The Little River news., 1920-05-15
ARKhNShMS AMAZED BY
 THE IOWA. FARMERS
Tourists Find NOrtherners Enjoying Undreamed of Prosperity. Has
 Great Wealth.

Davenport, Iowa, May ll.-A 6o- mile automobile trip through Scott county today left the members of the Arkansas Profitable Farming Bureau party stunned ana amazed. Most of the members of the party are farmers and all of them have some farming in terests. All of them thought that they knew considerable about farm ing. Tonight they admitted that they knew nothing about farming as it is practiced here.
 They went through a region of small farms. There are few large land own CTS and practically no breeders of pure bred stock, The men whom the Ark ansans visited today are just plain ordinary farmers who raise hogs and cattle and sell them on the market. Their receipts from their livestock their dairy cattle and their chickens form the principal parts of their in come They are paying what seems like fabulous wages to their farm la borers and yet these farmers ar mak- ing big profits, profits which made the Arkansas cotton growers eeem small by comparison.
 The secret as the Arkansans dis covered, is that these Iowa farmers are overlooking no bets. They miss no chance to make an honest penny. They pay big wages to their farm laborers, but they insist on getting full day s work for their money They use big implements by which one man is enab- led to do prodigious amount of work in day. Throughout the day the Ark ansans did not see an idle man. Every one was putting in his hardest licks. The party visited 12 farms today They saw a Holstein COW that gave five tons of milk in a year when she was years old: They visited herds of Guernseys that had produced an aver age of $40 worth a butter in a year.
 Bankers Are AstOunded.
 The bankers in the party we're sim ply astounde:; when they visited the banks of Eldridge, town of 232 in habitants. The two banks have total deposits of $1,300,000, all of which be- l long to farmers, From this town arc shipped 400 dozen of eggs every week
 Farm hands in this country are re- ceiving $90 a month in addition to their board and room and laundry work and their employers also board a horse for them, for practically every farm hand has a horse and buggy But to offset this the farmers use the largest kind of implement which re- quire four to five horses to pull them Today the Arkansas party saw five horses pulling a gang blow. Hitched behind the blow were two more horses pulling harrow. All the outfit was driven by one man. The farmers of this section figure on cultivating 100 acres for every farm hand that they employ.
 On these farms, the owners have adopted labor saving devices in their barns, piggeries, henhouse and sheds. Most of the homes have electric lights, hot and cold running water and an electrically operated laundry in the cellar. Some of them have freezing machines,
 The trip was a revelation to every member of the party and what they saw today is going to send them back home thinking hard.
 The tourists were the guests of the Davenport Chamber of Commerce at banquet here tonight. Governor Brough was the principal speaker and he had his hearers cheering themselves hoarse, as he usually does. The gov ernor made a speech at the luncheon at Eldridge this afternoon that took his hearers clear off their feet They were still talking about that speech when the Arkansas party motored out of town.