The Washington herald., 1909-10-17
has RICE
Grows with Profit in the
Vicinity of Stuttgart.
AMERICA ElTULATES JAPAN
Fuller, "A Pioneer, Starts Industry
and Receives RIdIcuIe of Neigh
bOrs-ExPeriment Station aids
His Descendants, and Now They
Wear Smile OF Triumph.

J officials Of the Agricultural Depart
ment say that Uncle Sam, having re-
stored friendship with Japan. is pro-
/ ceeding TO assimilate the Japs foremost
| agricultural industry and go the Niponese
one better. Your industrious Uncle is
going to raise rice In Arkansas, but he is
going to do more than that.
/ When his new rice mills on the Grand
Prairie get through making the main
part OF rice fiap-jacks, he is going to
make door knobs out OF what Is left.
I He VIII feed the straw TO the cattle and
use the chan for fancy papers. thereby
getting more out OF rice than the packer
got out OF the pig before the phonograph
came into existence. Since then he has
used the squeaL
Left Sons Land Poor.
a pioneer gentleman by the name Of
Fuller had a whole lot of land around
Stuttgart. and that was all he left his
descendants They were ali land poor
and trekked TO elsewhere to collect the
living they came into the world to get
One of them couldn't collect It and trek
ked back again. Somebody was digging
on this land OF his one day and found a
lot Of water ct various depths from 20
to 100 feet down, and Mr. Fuller got a
bunch that II that water were on TOP
Of The land he might raise rice.
Everybody laughed at him, but his cot
ton and corn and potatoes had returned
( Indifferent results and he put a few
acres into rice. He didn't have to put
much in the way of work and energy
into IT, 1t grew and grew and thrashed
out seventy bushels to the acre. The
next year he planted more
Then the Agricultural Department here
IN Washington sat up and took notice.
and some Of Mr. James Wilson's wise
and energetic experts went forth and es-
tablished an experiment station near
Stuttgart. Now the department is issu-
ing bulletins 20 the effect that Grand
Prairie. Of Arkansas. under intensive
farming methods, viii produce over
ninety-siX bushels Of the highest class
OF rice 10 the acre. With only ordinary
care they can get seventy bushels, and
the straw grows nearly. as tall as a man.
with from one to 400 grains of rice to
the head.
Rice Fields Contain $4,000 Acres.
According to the Agricultural Depart
meg there are 1900 acres Of land in
the Grand Prairie along the Cotton Belt
Railroad now growing rice More is be-
ing planted every year. and with his
fatherly care for the s----ieulturists of
the country. Uncle Sam is cora nuing ex
tensive experiments so as to l. ach peo-
pie the food value Of rice and how 10
raise the most and the best Of it at the
least expense. His boss farmers advice.
as set forth in bulletins of the AgrieuI-
turaI Department, is that the Arkansas
land is cheaper now than 1t ever will be
again.
Incidentally Uncle Sam is OF the opin-
ion that agricultural land all over the
United States is going to increase rap
Idly IN value.
Uncle Sam watched with great avid
ity the effect of rice as food on the
japanese soldiers and Is anxious to have
the husky men OF America eat more of
it. According to a bulletin of the Agri-
cultural Department production of rice