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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 73
the wide range of best-crop results thus submitted varied with
location, conditions and men. No one crop was any longer
claimed as "best," but its name proved to be "legion." The con
sensus of opinion, too, was in favor of intensive rather than
extensive farming. There is more money in making a small
piece of land produce the largest crop at the smallest cost, than
in looking to big acreage for big profits. This applys to cotton
as well as to other crops.
Bankers Helft Diversify Crofis
There is an encouraging tendency among bankers in Georgia
and the South generally to promote intensive and diversified
production by favoring such prudent methods in the granting of
farm credits. One group of Georgia banks has established a
special credit rating for farmers whose operations do not exceed
the planting of more than fifty per cent, of their cultivated land
in any one crop, and whose remaining acres shall be planted in
food crops for the maintenance of the family and the live stock
of the farm. Applicants for loans must signify the number of
hogs, hens, beef cattle, dairy cattle, the area of the home garden,
and other pertinent details.
In choosing his chief crop the prospective Georgia farmer who
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