The Green Forest tribune., 1908-06-26
NEWS OF ~
 ARKANSAS

production, received at the Board of 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 a total of 11,325,- S82 bales, as compared with 13,395,256 bales for 1906. The 1907 crop is g. 220,037 bales, or 16.3 per cent less than 1906, and 57O,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 4,769,609 bales, or AZ per cent. The condition in 1906 was the reverse, as 532 per cent of the crop was grown west of the Mississippi and 46.S 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 falling off of 149 per cent, as com pared with 1906, and producing only POS 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-fifth.
 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 orl,- oil 0f int the lower and middle portions of the plant and the maturity of the crop can be hastened 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 3,029 Boone 393, Bradley 4,337, Calhoun 4,56S, Chicot 25,21O, Clark s,757, Clay 9,6SS, Gle burne 3,O11, Cleveland 6,36S, Colum- bia 17,243, Crittenden 27,545, Conway 14,4O3, Craighead 7,767, Crawford 14,- 738, Cross S,245, Dallas 3,S97, Desha 12,O14, Drew 14,595, Faulkner 13,289, Franklin II, 1,639, Fulton. 2,494, Garland 1875, Grant, 2,439, Greene 6.416, Hemp stead 16,O3S, Hot Spring 4,443, How ard 9,255, Independence 7,730, Izard 3,512, Jackson 1895, Jefferson 35,2O3, Johnson 9,207, Lafayette S,2S4, Law renee 12,90S, Lee 21,411, Lincoln 15,- 3O1, Little River 1O,6O2, Logan 16,9o0, Lonoke 27,540, Marion 1851, Miller 5,993 Mississippi 2S,057, Monroe 15,- 121, Montgomery 3,655, Nevada 10,S95, Newton 351, Ouachita S,4S2, Perry 3,5S2, Phillips 25,219, Pike All, Poin- sett 3,359, Polk 2,547, Pope 13,999, Prairie 7.757, Pulaski 15,5SO, Randolph 6,O51, St. Francis 22,564, Saline 3,722, Scott 4,969, Searcy 1876, Sebastian 9,364, Sevier 7,31S, Sharp 2,706, Stone 1,175, Union 1O,137, Van Buren 4,2S6, White 13,292, Woodruff 23,663, Yell, 17,723
 This gives a total of 751,951 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 9S cents per bushel for them.