The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-07-23
KIRKPATRICK SAYS
CROP ENORMOUS
Corn Yield in Arkansas Will Sur
pass Harvest in Illinois or
Indiana.

corn crop appears much more
promising than the crops of Mis-
souri,, Illinois and Indiana, famed
as they are for big yields of eX-
cellent grain, according to c. e..
Kirkpatrick, former secretary of the
Little Rock chamber of commerce,
who arrived here Saturday from
Dallas, Texas, where he had at
tended a meeting of the secretar-
les CT commercial organizations OF
the Lone Star state. Mr. Kirkpat-
rick is on his way to Chicago and
left Little Rock last night. The
former secretary of the Little ROCK
commercial organization now is
will, the agricultural extension de-
partment of the International Har-
vestcr Company, with headquarters
in Chicago.
Arkansas is especially fortunate
this year in having a good wheat
and oats crop and with splendid
prospects for bumper corn CROP
said Mr.. Kirkpatrick. 81 have
found that the corn crop of Ar
kansas looks far better than the
corn crops of Illinois, Indiana and
Missouri, although these states are
famed for the production of that
grain. There has been too much
rain and cold weather in the other
states. Cotton in Arkansas appears
to be in fine condition, and with a
visible supply of less than 2,0OO,-
600 bales and 5 per cent reduc-
ton in acreage the price of cotton
my belief that the farmers may ex-
pect IL cent cotton by January l,
whether the European war contin-
ues or stops"
KIRKPATRICK OPTIMISTIC.
Mr.. Kirkpatrick is enthusiastic
over the prospects of Arkansas.
LET Arkansas have a business
like political administration for
four or five years and she will ad-
vance wonderfully" said Mr.. Kirk
patrick. when this states af-
fairs are handled on a business ba-
sis-like the business of a huge
corporation-there will be a rev.
olution in its progress. 1t now is
suffering from too much politics. ,"
The July number of Town De-
velopment, a publication given over
to development projects, contains a
lengthy resume of the progress of
the campaign for diversification of
crops in the south, especially in Ar
kansas, written by Mr.. Kirkpat-
rick. He, then secretary of the
chamber of commerce, was actively
enga ged in the campaign and later
joined the field forces of the In
ternational Harvester Company, I'M
der whose auspices the campaign
was inaugurated and carried out.
VALUE OF COTTON.
"The value of the entire cotton
crop to the growers in the south
for the past season probably did not
reach 00,0O0,000 in spite of
the fact that it was the largest in
its history" says the article.
During the year 1914 the cot
ton growing states imported ST.
00,000,000 worth of foods, feeds
and live stock. The south during
that same year actually snapped
off the money value of her entire
cotton crop for the live stock,
feeds and food that can be grown
in these southern states to better
! advantage perhaps than anywhere
on the North American continent.
This was the alarming condition
, facing the south when she was
ready to sell last seasons cotton
crop.
! "To try to provide ways to re-
lleVo InlS llndncldl crlSlS, II Was
proposed that the national govern
ment valorize cotton until the mar
kets returned to normal condition,
This effort failed. One of the
prominent st. Louis bankers, Festus
j, Wade, then came forward with
a proposition that the northern
bankers raise S100,000,000, and
! that the southern bankers raise
$50,000,000, thus providing a pool
to loan $50 per bale to the farmer
at G per cent annual interest. They
did succeed in raising $135, 000,0 600
in this manner after the federal re-
serve bank directors had agree to
administer the fund. However, be-
fore the plans for the use of the
fund finally were consummated. and
while farmers and business men
were discussing the difficulties in