Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-11-11
bEAT1lE TALKS BETTER FARMING Cotton Belt Agriculturist Urges Business Men to
 Aid in Work. PROSPERITY FOR ALL "Arka!sas Can, and Will, Feed Her. self. All She Asks Is ahe Op-
 portrnity,'' Says Nr.
 Beattie.
PROSPERITY FOB ALL

w. R. Beattie, agricultural and in dustrial commlss,oner of the Cotton Belt, reached Pine Bluff yesterday ir his private car, accompanied by Mrs
 Beattie, to participate in the campaign
 for better farming in Jefferson county
 today and tomorrow. Mir. Beattie is
 firm believer in the prospects ill
 Jefferson county and is anxious to assist in every way to bring the farm CTS of the county into the list of "bet- ter farming" advocates.
 q trust" said MT. Beattie, last
 night, that the business men of Pine Bluff and of Jefferson county fully re- alize the importance of the better farming campaign which will be wag- ed in this county today and tomorrow During these two days practical ideas will be presented to the farmers by practical and capable men, but the farmers will have little opportunity to put them into execution on their farms without the aid of the business men of the community. At the mass meeting which is called for tonight at the Chamber of Commerce the busi- ness men and citizens will have the cn weeks tou. of the Southern and farming methods to the farmers and the men who are conducting the work.
 "The ideas that are being presented by the workers in this campaign are not new, but are practically the same that have been taught for the past ten years by the agricultural men ot fo cfro inI1 agents, the state university, the agri. cultural schools and the press. The only difference in the present cam paign is that these ideas are being carried directly to the rural commun- ities, the meeting often being held in gins, country school houses or on some farm. One important feature of the campaign is the large number Of people that will be reached within comparatively short period of time. This will start practically all of the people thinking along the same gen. eral lines, and putting the ideas that are presented into practice. Already we have made great strides in the de- velopment of diversified farming in Arkansas. More oats, wheat and other grains have been planted the present season than ever before, and next year we may expct to see a arger acreage of corn and general eed crops. Arkansas can, and will. i eed herself. All that she asks is the 
 Towns Will Thrive.
 "Pine Bluff and other towns in Ar kansas will thrive. according to the development of the farming interests hat support, them. We have no mines ,r large manufacturing enterprises in Jefferson county, but we do have some If the richest farming lands in the whole United States. l should like to zee what would happen if we were to ocate ten thousand Hollond or Bel-1 ,ian families o nthe rich river bot om lands between Pine Bluff and Little Rock. If we could get this 1 class of small farmers to locate upon ,ur rich lands. there would be moi unles sit be that of disposing i ,f the enormous quantities of food products that they would produce.
 It will be,a long time, however, be-. lore we can locate ten thousand tami-