The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-09
ThREE-YEAR PLAN
IS MAPPED OUT FOR
STATE TO FOLLOW
Banks Will Advance Money to
Only Those Farmers Who
Follow System
CASH CROPS TO BE REDUCED
Believe Farmer Must Produce
His Own Feed and Food to
Be Prosperous
CASH CROPS TO BE REDUCED

Atlanta, May 9.-(P)-Farmers and
bankers Of Georgia have joined hands
IN q three-year program designed to
stabilize economic conditions in the
state and place farm financing on a
level with other businesses.
Backed by the Georgia Bankers as
ISOLATION and the Georgia State Col
lege of Agriculture, the plan Is IN no
sense an experiment.
It has been tried out in several
counties over a period of 10 years.
The results were so satisfactory that
this year a statewide program has
been attempted with a majority of
the 161 counties participating.
After a thorough study Of farm
problems in Georgia, the state was
divided .nto four sections, planned
so as to include counties of a similar
agricultural trend.
To Reduce Cash Crops
Briefly, the plan Is this: Banks
will extend credit only to farmers
who agree to a specified farm pro-
gram, involving Investigation of
crops to include as much food and
feed crops as possible, and reduce
to a minimum the acreage usually
planted to cotton, tobacco or other
strictly cash crops.
Bankers of the state summed up
the situation in a resolution stating
that "the future prosperity of Georgia
farmers Is largely regulated by their
ability to produce their own feed and
food, with cotton and other cash crops
as a clear surplus"
The bankers recognized as n Of
their major problems the promotion
Of farm financing methods . :.
that require of their farmer-custom-
ers a program that will first take are
of the consumptive needs Of the farm,
and second, provide more than n
cash crop"
Programs Worked Out
The program recommended. based
on a one-horSe unit, is:
"One-half acre devoted to home
garden-keeping vegetables growing
in season the year around.
lone acre in sweet potatoes; one
fourth acre in sugar cane this may
be varied in sections unsuited to IT.:
fifty laying hens-producing most Of
the feed consumed; one milk COW
two or more when you have necessary !
feed; two good brood sows when feed
is available. |
Give acres in cotton In 1881. Not
over 10 acres to the pillow under
most favorable conditions.
Fifteen acres in corn, planting
velvet beans and peas in corn; five
acres in peanuts for feed purposes;
five acres in grain crops-rye. oats,
wheat, cattail millet. ETC.: S to 10
acres in improved permanent pas
ture, seeded to carpet grass and les
pedeza.''
Depends On Work Animals
If a farmer has mor than one
horse or mule, he will multiply the
acreage outlined by the number OF
work stock.
Bankers have obligated themselves
to make available for farmer GUS
toners pedigreed seed for the plant
ing of at least a seed patch in order
to supply better seed for 1882, and to
finance the purchase of summer
legume seed and other hay crop seed
to insure an adequate supply OF hay
and forage for each county's needs in
1882.
It is hoped by the time the dem
closes in 1888. the bankers,
county agents and farmers will be CO.
operating 100 per cent throughout the
state. officials said.