Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1922-03-09


al people 1t is developing with more
rapidity than other states, because it
offers superior attractions for the man
OF moderate means who desires to
possess a home and raise his family
In ideal surroundings. Arkansas is
not wilderness, neither is it from
tier state. 1t is shown by govern
hea1thful in the United States. There
are no swamps nor large bodies of
standing water, and pure water is
plentiful in all communities.
Arkansans are law abiding people,
the percentage of crime in this state
being considerably less than the aver
age in the United states. Arkansas is
ambitious for the welfare of its youth,
and excellent schools are provided
Even in the most sparsely settled COM
munities, there is an opportunity for
all children to secure common school
education. The United States has
many prominent men and women
holding responsible positions who Sc
cured their entire education in Ark
you are looking for, Arkansas is your
haven
Arkansas is the one State that an
nually produces its invested capital
its annual products exceeding the val
ne of all its property. Arkansas prop
erty was assessed in 1919 at 1881
600, and the value of its products that
m otto
tisics, was $685., 1913, 900.
Arkansas has an area of 33,616, 900
acres, with only $4,000 acres in cul-
tivation. Three-dfths of its land is
yet unimproyed.
Arkansas has an abundance of
cheap fuel,-natural gas, crude oil,
anthracite and semi-anthracite smoke
less coal, Ignite and wood in prac-
tlcally inexhaustible quantities.
Arkansas has never known a total
crop failure, or a famine.
Arkansas ranks twenty-fourth in
population, twenty-sixth in land area
and twenty-first in total value of it's
crops. Arkan5aus are energetic.
Arkansas devotes a greater acre
age to strawberries than any other
state, 15,100 acres in 1920 Straw
berries net as high as $1,000 per acre
In Arkansas.
Arkansas Nancy Hall' sweet pota-
toes have an unexcelled favor which
gives them the world for a market.
Even Alaska bought Arkansas Nan
cy Halls" by the car load in 1921.
Arkangag pfOu7G fJun orOno Of Trie
potatoes annually, usually on the
same ground
Arkansas ranks third in the pro-
duction of rice, and first in yield per
acre and quality. Arkansas will this
year produce over 100000 bushels.
Arkansas is exceeded by only one
state in the acreage of cantaloupes,
and now excels Colorado, the home
of the Rocky Ford
Arkansas won more medals at the
Panama-Pacific Exposition in horti-
culture and agriculture than any other
state.
Arkansas has originated and named
ffty-eight varieties of apples and
stands fifth in the production of bar
relied apples.
One Arkansas county, Mississippi.
had an agricultural production val
ued at S17,000,00O in 1919.
One Arkansas plantation produced
and marketed s974,639 worth of cot
ton and cotton seed in 1919. This
plantation in addition, marketed %
carloads OF wheat, II cars of hogs,
and 5,474 bushels of corn, besides
producing corn and hay sufficient to
maintain stock needed to cultivate
$4,000 acres. This plantation is in
Mississippi county. It's 1921 crop in
spite of low prices will exceed $1,000.
600.
Live stock can be raised in Ark.
ansas at a minimum cost, as grazing
is profitable ten months of the year.
Mild winters make large stock barns
unnecessary.
Arkansas, according to the 1910 u.
s. Census, has live stock valued at
$30,0S3,950; annual dairy products of
$l3,445,124, and an annual production
OF chickens and eggs of $16,245, 1O2-
an increase of 100 per cent in ten
years.
Arkansas lands produce from three
to seven cuttings of alfalfa annually
The cut is about one ton per acre,
and sells for $40 per ton, or more
on the field, and without bailing. The
first cutting is made in April, the
last in October-last year in Novem
Der.
Arkansas has the largest peach or
chard under one management in the
world-the Bert Johnson orchard con
tains Also acres. Elbertas from thi,
orchard brought as high as $3.50 pc
bushel in 1921.
Arkansas has, according to War De
partment statistics, 2,401 miles of nav
igable rivers. There are thousands O
miles of swift mountain streams car
able Of genera ling sufficient electric
ty to supply every MANUFACTURER
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