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mal production. The foregoing figures illustrate a point which I 

 desire to again re-emphasize in that we can recoup ourselves for 

 losses due to the boll weevil invasion by improving the quality 

 of our live stock and by directing attention to the development 

 of animal industries. There is no reason, for instance, why we 

 should not increase the number of hogs to three million in the 

 course of a couple of years, thereby adding from this source 

 alone several million dollars annually to the revenue of our 

 farms. In the course of four or five years we could increase the 

 value of our beef and dairy cattle by a similar amount, thus giv- 

 ing us in a short time an offset of twenty to twenty-five million 

 dollars to replace any losses incident; to weevil damage. 



The latent possibilities of live stock industries are nicely 

 illustrated by what has been , accomplished on the College farm 

 at Athens in the past few years. This farm was little better 

 than an abandoned plantation when taken over in 1907. The 

 figures presented ^below show the value of the live stock at that 

 time and at subsequent periods up to June 1, 1916: 



Value of live stock on College farm Sept. 1. 



1907 $ 1,917.00 



Expenditures for live stock from Sept. 1, 



1907, to June 1. 1916 9,683.60 



Value of live stock June 1, 1916 $17,310.00 



Sales of live stock Sept. 1, 1907, to June 1. 



1916 13.377.95 



Net increased value plus sales above ex- 

 penditures for purchase of live stock. . 19,087.35 



$30,687.95 $30,687.95 



Average amount expended yearly for live stock $ 1.075.95 



Average annual sales of live stock 1,491.98 



Average net yearly increase in inventoried value of live 



stock 1,710.33 



As is shown, the farm started with $1,917 worth of live 

 stock. There has been expended for the purchase of live stock 

 during the past nine years $9,683.60. The sales of live stock for 

 nine years amount to $13,377.95. while the value of the live stock 

 as inventoried on June.l, 1916, was $17,310.00. The net increased 

 value plus sales above expenditures for the purchase of live 

 stock, therefore, totaled $19,087.35. An accurate record of the 



What Has 

 Been Done on 

 an "Aban- 

 doned" Farm 



