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so much per acre. In the last few years they realized the situa- 

 tion and are studying. They are studying to increase the cotton 

 crop on the southern farm, increase the amount per acre. How ? 

 B ythinking. The fact is coming home to them that they must 

 have something besides cotton — the old cow to raise the fertility 

 of that soil and to restore it. 



One of the interesting problems comes from those conditions 

 in the south where the soil is impoverished from cotton cropping. 

 They are turning to other things and wanting the dairy cow. 

 They are going to have her, and the south will find themselves 

 with dairy productions grown on southern soil. It will not take 

 away from the north because we are growing very fast. The 

 cities are outracing the farms proportionately. There is more 

 demand for dairy productions every way. 



We only have to go to the wheat sections of the west and 

 they are another class. We can come to corn sections of central 

 Illinois and they are constantly cropping of one crop and what is 

 it doing to the land? Wherever that has been followed the 

 farmers have impoverished themselves because they have depre- 

 ciated the soil. 



You go into the dairy section of Wisconsin, Minnesota, New 

 York, Vermont, any state where dairying is one of the principal 

 industries and you will find there, not low priced land, low wages 

 nor impoverished land, but good barns, well kept farms and 

 prosperous people. 



A short time ago I spent a few days in Vermont, and there 

 the conditions of the sail is difficult to farm, and those people 

 are prosperous. They have grown rich on their claries. 



Go through Canada and the farms where dairy cows are the 

 principal part of the farm and you will find they are well fixed. 

 They had trouble on account of the enormous stones. I saw stone 

 walls as large as this stage that had been piled up to make room to 

 grow feed for the cow, and she paid for the labor on that farm and 

 made the Canadian farmers a prosperous people, and such they 

 are, a prosperous people the last ten or fifteen years, and it was 



