The Brinkley argus., 1914-11-13
ANOTHER AUTO TRIP
Hundreds of People Now Busy in Rice Harvest
 ing in Brinkley Belt

l in the rice growing belt to the northeast of the city.
 The ARGUS man drove out a few days ago to Hunter and thence out east where there were hundreds, yea many hundreds of busy men, thresh- ing, sacking and hauling rice. Not for years has there been such a fine season for the rice growers as this has been and on every rice ranch there was a small army of men employed in harvesting the enormous crop that has been made.
 A stop was made at the Hunter Rice & Land Co.,, ranch which is being run by Walter Dickson, a we'll known and successful rice grower. Scores of wagons were engaged in hauling rice in from the fields and double shifts were feeding the golden grain to the mammoth hungry thresher. On some of the ground Supt. Dick son kept a close tab and found that there was a yield exceeding 80 bushels to the acre. The yield for the entire ranch will make fully 27,000 bushels. In view of the fact that even in the full of the harvest market rush rice is bringing from 85 to 90 cents per bushel, it can easily be seen that there is going to be many hundreds of thousands of dollars go into the hands of rice growers of the Brinkley terri tory from this years crop.
 Leaving this busy ranch the ARGUS motor was headed back and south of Hunter and a stop made at the Strickler old place now owned by clever and pro- gressive farmer, MT. Crockett. who moved from Tennessee. Mir. Crockett has turned the Strick- Ter rice ranch into a stock ranch and as a sign of the advanced ideas and plans of MT. Crockett two new silo's have been built by him. He has a number of cattle, Tot of fine hogs and there's an air of comfort and satisfaction in the pretty. com fortable and hospitable home of h Crocketts which foretells that tn e cotton crisis hasn't them very much.
 A dipping station is maintain ed by Mir. Crockett for his cattle and he is rounding up preparing to make his last dip of the season.
 The ARGUS man would suggest that the Brinkley Business Mems League take this same automo- bile trip out in the above terri tory and acquaint themselves with the conditions and people thereof.
 The roads are good and t'would be a fine time for Brinkley men KNOW their territory.
 On a trip thro' Dark Corner Monday the ARGUS auto made three stops - one to attend a covey of quails for we had our bird pup and automatic shot gun along with us, another stop at Waldrop's Store and the third stop at the Cotton Blossom Gin.
 At Waldrop's Store our clever old friend. J. H. Waldrop and his good wife, Miss Rena, as we of Brinkley call her, have one of the very incest and best country stores to be found any,. where. Friend Waldrop, like every other merchant in the cotton belt, has the blues. Gen. eralIy he has sunny nature but this time the gloom bugs had him. From the scores of rural free delivery boxes strung out around his store it looks very much like signs of better times. With a change up of the de- pressing, baneful and enslaving cotton growing. mortgage fur nishing system. it looks just like Waldrop's store has fine show for growth and big prosperity.
 At the Cotton Blossom Gin