The Forrest City times., 1912-01-12
FARM PRODUCTS
 SHOW INCREASE
Interesting and Important Re- port By State Demon
 stratiOn Agent.
MILLIONS LOST BY STATE
Could Have Been Saved by Modern Farm Methods-Yield Per
 Acre Is Increased.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
 Little Roek.-That the State or Ark ansas is $67,369,12S poorer than it would have been at the end of 1910 had it used scientific methods in farming is the statement of State Farm Demonstrator C. w. Watson, in his annual report to the United States Department of Agriculture. There is a very interesting side to the report. as touching the general progress in
 Arkansas agricultural conditions It
 shows that within the past three years
 wonderful changes have taken place. and that where, in 1909, there were only two counties contributing to the aid of the farm demonstration work
 there were 2S in 1911 and will be 4I in 1912. The report also shows that
 the amount of local aid given in 1911
 was S16460, against only 800 given
 in 1909. In 1912 there is already $33.- 352 pledged to the aid of the farm
 demonstrators, or about IS times as
 much as was given in 1909. In 1909 there were only 19 local agents em- ployed in the interest of the farm de- montsratioE work. On January 1, 1912, arrangements had been made for fbp af the ensuing year. In 1909 there was only one collaborating agent. This year there will be two The only re- duetion anywhere in agents has been In the number of district agents. This has been cut from to 3. However. this does not mean a backward step, but forward movement instead The district agents work under the state agent, and necessarily cover a large territory. It has been found that the best results are obtained in the em- ployment of the greatest possible number of local and county agents, and that three district agents can look after the district work quite as Well as five did formerly. when there Were so few local agents. There are. altogether, counting the state. dis trlct and county agents, G. men now employed in the state, as against 9
 men ln l909. or more than two and ohe-half times as many.
 fhe greatest success of the demon stfators in this state is getting the Idrhlers interested in hog raising. The report shows that the demon stfators have on an average of 75 per cent on hand for the next season. naiietlhs have been a great help to lAe farmer in carrying out plans TOT hog raising. All the other lines oi iIfestock have made wonderful pro- sreSs m this state and 45 per cent of 'ne reports from the agents show de Nuea Increase in blooded stock, such aS me horses and fine cattle being sHipped into the state, and the old
 wood cows and the scrub mule and morse Is fast disappearing in this ''dle' We have as many as l5 blooded s'aiilons in one single county, and cattle probably of the same propor- ton. '' ',9,
 SHoer demonstration farm methods Ill t9V9 the amount of cotton raised per acre was S44,6 pounds. as against ''' pounds raised under the old way, VI a difference of 3S5 pounds In i'V9 the average under demonstra- ''oh' or scientific methods, was 914.3 pouhas for acre, against 525 under the oiu method, and in 1911 the average 0ottoh yield per acre, under demon
 siaeoh farm methods. had increased ~ 2eo.S pounds per acre. The same ''attlihg difference is seen in corn ~ui.tEated under the two plans. as slneF the scientific way the yield per sore Tn 1909 was 30.6 bushels Der acre, redihst IS bushels under the old plan. 1" islo It was 36,9 bushels per acre Q. o"ueF demonstration methods, against -o bushels under the old plan, and in
 the yield under scientific meth @s was 33 bushels, against 20 bushels -oi e1e old plan. The total state crop ,s V, corn in 1910 was 69.216,000 bushels. the entire state had been worked uuaer the government methods the Iop would have been 103,924.0O0 -gsheis, or a gain of 34, ,70s. 900 bush u uus' which. at 50 cents per bushel n, rS'ia have amounted to s173O4.000 | "e gam in cotton would have been , oo 'ol''l2S. or total gain of S67.365- ! --e ID these two products alma