The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-02
SALVATION OF Dixie
FARMER IS BELIEVED
DEPENDENT ON MOVE
Vigorous Campaigns Being
Staged to Make 1891 Ban.
1er Diversified Year
COTTON VALUE DECREASING
Dairying Is Considered Best
Bet for Southland; Hay
Output Increases
COTTON VALUE DECREASING

Atlanta. March 2.-R>-A fight has
been started this year to Dust king
Cotton" as the absolute, monarch OF
Dixie farms.
Agricultural experts who have CIV
Z problems In the south are agreed that
the farmer who continues to depend
on cotton for = living is playing a
losing game.
Vigorous campaigns are being
waged in practically all southern
states to make 1881 q banner year for
diversified crops. cooperative market
ing and generally Giving at home"
During the past five years the value
Of cotton produced in the United
States has decreased approximately
$3.50, 0O0. 1000, United States depart
ment Of commerce figures show.
Livestock. Corn High
In Georgia alone cotton was re-
sponsible for less than one-third Of
the total value of farm products
grown last year, the total of which
was 1897, 288, 900.
The value Of dairy products "a
$40, 900 600; livestock $78,2 ~ 900; corn,
$44 900 900; tobacco. SIG, 000, 900; poul-
try and eggs $40, 0O0, 900.
Dairying has been considered the
best bet" for farm relief in the
south. In 1909 no butter was manu-
featured commercially in Mississippi
and census reports indicate sales of
home produced butter at 1884 pounds.
In 1923 the states "a creameries
turned out 1850. 465 pounds of high
grade butter. and agricultural u
thoritieS said the poundage was
greater in 1929 and 1880.
j. G. McClain. extension dairyman
of the United States department Of
agriculture, said small cooper
etivc creamery in Mississippi had dis
tributed an average of $4,000 q
month 10 farmers for dairy products
for the past several years.
Evidence that farmers are inter-
ested in scientific ideas that can be
applied to their work comes from the
fact that In 1880 the 153 farm agents
and home demonstration agents In
Tennessee reached more than 1000
600 people in their improvement pro-
gram.
One railroad, serving a large agri-
cultural area in the heart of the
south, reported through It's farm rep
resentatiye that in the past five years
legume seed shipped into its territory
for planting increased from $4,000
pounds to 1900. 900 pounds in 1880.
Hay Output Larger
. Coming OF the dairy industry has
brought the necessity for larger pro-
duction of hay. Invention of an arti-
ficial hay drier at the University of
Louisiana has made possible the
growing of larger and better hay
crops in several instances and re-
move the danger Of having the hay
spoiled by rain before it can be cured.
Establishment in many sections,
especially south Georgia and Ala
bama, OF a year-round market for
hogs and beef cattle has made corn
an abundant crop in the south.
' The "hogging- oft" method fire.
quently is used to advantage by
turning hogs into a field and letting
them eat the corr off the stalks
without the expense Of gathering 1t.
{ Cooperative marketing Of poultry
is common in North and South Car
'olina and Florida. and a southwide
cooperative association for the mar
of vegetables has been pro-
posed.
Credit associations in which bank
erS cooperate in extending credit to
farmers who agree to follow certain
rules of diversification have been
formed in several states. including
Georgia and North Carolina.