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Show COTTON NOW PLACED SECOND Statistics Showing Activities of Owners Own-ers of Farm Land South of Mason am Dixon Line. Hereafter the South will figure largely as a producer of the food supplies sup-plies of th : country The report on the crops just issued shows that "the grain, crop of 1915 exceeds in .value by several hundred million dollars, the most valuable cotton crop" ever marketed, mar-keted, says Providence Journal. The estimate of wheat, corn and oats ia 1.54(1.11(10.010 hushela p gain of 2S6.-U'O. 2S6.-U'O. n(Ht bushels over tpst year s yield - and in addition there is a rice crop of 90.00" hushels The statement that ot the pain of the en t ire country coun-try ivarly 00 per cent Is in the South, gives an idea of tl"? activities of the owners nt agrifnlt.ural lands below the Mason and Inxor line. Cotton of coue is the great staple of the South, an 1 It is not likely to be neglected Put the cotton states are learning the value of diversity in products and their prosperity is bound to be increased by the departure from the accepted notion that the South ia necessarily dependent upon a single crop. The entire country also is benefited bene-fited by the break Injc away of the southern people from the old tradition tradi-tion that for them "cotton is king." The question of food supply now t not se.-rtd?r a that of textile prvd ucta. |
