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They coulddt be built now for twice7,ooo When the talk turns from politics to railroads, and the traveler with the cocksure air breaks in with, "There's an awful lot of 'water' in the railroads," here are some hard-pan facts to give him: American railroads have cost $80,900 a mile -roadbed, structures, stations, yards, termin als, freight and passenger trains--everything from the great city terminals to the last spike. A good concrete-and-asphalt highway costs $36,000 a mile--just a bare road, not count ing the cost of culverts, bridges, etc. Our railroads couldn't be duplicated to. day for $150,000 a mile. They are capitalized for only $71,000 a mile much less than their actual value. Seventy-one thousand dollars today will buy one locomotive. English railways are capitalized at $274,000 a mile; the French at $155,000; German $132,000; even in Canada (still in pioneer development) they are capitalized at $67,000 a mile. The average for all foreign countries is $100,000. Low capitalization and high operating effici ency have enabled American Railroads to pay the highest wages while charging the lowest rates. is advertiemenf&S ublished by the S2ssociation of &ail way &xecutiv Thus du t lftu Iifrnmuatlre uuslu the rwIread r iUatsi.s p .iotai li(rtrerr by mri tilto The Auoclatiss qt Ruilwuj B&utipes, 61 BEeadwe,, New Yern wt Outlines "Safe Farming" For The South in 1920. What is "safe farming" in the South? Dr. Bradford Knapp, the man who originated the term and has used it constantly for years. again defines it. He also tells its special meaning for 1920. "'By 'eafe farming,' " he says, "is meant a system which tmain tains soil fertility, produces the food and feed for the people and the live stock in sufficient quan tities to insure a comfortable sur plus, and produces cotton as a stritly cash crop." It means, h Mfinues, all that diversificntionl meians-a well regulated and pro. fStable rotation of crops, conser vation of the soil, improvement of eed and live stock, use of the t most improved machinery and :3labor-sating deviges' to lighten th. labor upon the farm, and es eiefally the use of every 4meri- ' c5an ingenuity to increase the t productidc per man. I; Is "safe hraoing" as thus defln I : naeded in the South in 1920? 1 = r:e are probably those. who a w inot:. Cotton is so high-.so e igherthe it ever was bee s ~apparently 'r tt imlll s of the e ii. need of cotton. ft #e e.th once in a si the farmer ý can f srkg tootton b that is 4-~~~s' ~ * tbe~e~k p r up from boyhood with the farm demonstration movement in the e South. His father, Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, was the originator of the idea, and in the United States Department of Agriculture was placed in charge of the work of putting it into general applica tion. When he died Dr. Brad. ford Knapp succeeded him, and under his supervision the system of cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics have been built up in the South. He knows agriculture conditions the South over as few other men have ever known them. For a number of years past he has writ. 1 ten for the farmers of the South I an annual b'iletin, in the light of ' that year's condition, on "safe farming." The one just publish. t ed is his valediotory-the last p safe-farming circular he will write as chief of the office of ex- P tension work in the South, United o States Department of Agricultnre. d He left the department, January P 15, to become dean of the college c of,agriculture and'director bf the 8 experiment station, University of t Arkansas. t And his final word to the farm- o ers of the South is that the -plan a followed for the past few years is t still good. The only safe plan it for farmers, merchants, and fs bankers is to insist upon a safe. " farming program. If the farmer D8 is in a better condition to-day D than he has been for some years cc past, says Dr. Knapp, it is due to ti Sbetterebalanoed haebasdry md4 of the production of more food and feed crops and live stock, a..- ell as to the high price of cotton and other cash crops. Cotton, Dr. Knapp says, is not actually very high. It is high as compared with prices in former years, rnot as compared with cur rentprices of other commodities. Then he quotes these figures: "From July 1913, to September 1919, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor, the wholesale price of cotton increas ed 143 per cent, cotton yarn 167 per cent, brown sheeting 206.9 per cent, bleached muslin 258 5 per cent, wool 158.6 ppr cent, ba con 115 per cent, haums 109 per cent, iard 146 per cent, salt pork 123 per cent, eggs 102 per cent, milk 114 per cent, corn 148.5 per cent corn medal 103.3 per cent, wheat flour 153.5 per cent, rice 149 per cent, white potatoes 155 per cent, sugar 104 per cent, men's welt shoes 149 per cent, and women's welt shoes 210 3 per cent. Before the farmer 1pecides that the high price of cotton will warrant his planting the entire acreage to that crop, to the neg lect of all else, he had better make a pretty thorough examina tion of the retail prices of the nec essities of life at the place where he must purchase th.m dl:iring the next year if he fails to pro. duce them on his own farm. "If we have learned anything surely we have learned that a large acreage in a good year brings a heavy crop, and general ly results in a lower price; a id if we know anything at all, we sure. ly know that the present situa tion is due to the wastage of war and to four successive short crops. The country never experienced such a condition in its history. If the acreage in cotton is inpreas ed, it must be done at the sacri fice of food and feed crops, or increased labor. The experi ences of 1919 ought to teach south. ern farmers that they can not handle, with their present supply of labor, an increased acreage in cotton; the labor is not there." Dr. Knapp then outlines what would be, generally speaking, a safe planting program for 1920. The first item is a good home garden for every farm family and I every town and village family. The next item is that the produo. tion of corn on southern farms. should be maintained and the acreage increased on all farms and in all sections which do not now produce a sufficient qu~ntity for home use, except that in cer, tain sections where corn does not always thrive grain sorghums should ba substituted. The im. portance of small grains is point ed out, but, as they mostly seed ed in the fall, they are not inclu- a ded in the planting program. Enough hay and forage crope 0 should be produced to supply am f ply the live stock on farms of the South for one year, with in ex cess for the sake of safety and for p city and town consumption. The South should maintain its produc tion of meat and increase its pro duction of eggs and milk. "There is no 'thought," he says, "that cotton acreage ought to be reduced, but only that the lure of price should not blind our eyes to the necessity of foodi and feed. The purpose now is mai-. ly not to reduce the acreage in food and feed crops, 1i we pro vide for the necessities of life and a well-balanced hnsba'dry, the Ca productiorof cotton can be sues tained in a good season and the prosperity of the South assured." th These are some of the '"high se points" in Dr. Knaipp's discussion of the agricultural situation in the South for 1920, The entire discussion fills a circular of 18 da pages. The other great cash W crops of the South-tobacco, su gar cane, and rice are discussed pe Much illustrative material is used fei to show that the farmer does not make more money from an acre of cotton than from an acre of BI corn or wheat-to show that, in the last analysis, of the prosper. ity of a farm or a sectiou depends S upon the self-sufficiency of that farm or section. The title is "Safe Farming in the Southern States in 1920." I(is issued as Department Circular 85,, and copies may be had free on 4ppli ,ation to the Ditision of Publica tione, United States Departmen at A4rioulture Burris Bros., Lt Offer for your inspection the most complete an attractive line of Dry Goods and Ready to Wea ever assembled here. All fabrics and colors tha fashion dictates and the public demands, hay, been carefully selected by expert buyers fron stock which was offered to no other firm in thi locality, thus insuring no duplication of apparel which all good dressers appreciate. 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