Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-01-21


 and a fruit and truck association was formed and meetings held nearly every Saturday but the excess ve rains prevented the raising of much market stuff but the bunch was not discouraged but held together and now meetings are being held every fortnight with addresses by eXsert3 along various lines. This office has wo. ked in harmony at all times W tn the dept of agriculture and has done much to improve it's work in Jeffer- son and adjacent ccun ies. Not only have appropriations been made by | ''ae county and federal government for this work but the Bert Ball fund of $1,000 to be usel in this work was also secured. A field agsnt of the de- partment is employed, an exper enced woman has just been appointed to take charge of the girls canning club for the county, Jefferson being one of the 12 counties in the state having girls club, and your secretary f.as been male special agent of the de- partment with the privilege of the government frank under which al! sorts of agr culture and live stock matter is now being sent out. His appointment gave him the privilege of using every influence 10 make Pine Bluff a live stock market
 In this connection t is we'll to mention the livestoc. industry which is growing rap dly in this '1tate and especially .n this section since tE? agta ion for the building of pack ns plant in Pine Bluff. Tie Arkansas Live Seek Associa- ton vas organized last March and in October the first live stock show under its auspices was held and while it was only a beginn ng it was far and away larger than the frs, show held i'll Fort Worth which now has the third largest show in the whole country. A president anl continuous agitation for I've stock development has been carried on and the result is new beginning to be felt and stockmen from all parts of the country are beginning to look this way as Arkansas is already being cons 'dered as tEe future live stock state of ,he union. A recent census i of the counties of the state now being carried on by your secretary indi- cates that Arkansas has more aogs assessed for taxation than the s ate number of cattle.g Y This is something we never knew before and not one in a dozen ever thought we had even 1 10 per cent the amount. This fac w Il go the rounds of the press and will have great effect on the live stock interests in turn ng toward Arkansas.
 Interest in Live Stock es' r. So great is the impression already made that an Arkansas Day has been set aside at the great National, Feeders and Breeders Show at Fort Worth Marcn to 15 and he Cotton Belt Ia lroad has agreed to run a lspacial train for the people of Arkan- gas who will go. 1t is hoped to in terest the best citizens of this section ! of he state as we'll as from Pine Bluff as the trip is one of great g. nificanca as it will not only be "a wonderful object lesson to our own people on what packing plants and live stock will do for city but wll show the Interest Arkansas has in the industry and the sort of people inter- es,ed. It is the rst time in the IT years since the first show was held ,'hat any day was ever set aside for great deal of comment. Arkansas will not only receive the attention of the daily press and live stock journals on this occas on but aha magazines as we'll will take up the cry Arkansas" and it will resound over the conti- nent And the fact that this move ment eenters and emans es from Pine Bluff has it's significance and , will not be lost ght of, by any means.
 | I have almost forgotten to say any , thing about advertising and that is wha, this office is supposed to be doing. Let me say right here that : there are two >kinds of advertis ng- bad and goCd-the former being Aoth- ing less than nctority and that hurts every own that gets it. It has been this very notority that has made it hard to advertise Arkansas. The } principle part of the work has been , the line of correcting and remov- ing wrong imprs SSiOnS. People Stil