The Prescott daily news., 1915-11-04
QUORUM COURTS AP.
 PIRATE $5O,OOO
Very Encouraging to New Agri- cultural Campaign - Nevada Refused to ApprOpriate-1915 Genuine Prosperity Year.
By Clio Harper.

One of the most encouraging feat ures of the campaign for the New Az rlculture in Arkansas is the fact that the County Quorum Courts have ap- propriated $50,000 for carrying on the work that is being directed by the United States Department of Agricul- ture. Thirty-five counties have re- ported appropriations for farm dem onstration and canning club work, in sums ranging from $750 in Wood ruff county to $4260 in Arkansas Co. At least twelve counties refused to make appropriations
 The counties that have made appro priations are Faulkner, Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Clark, Columbia, Craighead, Crittenden, Dallas, Grant, Greene, Independence, Sevier, Jeffer- son, Lee, Logan, Lonoke, Mississippi, Ouachita, Phillips, Pike, Cross, Desha, Drew, Pulaski, Randolph, Sebastian, Union, Washington, Woodruff, Yell, St. Francis, Prairie, Garland, Jackson.
 The counties that refused to make appropriations are Benton, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford, Franklin, Hot Spring, Johnson, Lawrence, Nevada, Pope, Baxter and White Of these counties those which made approprio- tions last year are Cleburne, Conway, Franklin, Johnson, and Lawrence.
 This is an evidence of the growth of the agricultural sentiment in Ark ansas,-a sentiment that is being translated into practical benefits to the farmer of Arkansas. All the var ious agencies that have been inter ested in the propaganda are active in the work of suplementing the efforts of the county demonstrators. Never before has there been so widespread an interest in agricultural matters, since few years of experience has proven the value of scientific methods "The book farmer" is no longer look ed upon with disfavor in Arkansas, but he is accepted as authority on questions of diversiication, market ing, soil values, and farm conserva- tion.
 The United States government, the College of Agriculture of the Uni versity of Arkansas, the County Farm Demonstration agencies with their hundreds of active boys and girls clubs of various kinds, the railroad company agricultural commissioners, the Profitable Farming Campaign Committee of which E. J. Bodman of Little Rock is the head, the business men of Memphis, and the Agriculture Extension Department of the lnterna- tional Harvester Company, with Dr.. ?. c. Holden at the head of the corps of eXperts,-these are the agencies that are bringing Arkansas to the front as it has never known before. It was Prof. Holden who, several years ago. made two ears of corn grow where only one grew before in Iowa, making it one of the greatest corn states. And it is the methods he em- ployed there that are to be employed in Arkansas by him, Dean Miller, and their many associates.
 Already the effects of these cam paigns are manifest in the increased acreage of money crops other than cotton that are being raised in Ark ansas. The increase for 1915 has been tremendous. For 1916 it will still be greater Former Congressman T. C. McRae, of Prescott, who is making a campaign for the state for Governor, says that he has not witnessed such genuine prosperity in the state in many years. The farmers are well provided for, and as a rule are getting out of debt. They have been year behind for many years, but now they are catching up. The future is bright with promise, and the Arkansas farm CT is coming into his own.