The Little River news., 1915-08-18
ARKANSAS LARC-
 EST HARVEST
General Affairs of State are Growing Better Every Day, Both Political
 and Agricultural Lines.

IFOrLunaCely TOT AfkdnSdS, US pOllLlCS is only by product 1t is always on
 tap, but does not overflow except
 every two years. It is now approach ing flood-tide, and will reach it's height
 i'll March.
 But while all this is engaging the
 attention of those who make a bas:-
 ness or diversion of po' tics, !ilst
 like those who get excited ever base
 ball or horse races, the majority of the people are actively and genuinely in- ,terested in the material prosperity of the state.
 And no time has the pros 'pect been so encouraging. Confidence, which has been for a long time at How ebb, is being restored; bank bal ances are again beginning to become active; and business in many lines is opening up.
 inc prospect of one of the larges. crop yields the state has ever knewn is one of the incentives for this con- dition. Reduced avreage and unfa- vorable July weather considerably re- duced the cotton crop, but still there will be a princely revenue from the King who refuses to be deposed.
 Diyersifcation and profitable farm ing campaigns have been very potent factors in bringing about a New Az riculture that has been the subject of Agricultural Commissioners, Agricul- tural Colleges, and federal farm dem ger is bookfarming despised. It is accepted as the most important ad- junct of the successful farmer, since it represents the accumulated experi- ence of those who have made an ex- pert study of soil productivity.
 For years the seed had been sown and now that which had fallen in fer tile soil is producing an hundred fold in improved methods actual yield, and general outlook of the farmer.
 The results are almost beyond be- lief when carefully catalogued, and they are found in every phase of pro- gressive state but lding.
 In the last few years there has been added nearly two months to the aver age school term of the state, and the educational system was never upon so high a plane, and still advancing.
 The good roads conventions that met and talked and resolved every year have given way to the actual building cf modern highways, until contracts, present and prospective, az gregating millions of dollars
 For a long time there was an un- reasoning prejudice against scietfic methods for the eradication of the Tex as cattle tick Now half the state is covered with districts, and it has been estimated that during the year 1915 there will be 23O dipping vats constru- cted.
 The state is raising more wheat than ever before, roller mills are be- Ing erected everywhere, and Arkansas four is demonstrated to equal the best on the market. Government agents estimate that Arkansas will produce 23,591 ,000 bushels of wheat, corn and oats more than was grown last year, when the total for the three grains was 49,865000 bushels. That Arkan- sas ranks third among the Southern States in the increased production ot these cereals is a. matter fer con- graduation.
 There is prospect of bumper corn | crop, for many thousands of acres that ! were last year in cotton are this year 1 in corn, and the season nas been fa- vorable for its growth. Last year the | state raised 42,O00,00O bushels of corn, and this years yield is estimated at 6s- 50O,0OO
 Not only in these three staple grains 1 but in rice, forage plants, fruits, market gardening and other products the the farm has there been marked increase. Flooded stock more than ever before is engaging the attention of the progressive farmer. No small part of this movemens ss que to the work of the Agricultural schools and one of the various kinds of practical Corn Clubs, Cotton Clubs, Pig Clubs, organizations under federal auspicies, Canning clubs, Peanut Clubs, and , what not. It is unquestinably true , that old-fashioned farmers have been taught valuable lessons by their sons who have imbibed the methods of the farm demonstrators demonstrated that ] the old, hap-hazard ways are produc- tive of more ohattel mortgages and tneager living than anything else l -----C)--------
 Mrs. Bertha Armstrong and two sons