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LIVE-AT-HOME SPECIAL r M ' I . " ,r-- GeAZ A Farm ol Hnm The Carolinas, Viirgihi-orgiaV Florida, FOUNDED 1886ATv IIGI&XC. - Vol. XXX. No. 8. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1915. FOOD AND FEED FIRST IN 1915 ABOUT a year ago, when cotton was selling at VvfVJ$l a Year; 5c. a Copy lllllIB pillllis almost double present prices, we used this page to emphasize the importance of "Food and Feed First" on every Southern farm. If this need.was apparent then, how much more so is it to day, with food and feed crops soaring ana cotton prices low, with no immedi ate prospect for improve ment. The truth is that the time has come, all over the South, . on every farm, "and in every year, when the farmer who would succeed must, first of all, make his primary business that of feeding his -family and livestock and building up his soil fertility -Just as surely as we look to these problems, attacking . them with common sense armed with modern meth ods, so will the bogeys of cheap cotton and hard times vanish and vex us no more. On the other hand, there is the other extreme to which it is possible to go the ex-, treme of expecting, with - . limited capital and a still more limitecl knowledge of the business, to convert in one year a run down cotton farm into a paying stock farm or truck farm and which may prove even more disastrous than the exclu sive production of cotton. Livestock production is a splendid line of farming and a great business, but it is idle to expect an over-night tran sition from all-cotton to all-cattle. Rather we must first meet the home demand for pork, beef- milk and butter, enlarging our production f we grw in experience and knowledge. KNEE-DEEP IN BLUE GRASS Good Pastures Are an Essential Part of Any Live-at-Home Program In the same way, fruit and vegetable pro- . LUOn may be made profitable when: nghtjy handled, but who will deny that our first, biggest andonost profitable job s m suPPlying our own tables the year round with healthful fruits and vegetables ? We have never held that cotton, as a sh crop, should not have an important Riace on the average Southern farm; but. we do hold that cotton, grown year in 2 ffr out to buy food and feed that noma, be grown at home, cotton grown o the exclusion of crop rotations and at crnneXP?Se 0f soil fertility, is a poor op. and a crop, that will break the aver- 0f man Iji other words, it is the abuse iu Lvally Client crop, rather than timateuseTthatw protest againstr DON'T FAIL TO READ- A Fertilizer Analysis That Misleads . . . Ail Together Now for the Hollis-Bulkley Bill Feeding Farm Poultry . . Food and Feed Crops Our Most Pressing " Necessity . V1 Grazing Crops for Hogs . . . How Corn Beats the Cotton Crop . . . . Livestock Restrictions a Necessity . . . Meeting of Florida Livestock Association . ' Mr. Buy Grub and His Pitiful Plight . . Prize-winning Live-at-Home Letters . . . Sudan Grass for Southern Farmers t . . . The Stepmother's Problems . Where the Money Goes . . Bear in mind, too, that in breaking away from a system that has meant poor farmers and poor farms, we are outlining a program that is within thejeach of every Southern farmer, large or small, rich or poor, a program that has already brought prosperity to thousands, and that will bring it to every man who intelligently adopts it. Here it is: A good garden, with something coming from it twelve months in the year; a liberal patch of sorghum or Louisiana cane for syrup, not forgetting next fall a liberal supply of seed; not less than two or three good brood sows; a yard filled with well housed, well cared for chickens, well supplied in winter with green crops to augment tfee egg crop and the family income; two or three good milk cows; a liberal acreage of small grain, to be followed by peas, beans, or lespedeza for hay and soil improve ment; cover crops next fall on every possible acre, so that fertilizer bills may be cut to a minimum; plenty of corn, .planted on rich land, to supply the farm, with perhaps a surplus for saleand then the devotion of what lands and" time may be left to the production of a reduced Page 3 13 22 5 5 8 10 11 9 6 7 14 12 acreage in cotton.
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