The Pulaskian., 1917-06-01
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had an enjoyable trip over the
 mountains from Maumelle toward Wye. Wye is in Perry county. Across the road is Pulaski county. It is just half mile from the postofiiee to the
 railway station. There is jog Tn the county line here and Pulaski eoun. 4y runs. north two miles further here than il does west of this point. 1t is SDest of this county line that the post office is located Right in this cor ner Of Pulaski county is an acre and half set aside for school purposes, and on this ground is most flourish ing school. Five sections of Pulaski and eleven sections of Perry are Tn the school district.
 came up the mountain from Mau- melle and the first house l saw had a big sign on it. General Store-Moun- tain View. This is the farm of c. J. G. Nelson, a Swede He is one of the greatest boosters I ever met. went out where heE5s- at work to see him. He was narrowing his apple orchard. He has nice vineyard. When we went to the house he gave me drink of the juice of the grape. I enjoye1 it. He has a lot of the unfermented juice of the grape for sale.
 Here saw the first gooseberry bushes l have seen in Arkansas. He has sixteen varieties of apples, about as many of peaches, a strawberry patch and nearly every kind of farm and garden truck that grows in Ark ansas, peas, soy beans, etc. He has two incubators and is going into the chicken business extensively. He has a good wife and large family of chil- dren. He has a beautiful grown daughter and boys and girls from her size down. He is a jolly, hearty, hig-souled fellow himself. He is boosting this mountain top country and he has lot of helpers. So that you can understand fully what l am going to say, I want to tell you that 1 have just spent four years in Benton county and that the last census gave that county 1,500,000 more apple trees than any other county in America. He has the best, thriftiest and prettiest peach and apple trees I ever saw. He expects to raise 600 or 700 bushels of peaches this season.
 went from the Wye community to the Italian settlement. It also lies on top of the mountains and has a light colored sandy soil. The Italians are progressive Their neighbors call their settlement Little Italy The name is appropriate for this entire mountain settlement, because of the crops they grow and the mountains. One Italian makes hIs living raising horse radish and selling it in Little Rock, another gets SS a barrel for his pepper; all have grapes, cows, etc. They do not go in debt, but work in the mines at. Bauxite for money enough to pay as they go, and send their children to the Ledwidge public school
 W. c. Kryer has a large peach or chard and raised several hundred bushels last year. but made nothing off of them, because the express and commission charges ate up all the profits. I ate dinner with him. His wife had good dinner It was not cooked to show me, for it was after 12 when I arrived She had Irish DO, tatoes. I could not help but express my astonishment. He said, When you eat at Kryer's and don't get po- tatoes, it is not Kryer's for I won't go to the table without them" He can afford them, because he raises them himself. He plants the seed from his early crop for fall crop and he keeps plenty of the latter until his next spring crop is ready to eat. He has a canning outfit and cans the product of his orchard. He is very much dis couraged. He cannot sell his stuff under present conditions and make anything off of it. The railroad and commission men take it all to pay freight and charges.
 Mir. Nelson had only few peaches last year and got $225 bushel for them in Little Rock and ' could have got $3.50 for them in Chicago.
 MT. Westerfield has a much larger orchard, all Elbertas. He anticipates 1,500 or 1,600 bushels this year. There are numerous others and the Italians are setting out peach trees, too; they will put out thousands of them and everybody has vineyards. When they come in, and they organize a shipping association, and can ship in carload lots they will make money, but until then unless the county will build them road toward Little Rock they will have poor chance to dispose of their fruit. MT. Kryer has a small canning outfit and canned lots of his fruit He sold five cases to Little Rock mer- chant When he took them into the store the merchant cut open a can. Two lady customers were present and