The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-06-25
NEWS OF
ARKANSAS
Arkansas Seventh In Cotton States

ARKANSAS seventh IN Cotton CtdteS'
According to the bulletin on cotton
production, received at the Board o.
Trade, from the Bureau of the Census,
the total cotton crop of the United
States for 1907, on a basis of 500
pound bales, was 11,375,461 against
13,595,49S in 1906, and 10,804,556 in
1905. In this production Arkansas
was represented by 770,214 bales. This
included running bales, counting round
as half bales, and including linters.
Arkansas ranked seventh in the cotton
producing states.
The figures for the United States, as
finally revised for The crop of 1907,
including linters and counting round
as half bales, show total of 1925
882 bales, as compared with 13,395,256
bales for 1906. The 1907 crop is q
220,03 bales, or 1868 per cent less
than 1906, and 570,905 more, or per
cent, greater than the crop of 1905.
OF the total production in 1907, the
territory west of the Mississippi river
contributed 4769,609 bales, or AZ per
cent. The condition in 1906 was the
reverse, as $50 per cent of the crop
was grown west of the Mississippi
and ass per cent east of it. In 1905,
however, the proportions were about
the same as 1907.
Texas, which has held first rank
among the states in the cotton pro
duction since 1899, showed the great
est decrease in production, reporting
a falling off of 14.9 per cent, as COM
pared with 1906, and producing only
EOS per cent of the total for the coun-
try, as compared with 31.5 per cent
in 1906.
Next to Texas the states showing
the greatest losses are Louisiana and
Arkansas. Arkansas loss was about
one-ffth
The boil weevil appeared last sea-
son in more or less destructive num-
bers over considerable areas in Texas,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma
and in several counties in Mississippi.
Especially noteworthy in this con-
nection," says the bulletin, ARE the
results of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. proving that
through a more careful selection of
planting seed and better methods of
cultivation, the ravages of the insect
can be controlled until the bottom
and middle portions of the maturing
plants are out of danger The cot
ton plant can be bred so as TO throw
nearly all of it's life and force into
the lower and middle portions of the
plant and the maturity of the crop
can be fastened by the use of COM
mercial fertilizers and methods of cul-
tivation so as to develop a large per
centage of the bolls before the wee
wills have multiplied so as to damage
the crop materially"
The following table shows the total
number of bales ginned, counting
round as half bales. in Arkansas dur
ing 1907, according to counties:
Arkansas county 5,269 bales, Ash
ley 22,32S. Baxter 1929, Boone 1893,
Bradley 4.337, Calhoun 1868, Chicot
25,240, Clark 1857, Clay 1858, Gle
burne SOIL, Cleveland 6,368, Column
bia 1928, Crittenden 27,545, Conway
14,403, Craighead 1857, Crawford A.
1888, Cross spas. Dallas 1897, Desha
1904, Drew 1885, Faulkner 1929,
Franklin II 500, Fulton, 2.494, Garland
1875, Grant, 2,439, Greene 6,416, Hemp
stead l6,03S, Hot Spring 4,443, How
ard 9,255, Independence 1870, lizard
3,512, Jackson 1895, Jefferson 35.203.
Johnson 9.207, Lafayette S,2S4, Law
renee 12,90S, Lee 21.411, Lincoln 15,-
301, Little River 1862, Logan 5000,
Lonoke 27,540. Marion l,55l, Miller
1898. Mississippi 2S.057. Monroe 15,-
121, Montgomery 1855. Nevada 1885,
Newton 351. Ouachita S,4S2, Perry
1852. Phillips 25,219, Pike All. Poin-
sett 1859, Polk 2,547 Pope 1898,
Prairie 1857, Pulaski 1880. Randolph
6.O51, St Francis 22,564, Saline 1922,
Scott 1869. Searcy 1876, Sebastian
1864, Sewer 1918. Sharp 2,706. Stone
LIS. Union 10,137, Van Buren, 4,2S6, |
White 1922, Woodruff 23,663, Yell, |
1923.
This gives a total of 1881 bales !
of cotton. exclusive of linters, ginned |
in Arkansas during 1907.
w. F. Bauer of Judsonia bought two |
cars OF Irish potatoes on the track
at Higginson, Saturday, paying 90
cents per bushel for them
Only One Body Missing.