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Show TO CURTAIL COTTON ACREAGE Southern Farmers Accept Warning of Secretary McAdoo in Regard to Diversification of Crops. Secretary McAdoo's warning to the southern farmers regarding the diversification diver-sification of their crops will doubtless be heeded, according to Walter A. ilildebrand, owner and editor of the Greensboro Daily News and other Morth Carolina papers, while in Washington Wash-ington the other day. "Even without the suggestion from the secretary of the treasury as head of the federal reserve board, I think the cotton planters of the South were inclined to curtail their cotton acreage, and plant other crops next year," said Mr. Hildebrand. "It seems almost impossible to conceive that the European Euro-pean war could have any good result; yet ultimately, I believe, it will confer a lasting benefit on the South, because it will bring about that desideratum so earnestly urged by Mr. McAdoo and others the diversification of crops. In my part of North Carolina there is not a great deal of cotton raised, but there are many cotton mills and other lines of industry directly affected by the cotton situation. "In the furniture business, for instance, in-stance, there has been a marked depression, de-pression, traceable to the condition -of the cotton market. There is no better barometer than the furniture business. People will get along without new furniture if they are cramped for money before they will do without almost al-most anything else, and the furniture manufacturers have been complaining that there has been a decided decrease de-crease in their business. "The business situation generally, however, is looking up. All around are evidences of a revival, and with the distribution of the immense cotton loan fund just completed, there ought to be, and doubtless will be, a big im-rt';r. im-rt';r. given to all lines of industry." One Farmer In Three Loses. Thomas Cooper, director of the South Dakota experiment station, says: "Estimates indicate that the average av-erage farmer in this country receives 45 to 55 cents from each dollar expended ex-pended by the consumer, while farmers farm-ers in most European countries receive re-ceive 60 to 65 cents. In an investigation investiga-tion of groups of farms located in townships in Indiana. Illinois and Iowa it was found that one farmer out of every 22 received a labor income of more than $2,000 a year; one of every three paid for the privilege of working; that is, after deducting 5 per cent interest in-terest on their investment they lost money." Large Turkeys Raised. The Bourbon Red turkeys are preferred pre-ferred to the bronze because they are better "homers," especially the hens, which seem to prefer laying near the farm buildings. Then, too, they are better layers and mothers. These points more than offset the greater weights of the bronze, which the standard of perfection places at 36 pounds for adult toms and 20 pounds for hens. Systematized Business. Farming is becoming a more systematized sys-tematized business. This is one thing that has removed the drudgery from the work. Charcoal for Hogs. See that coal screenings or charcotl is kept by the hogs all the tin. e prevention pre-vention is cheaper than cure. Chicken Feed. Chickens like ensilage, clover, alfalfa, al-falfa, beets, potatoes, turnips, caD-:ige caD-:ige or anything of this nature. |