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 increases yields — Rational agriculture based upon 

 live stock means an affluent agricultural East — 

 Haphazard methods must go. 



CHAPTER IV. 

 SouTHERK Agriculture Needs Farm Animals 41 



The one-crop idea in the South — ^Why old fields 

 ■were abandoned — Present acre production low in 

 many instances — Readjustment of southern agri- 

 culture in progress — Possibilities for live stock farm- 

 ing in South — Best forage crops thrive — Cottonseed 

 furnishes unexcelled concentrates — ^The South should 

 produce meat — Cattle and hogs thrive and are pro- 

 lific in southern meadows — ^The South should grow 

 its own work stock — ^Wonderful land for legumes — 

 These will furnish forage and soil nitrogen — In- 

 creased fertility will produce more cotton and 

 tobacco than before, and animal products in addi- 

 tion — ^The South buys too much foodsttiflE, should 

 produce it at home — A rebirth of southern agricul- 

 ture with live stock a balancing factor. 



CHAPTER V. 



Let the West Heed the Warning , 57 



Numerous evidences of waning productivity — ^Un- 

 intelligent cropping showing its eSect upon lands 

 of nation's granary — Lowered fertility contempo- 

 raneous with lessened stock production — Shipping 

 away vast quantities of com and hay bad economy 

 — Can live stock pay on $200 land? — More sheep 

 and hogs — More clover, alfalfa and cowpeas — More 

 nitrogen in soil — Larger crops — Plenty of feed — 

 More meat animals and more manure — Restore the 

 humus and build up the soil — Com, cattle and 

 clovers the tripod supporting western farms. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Does Live Stock Pay ? 68 



All live stock is not profitaljle — Pour dairy cows to 

 do the work of two not profitable — Scrub stock 

 must go from valuable land — Scrub dairy animals 

 do not pay board — Inferior meat animals cannot 

 utilize feed economically — How to weed out the 

 scrubs — Test the dairy stock — Select breeding aai- 



