Nevada County picayune., 1889-03-20
About Arkansas.

of fertility of the soil, with that of Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, while the bottom lands far surpass any in those States.
 Probably no state in the tnion equals Arkansas in the abundance, variety ana quality of her timber, among which can be found every variety of oak. black and white wal nut, hickory, pecan, ash. locust cherry, mulberry, sassafras, persIm- mon, holly, box-elder, sycamore, elm, cottonwood, cypress. black, red and sweet gum, beach, maple, yellow pine, poplar and catalpa. White oak is abundant. both on the uplands ana bottomlands. Cypress abounds in the bottomlands, as does also the different varieties of gum, while the ash is being shipped to the different countries of the old World, and the pine lumber forms such an article of export as to cause a famine Tn means of transportation enough to demand the especial attention of all the rail roads in the State to prevent it.
 Cotton forms the principal crop and export, and is a crop for which the farmer can always obtain its full value at the nearest market town. 1 For this reason other farm crops are somewhat neglected. as it is consid- cred more profitable to sell cotton and buy corn and other products than to raise them, even for home consumption although excellent crops of corn. wheat, oats. rye. bar lev. tobacco, Irish and sweet pota- toes, garden vegetables and all the varieties of grasses, as Hungarian miIlet, red top, timothy, clover and alfalfa are raised, and form success ful crops.
 The fruit culture is a rapidly grow ing industry, and special trains are run during the season on all the rail roads to afford quick transit of this perishable crop to the markets of the north, east and west, and berries shipped from points on the St. Louis and Iron Mountain railroad arrive at Chicago, Denver and points east as soon as the passengers and mail from the same points.
 The southwestern portion of the State is lowland almost entirely, as is also a strip of the eastern part, while the northern and western sec tions are highlands or hills.
 The salubrity of the climate can readily be seen by an examination of the record in this paper. It will be seen that the highest temperature re- ported was III . and this on the extreme northern boundary of the State, and in a locality where local influences exert a positive influence on the temperature, and only one other station reported above 100 . during the year, while the lowest reached was = below zero at one place during the severe cold blizzard which prevailed over the entire country in January, 1888, and only one other station reported q tempera- ture below zero during the year. The precipitation of rain and dew Is abundant. but not excessive. the greatest amount reported being Il l inches and the lowest 24 inches. and the rains are generally distributed very favorably throughout the year, crops seldom being injured and never destroyed, either by drouths or floods. The winter is short and mild, and usually consists of three to six cold waves which last few days each, and are alternated by clear, mild. sunny days, which resemble spring more than winter, and a few snow storms which, however, seldom afford sleighing for more than two or three days at time. The spring contin- ues soft and balmy from February until far in June; the summer lasts through August, but lacks that in- tense heat frequently experienced in much higher attitudes, and the nights are cool and pleasant. Autumn is, however, the most enjoyable season of the year, and usually continues up to the holidays, frequently without freeze, and but one protracted season of Indian Summer.
 The health statistics of the State will compare favorably with that of any State in the l'nion The condi- ,;,,, f ,,.;at,. ,,.l ,.,l,,..,4;......I ..I