The Carlisle independent., 1919-10-16
CROPS ARE
 SHOWING FINE YIELD

l w nlle october crop reports DS the Arkansas cooperative crop reporting service show slight decrease in the condition of some crops as compared with Septem- Der. Arkansas yields of all kinds will be up to a ten year average and in some crops beyond that average. The acreage in farm products is greatly beyond that of former years, the report indicates and the farm year, all in all, will be one to provide much prosperity i'll Arkansas.
 Fruits and pastures are unusu- ally good this year. The apple crop now being harvested is a wonderful one, with condition figure of 91 per cent. which IS nearly double the ten year aver age of 50 per cent. The forecast is 3.000,000 bushel yield. Many orchards in the state are bringing
 enough money to pay for the land on which the orchard grows.
 In the delta counties of the east portion of the state pastures are reported to be fine. Field beans for forage show 75 per cent con- dition, compared with 65 per cent average for the whole United l States. In this same region, the sorghum cane crop will produce a yield of 76 gallons per acre aver age,which is more than twice the average for the United States, giv .en by the government as 36 gal Ions.
 Irish potatoes are in good con- dition and will yield around 80 bushels an acre, or seven bushels more than the average for Arkan- sas. Sweet potatoes will yield two or three bushels better than the ten year average, yielding around 9S bushels an acre. According to the survey, the acreage this year is far greater than ever before and the crop will be the biggest in the history of the state. Ef- forts have been directed recently to the organization of communi- ties to save this crop so that 1t will not be dumped on the market at one time, and there will be a rich harvest from the one farm pro- duct
 Corn and oats are in good con- dition and the state yield will run 47.000.000 bushels of corn and l0- 100000 bushels of wheat.
 Tomatoes are ten per cent bet ter ill condition than the average for the United States. Onions, cabbage and other such truck . have had a good year.
 Unless too much unfavorable weather interferes with the har- vesting or the rice crop, now III progress it is declared that the yield this year will be,a splendid one. At the lowest the average : will be 46 bushels an acre, but the officials of the crop survey say that numerous fields will produce far more. Compared with last month s condition, rice is consid- erably improved.
 The progress Arkansas is mak- ing in agricultural ways is attract ing wide attention. particularly that part in the delta and rice growing regions. It's development has been so good that the state is getting fine publicity, recent arti- cles having appeared in the Coun- try Gentleman and other maga- zines. According to the Southern Alluvial Land Association here, many northern and middle west ern farmers are turning to Arkan- sas Mississippi and Louisiana for rich but low priced mdeveloped farms. They are investing money derived from sales of high priced corn belt land, finding the mild winters, long growing seasons and the rich undeyeloped soil more to their liking than that of the west and northwest. It is believed that the Lower Mississippi Valley will attract as many settlers this win ter and next Wear as will go to the 4 Canadian northwest, where 1000 settlers have gone in the first six months of 1919.
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