The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-12
For Good of
 the Community
Prospects for Bountiful Haruests Will Do Much to Aid m General Business Reuiual

o dren of nature that is music to all ears On 1t we depend. In the final analysis we exist by what the generous soil renders to us in re- turn for the affection with which we treat her.
 Good as was the crop prospect month ago. it is better today. All the yields forecast at that time loom bigger since the rains so long held back descended freshened the growing things and made them spread out, bud and bloom, form their fruit nodules, extend the girth of theI corn and broaden the belt of sugar and sorghum cane.
 The forecasted yields of ten of the Alabama field crops this year compared with the yields of last year are as follows: I
 Com-74, ,375, 900 bushels, compared with 7,O57 900 last year.
 Cotton -44O, 900 bales, compared with 66O,- T 900 in 1920.
 Peanuts 8,52oo0o bushels, compared with l9,024 ,000
 Hay ,702, 600 tons, compared with 1 1924, 1000 tons.
 Sweet Potatoes - 21, ,538,0OO, compared with 17,385, ,000 bushels.
 Irish Potatoes ,256,OOo bushels, com pared with 3,215,00O
 Sorghum Syrup-14, 996, 900 gallons, com pared with 8,917,000.
 Sugar Cane Syrup-1O, O,988,O ,O0O gallons, compared with 10,358,O00.
 Oats 9,16O,OO0 bushels compared with 16, ,833, ,000.
 Wheat -567 ,O0O bushels, compared with l680,000
 None is shedding tears over the decrease in the production of cotton. The small crop is not due to the boil weevil or other plant ills, but to the weaning of the Alabama farmer from the one-crop system. Georgia will have 1,OOO,OOOI bales. Georgia is welcome to that.
 In answer to the 1,OOO,OOO bales of Georgia cotton Alabama presents her enormous yield of sweet potatoes. Not only will the yield of this tuber be the greatest on record, but throughout the state they have built houses for it's storage and to keep it until next spring when 1t will issue sound and sweet from it's hiding places to the tables of the happy people of the land And the farmer will get good price for it at a time when the appetite hungers for it's delicious flavor
 Again we call Georgia's attention to our hay production. That means the feeding of our stock at home and the elimination of the drain on purses of farmers in the purchase of feed for their animals brought from afar.
 And that magnificent yield of yellow corn. That is life for man and beast. That keeps one
 
 the winter and into the next working season in fine fettle That signifies fat hogs that fetch the highest price in the great meat packing cen ters. That also means living at home on what the home has produced.
 The enormous crops of sugar and sorghum cane will bring handsome revenue from the re- fineries and also count in the reduction of the cost of living The larger yield of oats will feed the farm stock without ordering from the mid de and the far west.
 The best of it is that these bumper crops shall have been produced at minimum cost. Hit first and hardest by the lowering of prices, the farmer was first to cut his expenses and man. fully face the new conditions. He deserves the yield of his fields
 They will enable him to liquidate with the country merchant and the banker and that will start business going throughout the country.