The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-06-14
COTTON PLANT, ARK.
Editor Bolivar Bulletin.

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Perhaps line from this section of the union will
be of interest to Hardeman county and the good
people there who may want to change their locali
ty. This is as fine farming land as the state Of
Arkansas affords. The farms are owned in rather
large bodies though can be bought in 40xsO blocks
at prices ranging from $50 to $40 per They
yield half to three fourths of bale of cotton
to the acre, and from 30 to 60 bushels of corn.
Apples, peaches, grapes, cherries do as fine as in
any part of the state, and you know the reputation
of other parts of the for these fruits. They
have not been cultivated extensively for market
account of cotton being king in this section, and
for that matter all the delta, though diver
siGed crops are being worked more and more each
year.
We hear a good deal in the older states of the
sickness Of Arkansas. viii say this line that
have practiced medicine here for eight years and
that where the people take care of themselves in
like is done by those in older states that
there is no more sickness than there They are
free from typhoid and other lingering fevers and
the ills here are of short duration and compared
with the sickness there they little fatal
Malarial hematuria occurs here only in of
neglected chills and comes to those who expose
themselves useIessly and observe sanitary pre-
caution. The great majority of families pay not
exceeding $500 per year for their medical atten
ton. We have as good water as you have on Piney
and that is saying great deal, My trips to Toone
and vicinity, which are annually, make no differ
ence to the taste of water. We driven wells
at from 20 to 30 feet through sand. Water is in
abundance. / think we have every year the finest
gardens have ever seem Water for stock is in
unlimited supply and is running water, afforded
by Cache River, White River, and Bayou Deview.
The range for cattle is as fine as any stock men
aSl- md Inv Tn
my opinion stock farm would do better here than
in Texas, for we have the same advantages, minus
the evils which they have so disastrously.
Timber abounds in five miles and less of Cotton
Plant with wood for fires right at your doors. In
fact, if a man wants ideal place to farm and has
money enough to buy 40 or 60 acres, he can by APP
plying the same energies employed there, make
| money and live well. Money has ceased to grow
| on trees though, but more will come the indus
trious and frugal farmer here, before SAID, for
the same labor expended than there, for the simple
fact that the yield is double the amount there Our
farms are in high state of cultivation as the
class of labor we have will admit of. What we
need is small farms owned by those who live on
| them. The renter is not as well eff here the
| man who owns, matter how small place MOI
poor. The share cropper here is better pay and
m axes more money than the renter, yet the major
ity of people who farm (negroes) think it is be
| meath their dignity to work share crops. This is
very largely the fault of the merchant, who is
ually landlord also. He gets all the renter make:
and divides with the other class.
| Some day will write you regarding little
| city, which is fast becoming one of the best in
Eastern Arkansas. / will then tell you of our new
bricks new bank and recent court house, the get
ting OF which made the late lamented Arkansas
Legislature famous. In conclusion will say that
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bright, and 1 don't if he does get it. 1t is a
bad idea to change doctors when he meets the in
dications. Your frie1d,
T. 3. BRADFORD