The spectator., 1922-03-31
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was an increase of 100 per cent over the prvious decade. The average in 1921 was $35 per acre.
 Arkansas is located in the center of the United States. It is home to people from all sections, with the cotton, cane and sweet potatoes for the Southerner; wheat blue grass, timothy and clover for the Northern CT; alfalfa and kaffir for the Westen- CT, and apples and tobacco for the Fastener
 Arkansas is traversed by the trunk lines of five great railroads.
 Arkansas is drawing immigration as much from the west as from other sections. demonstrating that persons who have been looking the United States over for an ideal location have turned back to Arkansas for it.
 Arkansas offers wild land today at prices less per acre than the same character of land. though improved, rents for per annum.
 Marble outcroppings, without sin gle quarry, are to be seen for over 100 miles on White river
 Arkansas has Mexican onyx in great quantities.
 Arkansas took first prize in a beauty contest in which 10000 young women from all parts of the United States participated Arkansas also captured third prize.
 Arkansas shows a better average yield in sweet potatoes, sorghum cane, tobacco. cotton. and carrying capacity of pasturage land. than any south western state. It also shows a higher per cent in the improvement of farm lands. No state exeels in fertility of soil.
 Arkansas had in 1919 cut-over land. from which the merchantable timber had been removed. 13,S93, ,000 acres. These lands have been known to pro duce s200 per acre the first year in cultivation. ana with many deadened trees still standing in the field
 Half the cotton land of Arkansas will produce long staple cotton. New varieties of long staple cotton which will yield good crops i'll the uplands are being introduced
 Arkansas has 175.000 acres in rice. Rice produces q greater net income per acre than the gross return from other grains. Arkansas produces an average of ten bushels more per acre of rice than any other state.
 Only about five percent of the prai- rie lands in the rice district is devo.- ed to this grain, showing the possi- bilities of the industry Arkansas has . probably 5,000,000 acres of land adapt ed to rice culture.
 Rice growing requires the smallest amount of human labor per acre of any grain crop.
 Power pumps, many electrically operated. throw an average of 2,000 gallons of water a minute on the rice fields. There is an unlimited quan- tity of water within few feet of the surface to supply the necessary 20 inches of water in addition to the rainfall.
 Two crops of oats can be raised In one year on the same ground in Arkansas.
 Arkansas offers ideal conditions for the raising of sheep and goats. It ranks second in the production of goats in the United States. They are great land elearers.
 Arkansas has over 100000 acres in peanuts, most of the crop being used as stock feed.
 Arkansas grew the largest Elberta peaches on record. A number aver. aging % ounces each were exhibited in Washington county in 1913. Four of these peaches filled basket of a six-basket crate.
 The Independent Order of the B'nai B'rith maintains a large hospi. tal in Hot Springs.
 Arkansas averages over 150 bushels per acre in sweet potatoes, but yields of 300 bushels are common. and there are authentic records of 600 bushels being produced on measured acre.
 Arkansas farmers find sweet pota- toes valuable hog fattener. Three bushels of potatoes equal one of corn and land which will produce 20 bush els of corn per acre will yield 200 bush els or sweet potatoes,
 Arkansas cattle and hogs hold top records at St. Louis stock yards.
 Arkansas brood sows have in many instances earned from S1.000 to S2.. GOO per annum for their owners. Two filters year is customary.
 Arkansas has counties which ship an average of five cars of eggs each week These are also counties which ship from three to five cars of poul- try every week. Arkansas is a grea: winter egg producing state.
 over half the counties of Arkansas are adopted to commercial peach grow ing and only about one-twentieth of the available land is now being util. ized for this purpose.
 Plums grow wild in every part of