Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-21
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oN ARKANSAS FEA!RIEs TURN
OUT WELL
A Eozen Men IN Lonoke County Viii
Establish ;7aa77itsg slat:eas aad
Ease tie Cereal.
a Cozen Men IN Lonoke County Wi

The fact that a million @eres o. Ar
Kansas prairie land is 6laDtel to the
culture Of rice as IS grown on the
coast has come to light through the ex=
periments Of a number OF planters
near Lonoke, says the Arkansas Ga
zette
George Sibley, Of that place, has
brought to Little Rock two punches
from & patch owned by Charles Re-
prick, two miles from I.onOke About
one-eightA of an acre was planted AMI
it is estimated that it will produce
twenty-five or more bushels OF rice
which sells at 81 a bushel in the hull.
The best rice lands along the gus
and Atlantic coasts produce only from
forty to fifty bushels on the acre.
The two stalks which were brought
here are the finest specimens grown
anywhere. The seed was furnished T.
the government. The Honduras "a
riety, seven feet high, was by far Ito
best, being of a harder variety t..
the Japanese. 1t viii grow to an IL.
mense size Oh ground much less lie.
than will the other.
One stool, or the number of stalks
grown from single grain Of lics.
had twenty or thirty stalks, each With
q full head OF rice fro meight to tea
inches long. 1t appears very muc!
like oats. though With a larger numbe
of grain cells to the head.
Tae land which is availab be for the
culture sf rice Oh TIE prairie is est
mated Il no less t!zaA q million aces.
It is necessa!. r keep the pant M
de- from four to eight inches of Watar
fGT two CT three n9onths Of It's grown,
and by establishing pumping stations
water is found everywhere there at a
dept q TO feet. At times the water
flows and always 1;ses within thirty
@, forty feet C the surface. With an
abundant supply # watel. says M
SiHley, such as can be readily secured
0n TIE prairie, thee is no reason why
eye.y acre Of t'le immense tracts Of
land shcal, :.Gt .Fod"6a more than the
best siver end in the stat.
Rec is the best and most nrolif
prcG@ce: Of agricultural prodRcts. Tha
net pr &c Pc acre are more thai
tw;"e tat of cotton. com. whelt, &c
Ny. Sihlev says there are al least
a dozen men in Lcroke county who in
1ead . tablish5ng pumping stations be
core tie ED & the year and WIZ plant
a &c croi s IF ,ice e.: the coming sea.
son.
Tta cost Ct a pumping station.
wh!ca VIZ supoy 21o acres with the
REQUISITE cYaeHrt of 'Fatt: }vel he
ficm g SO 10 s. 100. Net ONLY are
loc9l men iHte'este! in the ente y en
but capitalists from Chicago and othe.
points, WhC ii eevnral Instances 80
contracting to establish pumping sta.
tions for irrigatina purposes.
The holding of the water in the pra
lai,ie is a SIM. g r9atter, ana Lat fet
canals VII Ia GaGni' Cd TIE cost af
planting i-'igating during a short pa.
Of TIE year, etc is estimated at for?
s. to SO per ace. Absolutely 30 at
-e,-tior : r7ot.,i.ed hv III at ax4cp-
TIE h7iraJion %ntii il js reaoel anl
thIesfe1 ii&o w'2sat r, water has
- TT f =. t7s al other yegeta.
:: -,
Ff,e21 or twenty years ago p.aiy!e
land Of TIE t:nd v1i1A seems hest
adapted 70 1-e production Of =. ccGl
have leen botsat f:r II cel.s per a r.
Since the ,ice experiments have heea
in progress zeal estate agents have
been taking options and so'ne Of them
are said to be on tracts # from ten
to twenty thousand acres. Il is under
stood that they are Representing
no~+he"n men of meansI
Arrangements have been made by