The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-01-24

poor to rich and embracing every
section of the state.
The average corn yield per acre for
Arkansas, as shown by the Year Book
of the Department of Agriculture for
1912 was 2O1a bushels. 1t is fair to
presume that the average yield for the
state last year was not greater than
this. But the average yield on the
Demonstration farms was "a " bush
els per acre, net gain of IA bushels
or total of 227,612 bushels for the
1928 acres under Demonstration
methods. Figuring this increased
at 70 cents per bushel we have a net
gain of $3.50 per acre on total gain
of $3.50, 328.40 for the total Demon
stration acreage over the ordinary
yields.
The average yield of cotton per acre
for Arkansas, obtained as above was
$40 pounds for 1912. The average
pield on the Demonstration farms was
1902 pounds per acre, net gain of
1872 pound per acre or total of H.
TATTOO pounds. Thirding this for
lint and figuring the increased yield
at 10 cents per pound we have a net
gain of S16.40 per acre or total of
$429,9 24 for the 25,910 acres under
Demonstration methods over the or
binary yields.
The total amount contributed by the
people of Arkansas, quorum court and
otherwise, for last year was $53,013.-
81. The increased earnings of the De-
monstration acreage over the ordi-
nary yields was 59,32S.40 on corn
and $429, 924.00 on cotton or total of
S5S4.252.4 40. Hence it is shown that
for every Sl.00 expended by the peo-
pie in fostering Demonstration Work
more than S11.00 has been returned
more than LOO per cent on the
amount invested.
Viewing these figures from another
standpoint, it becomes evident that if
the 2,475000 acres planted to corn
in 1912 had been under Demonstration
methods in 1913 and the same increas-
ed Yields obtained the farmers of Ar
kansas would have had "a $4,000 bu,
more of corn, worth $24,255, 100000 at
/ 70 cents per bushel. And if the p
1863 900 acres planted to cotton in 1911
had been under Demonstration meth
DDS in 1913 the farmers would have
had 1,162, $4,000 pounds more of seed
cotton which at a price of 10 cents
per pound for the lint would have been
worth SSS, 10000. In other words
if Demonstration methods were uni
versally practiced and such yields OBJ
tanned as the Demonstration work
shows to be possible and practical,
the increased income from the farms
of the state on these two crops alone
would have reached the astounding
sum of S63,OOS, 100000
In the above discussion no account
is taken of such other wealth pro-
ducing factors of the Demonstration
,Work as the Boys Corn, Cotton and
Pig Clubs and the Girls Canning and
Poultry Clubs. Neither does it in
clude the vast amount of work done
by the local agents in other lines.
These men are conducting hundreds OF
demonstrations in the growing of the
various clovers and other legumes and
grasses for hay crops; experimenting
the sowing of thousands of acres of
grain and cover crops; establishing
permanent pastures; encouraging the
better breeding and growing of all
kinds of live stock restoring impov-
erished farms and showing how to
maintain and increase the fertility of
the soil; teaching the growing of
crops for silage and the building OF
silos; urging the efficiency of the dipp-