Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-05-24
START CAMPAIGN
FOR INCREASE Of
PEANUT ACREAGE
Local Men Interested in Tn.
dustry Buy Car of Seeds
for Farmers.

! At conference of business men.
! bankers and farmers held here YES
| terday it was decided TO make Pine
| Bluff a distributing center for peanuts
and peanut products and every effort
j will be made to encourage the farm
ers of this county and adjacent coun-
ties to increase their acreage of pea
nuts.
The meeting yesterday was attended
by local bankers including S. c. Alex
ander, J. E. Boyce and J. B. Spears,
G.. w. Watson, assistant director of
extension work, department of agri-
culture, University of Arkansas; Sam
Williams, Lincoln county agricultural
agent; Joel Lambers, agricultural
agent for Jefferson county; County
Agricultural Agent Russell, of Risen,
and number of prominent business
men of this city and twenty-five To-
cal planters.
T. Fl. Or cory of the Planters Oil
company, expressed willingness to
order car of peanuts and the order
was sent in yesterday. These pea
nuts will be sold to the farmers at
$3.50 per 100 pounds, which is under
the present market quotation, as an
inducement Local banks agreed to
|underwrite the car and it is believed
that more than one car will be neces-
sary to supply the local demand.
Other cars will be ordered when
necessary.
Part Of State Work.
The local work is part of the
state campaign to induce farmers to
plant more peanuts. Men interested
in agriculture all over the state are
urging the farmers to follow wheat
and oat crops with peanuts, plant
them between the corn rows, and on
cotton land that is unproductive. Lo-
cal Oil mills will furnish market
for all peanuts grown in this Sec
ton.
A campaign will be started next
week to interest the farmers of JEFF
ferson, Lincoln, Cleveland and Grant
counties. Local agents will be aided
in the work by experts from the state
department of agriculture. The state
campaign has been endorsed by the
Arkansas Bankers association, state
commissioner of agriculture, agricul-
tural extension department and the
profitable farming bureau. Twenty
cars of peanuts have been placed in|
the state to date. The local car or
dered yesterday is expected to be here
by Saturday of next week. Farmers
desiring seed peanuts are requested
to notify Joel Lambert or c. H. Thorn
as, local agricultural agents.
The following letter has been is
sued by Commissioner Jim Ferguson
and contains good idea of the adj
vantages of raising peanuts:
Is Valuable Crop.
TO the Farmers of Arkansas:
Friends, do you realize that the pea
nut is a valuable money crop? Ar
kansas farmers in 1917 and 1918 real
lied on an average $3.50 per bushel
for peanuts and the average produce
ton per acre was 80 1-2 bushels The
average value per acre in dollars of
corn for 1917 and 1918 was $3.50;
for wheat s2S.44; for cotton $273333;
for peanuts $55.N The peanut crop
is productive from every standpoint
of the farmer. 1t can be profitably
produced on a large acreage of Ar
kansas soils. A ton of peanut hay is
almost equal in feeding value to a
ton of clover hay. Peanut meal which
is the nut and hay all ground or
Chopped together, forms an almost
balanced ration for dairy COW
The peanut is good for human con-
sumption, it ranks high as a feed for
farm animals, it is an important nj
trogenous fertilizer, it is a source of
an oil that is superior to cotton seed
oil. The lack Of freezing tempera-
ture the past winter would indicate
a visit from the boil weevil. Then,
take warning. and don't put all the
eggs in one basket" this season
You may want to know the variety
of peanuts to plant, the time Of plant
ing, the place to secure the seeds,
etc. You are advised to plant only
the white Spanish peanuts at the rate
of 100 pounds for every two acres.
They may be planted as late as June
Is. They are put up in 100 pound
sacks and will be sold at cost for cash
at $3.50 per 100 pounds. Your county
agent can tell you where to secure
the seed or make application to ]. H.
Tull. 318 Southern Trust Bldg, Lit
tie Rock, Arkansas. On account of
the scarcity of cowpeas the peanut
may be substituted. The peanut may
be fed to all the farm livestock except
fattening hogs. with the peanut as
a valuable food, feed, fertilizer and
oil cropA and with home markets and
home manufactures to take care of the
crop, there is every reason why Ar
kansas farmers should turn their at
tention to the production of this, inn
pOrtant crop.
Very truly yours,
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