Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-09-20
MORE GRAIN FOR 4ARhANsAs.
Farmers Urged to Plant More Wheat
 and Use Fertilizer.

J. C. Pridmore, asroLO.iist, Of At lanta, Ga. in circuls,r issued for the press, makes the folloWing statement regarding the food problem and tho new Arkansas slogan:
 "Let Arkansas Feed Herself" is the slogan adopted in that state by the Arkansas Profitable Farming bureau. The movement on the, palt of these business interests Of the state, is tino- ly and in accord with what is being done in the other Southern states to- wards increasing grain production to the point where the demands for home consumption may be supplied. To feed herself, however, Arkansas must materially increase the prot.uc- ton of the small grain crops.
 "The government is urging that the wheat acreage alone this year be in creased so that not less than 30S,000 acres be planted this fail. Should the average yield of the past ten years be made, only two bushels per caDi- ta will be the result. The average consumption of the country is nearly five and onehalf bushels per capita. Arkansas, then, to feed herself, must not only increase her wheat acreage. but considerable attention must be given to rye, oats, ard at the same time not interfere With the corn acre age that must be planted next spTinS. Wheat prices, which will not be less than s2.00 per bushel and the need for this and other small grain crops. warrant the farmers of Arkansas in making every possible effort to pro- l duce as large a crc'} as can De made.
 'It may be that only a small per cent of farmers will aroW wheat on | an extensive commercial fcale, put certainly. for the vast majollty or farmers, it will be more profitable to 1 grow enough wheat for home neoaS than depend upon buying flour when wheat sells for S2.00 bushel.
 "\ot only must the acreage be in creased, but tho crop should be seed ed under the most favorable cohd'- tions so that maximum yields per acre may be made. To get the largest possible acre yields, the "nd shoulo he thoroughly prepared oy breaking and narrowing as we'll. as possible
 usine varieties that are adarted to lo- cal conditions, and ty paving more attention to properly fertilizing the crc.3 than has heretofore been gwen in this state. The same may well DC said of oats and rye, for these crops are too often seeded in a haphaza.a "a
 manner under most adverse conut r tions. and only low and unprof'tanle yields can be expected. '.
 "Chemical analysis and many 1leio fertilizer tests show conclu5'Vely that small grain crops can be grown nlos'
 profitably only when they are wei
 supplied with the necessary. piaht
 food elements. and that nitrogen } phosphoric acid, and potash are usuai ly deficient. oo For best returns. it is safe to rec
 ommend under these conditions a
 liberal use of fertilizer carrylns
 a high per cent nitrogen, phosphor''
 acid, and a comparatively small pel . cent of potash. A fertilizer anaiyA ing two or three per. cent nitrogen | eight orr 10 per cent phosphoric acld } and under present conditions, one t9 l two per cent potash will give mos
 profitable yields. Potash IS scarce
 and high in price, and and more thal 5 this amount is not likely to be use' r at the present time, but if such fef
 tilizer is applied atstae rate of leo U