. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. SOME EFFECTS OF THE EXCLUSIVE ONE-CROP SYSTEM. The Georgia State Agricultural Department is doing a good work, in collecting facts and presenting them in a digested form for the consideration of the farmers of that State. Geogia, like other Southern States, is cursed with the one crop system, but instead of that being grain as in California, it is cotton. But that makes no diiference. Either cotton or grain raised
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. SOME EFFECTS OF THE EXCLUSIVE ONE-CROP SYSTEM. The Georgia State Agricultural Department is doing a good work, in collecting facts and presenting them in a digested form for the consideration of the farmers of that State. Geogia, like other Southern States, is cursed with the one crop system, but instead of that being grain as in California, it is cotton. But that makes no diiference. Either cotton or grain raised exclusively, to be depended upon for everything that is consumed on the farm, is equally extravagant. The one crop must be sold to purchase every:hing else used ; in California even the flour is bought with â wheat sold in market. The economical plan of farming, is to pro- duce as nearly as possible whatever is de- manded for home use. Of course the sur- plus, whatever it is, should be that which will bring the most money from a given num- ber of acres with the least expenditure of la- bor and moneyâeverything else being equal. In the Southern States, that surplus un- doubtedly should be cotton, as a general thing, In California it may be wheat or barley, hay, stock, fruit or something else, as locality and soil and climate and irrigation facilities may determine, The effect of the one-crop system upon the producer, the so-called farmer, has proved to be most disastrous in the South, and so far as we have observed, it is drifting in that current in CaUfornia. Certainly the most prosperous farmers are those who come as near following a diversified system of farming as their farm will admit of, and those who manage to find something for themselves to do on the farm the whole season. There is no profit in idleness half the year, and no one-crop will give constant employment. Besides, the one-crop farmers are generally in debt, paying enormous profits to the store- keepers who c
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