Diversified farming in the cotton Diversified farming in the cotton belt diversifiedfarmi00alfo Year: 1914 SUCCESSFUL FARMING RESTS UPON LIVE STOCK 45 can obtain large yields of oats, leguminous crops, Johnson and Bermuda grasses sorghum cane hay, and an abundance of corn for making silage, the most economic form of carbohydrates. The keeping of good live stock and the intelligent use of thoroughly good permanent pastures and grazing crops, and the economic use of the silo and cotton seed meal will make our lands rich, keep millions of dollars at home that are now sent to the North and West,
Diversified farming in the cotton Diversified farming in the cotton belt diversifiedfarmi00alfo Year: 1914 SUCCESSFUL FARMING RESTS UPON LIVE STOCK 45 can obtain large yields of oats, leguminous crops, Johnson and Bermuda grasses sorghum cane hay, and an abundance of corn for making silage, the most economic form of carbohydrates. The keeping of good live stock and the intelligent use of thoroughly good permanent pastures and grazing crops, and the economic use of the silo and cotton seed meal will make our lands rich, keep millions of dollars at home that are now sent to the North and West, and make our people prosperous. The calamity howler says: 'What about the lack of lime in the soil?' Dr. Tait Butler, probably the best posted man on southern agriculture, says in summing up a most excellent editorial on 'Lime in Southern Feeds.' We have shown: (1) That our soils are not deficient in lime as regards the land food requirements of our crops (2) That plants grown in the South have as much ash as the same plants grown elsewhere, and that the feed crops of the South, especially the legumes peculiar to the South, contain as high a per cent of ash as the feed crops of other sections; (3) That typical southern rations or those made up of typical southern feeds contain more ash than typical Northern feeds. The conclusion is, therefore, that while our animals fail to get the mineral matter they need, it is not because this material is deficient in our feeds, but because our animals do not get sufficient of our feeds. Should Grow More Live Stock In the Cotton Belt, live stock farming has been avoided mainly for two reasons: (1) Because all-cotton farming paid better until the soil became poor; (2) Because of the cattle tick. Now, millions of acres are too poor to grow cotton profitably and we can easily eradicate the cattle tick. Since the work of eradicating the tick was inaugurated, over two hundred thousand square miles have been cleaned for all time; this is an area
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