The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-28
Fertile Small Farms on Easy Terms Bring
 Wealth in Arkansas

AFkdESdS. IS iO iuilSpi oo"SN "
 our beautiful and giorius state, Tor
 people all over the country are waking LID to the fact that there
 is a region west of the Mlsslsslppl,
 on the border of the Redman's land,
 that is wonderfully endowed by na-
 Lure with an ideal climate, where
 the harvests are unsurpassable,
 where the fruit is not only as var
 jed as that of California, but Tar
 more luscious, and where there IS
 hidden away in her mountains prec-
 ious metals, and ill her valleys gas
 and oil, and this Garden oI the
 Gods is Arkansas.
 Arkansas has made such wonder
 full strides of progress Ill every d.
 rection that it is a difficult matter
 to say which way she has gone ior-
 ward most. There are no better
 schools in any section of the United
 States. and the number of public
 institutions, charitable and educa-
 tional, is surprising.
 But one movement that has been
 of the greatest advantage to the state is that of opening up the large
 tracts of undeveloped land and col onizing the same. There are thou
 sands and thousands of acres of the
 most fertile soil, covered with Valu-
 able timber, that has lain idle for
 centuries, awaiting an opportunity
 to pour it's wealth into the hands of
 some far-sighter pioneers. And the
 opportunity has come at last. These
 vast areas have been brought up by various companies, which nave
 cleared the land and cut 1t up into 10. 20 and 4O-acre tracts, and are now selling them at a surprising figure and on easy terms. The tim Der has brought large profit to the development companies, hence thelr ability to put the land on the mar ket at such low prices.
 These farms are marvels Of beau | ty, productiveness, comfort and con- venience. They are adjacent to one or more railroads, thereby having a ready outlet for the crops and poul- try products; speaking of poultry, chicken raising is becoming one oi the most popular, as we'll as profit able features of the Arkansas farms The climate cannot be surpassed Tn any section for this purpose. The short and mild winters are especial Fly conducive to an enormous output of eggs. Kellerstrass, breeder of the famous Crystal White Orpingtons, whose chickens won the first prize three times in succession at the Madison Square Garden, New York, and the first prize two years in suc- cession at the Crystal Palace show, London, and who is owner of the famous hen Peggy" which IS val ued at $i0,000, is most enthusiastic in his praises of his possibilities of poultry raising in Arkansas. In a letter from MT. Kellerstrass to MT. Toll of the Fort Smith Lumber Com pany, which concern, by the way, has a 35,000 acre tract of virgin Arkansas soil on the market, he writes as follows:
 There is one thing about Ar kansas: Down in that country they can produce eggs during the months lof December, January mad February flor even less cost than we can pro- duce them in this country in April, May and June, and it is in the win | ter time when eggs are the highest | in price. They can also produce broilers for the market 90 days earlier than we can in this region
 Take for an illustration: They can Iproduce broilers down there in Jan uary and February, when they bring anywhere from 30 to cs cents here in our market, when we don't pro- duce these same broilers until along in May orsJune, and then the price
 has dropped down to i6 and i7 cents All these things I observed very clearly during my six months stay | in Arkansas, and I can say honestly
 and frankly to you, that when you lrecommend to a man to go down into
 your land to raise poultry there is no question about it's success. You
 can do it freely and honestly. and
 he will never come back to you and
 say that you advised him wrong" And who has not read or heard of
 the vast rice fields of Arkansas? On
 one farm there were 5000 bushels of
 rice gathered from i60 acres.
 Arkansas is determined to shine
 in the beautiful coronet of the New
 world and now she is coming to the front as a diamond field. One of the lprecious stones weighing i3 karats. supposed supposed to ue the largest diamond
 ever found in the western hemis- lphere, was found in Arkansas.
 It's fame as coal producer is
 known far and wide, and just in the vicinity of Fort Smith alone, there