Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-07-18
|1IJIH'S GRAIN
|CR0P This Year
| BREAKS RECORD
|vceeds in Value the Most
Valuable Cotton Crop
Ever Raised.
Till REACH 1870
MILLION BUSHELS


l914-Wheat Crop Of State In.
creases 22,5OO,OOO Bushels.
Baltimore, Md, July 1.-THE grain
pp of the South this year will
coed in value by several million
liars the total of the most valua BILE
ton crop ever produced by this
ction. says the Manufacturers Re-
I'd in this weeks issue.
This remarkable fact is due to an
crease in grain production through
the South. which will demonstrate
lat this section is capable of doing
the development of diversified
Fming. According to the forecast
grain production for the country,
sed on conditions July 1, the pro-
ction of grain in the Southern
btes for this year will be $780,
p0OO bushels, or gain of 2S6,000,-
bushels over last year. If to the
lures covering wheat, corn and oats
properly add the rice crop of
100000 bushels, the total grain for
South this year will be 100000
bushels, and as this years rice
pp exceeds by 100000 bushels last
ar's, we would have a total increase
grain in this section of 1872, 900 900
shells.
This phenomenal situation is all the
pre- impressive when taken in con-
ction with the grain crop of the
tire country.
$3.50, O00,0 900 Increase in Value.
The estimated yield for the country
the year. including rice, is 5,414,-
$1,000 bushels, or an increase of
100000 bushels over 1914. Out of
Is total gain, 292,OOO,OOO bushels. or
$arly 60 per cent, is due to the in
3ease in the South. The gain in
is section will be nearly % per
nt over last year, as compared with
Ply 5k per cent for the balance of
e country. The actual gain in the
Puth is 100000 bushels greater
AN the increase in the balance of
e United States. These figures are
onderfully significant of the agri-
pltural possibilities of the South,
"a this increase in grain, which typi-
= the increase in foodstuffs gener-
", will largely Offset the adverse
tuatlon in cotton. In the South
IN commands a much higher figure
an in the West. running from 10 to
cents bushel more than Western
lces. On this basis. therefore, it
safe to estimate that the grain
{ors of the South will represent a
I'M of at least $25O,OO0,OOO over last
far's figures.
Every state, with the exception of
faryland. whose wheat crop is short,
pares in this increased grain pro-
pctlon. Alabama shows gain of
Early 100000 bushels; Arkansas,
f,ooo,0O0 bushels; Georgia, 1900. 900
lsaels; Louisiana, 16,000,000; Mis-
[sslppi, pehrly 2O,O0O,OO0 bushels;
PUN Carolina, 100000 bushels;
|rglnla, 100000 bushels, while
|exas comes to the front with gain
oS'6oO,OO0, and Oklahoma, O,4OO,-
20 bushels.
Benefits All Interests.
Every business interest in the
path should feel the vivifying influ-
ace OF this splendid grain crop. The
Jun did not this year turn it's at
sEn.lon to grain as largely as it
.'ouid have done, and at the same
''le still further lessen it's cotton
ereage' but it has made a magnifi-
sn! start, which indicates it's almost
rowing.
IN 1900 the production of wheat,
oo1 and oats in the South was Gill;
oo.Uoo bushels, compared with this
e ears yield of 1,54O.O00,OO0. We have
aus aus advanced the production this
e M over 1900 by CSC, OOO,OOO bushels.
we. wen may the South take heart and
u !, IN this splendid showing of
rn va. u can do in grain production.
. o'.. tnese figures can easily be
o ! by the South when it gives.
:. ~ should do. proper attention to
a Nc. WIDEST Investigation of its agri-
! ~ and to growing at home all
east. 'u ~ i''"n oA
- nut looking beyond the South to the
a nole country we find that nature has
, sa,,. Olessed this land with abundant
ho already harvested, and with
~ promise of splendid crops now
a ,,Uwing. II weather does not mater
I h,et decrease the expected corn pro-
.So' this years crops will largely
, nS;ael in value $4,000, ZOO, 900. Tht
MA, Of the United States agri-
no. neural department show a probable
D oo eas Sc IN the wheat production Of
mn Vvo,ovo bushels; Of corn, 141 ,OO0..
IL. ousnels; of oats. 25S, O00, 900 bush
a W., - barley, 100000 bushels, and
w; we, 100000 bushels.
lss'aoona an indicated wheat yield o.
'0V'ooO bushels. which may, b.
va "a 81 4