Cotton furnishes two-fifths of the value of all farm products, with corn, hay, tobacco, and wheat following in the order named.

Gradually the West is ceasing to be the granary and the smokehouse of the Southern farmer, but the South does not yet feed itself.

In 1917 only Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and Oklahoma produced a surplus of wheat, though it is estimated that the South as a whole reduced its deficiency by more than 35,000,000 bushels.

The abnormal prices of agricultural products since 1915 have brought many farmers out of debt and set them on the road toward prosperity, but many have not yet realized that they are no longer objects of commiseration.

Though the high prices of war times have brought prosperity to the farmer, the crying necessity today is a larger production per man employed.
The political, as well as the economic, condition of the South today is full of interest.