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fGT'lz! A Farm anJ jie Weekly for
The CarolMas, VirgiriGeorgia, and Florida.
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Vol. XXXII. No 49.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1917
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The South Can Lead the Nation in Agriculture
, A 5,000 BULL-BORN AND .RAISED THE COTTON BELT .
Vernot Prince 36th, Sold by Estate of W. J. Davis & Co., Jackson, Miss., to Fred Huyler, Gladstone, N. J.
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'HEN recently 120 head of Here-
fords belonging to the estate of
the late' W. J. Davis brought $116,-
,000, or an average of nearly $1,000 per.
head, and when the champion bull of this
herd was sold to a New Jersey breeder
for $5,000, some agricultural history was
made. More recently, still, all of Missis
sippi, ; large parts of North Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas
and Texas have been cleared of the cattle
tick. . Add to this the . fact that this year
the South is raising two billion dollars
worth of cotton, one and one-half billion
dollars worth of corn, and peanuts, velvet
beans and tobacco worth more than in any
previous year of our history, and we can
sec a good deal of justification "in our
DON'T FAIL TO READ
The Best Seed Potatoes. . . . . . .
Farm Tenantry and Soil Fertility .
A Spray Calendar for Orchard Fruits .
Southern Berkshire Association Organized at
Pinehurst . V. . .
The South Needs More Farm Machinery. .
Dog Tax Laws: Right and Wrong Kinds . .
Go to Wilson January 1-4
Save the Leaves for Fertilizer ... . .
A Remarkable Success in Cooperative . Mar
keting . . . . .
Pace
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Rules Ready for Standard Cotton Warehouses 1 3
What About Oleomargarine? .
What Are Our , Ideals? . . .
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claim that the South is potentially' the
garden spot of the Nation.
And why shouldn't it be? Nature may
not have given us the richest soil in the
world, but she has given us an incompar
able agricultural climate. An abundant
rainfall and mild winters make it possible
to grow nearly all the crops of the tem
perate zone, and to have some crop grow
ing, every month in the year, a fact that
makes it comparatively easy to solve the
food, feed and fertility problem.
With crops selling for two and three
times normal prices, this is a day of
opportunity for the Southern farmer who
mixes brains and brawn. The reading,
thinking farmer is in the saddle, headed
straight for independence. Let us all
resolve to travel with him fn -19 18.