The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-17
ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT
No Limit to Crops in Arkansas.

produce every crop grown from the lakes to the gulf there is no reason why our farmers should limit the number of their crops. Cotton and corn are the stand ards, but there are markets to supply with many other products. Cotton is grown principally because the de- tails of it's culture are familiar to all and it commands gold when harvested the same in measure may be said of corn, but because our farmers have had no experience with other crops is no reason why they may not succeed in producing anything that the market demands. The field is wide and no Instructions in the way of any one. We can produce every tex tile fabric known to commerce; all the cereals used for food by man or beast; every species of grass grown in the United States and as for the va- ricty and quality of our fruit the Worlds fairs and large expositions of the country have invaribly &C., corded Arkansas the first premiums.
 In this connection we will mention vegetables which as an early crop for northern markets are profitable. It is diversity of crops that will be of the most benefit to our state and we hope to see our farmers turn their attention that way.
 No allusion has been made to stock raising, for from what has been said above it is evident that industry would prove success. With our long season of growth and short win ters it is self evident that we can compete successfully with any other known region in putting our dairy products and beef in the markets of the world. All we need toward ac- complaining this end is intelligence and industry. Nature has given us both climate and soil.
 A Few Things Farmer Can Do in
 Arkansas.
 He can own his own farm if he wants one, land is cheap and there is plenty of it. He can have a good house on it for the building, as tim Der is plenty all over the state and he can have his choice of about fifty va rieties. He can have pure water for the digging anywhere, and in many places he can have it without digging
 He can have as good health as any where in the world, if he would only take little care of himself.
 The writer has lived in Arkansas for twenty years and has spent six teen of them on bottom farm and has never been sick an hour. Most persons coming here from colder climate have few chills, but chilis don't count here.
 He can raise fifty to sixty bushels of corn to the acre and all the stock he wants to feed it to. It takes him less than three months to make a corn crop and less than three weeks to gather it.
 He can raise from forty to eighty bushels of oats to the acre.
 He can raise from two hundred to three hundred bushels of sweet pota- toes to the acre, and for fifty dollars he can build house that will keep them the year round. He can sell for one dollar per bushel in the spring.
 He can plant one acre in chokers or artichokers and fatten fifty hogs on it without digging them, the hogs do their own digging and waste nothing.
 He can raise all kinds of stock one hundred per cent cheaper than it can be done further north. He will not have to tertilize his land to make it yield good harvest.
 He can make a living easier than in any other state in the south, and at the same time enjoy a more equable climate.
 He can run his farm without a mortgage on it.
 He can raise finer fruit, a greater variety and more of it than in any other country in the world
 He can plant an acre in strawber- ries, putting the same labor that one acre of cotton will require and net two hundred dollars for the proceeds.
 He can plant five acres of Norton's Virginia grapes and make from five hundred to one thousand gallons of wine that can't be equaled for body, color or bouquet in America.
 He can for mere nominal sum get rid of the curculio which destroy the grapes and cheat the birds at the same time. The famous Delaware is hard fer, sweeter and more profitable here than anywhere in the Union.
 He can have vegetables on his table the year round.
 You can plant one acre in cane and make two hundred gallons of beauti- ful, clear syrup, with no sorghum twSng in 1t. There are mills in every neighborhood which make up the crop for ne-third.
 Bees require no attention further than taking what honey you wish. They usually pay the attention on such occasion.
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