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SlfE MINE Hi FOOD PRODUCTION 111 THE SOOTH. 1. ulford Knapp, Chief. Office of Ex tension Work in the South, States Relations Service. \s the planting season draws near er ( he necessity for SAFE FARMING iu 191” becomes greater. The agricul ture of the south is surrounded by a cloud of difficulties. Shall we plant an increased acreage in cotton and neg lect to produce the food for the peo ple a nd the feed for the growing live stock industry? Shall we gamble ev erything on the supposed high price o' cotton, or shall we steer a safe course and produce the food and feed tor the south this year? This is the all-important question about which I came to talk to you. The present is no time for speculation. The family, com munity, state and national life is too greatly dependent upon the correct and safe course for 1917 to permit ot our giving any consideration to a pro gram which is hazardous in the ex treme. Are our memories so short that we have forgotten 1914? Do we flatter our selves that a dependence upon all cot ton is safe now because the peculiar conditions of 1916 enabled the farmers v'ho could grow cotton to profit great ly from their year’s labor? A system which brought poverty 1914 and af fluence in 1916 is not a safe system because nobody knows what it will bring in 1917. There is an even more important reason why.the south should produce the food for its people and the feed for its livestock in 1917. This country is trembling now upon the very brink of war itself. War means that the de fensive and offensive powers of this 1 ppp ■ ■■■■■ l ,. .i-;i-X '• .v £>•*£*: - HEHy in. r * V FLAVOR LASTS -1 I 1 VI •: ft |H W f®m ff ’ I If pleasure made price F.! . r T "‘ PERFECT D 1 ICHEWINOOIhTk j|j / WRAPPED *hewHafter every jnee/ Cotton Seed That Are Fit to Plant Wannamaker Cleveland Big Boii Why send away for planting seed when you can get just as good or better grown here in Bartow county, therefore, better suited for your lain]. There are none better to be had at any price. $2.00 per bushel in small lots. 25 bushels or more at the farm $1.75 A. H. HALL, (Highland Farm.) * jy? t < ountry must be heavily drawn upon. W e have never faced a war, in more than a century, with a first class for eign power, if the war comes now, which now- seems inevitable, it will disturb the economic conditions oi this country. The strength of a country is measured by the strength o f all its parts. If there is a part of a country which can not carry its own burden, which can not support itself, which depends upon other sections of the country for its living, it is a de pendent section and can not be a tower of strength in the country’s hour of need. The most reliable data shows that the south annually imports in the neighborhood of six or seven hundred million dollars worth of foodstuffs from the north and west. East state will know what part of the huge sum it is responsible for. When transporta tion lines are seriously disturbed, eith er by strikes or by wars, when the country must turn its attention to for eign foes, when disaster seems upon us, then is the time when we wish for the old days of a self-supporting agri cultural iu the south. The war in Europe today is mainly a contest for a supply of food. A country without food and with an army at its door or a navy blockading its coast is practi cally conquered. The strength of the south years ago was in a different sys tem of agriculture from what it has now. Cotton is a great crop; there is no better crop to exchange in the mar kets of the world for cash; much can be said in its favor, but if w r e raise it and nothing else we are weak at a time when we need strength sorely THE BARTOW TRIBUNE-THE CARTERSViLLE NEWS, APRIL 12, 1917, and strong at times when all goes wefl. 1 have no patience with this idea coming from the cities and towns that the farmers of the United States as a whole should enormously increase the production of food for the nation. In those sections where every farm crop is a food crop and a large part of the lands are already occupied and tilled, farmers can not seriously disturb their system or enormously increase their production without great danger. Agri culture readjusts itself slowly and undeY such circumstances there should be only such stimulus to production as the natural tendency of the times will warrant. Here in the south, where we have from 50 to 106 per ceut more of grow ing season than in the north, and with an opportunity to harvest food crops more days in the year than in any oth er section of the country, what ex cuse can we have for getting our milk from Wisconsin in tin cans; our gar dens from Michigan and Maryland in tin cans; for having our smoke houses in Kansas City, Chicago, Cincinnati or Omaha, our flour bin in Minneapo lis, and our granaries and hay mows way in the northwest thousands of miles away? If the risks incident to farming in the cotton territory prompt farmers end business men to advocate a safer ; system of agriculture in (he past few years, there are ten times as many reasons for pursuing a safer system in 1917, no matter what may be the price | of cotton. Let us not be unbalanced by the sup posed high price of cotton. Cotton is not high, relatively speaking. Prior to July 1914 for a lAmiber of years the price of cotton averaged close to 12 cents per pound. Since last fall it has averaged close to 18 cents per pound, an increase of .10 per cent in value, but to raise cotton and exchange for I the revenues received from its sale for | the food for the family and feed for j the livestock will not, at the present i time and under present food prices, ! enable the farmer to make as much he made when cotton was 12 cents a , pound. No one knows what the price of cot : ten will be if the war lasts or if the war closes. You do not know’ whether it will be 18 cents or 6 cents next fall, and neither do I. What is the use of speculating about conditions that no man can fathom? Remember that in 1916 we had a peculiar year. We paid old debts out. of the high price of cotton, —debts, many of them contracted at a time when food and feed were much lower ! in price, and this was true of the year | itself because the prices went up dur ; ing the latter part, of the year. The same condition does not exist in 1917. It is true that the south has made I great progress in the production of food and feed in the Last ten years, and it is true that we were more near ly self-supporting in 1916 than in years 1 previous, but we have a long way to i go before we can truly say that we are I on a safe basis. From 1909 to 1916 the ; production of cotton in the cotton | states increased 15 per cent; the acre- I age in corn increased 22 per cent and j production 39 per cent; acreage in | wheat 102 per cent and production 129 ! per cent; acreage in oats 84 per cent and production 106 per cent; acreage i it; hay 39 per cent and production 65 per cent. The point I am trying to make is that having gone this far on a safe program are we to be turned back because of the supposed high price of cotton? The retail credit price at which food can be purchased measures the value of your cotton under such a system, and not. the cash market price at which you can sell your cotton. The price of salt or mess pork has in creased 50 i>er cent; bacon more than 50 per cent, and ham, eggs, butter and lard practically the same. Corn, oats and hay, on the peerage, have increas ed as much and more than cotton, \ bile Irish potatoes and Hour have in creased more than 100 per cent. A $9 t bale of cotton at the present time will purchase no more in the way of food j than a S6O bale would three years age. Do not be deceived, cotton Is not high, and the fact that it is 17 or 13 cents, per pound now' should not be a temp tation to the farmer to risk all on a large acreage in cotton under present conditions, whether the war conies or whether we have peace, whether cot ton be high or low. Rut you will say I am going to urge you to go into other things. In the main my advice is to raise such things as will enable you to live, to feed your family and your livestock, with some surplus to sell to the nearby cities and towns, but not to go into the great bus iness of raising food crops for foreign markets. I realize that our market system for locally-grown food crops has not yet beeu perfected. We have a great deal of work to do along that line. Self-preservation has been said to be the first law of nature, and, if so, the first law of the south during ihe season of 1917 ought to be to grow its own food, because that means self pre servation. By SAFE FARMING I mean a sys tem of farming which supports the family upon the farm, provides ample forage and other feed for the livestock and grows some crops for cash sale upon the market. Here are the simple items of our SAFE FARMING pro gram: The Safe Farming Program. 1. A home garden for every family on the farm. From one-tenth to one fonrth acre, well located, well tilled and tended as carefplly as any other crop on the farm, planted in rotation to time the vegetable crops so as to have a continuous supply for the fam ily table as many days in the year as possible. To this should be added one fourth of an acre of potatoes, either Irish or sweet, or both, to be used as food for the family. An acre of sor ghum or sugar cane should be pro duced io supply the family with scrap if means can be found for grind ing the cane and making the syrup. 2. Produce enough corn on each farm" to last the family and livestock with certainty for one year, with a little excess for safety. :!. Produce sufficient oats and oth er small grain to supplement the corn as food for one year with certainty, remembering that these small grains conserve the soil in winter and pro vide some grazing for livestock. 4. Produce the hay and forage crops necessary to supply the livestock on the farm for one year, with a little excess for safety, not forgetting the legumes which add fertility to the soil and produce the best hay. 5. Produce the necessary meat, eggs and milk for the family. The n eat; should be produced by increased attention to poultry and bogs because of the rapidity which these can he produced. Every family should have at least two cows so that one can be in milk all of the time. A sufficient num ber of brood sows should be kept, to produce the pork for the family, with some excess for sale. The number of laying hens should be increased and carefully tended to produce eggs and poultry for the table with a sufficient excess for sale. The average number TONOLINE IS BEAUTY AID, ANNOUNCES SPECIALIST Mildred Louise Talk of Interest to Women. ( As health is a first aid to beauty this story, told by Mildred Louise, beauty specialist, of Boston, .Mass.. Is or unusual interest. “I can recommend no better health giver than tonoline,” said .Mildred Louise. “I was for many months a victim of stomach trouble and nervousness. I had suffered terribly from pains that followed eating. Headtache also would add to my worries. Poor digestion fin ally brought on nervousness. “Relief came, however, when I took tin- advice of several women who said, “Take tonoline." -Mot long after I started the tonolitu tieatmont, my patrons began to re mind me of the improvement in my tottdit n. And because health is the quickest way to beauty, tho improve ment was particularly noticable in my fftOfs. “What tonoline really did for me I cannot say. 1 am so grateful that I am very ■willing to recommend tonoline publicly.” Tonoline is a purely vegetable prep aration which goes to the seat of com mon maladies—stomach and kidney fouble, catarrhal affections of the mucous membranes, liver ailments n.d impurities of the blood—and quickly restores proper action. Tono line is being explained daily to many people at your druggist. Notice:—As tonoline is a wonderful flesh builder It should not be taken by airy one not wishing to increase his we ght ten pounds or more. Although n any reports are received from these “ho have been benefltted by tonoline n severe < a -es of stomach trouble and nervous dyspepsia, chronic constipa tion, etc. —soc BOX FREE— FPFE TONOLINE COUPON AMERICAN PROPRIETORY CO., Boston, Mass. Send me by return mail a 50c box cf your celebrated flesh builder. I enclose 10c to help pay postage and packing.—(advt) ot poultry per farm should be gradual ly increased to at least fifty. The live stock on the farm should be gradually increased as a whole so as to consume the otherwise waste products of the farm and make the unprofitable and uatillable lands productive. This naans attention to the breeding, care and feeding of poultry and hogs, beef cattle, milk cows, etc. 6. When the living has been amply provided for, grow cotton for the main money crops. Where the boll weevil has recently invaded the farm and cot ton raising is somewhat uncertain un til farmers learn how, reduce the nor mal acreage planted to cotton and plant such crops as soy beans, pea iuts and velvet beans as cash crops or to feed livestock for cash sales. 7. Plan to sell or exchange the sur plus products of the garden, the or chard, the poultry, the livestock, the eggs and the feed crops to cover the necessary running expenses of the farm and save the cotton as the real cash crop. The excess amounts which i have interred to should be sold by the farmer to supply the needs of the nearby villages, towns and cities. My j friends, if we bad the agriculture cf j the south organized on such a simple basis as 1 have here outlined we would j still produce enough cotton, but we would produce it under conditions which would not bring the hazard which the all-cotton system has always brought, us. Our big crops have often been a menace because they glutted the market and brought lower prices, which our partial crop failures have some times made us rich. Such a con dition ought not to exist. To meet that situation, whether it be low prices, bad weather, failure of seed to germinate, a wet spring or a dry spring, plant disease or drouth, the boll weevil or tinny worm, foreign war, or what not, wc cut out the risks and make our fa ruling operations safe and secure ii we follow the fundamental principles I have laid down. Under boll weevil conditions in Ala bama, Georgia, Florida and Mississip pi the safety of the people demands that farmers produce their living. The system I have outlined is not only the J material but ,Ls the all-important pro gram to follow this year or any other year under boll weevil conditions. , Under such conditions the farmers must have some other crops to sell. A little excess in the way of food and feed an excess of animal products, suggested in this outline, will give yoa the necessary relief. Rvery banker, merchant, wholesale dealer, business man and professional man in cotton territory is interested in this program. Their security de pends upon the safety and security of the agriculture. If agriculture is to be good security and safe security, its ability to live and prosper, no matter GROCERIES , . 7 r i"itnfiV l i-'*r- , i; il^******-"" t. ~ vTm ~'-—-'., *■**.*■* Staple and Fancy You want the’ best—you want the freshest. When you buy from Matthews’ you are sure to'get the best and freshest, and atfpricesfthat cannot be duplicated. For Honest 1 Goods and a Square Deal Try ' ■ '~ T ' y "".yyiam F.E. Matthews Notice is hereby given that the Commuta tion Tax for the year 1917 is $3.00. All persons subject to street tax may pay this amount or work ten days upon the streets of said city as provided by law. The books are now open for collection of this tax and all persons failing to pay will be served with notice to work. By order of the Board of Commissioners. This March 28th, 1917. "ijH W. W. DANIEL, City Clerk. what the conditions may be, is of supreme importance. Not only is this important but it is important that you should know that under stress of un foreseen circumstances this same agri culture shall be able to feed you. A business man who lends his aid and encouragement to an unsafe system of farming may be imperiling the very existence of himself, of his people and of the nation. If the south this year can produce more oi her food and feed and draw less from the north and west she will be in a better and safer shape herself, and the entire nation will be better fitted to defend herself against her foreign! foes and assist her foreign friends in case of war. It is the very essence of our agricultural defense. It is almost a patriotic duty. The one su preme important problem this year in the world is food. With a normal acre age and a good season the south can do this and still produce cotton enough. There is no necessity for an enormous increase in the cotton acre age. With the acreage of last year or the year before and a decent season, there will be plenty of cotton. This is not a matter of such supreme impor tance as is this problem of enough food here —not in lowa, in Wisconsin or Minnesota —but in Georgia, Ala bama, In South Carolina, in the south, within reach, not dependent upon in terrupted transportation facilities, I would advocate the same thing df there were no war in sight; if we were at peace and everything was prosperous, for the simple reason that 1 it is the safe and successful system of agriculture. It requires possibly great er effort and greater diversity ot knowledge, and, therefore, a better trained citizenship, better homes, bet ter farm®, better fertility and better opportunity. When the clouds brought on by the devastation of the boll weevil, or the black clouds of war bring distress up on the people and things become un certain, at times when it behooves ev ery man to set his house in order and be ready for the last supreme effort of family, community, county, state and nation, this problem of producing the food supply under a safe system o! farming becomes at once the most important problem of all. I can not too strongly urge that every attention this year be given to the garden, the corn, hay, the conservation and breed ing of poultry and hogs, milk cows, beef cattle and other food products in, the south. In this is your greatest safe ty for 1917. I emphasize it again, for 1 can not make it too strong—The South Must Feed Herself. The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Heai lecause of its tonic and laxative effect I .AX A riVK IIROMO QUININE is better than ordiuj>r Quinine and does not cause nervousness w 'nKing in head. 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