The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1914-03-05
Communication.


! your paper, over the signature OF
| voter" very nice and "
| letter. 1t confirms exactly what
the government, through its aerl-
cultural offices. has been telling
the people for the past several
years, and that is that there are
too few cows in the country and
to stop selling them and raise
more of them. The government
sees, as any Individual can see,
that the number OF cattle, pei
capita, based on statistics, is tn
tlrely too small TO supply the re-
CURED beef, butter and milk, as
necessary foods. And voter"
by actual count makes the avail
able amount OF beef, milk and
butter here less per capita than
any place IN the whole South. II
there are thousand homes IN
our city. these homes will average
three people to the home. l his
makes three thousand people to
be supplied with milk and butter
(not counting beet from sixteen
COWS, which shows the percentage
OF cattle per capita almost too
small to calculate. These condi-
tons are brought about by reason
OF the drastic stock law to keep
them up day and night, which
! law has forced great MANY OF
our people to sell their cows for
the reason that they are poor peo-
| Bile and cannot afford the eX-
penSe.
Our sister city, only twenty
miles west, Monticello, the rich
est town to Its size in Arkansas,
| whose citizens own large blocks
OF stock IN each and every one OF
our banks, hotels, wholesale and
retail enterprises, and loan. out
vast sums OF money each year TO
/ lHt CItlLtHS Ol Oul community,
who use II 10 farm with and do
| their trading IN ouI town, helping
thereby TO keep our town on the
grow has no such drastic law,
! but 10 the contrary, the most OF
! the citizens have from one TO three
head OF nice milk COWS. Bankers,
capitalist and All kinds OF citizens
Dwn them and some OF the ban
kets and capitalists be II SAID To
! their credit when 1t Is TIME to
milk, both morning and evening
! tie OF TO the COW barn and milk
| One among the best men that ever
| live d there and who had a very
| large mercantile and land interest
owned COWS and also owned bows
and.girls, having raised large
! family, and he raised all his chill
| drtn to work and among other
kinds OF work to milk Now these
boys are filling the positions OF
district Judge, LAWYERS, and other
responsible positions thIoue hout
the state and the girls all married
| good, honorable men, who have
made good both from an honor
shle and financial view, and they
are Stlll owners OF COWS and live
IN towns.
All OF us have visited cities
! where residences and flower gar
dens are situated on plats raised
rom one 10 two teet and no fence
around them. 1t IS certainly a
beautiful sight to behold, but
these people are rloh. Our people
are poor and can not have such
! beautiful Injuries as rlch people.
/ 1t Is true from a railroad shipping
view point, that our town does
pCsslbl, more business IN that line
than many towns, but II does not
come from agricultural products
What We need IS TO put INTO exc
cution more liberal views and
laws towards the agricultural
classes OF the country, 10y doing
what our Board OF Trade, news
papers and advertisers are seem
inplv irving 10 do. and that is to
hold out lnduCtmt niS to people 10
come here hrCausr 1t IS "a tine cir
mate, hae land and espe eially a
fine stock country, gong so tar as
To say TO our northern and eastern
farmers that stock Ctn run out
here at hast alue months IN the
Y Ar wttoout having 10 he ted g,
aud TO- and behold when they get
here, thy Ind they Ia r. 10 keep
them up all the time and teed
them, can I even turn them out an
hour, much less nine months.
We have almost daily visitors
coming here, looking Tor homes IN
our town, SO they can school their