Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-01-21
10 ENCOURAGE
 TRUCK FARMING BIG MEETING BEING pLANNEH Rs gFtt. ESTATE ENtHtSGk AND
 ,H.MBER OF COMMERCE.
NQTABLES TO ATTEND
s+pseraMent Experts aud Others tn speak Have Something
 N show Investors.
X 14ig campaign for the promot oH

\ tie caupaign for the promot oh of truck growing which will culmin ate iu the organization of 4 Truch Growers Association ai meeting ;,lanned to be feId in Pine Bluff about the first of Fi bruary. had ita inception yesterday morning at the regular daily 'ment'ng of ths Real t,s= tate Exchange, branch organt2d- ton of the Chamber of Commerce, when q committee of one, Russell Hollis. was appointed to confer with Secretary Spaulding, of the Chamber of Commerce, and arrange definite plans for the meeting of the vegetable growers in this county and section.
 This m]vf ment is the outgrowth ot the lack of this class of farms in this county and the peculiar situation of advertising Arkansas so as fine for truck growing when there are only Il few such places i'll this section to STOW visitors from other states -'ho ' me here for the purp0s of iH8eS' ing ill farm property.
 Mi. Hollis. Who is d larg, handler of real estate and farm property i'm mediate!y got busy on the proposit ,ca and had conference with Secretary Spauding, of the local Chamber of Comm rec, with the result that the two organizations will cooperate in bringing all the truck growers of the county to this city in conference, and an effort to interest others in tha ra sing of potatoes, stra Woerries. cab bage and all other vegetables.
 Secretary Spanlding will at once take tht matter up with Prof Adam chief of the department of agriculture in the University of Arkansas; D. L. Markham. agricultural commissioner Of the Iron Mountain railroad, and J. E Rogers, local az nt for the D.,- partment of Agriculture of the United States, and will end avor to get then. 10 attend the meeting and deliver ad- dresses on subjects of vital inter s, to the cultivators of garden truck.
 We are receiving daily inquiries from persons in several states as to t,'e possibility ot raising vegetables in Arkansas,' said MT. Hollis, "and when we answer these inquiries and prevail upon these people to come to this city and visit the surrounding coun- try we can only show them one or two good truck farms, and the fault doesn't lay in the soil. We all know the richness of our soil and its adapt bi'ity to the raising of anything that t5ese men who are generally from Missouri of that fact because they immediately want to know why there arc not more such farms than there art. We want to have the meeting for the pur pose of bringing the few men that have truck gardens and the large majority who raise nothing, to- "s ther. and let tlem hear these a"- ricultural experts tell them what they can raise if tb y will only use more intensive methods on a small space and quit cultivating q large tract of ground in a shiftless manner. We will also arrange for the Agricultural Department of the State University to put the names ot many men on valuable papers of instruction as o the manner in which vegetables of all kinds may be raised on a small space of we'll cultivated ground.