The Pulaskian., 1919-07-25
ENCOURAGING CROP
 REPORT GIVEN 0UT
ARKANSAS COOPERATIVE CROP REPORTING SERVICE GIVES
 OUT LATEST ESTIMATES.
FRUITS ARE DOING WELL
Prices Are eood-Rice Is Nearly 100 Per Cent Full YieId--Foraae Yields Are Showing Up Ex-
 tra We'll.
tEy Arkansas Cooperative Crop Re
 porting Service.S

tBy Arkansas Cooperative Crop Re,
 porting Service.s
 Tn contrast to the depressing report of June 18th, which placed the con dition of Arkansas cotton crop at only 64 per cent of normal, the fig ures of the Arkansas Cooperative Crop Reporting Service. just issued, show the acreage and condition of all other crops in Arkansas on July ! are distinctly encouraging. Corn i5 almost the same as last ears acreage ln spite of the loss of much or m. May planting occasioned by the ex- treme wet weather. Sweet potatoes and peanuts show very substantial increase. Apples and peaches promise bountiful crops. with the prices the best in years. Rice whiie suffering a loss of per cent of last years acre age. is constantly improving and now has a condition figure which promises e7 per cent of a full crop. Hay, clov- CT. alfalfa and timothy are giving full yields per acre. Blackberries have the largest production in years. and sorghum cane for syruu has increased over last vear's planting.
 Corn Reports from all counties in the state indicate that. had weather permitted. there would have been a very substantial increase in corn ac- reage this ear. There was an in- crease in the number of acres plant ed. but wet weather. as with cot- fon has caused abandonment, espe- cially in low grounds. Corn is still being planted, and it is possible that the revised figures to be issued later in the year, will show an actual in crease over last year At it Is in- creases have been made in Mississip- nj, St. Francis, Phillips, Chicot, Crit tenden and Lee counties. and also in the southwestern counties of the state. Slight increases have been made in the central and central western counties, and moderate in- ereases in the central-southern and southern counties. The northwestern and northeastern counties, with the exception of Mississippi county. snow marked reductions, partly on account nf ths large areas seeded to wheat and oats in those districts. The cen tral-eastern counties show recuc- ton, mainly because of the impossl- bility of working the ground.
 ondition-Condition is very spoy- ted, some fields in many counties in the uplands being unusually fine, while in the lowlands the growth of the crop was greatly checked. Culti- vafion was insufficient and the conse- quent yield of these poorly cultivated lands will be small, Those in the southwestern part of the state have the best prospect. Production is es- timated at 55,040,000 bushels. which indicates an excess of 100000 bushels over last years short crop,
 Irish Potatoes-Potato acreage is much reduced. except in White, Union. Ouachita and adjoining coun ties. Many counties, which last year had commercial crop will have no surplus this year, but will be forced to buy. Growing conditions have been unusually fine, however, and the yield is estimated to equal S3 bushess per acre.
 Sweet otatoes-Contrastin with the reduced planting of Irish potatoes is the substantial increase in sweet potatoes, and the story is not yet full Iy told, as several thousand acres will probably be added after July 1st. The most marked increases are in Wash ington county, in Pope and Yell and other counties bordering the Arkansas river and in all the counties in the southern third of the state, especial ly those in the southwestern corner where the character of the soil Is par ticularly suited to this crop and where the natural tendency is toward truck ing. The condition figure of 90 indi- cates . yield of 10s bushels per acre.
 Rice Enumeration of the rice areas at the time this report was .>~~-->->---~4~---~>-
 At meeting of the property own CTS from the eastern part of Jeffer- son county at Pine Bluff, it was de cided to extend the fence erected by Ny. rs~<roo rN;ef,;o4 Mo Of Jefferson