state. In live stock production and es- pecial1y hogs, the state has made enor- nous strides within the past years There are counties of Alabama which never shipped a carload of hogs prior to 1914, which are now shipping thou sands of cars in the course of one sea- son. Tractors and farm machinery were practically unknown in 60 of the 67 counties of the state until recently Fruit and nut growing. not so many years ago limited to the requirements of the farm family and abandoned whatever insects or parasites destroyed the trees now forms an intensive part Hf the states horticulture.
 What has primarily brought about fhis great economic change? What forces have been at work to educate the farm CTS of Alabama up to the agricultural. horticultural and live stock standards of the most successful states in diversi- fled production?
 The extension service and the Ala hama Polytechnic institute at Auburn; the faculty of the institute who are also the leaders in the extension work; the county agents, the home demonstration agents, the Boys and Girls club organ izers; the inspectors who have driven out the cattle tick the specialists who have eradicated the fungus and parasite diseases of field and tree crops. They have saved millions of dollars to Ala bama and created new millions in agri- cultural resources.
 Alabama Farm Facts is the medium through which the leaders of the exten- sion service and the Auburn specialists reach over forty thousand farmers each week, and it is said with satisfaction that the extension work and the promo ton of better agriculture and greater live stock production have taken on a new impetus this year largely as a re- suit of the assistance Farm Facts has given to the Auburn authorities. If you want to keep up with the progress in the development of the state. to learn the solution of farming problems which are presented in Alabama and to patronize the one farming weekly paper which is published exclusively for this state, send % cents, for one year or s1.00 for three years to Alabama Farm Facts. P. O. Box T59 Montgomery AIa-Adyertisement