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Show DIVERSIFICATION IS NEEDED If Southern Agriculture Is to Progress as It Should King Cotton Must "Be Dethroned. Authentic reports show that the cotton cot-ton acreage planted this year Is about 15 per cent less than last, or approximately approxi-mately one-sixth the normal amount. The condition of the crop is about the same as a year ago. I). versified crops and live stock, which are so greatly needed in the southern, states, are on the gain, but fail to show the increase they should. This is another illustration of lost opportunities. op-portunities. If southern agriculture is going to progress as it should. King Cotton must be dethroned and other crops substituted with live stock as th balance wheel in rounding out the unsurpassed un-surpassed possibilities of this naturally natural-ly favored farming section. Farmers' Review. |