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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1914
Page
2
Wirt Wright, president of the National Stock Yards, and banker observers argue livestock and feed crop production offer financial stability beyond cotton. They warn against overreliance on cotton, cite steady live stock markets, and urge farmers to diversify with grain and feed storage to weather war and price swings.
The piece argues that Southern planters have long relied on cotton, but the Europe war has exposed the fallacy of cotton as sole wealth. It credits livestock farmers in the Corn Belt with weathering depressions through diversified, live stock oriented farming, and notes Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama planters shifting to feed crops and cattle production as a path to future wealth, while a legal notice in Dothan names Albert Porter as a nonresident respondent and orders service by publication in the Dothan Weekly Eagle.
The commission government of Mexico delayed key actions until twenty representatives of General Zapata arrive. Prospects for a Mexican commission government look bright as General Villa is named among commissioners. A German rise in men and equipment is reported in Ware Xaw by Husalune, suggesting heavy military activity.
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