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A Farm And Home Weekly for
lriia, Georgia, and Florida.
Nol XXX. No 15.
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N.C.
SATURDAY APRIL 10, 1915.
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"More Food, Less Cotton" Europe's Cry: Heed It
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SOYBEANS ON FARM -OF LEE-STEVENSONTSTEVENSONTTAT
On the Stiffer, Stronger Soils Throughout the Cotton Belt Soy Beans Are Proving a Valuable Forage Crop.
IF ANYONE wishes a concrete illustration of the drafts the Euro
pean War makes on America's food supply, just let him compare
food exports for the eight months'ending March 1, 1914, as compared
th exports for the eight months ending March 1, 1915, as follows:
8 Mos. Ending 8 Mos. Ending
bushelN,.
vo", value;,.
Rvalue
O R value..
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Bn' ' "' "UN
R,747,387
$4,274,650
797,382
$357,517
71,618,028
$67,654,608
" 8,330,302
$38,200,690
2.801,174
$320,251
4,110,457
$503,560
15.565.114
$1,536,750
23,164,015
$17,759,054
47,385,413
$26,932,992
192,092,312
$229,205,142
10,456,213
$55,940,380 ,
44,060,235
v $7,100,805
6t,059,441
$7,437,024
10,229,682
$1,694,928
160,295,260
$22,420,687
144,201,407
$19,187,933
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trarv n cotton, on the con-
wC for the periods
8 Moh. Ending 8 Mor. Ending
March, 1914 March, 1915
7,281 7 " 5,607,220
$4Q8,cio.:i:s $243,947402
thceiaM8, in Sh(rt' t!mt Svhile EurPe
s:t ending Marchl, 1915,
DON'T FAIL TO READ- pw
Are You Giving Your Horses and Mules
a Square Deal? . . . . . .
Cooperative Enterprises -Must Econo
mize Cut the Green Crops to Pieces Before
Plowing Under . .... .
Don't Be Misled . . ... .
Farmers Aroused on Rural Credits
Issue . . . . .
How to Organize a Debating Society
Important Points in Feeding Work
Animals . .
Make April Clean-up Month . . . .
Some New South Carolina Laws of
Interest to Farmers . . . . .
Swapping Peanuts for Corn to Feed
Hoes
Taxation and Extravagance . . . .
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as compared with the eight months a year previous, increased her de
mand for corn from 5,000,000 to 23,000,000 bushels, her demand for
wheat from 71,000,000 to 192,000,000 bushels, and her demand for beef,
fresh and canned, from 60,000,000 pounds to 105,000,000 pounds, she
decreased her demand for cotton from 7,381,257
to 5,607,226 bales. And in the face of this greatly
decreased cotton demandin spite of. the fact that
prices are cut in two while food prices are almost
doubled we have the greatest cotton pro
duction in the history of the human race.
Or to look at the matter in yet another way,
Europe during the latter period of eight months
increased her payments for food stuffs from
$132,000, 000 . to $388,000,000, and decreased her
cotton bill from $498,000,000 to $243,000,000. In
other words, she paid out almost three times as
much for food and less than half as much for
cotton, leaving us also with a record-breaking
surplus to carry over and be added to our next
fall's crop.
In the face of facts such as these, what shall
we say of the farmer who lets himself be fooled
by the present little upward spurt in cotton
prices a trick of the speculators, it would seem,
to secure another big acreage? Who will bite
at the bait?
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