Thoroughbred hogs and poultry are common.
With the great rise in the price of the farmer's products since 1910, the man who farms with knowledge and method is growing prosperous.
Farmers are taking advantage of the Federal Farm Loan Act and are paying off many mortgages.

The necessity of asking for credit is diminishing, and men have contracted to buy land and have paid for it from the first crop.

While the things the farmer must buy have risen in price, his products have risen even higher in value; and in those sections of the South suited to mixed farming there need be comparatively little outgo.
One is tempted to hope that the lane has turned for the Southern farmer.
Partly owing to his ignorance and inertia, partly to circumstances difficult to overcome, his lot after 1870 was not easy, and from 1870 to 1910 is a full generation.

An individual who grew to manhood on a Southern farm during that period may be excused for a gloomy outlook upon the world.

He finds it difficult to believe that prosperity has arrived, or that it will last.