The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-17

the world markets always pay a sub
stantial premium.
Alluviai soil easily produces one-half
to one bale Of cotton per acre, with
LOCO pounds OF ~cottonseed per oVV-
pound bale. Planters who cultivate
their land properly count upon a bale
per acre, and In favorable years cotton
grown upon alluvial soil frequently pro-
duces two bales per acre.
Northern farmers who come to the
| alluvial empire generally do not attempt
1 to raise cotton, because delta soil pro-
and grasses which they understand.
With ordinary field treatment, allu-
vial soil will yield rs bushels OF corn
per acre. More intensive farmers har-
vest 100 or more bushels per acre. In
a few instances the yield has run as
high as 200 bushels per acre, BIT such
yields, Of course, are cited merely as
extraordinary examples.
There are numerous records OF new
land in the alluvial empire yielding rs
to 100 bushels of corn per acre. On
one Of Gov. Lowden's properties in
Eastern Arkansas the initial yield OF
corn was 9315 bushels per acre.
Wheat is grown with success In the
alluvial empire by farmers who under
stand this crop, The yield OF wheat
ranges from Is to 40 bushels per acre.
r. r. Lee Wilson, of Wilson, Ark, one
OF the Southern pioneers in wheat, has
averaged IS bushels per acre on a 1000
acre field.
Aluvial soil responds splendidly to
the cultivation of oats. Southern far
mers making their initial effort with
oats frequently harvest 80 bushels per
acre. At the Delta Branch Experiment
station, at StoneVille, Miss, where ex-
| perts were in charge of the operation,
a carefully measured field produced 1876
bushels Of oats per acre. The oats
stood to the shoulders of we'll developed
men, and the heads measured IS inches.
Double Crop Appeals.
, The double-crop feature Of the allu-
vial empire appeals especially to grain
farmers. Throughout the alluvial m
pire, wheat or oats may be sown in
the autumn, pastured through the win
ter. and yield a heavy crop in early
June. Then the same field may be
plowed, planted to corn, and yield a
good crop in the early fall.
Nowhere under the shining sun will
alfalfa grow more ~abundantly than in
the Alluvial Empire. This crop is win
ming new friends every year, and many
farmers already have found that alfalfa
is as good a money crop as cotton.
Sown either in the fall or spring, al
falfa will produce easily three cuttings
the first season. Each succeeding year
IL Cdl DG CUT lOuT 10 blA lIHleS, ylSlu-
ing a ton per acre per cutting. In sew
eral instances In Arkansas and Louisi-
ana, alfalfa is cut seven times in a
single season. .r
Alfalfa is grown most successfully in
units of 200 acres, because this acre
age will keep a full crew of men busy
all season, the cutting, curing and
ballng following each other continu-
ously.
There is a considerable area of allu-
vial land in Arkansas and Louisiana
particularly well adapted to rice. Ar
kansas rice growers last year sold their
crop at prices paying them 500 to 5000
per acre.
Sandy loan soils in the Alluvial Empire
produce astonishing crops of Irish and
sweet potatoes. Two crops of Irish po-
tatoes are raised during the season. The
first crop is marketed before Northern
potatoes are mature enough to ship.
In July the same land Is planted a
second time and produces another crop