The Little River news., 1921-09-14
STATES BIG FEED
 BILL TO BE SLICED
Record Corn Crop Will Cut $2O,OOO, 900 Total in Half, Commissioner
 Ferguson Says.

Little Rock, Sept. 12.-With corn
 crop of 66,OOO,OO0 bushels, the largest 1 in the history of the state, Arkansas will have little need to ship ill feed from other states this winter, The result will be a cut of approximately $IO ,OOO, 900 in her commercial feed bill
 for next year, according to statistics prepared by the Bureau of Crop Esti-
 mates.
 l Arkansas annual purchase of com
 mercial feeds from sources outside
 the state has been around $2O,OOO,-
 GOO, and Arkansas has suffered on
 more than one occasion from the one
 crop cotton system, according to
 Commissioner Jim G. Ferguson. By raising enough feed to supply
 all farmers within the state Arkan-
 sas has saved not only the cost of the lfeed but the handling charges which
 under present freight rates, are all
 mcst equal to the cost of the grain. l 2,7OO,OOO Acres.
 | C. s. BOuton, statistian for the
 United States Bureau of Crop Esti-
 mates, reports total corn acreage of more than 2,700,000 acres with the prospect of an average yield Of "A bushels an acre as against an acre.
 age of 2,36O,0OO with an average yield of 23.4 bushels for 1920. A full crop l is estimated at 27 bushels to the acre.
 The next largest corn crop ever pro- duced in Arkansas was that of 1917,
 which was something over 64,- OOO,OOO bushels At that time
 there was comparatively small crop 1 in the United States in general, with the result that Arkansas crop was shipped out of the state at remuner-
 ativd prices. This year the yield Of
 corn in all parts of the country has
 been unusually large so that there
 will be little demand for Arkansas
 corn in other states. The surplus and agriculturists are divided as to whether or not there will be a sur
 plus, will in all probability be used
 ito fatten hogs and other live stock for
 the market, which can be done at a
 fair profit now that cattle are selling
 cheap, according to agriculturallsts, Horticultural experts are urging that
 farmers fatten hogs for their own use rather than ship.
 l Objective Obtained. 1 The large corn crop together with Hooked upon as one of the most prom
 ising signs for the future prosperity of Arkansas. It is a condition which
 agriculturalists have been trying for wears to bring about. They say that Arkansas farmers have for years | been shipping ill corn at high prices to feed work stock, which they are using in making a cotton crop. Usually they lost money on the cotton or if not that they spent what money they made in buying more feed the next yea, with the result that they were never able to accumulate a cash surplus in the bank.
 With the high price which it IS thought that cotton will bring this year, the farmers of the state should be able to meet their obligations, and
 even get some cash on hand, since they will not have to expend anything for feed, agriculturists say
 There is some danger next year, MT. Bouton said, that in districts especial ly adapted to cotton growing. there
 will be- over-cottonization, by reason
 of the high price which a short cot ton crop this year will cause. and by the fact that the farmers will in all probability have feed on hand from this years crop of corn.