Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-10
STAPLE CROPS FOR ARKANSAS; HOW
 lO GROW THEM
(By John H. Page, Commissioner of Agriculture)

(By John H. Page, Commissioner of Agricultural
 Cotton is the main staple crop for Arkansas, and always will be. It is grown successfully and profitably in all counties. save seven in the North west, and extensively grown in ali but eleven. Fruit makes 8 good staple crop in twelve to fourteen counties in the northwest. Sweet potatoes and peanuts can be made the leading staple crops in eight to ten counties in southern Arkansas, if properly handled and properly manufactured and cotton relied upon as a second ary staple crop. The staple crop of any community is the one to rely up- on to produce the money for the farm, and from the money crop may be ex- pected the net profits on the farm. Necessarily all farm operations should bear relative to the staple or money crop.
 The prime object in farm lie is to make a living, and provide the occu- } pants with the necessaries and com- forts Of life, and secondarily to sup ply the means of education and social advantages fo rthe children, and such luXuries as can be afforded. z
 Road to Success.
 By custom and habit, the many farmers subordinate all far mopera- tions to the staple or money crop
 That is wrong. First provide. as far as possible, a good and comfortable home. Next. provide from one to | three good cows to furnish milk and 1 butter the year round; then provide a good chicken house, and with about l ten dollars worth of poultry wire
 make pens and runs for the chickens, so they can be kept out of the garden and crops. Set apart good garden | spot, and make it rich. Study your 1 almanac and learn about the best | vegetables, and how and when to
 plant and at the proper time plant
 the garden. Be careful and do not l plant a bigger garden than your wife
 can cultivate. Set aside an acre or
 two for good calf pasture; and an
 acre for truck patches, in which plant early sweet corn, potatoes, HantsaV 1 loupes, turnips, spinach, watermelons, l peanuts and pop corn. ln the sprlns 1 buy home canning outfit, and use It during the season. Put out lew | peach and apple trees, small num- her of grape vines, and about one- l eiohth of an acre of strawberries. l Provide yourself with two to four
 good brood sows, and get a good l nure-bred male. Breed your soWs Hi | November or December, and take
 good care of the pigs when they
 come and feed and pasture them TOT
 meat next Iall. Plant enough nay and
 forage crops to feed your stock. Fro
 vide q pasture for your Mofk stOok
 af night, and on Sundays and rainy
 days. It will save feed. Let the Wo.
 men and children attend to the mix
 and butter and chickens anu perhaps
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 self. or hire $ hand to help. heh all ihis is done, put III all o1 Lne 1 staple clop that you will be aele to cf,ltNate we'll. ana do not neglect one
 nart for another. Add ali tne II i stoek YOU can carry, along with tAls
 system and make your lahd as fach
 as you can with manure and by plant
 m. and blowing under eo# peas ahe other green crOps. ,S
 DO these tAsliss l.s al.d you " Ill st, sue
 ceed raise anay pN a'nslly ducate 1 your chisssjen ana make stt en-lgooo
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