Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-21

be able to get in cash enough prac-
tically to meet every need of the
farm and family for current ex
penses.
"Skim milk or clabber is a most
excellent poultry feed, as every
woman in Georgia knows, and
where the skim milk is utilized in
feeding poultry the sales from but
ter fat may be supplemented con-
siderably by sales of poultry ind
eggs. In many cases throughout
the south during the spring of 1921
farmers wives, with two or three
or four extra COWS and the flock
of chickens a little better cared for,
were able to finance the farm and
meet the situation that would have
otherwise been most unfortunate. 1t
is this phase of the situation that
especially appeals to everyone who
gives the matter moments
thought.
"Where farmers are in debt and
find it hard to secure advances, the
keeping of few cows and a few
more hens with a little better at
tention to the COWS and chickens
has enabled the farm and family to
proceed upon a cash basis when
otherwise they would have found it
next to impossible to have gotten
the advances required and in many
cases would have been under the
necessity of depriving themselves
to an extent that would have been
almost a tragedy.
1.-THE next important propositions
and one that is absolutely funda-
mental is the building up of our
worn-out lands. A system of agri-
culture that will enable us to build
up and maintain our soils in high
state of prOductiveness must be
worked out. We must realize that
we can not make profitable crops
on poor lands. Crop rotation and
precautions necessary to prevent
washing and the addition Of humEs
both from the residue of leguminous
crops and from the manure from
live stock will solve the problem of
soil building and maintenance now
confronting us.
Rebuilding the Soil
1.-THE keeping of a few additional
COWS on the farm, the growing, as
we must, of less cotton and more
of other crops such as soy beans,
cow peas, velvet beans, ETC., will
result incidentally in the building up.
of our lands. The rotation of our
fields that will be easily practicable
under the here-suggested system OF
farming will gradually but surely re.
suit in improved an enriched lands.
1T is believed that at the present
time the most important thing for
Georgia to do is go get absolutely
behind the program of sour cream
dairying, hogs and poultry raising,
as a means of successfully meeting
the present urgent need for steady
cash income Throughout the year
and as a beginner to the system OF
agriculture that should be in vogue
here that would insure the produc-
tom of sufficient Of the food products
and feedstuffS TO meet out every
need so that any surplus produc-
ton beyond that for our state needs
might be in the form of truck crops,
fruit crops, cotton and cotton seed,
and possibly eventually butter, poul-
try and eggs, pork, beef, etc.
"The farmers of Georgia and the
business men as we'll are indeed IN
for great disappointment if we shall
proceed to diversity our agriculture
depending upon the sale of all pro-
duction in the raw state, but If we
recognize the enormous advantage
our farmers have in the matter of
producing and marketing such pro
duction as butter, cream and milk,
chickens and eggs, pork and beef
and shall plan a system of agricul..
ture based upon the production OF
all the grain and forage we might
produce upon lands that will not be
occupied by cotton, certain vegea-
bles and cruti crops, converting
same upon the farm into the proc
ucts above suggested for which we,
ourselves, afford such extensive mar
kets, success will attend our efforts
ahSOlute]V"