The Pulaskian., 1916-12-08
PLANT MORE CORN" SAYS N. ". NELSON
PRODUCTION OF CORN MEANS MORE LIVESTOCK AND MORE LIVESTOCK MEANS A MORE
 PROSPEROUS PEOPLE.

Plant more corn," is the advice of 1 N. w. Nelson, general agent for the International Harvester Company in Arkansas, who figures that the more grain is raised, the more live stock will appear, and thus enrich the state.
 If the corn fields of the nation could be brought together. the total of their acres would equal the combined surface measurements of Ohio, In diana, Illinois and West Virginia.
 Those four states, considered as a whole, extend east and west for about 500 miles. The shortest, Ohio, is POS miles long. The average length of all l is 270 miles. Such then, is the Amer l ican corn field.
 .'It would entirely cover England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Switzerland and Denmark and there would be mar gin enough left around the edges to blanket the home states of Delaware and Rhode Island. In the history of mankind there never has been field i Of any kind so large, so rich, or so useful.
 Gold, that intoxicant of human hopes, is small item in America when placed in the same column with corn. For every dollar in gold taken out of the earth in 1915, seventeen dol l lars worth of corn was husked by the American farmer.
 'The corn crop last year was about l forty-eight times more valuable in money than was the silver mined throughout the country during the same length of time.
 Cotton is king no more, if it ever was the king of agricultural products. The corn crop in 1915 was nearly three times greater, measured in money, than the cotton crop, and twice larger, almost, reckoned in dol lars, than the wheat crop.
 Royal corn,' said Richard James Oglesby, of Illinois, the carpenter, lawyer, senator, soldier and governor, within whose yellow heart there is health and strength for all the worldi'
 "The corn of 1916 is now harvested. Long trains filled with new corn are on their way to market If all the corn were sold and shipped by the farmers it would load 2,125,O00 cars, forty tons to the car. More than 5, ,000 locomo- tiyes would be required to haul it."
 Mir Nelson does not advise the farm CTS to plant a large acreage in corn, l Lei, To fo, nd live stock without having to purchase additional grain.
 '..The farmers of Indiana and Ohio realize double out of their dairy prod ucts, what they do from their grain, and grain is their principal crop" MT. l Nelson continued. They sell their grain on the hoof and drive it to market.
 Arkansas will never be able to com pete with the Northern corn, for it is grown much closer to market, but in time the farmers of this state will know how to grow corn and they will l then be in a position to raise as much per acre as their Northern competitor. They can feed this corn to their stock and ship it to the Northern markets in this way.
 "Only recently a four mill decided 1 to locate in Little Rock. This will en- courage the growing of wheat and will be a God-send to the country. When we grow more corn, and more stock, we will then have a packing plant. Packing plants will not prosper here now because the stock must be shipped in from Northern states. The big packing houses are in that sec tion, and they can ship dressed beef. mutton and pork in cheaper than the live stock can be shipped and slaugh- tered here.
 Until we have big packing house close by we will never know the taste of good meat While we get compara- lively good meat here, we do not get the high quality that is obtainable near the packing houses.
 q want to see corn grown, because corn means stock, and stock means prosperity.
 "The International Harvester Con- pany is right now conducting an agri- cultural school for 5000 employees, and when this army is turned loose to as sist the farmer, I believe it will do a great deal of good and I hope a big part of the work will be in getting the ] A1,La fo, ,,,,1a- fo ,o1o,,+ ,1.o,a a.e-..