The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-09-08
ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT.

The products of Arkansas cover 8 wider range than any other part of America. As fine wheat has been grown as in Minnesota, and the corn is as high as in Illinois; other grains do equally well all kinds of vegeta- bles that are cultivated in the north, besides many others. The soil is we'll adapted to apples, peaches, pears and other fruits abound. Clover, timothy blue grass, Bermuda, alfalfa, millet and other grasses make dairying prof. itable, and as good butter can be made here in December as at the north ill June.
 What Arkansas needs most now is a healthy, thrifty immigration into the state of class of people who will clear and bring into cultivation the millions of acres of wild lands which are lying idle; open up the mines of wealth below the surface and in our quarries: establish factories to convert raw materials into manufactured goods; construct railroads that will give easy and quick transportation into every county with enterprise to develop all the resources of which the state is so abundantly supplied by nature.- Wheel Enterprise.
 "Come to Arkansas, the Perennial Para
 dise."
 A visitor to Arkansas has the fol- lowing to say in regard to it in the Wesft9n R0tIlU0u Guide.
 "In view of the above I would ex- tend an invitation 10 the readers of the Guide to come to Arkansas, the per- ennial paradise and elysian of the God of nature. I would that could give your readers birds eye view of this healthful, beautiful and fertile para disc, lying upon the west bank of the Mississippi river, the great Father of Waters, with rich alluvial soil, cap able of producing any and everything that will grow in this latitude, in the greatest abundance.
 "With regard to health, although it lies in the Mississippi valley, and upon the banks of that mighty river, it will compare favorably with any other section of the south. With all due respect to the old south, Arkan- sas in now on boom and Shakespeare says there is boom in the affairs of men which taken at flood leads or to fortune. Agriculture is DOW being pushed in this section on the inten- sive system. The old mode is being supplemented with improved imple- ments, and the work of four men is in many instances being accomslished by one man, and the genial soil replied with favor to the effort of the agri- culturalist, giving him in many in- stances two bales of cotton per acre from fifty to a hundred bushels o corn, the same with regard to oats four tons of hay per acre per annum from 100 to 400 bushels of Irish po' tatoes and the same of sweet potatoes and other things in proportion.
 "The whole state is banded together in agricultural societies known as tn, Agricultural Wheel,' which origin ated in this state and has now spread to all the surrounding states. Under the benign influences of democratic government taxation has been greatly reduced, and the laborer is now reap ing the fruits of his toll. Altogethel Arkansas, and especially Phillip county, is an inviting field for tn, emigrant. Her hospitable, chivalric magnanimous and brave people stand with outstretched arms to welcom, the toiliDg masses, especially if they are honest and industrious"
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