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Show DIVERSIFY CROPS IN SOUTH As Good Land as Can Be Found Anywhere Any-where in Country Climate All. That Could Be Desired. "There can be no question that the crop campaign begun in the South as a result of the acute cotton situation a few months ago is going to have lasting last-ing beneficial results," said Capt. A. B. Rich of Birmingham, Ala., while in Washington the other day. "A systematic sys-tematic campaign was begun by the Birmingham chamber of commerce, and is now being carried on. The farmers of Jefferson county, Alabama, are alive to the situation, and already have announced their conversion. If . this is done throughout the South the way to independence and prosperity is open. "There is as good land in the south-, south-, ern states as can be found anywhere 1 in the country, and tne climate is all . that could be desired for the raising of all kinds of crops, i "I know of one farm not far from . Birmingham, about 350 acres in ex-; ex-; tent, the greater part of which is under un-der cultivation, and on which no cot-, cot-, ton has ever been raised. Hogs, dairy i tows, vegetables and foodstuffs are i grown, and the farm has always been not only self-sustaining, but exceedingly exceed-ingly profitable. A great part of the produce finds a market in Birming-. Birming-. ham. This farm is handled in a businesslike busi-nesslike manner, the owner keeping a t record of costs of each crop, the price received for it, and the total profit de- rived, in this way being able to tell at a moment's notice just what crops . are paying and those that are not r making money for him. "This is the plan of campaign adopt ! ed by those behind the campaign in the South, and it is a sure thing that i it will have the results expected that I is the getting away from the one crop I idea and making the southern farmei independent at all times." |