The Prescott daily news., 1911-04-27
ARKANSAS FARMERS
 HAVE STEADY INCOME
Vegetable, Animals an d Fruit Trees Work Every Month in the Year Filling Purses.

ilie iolloWlnS IS clipping from the Kansas City Journal, publish ed at Kansas City, April 23, 1911:
 All of Southwest Arkansas, including not only the immediate vicinity of Prescott and Hope, but also the coun- try in which Camden, Arkadelphia. Malvern, Benton, Okolona, Nashville. Winthrop and other well known towns of this part of the state flourish, is be- ing brought into the spotlight as never before by efforts to attract the home- seeker. Success such as a 2.0OO-acre peach orchard, the 65,0O0 trees of which could be so distributed as to place one in every front yard and gar den in Kansas City, are being pointed out to the man of means as the surest and fastest way to increase his for tune. The Prescott & Northwestern railroad suggests that forty acres of the best land for $400 and only one SlOO cash down, or probably ten acres for $100, with 25 cash, would fix the poor man who wants to become Independent so that he need not warry the remain der of his life.
 The big hurrah follows the compar- atively recent discovery by progressive farmers in this portion of the state that one crop will fit in after another throughout the growing season, keep ing them busy the year around, mark eting something and adding to their cash nearly every month. They begin with the green garden stuffs -radishes- lettuce. peas and beans-thes in the early spring. Then comes the bounti- ful strawberry crop. Hardly is this out of the way when the early crop of Irish potatoes comes on, and then there is the peach season, lasting from the middle of May until the first of Aug ust. Comes then the canteloupe and the watermelon, followed by the sweet potatoes and fall crop of Irish pota- toes, and, finally winding up with crop of cotton and corn.
 Meantime the farmer has gathered crop of oats, has filled his barn lofts with COW peas or Bermuda hay, or cut four or five crops of alfalfa, has made little ribbon cane syrup, and all the while his chickens and cows have been making eggs and milk, his hogs have been growing fat from the waste of the farm and his horses have increased in number.
 For many of the fruit and vegetable products of this locality growers hold worlds fair medals, and there are thousands upon thousands of acres waiting for others to come and hold Dame Fortunes hand while she smiles on them.
 Knowing this, and wanting more peo- pie, the boosters of Prescott and Hope and other cities are up and doing. Right up within almost a stones throw, com mercially speaking, of these progress sive, rapidly growing towns the finest of lands may be had for $l0 to $50 per acre. Improved farms, mind you, at these figures simply because appar- ently, the owners who have had them long long time have never staggered onto the fact that the annual prodnct of farm should have something to do with its price! It is fact, also, that only about one-third of the good lands are under cultivation and this in view of the further fact that not only are the claims to fruit and general crops familiar to the North proved here every year, but the worlds finest long staple cotton to the amount of 800 pounds of ginned cotton per acre is raised and sold at 25 cents per pound. Six years ago one company set peach orchard of nienty acres. The third sea- son it netted $45 per acre. The fourth season it paid 500 per acre above all expenses and the filth year Sl65 per acre. The six yearit produced fine crop, estimated at twenty-five carloads Never was Southwest Arkansas in as prosperous condition as at the present time and it is looking forward to a more rapid growth than was ever wit messed in state so old and ripened.
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