The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-07-23
SOUTH REP0SES IN
THE LAP OF PLENTY
Manufacturers Record Shows Con.
ditions Are Better Than Any
Had Expected.

AAou GhpSSeSo'
Baltimore, July 16.-The Manu-
facturers' Record of this week
says:
The grain crop of the south this
year will exceed in value by sever
al hundred million dollars the total
of the most valuable cotton crop
ever produced by this section.
This remarkable fact is due to an
increase in grain production
throughout the south, which will
demonstrate what this section is
capable of doing in the develop
ment of diversified farming. Ac-
cording to the forecast of grain
production for the country, based
on conditions July l, the produc-
ton of grain in the southern states
for this year will be 1,540, 100000
bushels, or a gain of 2S6, 100000
bushels over last year. If to the
figures covering wheat, corn and
oats we properly add the rice crop
of 100000 bushels, the total
grain for the south this year will
be 1,57O,00O,O00 bushels, and as
this years rice crop exceeds by g.
100000 bushels last years, We
would have a total increase of
grain in this section of 100000
bushels.
This phenomenal situation is all
the more impressive when taken
in connection with the grain crop
of the entire country.
The estimated yield for the coun-
try for the year, including rice, is
5,414, 100000 bushels, or an in
crease of 490,00O,0OO bushels over
1914. Out of this total gain, 1922
100000 bushels, or nearly 60 per
cent, is due to the increase in the
south. The gain in this section
will be nearly % per cent over
last year, as compared with only
5 1-2 per cent for the balance of
the country The actual gain in the
south is 94,000,000 bushels greater
than the increase in the balance
of the United States. These figures
are wonderfully significant of tho
agricultural possibilities of the
south, and this increase in grain,
which typifies the increase in
foodstuffs generally, will largely
offset the adverse situation in cot
ton. In the south corn commands
much higher figure than in the
west, running often from 10 to 20
cents bushel more than western
prices. On this basis, therefore, it
is safe to estimate that the grain
crops of the south will represent a
gain of at least $3.50, 100000 over
last years figures.
The gain by states shows a splen-
did steady expansion throughout
the entire south, and for wheat,
corn and oats combined is as fol-
lows:
Alabama, increase 16,905,000.
Arkansas, increase 1851 900.
Florida, increase 100000.
Georgia, increase 1S,701,0O0.
Kentucky, increase 22,375,000
Louisiana, increase 16,24S,00O.
Maryland, decrease 3,231,00O.
Mississippi, increase 19,914,0OO.
Missouri, increase 26.169,0O0.
North Carolina, increase $685. 900
Okl9hor'a. incroase lO,46e 0on.
South Carolina, increase 1882
600.
Tennessee, increase 14,SS6,O0O.
Texas, increase 5S,695,O0O.
Virginia, increase 1S,243,O0O.
West Virginia, increase 3,663.-
600.
Total increase, 2S6,021,0OO.
Total increase in rice. 5000. 900
Total increase in grain, 292,O21.-
900.
Every state, with the exception
of Maryland, whose wheat crop is
eho~r. shares in this increased pro
| duction.
Every business interest in the
south should feel the vivifying in
fluence of this splendid grain crop.
The south did not this year turn its
attention to grain as largely as it
should have done, and at the same
time still further Iaceen itc cotto