Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-10-25
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What Has Been a Success |,
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" me The Arkansas Travel. given the state unenviabla sls the strawberry has given # ao1' late years the Arkansas strawal aA' increased it's range until it s' eastern as well as western and F cities. It has become an esa aristocrat of the breakfast sa5 table. It has competitors bnt '. Other sections of the Soutb early strawberries of excellan, and large size, but they are not, they lack color and exouisits A. be classed with the choice nro5' Arkansas. At present Crawfo,ss has the lead in strawberry nroa though other sections produce 7. berries and as many bushelstott. Crawford county has the lea5 because strawberry culturs s proved methods began there in .iI of other counties. Van Bpran champion shipping point for stna ries. The cash receipts for bs.k that place in the picking and ssA season amount to S12, ,OOO a day Daily Press, a newspaper publaE Little Rock, in an article ontI jeet last season said: "If any liFiH like Van Buren was shinnin. amount of cotton daily drrinetz ton season fs12,000 worth per 5,I would be heralded far and w5k the song of King Cotton wouIH from every hill top within lMa And yet crop which gives fttrA the profit per acre that cotton ' the grower, is being harvestedsr north at the rate of five to eD loads per day, and hardly me5A it is made.
 1.-The men at Van Buren now etl < in berry-growing were, few E ago, working IS months ever to produce crop that exhausI soil, wore out their farm stock slN plements, and made their liFs round of unrequited drudgery { rassed with debts from years years end; crops and their owl mortgaged months in advance; growing up in ignorance and down with severe toll befon reached their majority, such is and everyday picture of the farmer. But these strawberry prominent among whom We mention F. H. $. Smelzer, J. A bell, James Stephenson, John and Phil D. Scott, are to-day eg from bondage, like many othesa neighbors. And instead of del doubts, the present is joyous rainbow of the future is tinted strawberry hue. Their childrel school the term through, ther are neither onerous nor exba they have money in the bank and building association stock, tate in town, and making a ne of St00 and $50 per acre. Five years ago they were regarded men; to-day they are worth saa $40, 900, and ina position to accu at a constantly increasing anl rate.
 1.-The day The Press represe visited them he talked with Nj Dean, who had a little patch ofo a half acres at his home, and awa his main crop, His first shipns# on Friday, April 2s, and cons seven crates, for which he E s2S.91 after all expense of ship commission was paid. The five ing shipments of nine crates him $2o or more each. This fE and a half acres, and yet the had but fairly begun. This # sample case of the berry shipms#
 "And all around in that parE state, just such land, which, unY same management, will produs same results, can be purchased fa 500 ner a ere D
 It may be noted here that tf8 many other parts of the state suited to strawberry, raspbeF blackberry culture as that ne Buren; and in some of these a this business has received as 1 tention as there, and the dal ments are enormous, during " ing season. Jackson, White, Saline, Hot Spring, Clark,
 Hampstead, Miller, Crawford tian, Franklin, Johnson, Pope N and Faulkner counties, are strawberry belt and have shipping facilities. There ars tunities and fortunes for pl growers yet; and these countle' the near future, be turning 0pa gregate of from 1,5oO to 2'oOu of our matchless berries per anj