The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-09
SPECIAL TRAIN
 EN ROUTE NORTH
ARKANSAS ON WHEELS" STARTS ON LONG TRIP THROUGH Tf7E
 MIDDLE WEST.
WILL BE GONE UNTIL DECEMBER 10
Party of Arkansas Boosters Will Visit Land Congress at Chicago Before
 Returning Home.

Little Roek-rhe magnificent Ark. ansas on Wheels" train left Nednes- day afternoon over the Rock Island railroad for its tour of the Middle West The train will be gone until December tQ, and during this time all the leading agricultural states of the North and Middle West will be visited. The special train. which is profusely decorated with embicms ad- vertising Arkansas. will spend some time at the Land Congress now in ses- sion at Chicago. A large number of states are represented at Chicago, and Arkansas, aleady well represented there, will receive a s;uI larger amount of attention when the Ark ansas on Wheels train arrives.
 Thirty-fiye persons boarded the train at Little Rock, and this party was added to at seyerai Arkansas points. Each section is lii charge of an expert demoustrator. who in addi- tion to handing out literature. will explain to the people of other states the vast resources and natural ad- yantages of Arkansas. Several thou sand families from the North and West have removed to Arkansas dur ing the past few years, and the pro meters of "Ark&nsas on Wheels" are confident that good results will fol- low their invasion of the agricultural states 10 the north and west Of Hs.
 Practically every county Tn Arkan- sas is represented in the train, the most complete exhibits coming from the rice-growing and apples districts The Carlisle exhibit is especially at tractive. The compartment Is solid ly banked with full fruited stalks of rice and against the ceiling on a background of red is: Eat rice for health. Carlisle, Ark. Grow rice for wealth. outlined in grains of the ce- real.
 Fruits ef every description and grain of every variety, cotton, veg etables, timber exhibits and mineral displays are arranged in the snow- cases and on the counters down the cars
 Probably the finest canned fruit on the train is in the Dallas county ex- hibit The section is tastily decor ated with open cotton and holly and numerous jars of different fruits complete an attractive display
 Yell county has a magnificent corn exhibit, several bottles of native wines and a large tinted photograph of res hon T near Dardanelle.
 Several of the cities of the state, Lonoke, Carlisle. Little Rock, Brink ley and many others, also have eX- hibits, photographs of residences, schools, public buildings, etc.
 The educational displays are rep resentative of the best in the state The Department of Education has furnished the best of the school ex- hibits displayed at the St. Louis fair in 1903 and hundreds of photographs of Arkansas schools are shown in the educational section.
 The display from Greene county contains one product which is entire ly different from the products of other cOunties-a sample of the great wonder grass grown six miles east of Paragould. The seed for this grass was secured from Central America and this year the grower harvested four crops and the yield was 12 tons to the acre. Samples were secured of the grass five weeks old at a height of } 1-2 feet and that seven weeks old, which was feet high. The advantage this grass has over numerous other grasses is that it grows On land that will not produce other agricultural products to any eX- tent, and is excellent feed for horses and cattle
 At the end of the last exhibit car a reception hall has been fitted out, containing piano and many palms and ferns and tapestried in the red and white color scheme.
 Books of Arkansas verse, jugs Of Arkansas wine, loaves of Arkansas bread and a band of Arkansas mu- sicians will herald to the people of the Middle West that Arkansas is literally land of milk and honey. '