Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-11-13
No State Has Greater Nat ural Advantages, Says the
 Noted Farm Expert.
CAN GROW ALL FEEDS
Indications Arc That TwO.Day Prof it3ble Farming Campaign Will Result in Improved
 Conditions.

Jefferson cOuntys campaign for the
 installation of better farming methods came to a close yesterday afternoon,
 with half dozen or so big meetings
 held at various places in the county. The corps of farm experts, more than twenty in number, left last night for Grant county, where they will con- tinue their labors of putting Arkan-
 sas on the map as state in which the most up-to-date farming methods are
 practiced.
 Prof. P. u. Holden, head of the field force of the International Harvester
 company of New Jersey, and than whom there is no better known acvo- cate of farm progress, made state
 ment yesterday prior t. his departure. saying in part: Arkansas has the opportunity of lifetime. I have never seen a state | in which there were greater natural advantages nor have I ever visited a state in which all sorts of marketable crops could be grown so easily or SC cheaply. as can be done in this state. l "The people of Arkansas heretofore
 have practiced the one-crop idea. mak- |
 They have now seen the fallacy of
 that system, and are apparently Will ing to make change. For Arkansas,
 it would appear easy of demonstration
 that diversification is the solution Tor
 all their ills In this state can be grown all the fruits and vegetaDfes necessary for the home table, hoss.
 COWS and horses can be raised cheap
 lily and easily, and with all that, cotton can still be cultivated as the money
 crop, the crop from which the people
 of the state will get their profits. q believe the people who heard the many lectures delivered during the series of addresses made during this l!campaign, will profit by the lessons ! we have sought to teach. believe in the future Arkansas will have more stuff to sell, and will need to buy less 1 In the past, Arkansas has sold cot ton to tho value of $4.000,00o, ,aand has spent 4fcurthssof this nApney for 1 things to eat. II believe that in the future conditions will be changed, and l that Arkansas will send out far less 1 money and will take in far more. All the conditions, climatic, physical and otherwise, justify this forecast"
 1 Meetings We'll Attended.
 1 All the meetings held yesterday
 were largely attended, considering that each of them was at some com munity where there were compara- lively few people i'll a position to lose
 the time from their labors, to attend meeting of whatsoever kind. In terest was strong and genuine, and
 at some of the meetings the speakers
 felt that the enthusiasm was even
 more genuine and intense than might
 have been expected.
 Many of the speakers were ques-
 toned as to the details of the plans
 they had suggested to the farmers,
 and in some of the communities "get
 together" meetings were held, where
 the schedule allowed the time. In
 every instance of this kind general
 satisfaction was expressed by the farm experts and the farmers as to iae
 results achieved.
 During yesterday quite number of the experts remained in Pine Bluff,
 making short runs in autos to nearby farms, at the request of the owners
 or managers thereof, to study and