The Pulaskian., 1921-04-28

average of about once every seven years
 NhY Th0 E Beagr Land TbaH That
 Be}ow LatIe Rock
 This land would stand an overflow every five years and make on an av- craze better yields than fhe lands be- low Litlle Rock, even if nothing was made on the years Of the overflow. The reason of 1f of course is because of the sediment deposited, which keeps the land Up to ifs original 4ir- gin fertility Ne only went to tae old river bank. because fl1e bayou there had such a deposit of muck h t 8n top of the dirt bridges fhas sse did not care to cross it af8ot and tHe car could not cross- From this old river to the town of Roland are ridges of land which can De cultivated earlier than the alternating IeW strips Beyond the old river IS more land and better than there is on the Roland side of it. yet Mr. Clay has seen boafs Land all along Its banks. and there were formerly warehouses on t in which were stored all tIle cot ion produced in this section. where 1t was held awaiting the arrival of the old time sfeaTnboats, which transport cd 1t to the great market eenters Of the south.
 The land across the river s called the bar and practically all the corn is grown on 1t. T. was said that t would not make cotton. This land has already had one overflow this year which deposited one and half inches of sediment To lest I9 out a man was given lease on Zen acres for two wears. The land was meas ured and three acres of t last year made four bales of cotton and the remaining seven acres made over six hundred bushels Of corn. He sold some of the corn for sI.50 a basEel, bat if only averaged him one dollar a buaheI He made the corn with only one rather indifferent blowing. h addition to only twenty days work himself, t only cost him Sa5 f0 get the ten acres cleared. He was a machinist and a town man. and having SO much money on hand, he could not stand the country longer, SO sold his lease back to Mr. Clay for sl25. I think he IS the man who had the following experience, as re- lated to me by Mr Clay. I had heard of the same kind of happen ing in Texas on inc Brazos river, which I related and caused Afr. Clay to tell of the same thing here The man had gotten his land cleared when there came an overflow which left such 9 big deposit of sediment that when pIo7ved not a stump was touched by the blow, all being COW cred 90 deep with the sediment that the land plowed like old stump free land.
 This land is very easy to cultivate even when new, for the numerous overfIows have left SO much sediment that 1t can be pIowed right up 10 the stumps the same as if they were posts, the roots all being so deep in the soil that they are out of reach Of the plow. I am now speaking Of the bar land across the old river. and not Of ihe original bottom land. This hsr !*ed $ the rics ases best corn land in sac state aal he main re- son for jts icing 'hC best is thal the water dees 3ot run. TFer it. bat grafln. ally backs up or t fl. m Natural Steps. The Moss moans1in abovs t keeping the river from running across 1t. There is now t25 ceres of this land in saitivation, vi eh was in timber cn'y a little oser a year 70. Only one 1rop has been made On II. Besides lhis 30 acre. AIr Clay own. two other tracts of nea1lv bot IT land. one of eighty and the other of 100 acres, all in cultivation. Out of ! $50 acres he has $50 acres in culti- vation. Dr. Brooks has about 250 accres in cultivation. and Dr. Nowlin has about 600 acres of his | 900 acres in cultivation. Dr. MoreIand of Nat ural Steps. whose 1,500 acres ad- joins this has about 1000 acres in eultiytion. These four men own about four miles of Arkansas river frontage.
 ] Every tenant is given free l4nd enough for a large garden and truck patch. Nearly all raise sorghum. potatoes, yans, etc. The bulk of them own their own homes at Ro-
 land. They are treated 90 well by the land owners that they conten- | f.f L.