The log cabin Democrat., 1921-10-01
MARKETS OFFERED
 FOR ALL PRODUCE FROM FAULKNER FARMS
Cash Market Prices Now Available to Farmers for Potatoes, Grain
 and Other Products.

The principal handicap to diversi- fled farming in Faulkner county has always been the absence of a cash market for all products of the farm. It is usually not difficult for a farm CT to find cash buyers at fair market prices for cotton, poultry and eggs, cattle and hogs, but when he brings load of potatoes to town he has gen. orally had to peddle them about and often waste as much time selling then as the load was worth. When he has had a surplus of hay or corn, peas or peanuts, on his farm, it has been up to the farmer to hunt about and find some one that needed these commod- ities before he could dispose of them.
 Gradually broadening their lines for the past several months, the Jones Milling Company of this city is now in position to announce to the farmers that it will purchase any non-perish able product of the farm and pay in cash it's fair market value. In all advertisement published in the Log Cabin Democrat today this company announces it's desire to purchase sov- eral thousand bushels of sweet and Irish potatoes.
 We are trying to build up mar keting place for surplus farm pro- ducts where any farmer may come at any time and receive in cash what his product is worth on the markets of the world, without having to ped de them about said J. Frank Jones manager of the Jones Milling Com pany, today. "We are in the market for sweet and Irish potatoes, peas, peanuts, hay, corn, and in fact any similar farm products
 Today's price for sweet potatoes, of which the county will produce T fairly large yield, is 50 to 60 cents per bushel for green, freshly du9 potatoes, Mir. Jones said. This, te stated, is equal to 75 cents a bushel for cured potatoes, as sweet potatoes lose nearly one-third in weight after they dry out. Almost any land that will produce a half-bale of cotton t0 the acre will yield 300 bushels of sweet potatoes, and the cost of plant ing, cultivating and harvesting them l is said to be no more than for the same area in cotton. At 50 cents per bushel, and 300 bushels to- the acre 1 this means $150 per acre. A halt bale of cotton to the acre, including seed, at present prices would net the grower less than S70.
 There will be a big demand for Irish potatoes at high prices, MT. Jones said. and a number of farmers who have planted late crops will have sur plus to sell the latter part of this month. His company has been an- able to buy all the alfalfa hay it need ed, he said. Many farmers will have a surplus of corn this year, and this together with peas, peanuts, etc., may now be sold here at cash prices in any quantities.
 The Conway Commercial Club i> devoting most of it's energies at pres ent to developing markets for product; and Pres. P. F. Cleaver is much gratified at the success already at tained, On his own part, he is lre- pairing to develop better market for corn by preparing at the plant of the Conway Cotton Oil X Gin Company facilities for grinding it along w'itn cottonseed meal and making a very desirable and economical balanced I'd. tion.
 Next spring it is believed, if auf- ficient interest is manifested among the farmers, and carload shipments can be produced, there will be an active cash market at Conway for strawberries, cantaloupes and similar perishahle products
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