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Show MAKE FARM SELF-SUSTAINING Prosperity of Farmer Depends More on Selection of Crops Than on Land He Is Working. "Land values have increased wonderfully won-derfully in Alabama within the last few years," said J. M. Kyser of Albert-ville, Albert-ville, Ala., to a Birmingham Age-Herald representative the other day. "This in my opinion is due more to the thrift of the men who till the land than to natural fertility of the soil. The prosperity of the farmer, I believe, depends more upon his judgment in choosing the most suitable crops for cultivation than on the land which he works. "For example, there are a great number of farmers in my own locality who are now independent of outside conditions. They raise corn, potatoes, meat and other products, which are readily used at home. In this manner man-ner the farm as a unit is made self-sustaining, and is not much affected by business depression. Farm lands which only a few years ago were valued val-ued at about ten dollars an acre are now selling for from forty to one hundred hun-dred dollars. I believe our farmers are in much better condition than those of Alabama's black belt, who were content to confine their efforts mostly to the cultivation of a product a great portion of which must be shipped to all corners of the globe." |