. Diversified farming in the cotton belt. Agriculture; Crop rotation. Some Reasons for the Diversifi- cation of Crops Most Efficient Means of Establishing a Perma- nent System of Agriculture—One Crop System Impoverishes Not Only the Soil, but the People who Live Upon it. The most real and vital problem before us just at this time is to work out a safe and sane system of farming; one that will include crops to enrich instead of wear out our lands; one that will include plenty of good live stock to consume the surplus products and the leguminous crops that must be grown to enrich the land and to
. Diversified farming in the cotton belt. Agriculture; Crop rotation. Some Reasons for the Diversifi- cation of Crops Most Efficient Means of Establishing a Perma- nent System of Agriculture—One Crop System Impoverishes Not Only the Soil, but the People who Live Upon it. The most real and vital problem before us just at this time is to work out a safe and sane system of farming; one that will include crops to enrich instead of wear out our lands; one that will include plenty of good live stock to consume the surplus products and the leguminous crops that must be grown to enrich the land and to make manure to still further enrich the land; a sj'stem of farming that will grow the necessary corn, oats, wheat, rice, sugar cane, vege- tables, fruits of all kinds, poultry, hogs, mules, horses, cattle, sheep, and other live stock for home use and to sell at a price that the people in our towns and cities can afford to George H. Alford Bad Effects of Exclusive Cotton Culture The too exclusive culture of cotton has exhausted the humus, the life giving principle in our soils; the washing of the clean cotton fields has gone on to such an extent that milhons of acres of the best land in the Cotton Belt have been made non-productive. The too exclusive culture of cotton makes it necessary to send the money obtained for cotton north to pay for corn, oats, pork, dairy products, mules, horses and other farm products. The too exclusive culture of cotton has caused over-production and thereby forced the price far below an equitable one so that there has been but little more than a bare living for cotton farmers. The too exclusive culture of cotton established the credit system. As long as our farmers raised their supplies at home there was no necessity for the credit system. The too exclusive culture of cotton compels us to buy on credit and dump all of our cotton on the market in the fall in order to satisfy our creditors and this forced selling beats the price down. If these
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