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Show ONE-CROP IDEA IN THE WEST Apple Growers Realize That Plan Is Failure Diversified Farming Is Necessary to Success. "One would hardly suppose that the loss of a market to the cotton growers of the South would have any effect upon up-on agriculture away up in Washington state, but indirectly it has had," remarked re-marked F. A. Breyvogle of Seattle, while in Washington recently. "Last year was a poor year for the apple growers of the Yakima valley, and of the state as a whole. The market for apples has been very disappointing. "It is just here that the cotton situation sit-uation in the South, which was the subject of much publicity some weeks ago, brought to the attention of some of the Pacific coast farmers a fault they themselves long have suffered from the one-crop idea. Particularly in Washington and Oregon, and also in Idaho and other states where apples are grown, the orchardists found they were much in the same situation as the cotton growers, because of their failure fail-ure to diversify. The apple growers now are beginning to realize that the one-crop plan is a failure, as it is everywhere. ev-erywhere. Diversified farming Is necessary nec-essary to success in agriculture. "The possibilities of the soil in the northwest are not limited to apples. In the Selah valley there has been for some time a considerable acreage of corn, and as much to the acre has been produced as In any other grain section. sec-tion. Hay and alfalfa grow abundantly, abundant-ly, and the farmers are also coming to see that that part of the United States is well adapted to the raising of cattle. So, you see, the lesson taught the southern farmer by the European war will have a good effect everywhere by teaching the American farmer that if he is to be on the safe side he must not confine himself to one crop, but must diversify." |
