The Pulaskian., 1921-03-31
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udu tO tuIu III diiO tt1Ce ny Ofc0dfd and garden before l could finish set ting out the trees. 1 made tenn porary brush fence and when they saw what l was doing they stayed away.
 got some fifty trees and vines set out and I consider that each one that lives is worth five dollars now and will be worth twenty dollars when it comes into bearing. It Is hard to place high enough value on good fruit trees. One nursery cata- logue l received this year published testimonials from orchard men as to the value-of the fruit they had mar keted Several had sold from Sl, ,000 to Sl,500 worth of apples from an acre. One man sold more than that on an average from his seven-acre orchard and Arkansas heads the list in the value and quality of her fruit. At the present time there is only one little spot in the United States which has not felt the stringency of the epresent hard times, and that is Ben ton and Washington counties, Arkan- sas, where the apple is their main crop. More apples are raised there than in any other two counties in the United States. Having lived there four years l know that Pulaski is just as good county for apples as they and l think l have some of just as fine fruit land as any up there and much better than theirs for peaches. Nelson sold over thirty dollars worth of peaches to the tree off three of his trees. He has over 100 trees to the acre, so that would be over $3,000 to the acre.
 When l got my trees out I decided that my Irish potatoes I had left over from my last years crop would spoil if did not plant them at once, so 1 turned in on them. 1 did not think there were many of them and that 1 could with only a pick and hoe plant them in an hour or two, but there turned out to be enough to make about five rows each 100 feet long, and 1 also had some roasting ears and other things l wanted to plant.
 Speaking of roasting ears reminds me that the dogwoods are in bloom and that now is the time to plant corn and the corn will be as good as the blooms which are not very good at present. Last year they were fine and so was the corn crop. The year before they were very small and the corn crop was too. 1 have blow in the depot at Roland, but the road is so bad that l could not get it out and that's why 1 am farming in such a crude way. The reason the road is so bad is because a lumber com pany has put on a lot of big eight wheel wagons to haul logs to the de pot and have ruined the road. A man told me he has seen as many as, sixteen big mules fail to pull one of those wagons out of mud hole I think that one company should not be allowed to ruin a road built by the taxes of a community and de priye the community of the benefits of road which they themselves have made.
 The moral to this tale of my home stead is that a man may lay his plans most carefully, but things will come up which will prevent his farming according 10 his plans. We'll, l may succeed with my fruit trees, but l am taking big chances on them in plant ing as l have. l am writing of my homestead as fully as I am just to let the people see the drawbacks to farming, and the success, which is most doubtful if it comes, will be a surprise to me.
 While Maumelle Is my posloffice, 1t Is across the river from me and the river has been up all the time since I have been over here, so have not been for my mail in nearly a month. It may be that 1 will have n