Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-11-27
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  ! MORE PUBLICITY sT I. $ss <, s1:t s3fA# Writer in Country Gentle F .. man Tells Things About z z. City and County. T <te a5Ff thS4 ! u 1l g. A1-----$ I Y M. THE PACKING HOUSE D. .4
THE PACKING HOUSE
In Light Vein, Barton w culrie Refers tc Pine Bluff Packing House A@@
 Prcject to Skew that Diyersiiica- 
 tieH Must Be More Than Theory.

.=ss Pine Bluff comes in for some publi- city from an article on Cotton by Barton w. Currie appearing in the November 21, issue of the Country Gentleman, one of the Curtis publi- cations. MT. Currie was here about six weaks ago, securing data for the story"
 It is while he is discussing diversi- fication of crops that MT. Curtis brings in Pine Bluff. He does nol minimize in the least the benefits to accrue from divcrsification, but seeks to show that the change from one system to another must be made Win great care, and that diversificatlon cannot be brought about in the cot ton section except by great changes , il the methods of financing. To quote ; MT. Currie:
 ,. DiversificatiOn to Gene
 Out of all the ccnfusions Sand veX- , ations involved in the situation, one great good is bound to come to the South from the crisis. In the future : neither banker nor merchant will ba . disposed to turn deaf ear to the cry for diversification that has been made for a dozen years by the agricultural { colleges and Government workers throughout the Cotton Belt. The bankers have joined in the cry them selves, in many cases shouting it as if they themselves wsre the original discoverers of the simple principle that it is unwise to put all your eggs ] in one basket. They can see all about them the benefits of diversification. A 5 neighboring county that had never been well adapted to cotton raising is smiling all over with the benefits of diversification. The cattle and hog raisers go round with dollars clank- 5 ing in their pockets. The bankers ,. who have loaned on beef critters and s pigs sleep on easy pillows.
 "There is no doubt, however that the cry for diversification can be ovardone. Pine Bluff Arkansas, is one of the cottoniest cities of all the cotton cities of the South. There is quite husky side line in lumber, and 7 the hardwood mills, when they are running, give employment to small ;, percentage of the population. Now these mills are all closed and there is not solitary thing to fall back On save cotton. So has it been ia Pine DUH SlHCe the War. WHSn COttJn was high it was to rejoice, but whom cotton declined the gloom clouds came piling down.
 'To one promoter this famous old cotton town seemed the place of places to make the idea of diversifi- cation pay. He was not coming in with in mere theory. NO, sir, he would produce the goods on a high -profil basis.
 His goods consisted of packing house. That was all Pine Bluff need ed to promote the livestock industry. Just build. the packing house and the meat animals would swarm to it and dress for home products. No more beef and pork from Kansas City and Omaha, with millions of cotton dol lars following northward in never ending flood. -
 A Fine Empty Packing House.
 There were some grcuchcs who shook their heads aud padIocked their strong boxes. The oD1ectors couldn't quite see just what the pack ing house was going to pack. They