The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-09-22

MiSSouTi, YOU CAN dPpicSioeS
that when. Arkansas raises as mut
wheat per acre as those two stat
that the yield for money invested
five times as great as in the tw
states mentioned. 1t is true tia
Missouri and Illinois did not rails
anything like an average crop tn
year because of winter killing an
Hessian fly But the same is true O
Arkansas wheat. And it is just a
reasonable to suppose that had Mis-
souri, and Illinois made five bushel
per acre more that Arkansas woul'
have raised considerable more.
Oats have never been a none.
crop in Arkansas, and as for recon
mending winter rye and barley, W
can't understand how experts can dc
this. There is absolutely no market
in the south for winter rye or barley
and as a rule the farmer never thinks
of harvesting these crops, so all the
benefit he receives is his pasturesa and
the protection to his land. And any
farmer can get the same protection
for his land and the pasture would
be much better by sowing just that
much winter wheat instead of rye or
barley. The automobile industry
has hurt and will continue to hurt
the demand for oats. Dat sare sell
ing today for less than so cents.
The world war means a tremen-
dous demand for American wheat.
Wheat can be produced in Arkansas
for from rs to IS cents per bushel.
And we have purchased this year
something ove 250 cars of Arkansas
wheat and paid an average to the
farmer of better than S1.2O per bush
ell, and the prospects for very much
higher prices are in sight for this
year and next. Wheat sown in Ar
kansas this year can be harvested
and marketed next year before new
wheat is on the market in the other
states. And if the war does not end
we would not be surprised to see So
wheat next spring. Consequently.
the Arkansas farmer has the oppor-
tunity of taking advantage of ex-
tremely high prices next spring and
summer. Arkansas raised around
100000 bushels of wheat this year.
or more than 100 per zen more than
was raised before the war. And in
u opinion the best way to get the
farmers to diversity is to encourage
him to raise a crop he knows he can
get the money for. and with the same
expense, same trouble and same land
he would raise oats. barley or rye
and have no market, he could raise
a wheat crop that will ne from S12
to $50 per acre. 1t does not take
any more machinery to handle wheat
han it does to handle oats. And
certainly, with the incentive to raise
wheat that is today selling at from
to $3.50 per bushel. the far
ner would be justified in raising
wheat rather than rye or oats, when
ar eselling at from 37h to 40
'ents per bushel.
Please do not think that we are
'resumptuous, but please remember
hat while we have a personal inter-
st in wheat raising, at the same time
We bought less than Is per cent of
he wheat raised in Arkansas last
More than 1901 600 bushels of
his wheat moved into Memphis, and
n equal amount into St. Louis. The
'est mills in Missouri, Illinois, Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Indiana had
heir representatives in Arkansas
wheat-there is no question
ut what Arkansas wheat is far SUI
'Niipi W tid IdioSu Ill otltT SldleS,
md we know that southern soft
Wheat produces the best biscuit flour
N earth, and as evidence of this we
.nclose you herewith official analysis
made by the Henrichs Laboratory,
# st. Louis. who are official chemists
or grain men in St. Louis territory,
howing comparison of -four made
rom Arkansas wheat and flour
made from Southeast Missouri wheat.
iold Leaf flour is one of the finest
manufactured in the world and made
rom what is known as the finest
oft wheat in the world, raised in
'outheast Missouri. made by one of
he best mills in Missouri. Dolly
blue -four we made altogether ,
southern wheat, and the two
m p1nc yrat,n can't 30 AZ. 1la.