The Little River news., 1916-03-04
COtJuTY',S :, MEAT
 COST $;5225(),0()()
Little River County Shipped in 3Iore Canned Goods than she Shipped
 Out Live Stock; $i500O Cheese

From the present indication the cot
 ton crop in Little River county will
 be considerably increased. The Bank
 e and Business Man should consider
 this seriously and see if it is fer tne | best interest fer the count and if not
 they should use their influence a5a7ns1
 such increase and encourage a great
 CT feed production, The live stock route is the most profitable but live
 stock can net be p4-fitably grown or l handled without feed and ieer can ! not be had in abundance unless tie
 farmcrs raise it. Below is record
 cf the per capita wealth of live stock
 states compared with cotton states:
 Illinois, a i've stock state is worth
 $2G65 per capita, Iowa. anclner live
 stock and dairy state is worth $5385
 per capita. This $730 per capita oyer Illinois has been added within the
 last few years by Introducing the dairy business into that state These ,, two represent that live stock has done l and %}il do fer state ia the way of wealth and soil improvement. North | Carolina, cotton state. has $322 per
 capita: Georgia has $2225: Arkansas | has S324; Mississippi has $302; while
 Alabama, the poorest state in the un-
 ion has but S230. Little River coun- l to beuSht S250.000 of feed from July | 1914 tc July 1915. She shipped in
 more canned goods than she shipped out live stock. In the year 1914 Ark ansas bought $23,00O,000 worth of meat. Tse same year the cotton crop was 840,295 bales. and brought only $31 1.931,210, just $8,931210 more than was sent cut of the state for meat In the year 1915 Arkansas produced 655,- 304 bales of cotton which sold for A7,S37, 192 or $15,9059S2 more than the crop the year before although the 1914 crop was 1S4,9S9 bales more than that of the 1915 crCp. Good common sense should teach both farmer and business man that it will not pay to increase the cotton for this year and raise, harvest and handle the 13s,9S9 Lalas for nothing and $15,905,aS2 to get to do it.
 Missouri is enc of the richest states.
 Her farms average 92 head of cattle. while her poultry sold for S52 900 900 in the year 1914 which was S2O,O6S.7eO more than Arkansas cotton crop the same year.
 On Arkansas farms there are only A. head of cattle per farm Wiscon- sin has the poorest land of any state. ] yet she is rich because of her live stock. She has an average of Is head Of cattle to the farm. She has 1850
 cheese factories and sell Little River county S15.000 worth of cheese pe. annum She has 1850 creameries and ships butter out by the car load. If ,hcse states with long winters and pcor soil grow rich in the livestock business, why can't Arkansas, with h2r rich soil and almost tropical eli
 mate do even better? Peanuts will take the place of cotton. They pro
 duce more and are not so hard on tle land.
 r. M Wood of Red Bluff sold his peanuts last year F. O. B. that stato.. Tor 65 cents per bushel and his acre. age yield was 45 bushels per acre If he would prepare them for market. as the farmer does cotton at his own ex- nense they would bring in S2925 per acre, take $500 out for seed and cul- tivation and ycu have net profit per acre of $21.25. The hay would add
 another $7.50 which would make
 greater net profit than the bes; cot ton among the best years. Then the best side of the peanut industry is that when the market is dull you can eith- CT use them for feed or sell them at 2 gocd profit to others for the san.a purpose, and save that $250,000 per year that goes out of this county for feed. MT, Farmer please do some thinking before you increase you> cotton crcp. Remember that there
 were 12,093,769 bales of cotton on hand OF the 18th day of January, 1916. There will be big surplus on the 1 first of next August, and if the crop is increased away goes the price to 7 cents,-N. T. McAlister, Frisco Farm pemcnstrator.