The Mena weekly star., 1898-02-16
STATE EXCHANGES.

 Commissioner of Agriculture v has positively declined :. become candidate for re-electioD Eureka Springs Flashlight.
 Missouri has consented to recei, shipments of Arkansas cattle proyid., dipping stations" be established s0. the cattle dipped. This is to say noA ing but good old Baptist beef will 2. with the Missourians.-Ho Sprinm News
 Besides being necessary to ayos bankruptcy and ruin to the farms, diversity of crops is necessary to avais bankrupting the soil The same crm grown on the same land year afte year will ultimately, if not rapidv exhaust the soil.--Fayetteville New,
 Farmers in Arkansas are howlipg about 4-cent cotton and yet they are making preparations to plant anothe crop Why don't they try letting the stuff alone one year? There are plep. ty of other crops they can raise to better advantage. Randolph Herald. Pilot
 A reunion of the ex-cadets of old St Johns college will be held m Lit tie Rock on February g. at whicb time all former student of the historie old college are requested to lay asid, the cares of business and come togeth. CT in grand and happy meeting Magnolia Journal.
 Missouri will have a very creditable exhibit at the Omaha exposition. Ar kansas should have one there, too Nothing would please Arkansans more than to have their states dispay placed beside that of Missouri's Arkansas would be benefited by the opportunity afforded for comparisou of the exhibits. Little Rock Gazette.
 A cotton mill has just been compet ed at Birmingham, Ala. representing an investment of $500. 900 The min is the largest in that state. containing 5o,O00 spindles and 10000 looms witl an annual consumption of 10. 100 bale of cotton The mil is owned hy Bos ton capitalists and the output for sev eral years ahead has been sold il China Pine Bluff Graphic
 There is quite stir in mining cir cles, and a number of prominent min ing men from the West are here wit view of Investigating. They hay i given these ores a thorough test an are satisfied that they contai renumerative values The ore bodie investigated are situated within fel miles of this city, and when the boor starts, which it will soon. Hot Spring will get the full benefit of 1t. Ho Springs News.
 It appears that Letter has succeede in cornerng wheat, which will resul in an increased demand for corn mea Letters wheat cost him aoout 9i cent bushel, and his profits up to dat have been from l6 to IS cents, amount ing in the aggregate to about s3 800 900. But this is not enough for tn young Napoleon of the wheat pit II continues to hold on to his grain i the hope that he may extract fel millions more from the consumers c bread. Little Rock Gazette
 Col. Vincenheller's lecture last Sal urday was we'll attended and tn meeting of the farmers will prove profitable one for Prairie county. Col Vincenheller. confirmed them in tn belief that diversified farming is tn solution of the hard times question An organization was at once create with forty five charter members, tn object being to further the interests C the tillers of the soil in raising pot, toes and other products. Every farm CT should be impressed with the grea truth that planting necessaries su,