The log cabin Democrat., 1920-12-28
ONE CROP SYSTEM l. LOSER FOR COUNTY
WILLIAMS HAS FIGURES
Income From All Sources Contyastcd With OGtgo and Annual
 Deficit Computed.

cents per pound the cotton crop ot lint will bring into the county $1,00O,- 000
 The see dat SIS per ton, if all were sold would add $180,000 and the value of all live stock and hides shipped from the county will not exceed $25,- 0o0 while poultry and eggs may eX- eeed $125,0O0 according to local buy CTS.
 We sell some barrel slaves, few logs are shipped, d very little amount of milk, sweet potatoes, irish potatoes, and all the fruit will not net more than $70000, making a total for cot ton and other items as listed $1,400,- 000 Add to this an incidental sum of $100,000 which may accrue from sources not mentioned, gives a grand total of $1,500,000 as a gross income for a population of 27,681 as reported by the last census for Faulkner coun- ty. Dividing the gross income by the number of people gives $51.18 for each man, woman and child in the county, or $27090 to each family of five to spend.
 That there are a few things which 1t is necessary for us to buy and spend this amount is very evident by the following figures:
 The county will need about $780, 600 for taxes, exclusive Of new road districts. We get sick so much, pay he doctors and druggist at least S5 per person, Statistics given by Prof. HcClull5iD of HendDiE College1, which makes sl58, 405.
 i. (. Clark reported to the teachers at q recent meeting that there are some 10000 school children in the aounty and that 1t would take $52,- goo with which to buy books and a few papers and magazines.
 So that we may associate with oth CTS in public places we must pay s553, ,620, or S20 per person for cloth ing which you will agree is low.
 The penalty for being careless with fire and the lack of paint will as sess a fine of $100000 for lumber, an estimate which lumber men tell me is very conservative.
 Local merchants sell approximately 5000 900 worth of wagons, harness and farm tools of various kinds.
 Then, too, the boll weevil is to fight and an early frost might come so we have spent annually in the past over $100,000 for commercial fer tilizer.
 Taking the tax report as given in the Log Cabin Democrat some few | days ago, we have 10,157 mules and horses in the county. According to the law of averages, some 1000 head of this number will die if the com bined average life of the mule and horse is ten years, which is too high, and there will be about 400 mules and horses e replace provided we raise the other eco from native mares, which I doubt, calling for an eXpendi- ture of $38, 400, as figures from the average value as given in the tax re- port.
 In order that this 10,157 mules and ] horses may eat, we must send to other states a sum of $235,000 for corn, cats, bran, shorts and hay to feed them so that t.ag may be strong enough to help raise more cotton with which to buy more corn, oats, brand, shorts and hay ana too, that we may <. he sufficiently strong in order to di- rect the onerF- of this live stock we need s3040 worth of flour, provided that We use ig-- one and oae-half barrels Der family cf five valued at 5,..-, F.s,.t4..f sI,
 To further aid ambition and .'a..l1-te-i.fness' in raising this cot taa with which to buy a'l tho naces- ss of life which consist of, meat, ala beans p coffee, suear, etc.,
 s lr additional expenditure of
 HH.s sum # zou Nill take eaa tlaa to divide ay 2l,G@l, the mum lea of people iG the county you will 1n1 that vau have lees than %20 to EoW par. for l4 year.
 Ia a5 aa l9 these fieus. "koep- ing the H-a c1n.as5e' aal taAkinq, ' as one tobacco ad.c .=en5nt has it, Wa must set a-ile c5"H9} for chewing and m u4 toha.o7
 Not 70 make budget for the inci- dental expenses of gum, candy, jewell ny. tickets to the show and a railroad ticEe. to Oklahoma or England looking for place in which to do it all o.-r again and move back the fol- lowing year to Faulkner, gives a grand total of $2.2Sl,0G5 Suhracting from this the a1,5)0,000 mentioned in the beginning, gives a difference of $784,- 065 as a deficit.
 Will we repeat this in 1921?
 T. M Williams, County Agent.
 Conway, December 28.
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