The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30
Crop Diuersification
 Is South's Saluation
ny DOLLY DALRYMpLE

"Diverslfication as a result of the boil weevil Is the salvation of the south. Once freed from the one crop and mortgage slavery, the cotton planters, as they are now beginning 2 to do. will move their smoke house and corn cribs from the middle west to the communities in which they live. Such diversifcation, if only enough to feed the farm, with the continued activity of the boil weevil will make bumper cotton crops of the south very doubtful In. the future.
 Mir N. T. Blackwell, president and editor of the Cotton and Cotton oil News of Dallas, Texas, expressed his opinion, which is a very valuable one to cotton men all over the world because of his wide experience in vision, yesterday in regard to the conditions obtaining in the south in regard to cotton.
 MT. Blackwell has made scientific study of the cotton situation and none knows better than he the tre- mendous need for crop diversifica- ton and what it means to the south in the future.
 T want to continue to perach crop diversification sentiment said Mfr. Blackwell, 'until the south will be- come so prosperous that no class of our cotton raisers will need the pre- cept and example of the value of a small cotton crop automatically kept 50 by universal diversification as well as intelligent and judicious mar keting
 Supply and demand, of course, fol- lows closely on the heels of crop di- versification as means to the end for the south's prosperity" he con- tinued, "and I might say right here that in the past twenty years, up to the end of the 1920 season. consump- ton has overtaken supply at the enormous ratio of more than 50 to 2. allowing for some 20,000,000 of people killed in battle or as an incident to the recent great war, including the millions who perished through starv- ation or other causes in Armenia, Russia and other European countries and by the more recent famine n China. This year we have raised but little more than the. worlds demand for cotton, therefore adding to the frightfuI ration of cotton exhaustion against production.
 we are now in the flush of the first and greatest victory ever won for a proper price for cotton In the first three months of the new sea . son." said MT. Blackwell. "and if our producers and holders will sell only one bale in five or six from now on, victory is ours and we may proceed to eat our Christmas dinners In the opulence of peace and plenty and the realization that we will go forward agricultural product by intelligent deliberate selling and get all that cotton Is worth.
 "A former distinguished governor of my state, Gov. o. M Roberts, said civilization begins and ends with the plow.' MT. Blackwell suggested, "so let us give all the encouragement n and the wisest possible counsel tc the tillers of the soil and in time re pudiate the unfortunate truth at the present time through libel on the farmer. The Man With the Hoe Ed win Markham's famous poem. Let u, forever speak to silence and to death the vicious demagogues who would array class against class, and make one element of our citizenship fee that they do not have square dea in every activity of life. I had -ath CT help to lead a constructive move ment for the benefit oi the entir,