* PODUCTION 



and we need a fertile soil to produce them. Prosperity 

 follows soil fertility, and we cannot maintain even a 

 moderate degree of prosperity unless we take immediate 

 steps to conserve the fertility of our soils. We need a 

 decreased acreage and increased production, and this can 

 only be secured by live stock growing, with a judicious 

 and abundant application of barnyard manure. 



To some the necessity of adopting a type of live stock 

 farming may be apparent, but that type which will prove 



Some farmers combine beef and pork production, as on Aldurin 

 Farm, Avalon, Ga. 



most profitable is not always clear. At the present time, 

 most of the South, notably the Piedmont area and the 

 Coastal Plain, is engaged in agriculture of a sufficiently 

 intensive type to warrant a careful consideration before 

 the growing of beef cattle is adopted. Some sections of 

 the South are admirably adapted to extensive beef pro- 

 duction, but for the most part swine and dairy cattle will 

 eventually prove more profitable. 



