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big, broad fields where both crops can spread out, ex- 

 pand and prove their worth. Both crops are needed 

 — the cowpeas to rid the land of grass and gullies ; 

 and the corn and cowpea hay for grain and forage. 



To make more money out of cotton more acres 

 should be given over to food crops. Food stuffs for 

 the family and for the stock should all be grown on 

 the farm. With much pasture and a good corn crop 

 you can grow your own meat, feed your own stock 

 with home-g^own supplies and be largely independ- 

 ent of imported offerings. The garden should be 

 enlarged and included in it many winter crops. 

 So also the dairy herd, in many cases, should be 

 increased. With butter, milk, meat, poultry, eggs, 

 fruit, vegetables and a dozen other products raised 

 on the farm, both for home use and for sale, South- 

 ern farming will grow more profitable and the 

 cotton crop as clear money will give the South a 

 financial prestige that no other section can rival. 



You see the South has been buying too many 

 things raised elsewhere. If the corn, hay and meat 

 bills only were saved to cotton farms, in a decade 

 the change would be observable in a dozen ways. 

 Instead of these farms being importing farms, they 

 also should send to towns and cities human food 

 on the same loads that carry the raw product for 

 clothing. Consequently there ought to be much 

 pork and beef each year for sale; and the manure 

 made from this farm stock will make the cotton crop 

 still more profitable. The cottonseed meal, instead 

 of being shipped to Europe and the North through 

 this redirection of Southern farms, would be more 

 and more consumed in Southern farming, thereby 

 building up Southern lands to make Southern stock 

 feeding still more profitable. And the money made 



