| Show TOPSY FARMING when unfettered by artificial aan cnn arol the natural ardency is to raise the various products of the farm in areas best suited to their economical and profitable production this principle applies to he raisins raising of livestock as well as to crops grown directly from the soil but census reports just released disclose an interesting shift in the livestock industry which ninny many observers b believe too to be decidedly harmful to the country as a whole and which they assert has res from the governments farm control policy while the numbers of cattle hogs and sheep on farms of the country have actually decreased the rais raising of these animals has spread from re rc best adapted to their production into less suitable areas to the discomfiture and financial disadvantage of corn belt farmers and western ranchers one of this is seen in in the fact that six million cattle are arc now being raised on farms in he cotton tel lei which did not raise raise cattle before and the tame fame area has half a million millin more blood sows bows than in 1930 the southern fat fanner mer induced by the government to curtail his cotton pro production duclion is turning his otherwise idle acres to 15 stock raising at the same time brazil and foreign countries are rapidly increasing their cotton acreage ober illustrations might be cited from the census mentioned toi to prove that farming fanning like many other activities which the government has to control is becoming topsy |
