The Green Forest tribune., 1903-08-01
ARKANSAS VS. NEBRASKA.
Resources of the Two States Dis cussed by The Tribune Editor.

The way to reach correct conclusion concerning the value of one section of the country is to measure it by that of other portions, where higher state of development of the resources has been reached.
 Several visits to Nebraska during the past few years has , afforded the writer an opportuni- ty to draw @ comparison of the resources of the country sur- rounding Green Forest with those of one of the gichest agricultural regions iR<the northwest, and we feel that'a few thoughts gathered by us may be of value to our readers.
 While it may be said of Eastern Nebraska that there is yet room for more people and improved methods in farming, it is true that the resources are looked upon as fairly developed. There is no speculation as to what sort of crops will pay best in that country. It has been demon strated to the satisfaction of all that corn, wheat and 8 few other grains bring the most profitable harvest, and but few other things receive any attention at all. As matter of course stock raising, especially hogs, is a profitable industry in all grain countries.
 The Nebraska farmer who has quarter section, half or three- fourths of which is under blow, has a half hundred hogs and five or six good milch COWS, is considered aoing well. With this much land he will probably have forty acres in wild grass on land that has never been broken which he mows for his winter stock of hay. Fifteen, twenty or thirty are kept for wild pasture and the rest is planted to corn, wheat or oats, may be some to rye, potatoes and other vegeta- bIes for home use. In a small almost completely shaded en- closure surrounded by cotton wood trees are nestled a few Sickly looking apple trees upon which some apples are raised when the rost does not happen to catch them. But for the wind breaks Nebraskan in this part would not enjoy the luxury of a home grown apple once ill a dozen years.
 On such a farm as above de- scrlbed the owner would need the service of one or two hands and the Use of four or six head of horses. With an average yield he has raised from thirty to storty bushels of corn, wheat or 0'atS to the acre.
 Harvesting, marketing and storing away the products of his Iafm is almost as great a job as ,the cultivating, and 1t may be Sald that the Nebraska farmer is 1ulte as busy at one season of the year as another, when the weather permits. In harvest half or more of the nights are often borrowed to take care of grain.
 The raising of chickens and eggs as well as butter and cream Tor market is an adjunct to the business of every thrifty farmer and as source of ready cash and clean profit it is splendid success.
 The price of farm lands in this part of the state-and nine- -tenths or It is cultivatable-range from lhlrty to fifty dollars per acre, ana fifty is nearer the average at the present time.
 II Arkansas farmers were com pelled to follow the same lines of crops as do those of Nebraska in competition to the latter's prod ucts upon markets of the country, the death knell of this country would have long ago been sound- ca. But happily such is not the ease, and it is our honest judg-