The Little River news., 1921-07-20
Trucking aad farming Farming in Rcd River Valley in Thls County


 of interest to people of this section of the county. The article is taken from the Agricultural and Industrial Bulletin, published by the Kansas City Southern Railroad Company. The article follows:
 MT. W. F. Gordon, a correspondent of the Arkansas Democrat, published at Little Rock, recently made an auto- mobile tour in the vicinity of Texar- kama and made some discoveries which rather surprised him, and which he describes in the Democrat The article is very interesting, but for lack of space we can give only the gist of the story.
 Motoring over the magnificent new Red River bridge and crossing into Little River county there comes in view a considerable acreage of yer dure in an :everchanging variety of shades. On land where once nothing but cotton was cultivated, strange crops are now growing. This plan tation is owned and operated by J. E. Wood and is located along the line of The Kansas City Southern Railway, probably a mile and quarter distant from Ogden, Ark. This plantation embraces total of more than 800 ac- res of as rich land as can be found anywhere. Commercial gardening on a scale heretofore unknown to Texar- kama people has been going on here for several seasons.
 The fertile productive farm, as a trucking proposition would probably have remained undiscovered for a long time had not B. V. Long, agent for the American Railway Express Company, noticed some 25 barrels of carrots, labeled from Ogden and bear ing J. E. Woods as the shippers name going through Texarkana enroute to Kansas City. Natural curiosity led to an investigation as to the source of supply and knowledge of one of the most valuable farms in the south.
 A visit to the plantation brought out the fact that quite variety of products were grown here and that the farm even manufactured its own containers, maintaining cooperage plant for the purpose. The farml has marketed radishes. English peas, spin ach beets, new Irish potatoes and car rots. Of beets and carrots there were shipped CTS barrels of sweet corn 100 barrels. AS quickly as these off there comes tomatoes, cantaloupes and beans. There are more than sixty acres devoted to these crops and there arc daily at work in these vegetables from 35 to 40 persons busy every min- ute in the day. They are the har- ya0ters, packers and shippers.
 To illustrate the thoroughness of the methods employed in the handling of these crops. carrots will serve. On removal from the fields the carrots go to the packing sheds which are of the most modern type, where men and women-all white-work together. The carrots are first washed. then gathered into punches of five, about half of the green tops are cut off They are tied and passed to the packers who place them carefully in the barrels pressed down. When the barrel is we'll filled, broken ice is placed over the top. sacking being used for a cover and hooped down. They are then hauled mile and a half to Ogden and expressed to Kansas City, St. Louis, Denver or elsewhere to relia- ble buyers who respond with sub stantial check by return post.
 On this plantation there were grow ing 15 acres of Red Globe onion and 10 acres of tomatoes, sown in March