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Show BIG GRAIN CROPS IN SOUTH Remarkable Record Made in Crop Diversification Large Decrease in Cotton Is Noted. "Nothing published about the South recently has attracted so much attention atten-tion as the statement based on government gov-ernment figures that the volume of the South's grain crops this year would exceed the value of the greatest great-est cotton crop ever raised," said J. S. Barton of Chicago to a Birmingham Age-Herald representative the other day. "Allowing for the fact that several of the states grouped as southern are big corn and wheat producers and raise little or no cotton, it is nevertheless never-theless a remarkable record the South is making in crop diversification. "I understand that Alabama will produce forty to fifty per cent more corn this year than it did last, and 100 per cent more wheat. That the section sec-tion generally known as the cotton belt should be able In a single year to make such a gain in food crops as Is being made In 1915 Is of vast Importance Im-portance from an economic point of view. The low price of cotton last fall drove the South to diversification practice. What was something of a misfortune in 1914 will prove a real and lasting blessing." |