Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-24
He Who Goes Forth to Sou

IT. ROM many parts of Georgia come cheer
ing reports of plants to make 1921 a
year of abundant food production. If
this wise policy is pursued the cotton problem
will take care of itself and sure foundations
laid for prosperous autumn. An excessive
acreage of cotton is usually result of slight
ing other crops and other farm activities.
Where corn, wheat. beans, peas, potatoes
and the like are raised and where animal
husbandry also receives due attention, there
is scant likeiih, Cd of rash ventures in cotton.
A we'll BALANCED agriculture carries its own
safeguards.
Never was it more important or more i'm
perative than now that this sound prInclple
be applied Even if cotton were the chleI
consideration, ample food harvests would be
needful to protect the prices and the general
interests of that one crop; for it is matter
of frequent and sore experience that the
grower who must sell his Gotten to buy 1000
supplies, instead of being able to hoId II II
he desires receives the leanest deal OF all
who follow the pillow. Failure to profit by
this repeated example has led in the past
to all manner of misfortune and distress, and
so t. will again for those who fOOishlH for
get.
If Georgia's population and livestock are
TO subsist on her own resources this year her
farmers must produce siXty-fiVe million dol
lars worth of foOdstuffs more than they did
IN d
estimate of the State College Of Agriculture.
based upon accurate records and investiga-
tions 1t will be impossible to supply these
great requirements if cotton is allowed to
consume space and labor which are needed
for foOdstuffs. Not more than One-thlrd or
the States Lltivated acreage the authorl-
ties warn, can safely be allotted to cotton;
for Georgia to be independent and secure at
least two-thirds must be devoted to food
crops. Bat from those twO-thrd the barns
and cribs. can be richly stored if proper
methods ae theoretically employed.
A Georgia self-sustaining in foodstuffs will
be the most prosperous Georgia Of history,
and the most progressive. For thus the net
income from cotton and other farm products
will be clear" money to be put into savings
banks invested in farm improvements or eX-
pansions and used for the enrichment III
home life and for the education of sons and
daughters. This is the policy that will wipe
cut the deficits which last years depresslons
and Embellishments entailed. 1t is the pol
icy that will build a Commonwealth be-
side which IA. of today. for all its goodly
treasure and advancement will seem
shrunken and backward.
Whether the year whose seed-time is at
hand proves prosperous or adverse for Geor-
gia depends lagely upon the good or i'll
fortune of her farmers. Their problems in
volve the nerve and sinew of all economic
interests; from tnelr eHOrCS HOW Cne llle-LlueS
of industry and commerce. 1t is Of utmost
Importance. therefore, not only to the plant
ers themselves, but also to every province
of business THAI their plans be we'll advised
and that hey have the Iull-hearUed co-opera-
ton of all with whom them deal, particularly
supply merchants and bankers The towns
and cities can do no better service than to
prepare betimes for the efficient marketing
and storage of bou' tiful food hervests and
to let it be known through every countryside
that they are so prepared The man who
goes forth to SOW has the States prosperity
in his hands. Let us give him the assurance
that loyal people stand behind him.