The Little River news., 1922-02-01
Recommendations for Safe
 Agricultural Plans for '22

meeting of Farmers and Business en, in Little Rock, January 12, 1922: 1. All peoples must be brought to realize that whatever else farming may be it is, nevertheless, a busi- ness and as such it must pursue safe and sound business policies similar to those which govern other lines of business or it's efforts will become | speculative at times and result in serious periodic losses. Farming re- sembles the manufacturing industry in many respects. It is a familiar law of sound business that the output of factories must be veried to suit the general demand When times are prosperous and the buying power of people generally is great manufac- tu"ers increase their product to meet the demand, but in hard times when products have to be sold at unsatis- factory prices and when peoples buying power is low, manufacturers reduce the output and wait for the 1 time of recovery.
 2. Farmers to some extent follow the same law, except that in areas of single cash crops a good price often over-stimulates production and brings large crops with correspond ingly low prices.
 3. We are at such place in decid- ing on safe course for 1922 There in grave danger that the present price of cotton may lead to a misund- erstanding of the situation, may ov- er-stimulate production and result in lower prices
 4. We are confronted with these facts:-The people of Europe, our greatest cotton market, are struggl- ing under greater national debts and higher taxes than ever before. For eign Exchange with this country is a factor decreasing buying power as to our products. The annual export of American Cotton from August, 1917, to August, 1921, avearged prac- | tically three million bales less per year than from August, 1912, to Au- gust, 1916, and two million bales less than from August, 1907, to August, 1911. Until world purchasing power increases a large crop will have to sell for less price.
 5. In our own country we must remember that other sections have yet to experience the stimulating in- | fluence of increased prices for farm products, and therefore still feel poor and lack buying power.
 1 G. The safety and stability of our agricultural interests and of the bus mess and financial interests of the State of Arkansas depend upon the | prosperity of her farms. We have witnessed in the past the fact that permanent prosperity cannot come to the cotton section under system of farming which does not provide for the production of these home-sup | plies of garden vegetables fruits, potatoes, corn, hay and forage, oats, meat, milk and eggs is the safest, and in the long run, the most dependable system of agriculture we can pursue. Such policy promotes health and home living and prevents unwarrant- ed and unwise speculation in cotton, discouraging great yearly fluctua- tions in acreage
 l z During the past year We have had an unprecedented infestation of the boil weevil, due largely to season. al conditions and the mild winter of a year ago To gr .atly increase the cotton acreage under weevil infesta- tion has always proven uneconomic, unsound, and a dangerous financial experiment. The rule always advo- cated under weevil conditions has been to plant a limited acreage of cotton, better tended than under nor nal conditions, and to make sure that all food and feed necessary is produced on the rest of the acreage.
 8. The effort on the part of the farmers elsewhere in the United States to decrease the acreage in corn, while prompted by sound busi- ness policies on their part, should stimulate every farmer in Arkansas to make sure of the production of ample supplies of corn for home use in this state.
 9. Therefore, this convention urge every farmer in the State of Arkansas to follow a safe plan in 1922, and to that end to produce the living of the family and the feed for the livestock on the farm as nearly as possible; to increase the family cows, number of hogs kept for meat, and the number of head of poultry per farm, and to establish these industries on such