The spectator., 1922-03-21

! Ing. Many otAer StatoS are now using this successful system. l Arkansas equals any state in the | yield per acre of lespedeza, one of the leading hay crops and soil build CTS.
 Arkansas supplies more watermelon seed than any other state. Arkansas has nurseries that buy peach seeds by the carload for the production of trees for grating. | Arkansas has seed houses that ship tomato and sweet potato plants in car load lots.
 Arkansas is now shipping in large l quantities the honey dew melon, and it's quality is such that in few years | it will be a leader in this also.
 Arkansas produces blightless pear.
 Arkansas rivers supply millions of tons of the finest quality of building | sand.
 Arkansas is the only state with a | natural cold storage. It has cave l of considerable size that is used for this purpose.
 Arkansas girls have been class leaders in the foremost Eastern schools. The president of the 1921 class of Bryn Mawr was an Arkansas girl. Honors have been conferred on Arkansas girls at Smith and Vassar for their scholastic attainments Arkansas has at Hot Springs a bath house row with IS bath houses that represents an investment of several million dollars. It is the finest in the world and all is under government supervision.
 Arkansas soil is especially adapted to the growing of red and burr clo- yer. The yield is large and the an- nual crop a valuable one
 Arkansas has a spring on the gov ernment reservation at Hot Springs that analyses 100 per cent pure The water of many of it's springs is so pure 1t is used in prescriptions and in batteries.
 Arkansas has two forest reserva- tions. the Ozark and Arkansas, con- taining 100000 acres. Excellent roads have been constructed through them and the scenery is wonderful.
 Arkansas has one peach orchard which produces one peach for every man, woman and child in the United States.
 Arkansas has mountains of sapon- ite, the natural cleanser. This is the only deposit in the United States ic similar fn al cla which are mixed by an expensive process.
 Arkansas has more pure bred swine than New York, Pennsylvania. Cali fornia and Michigan, and only twelve states have more than the govern. ment census gives Arkansas.
 Arkansas oil fields. Fl Dorado, stands first in initial production of any field for light high gravity oil
 Arkansas has eleven oil refineries
 Arkansas has developed an oil field containing 30 square miles in ten months. record for the world.
 Arkansas has a natural bridge.
 Arkansas is constructing 4,539 miles of improved highways. ranging in cost from s3.ooe to S5s.000 per mile. The total cost will exceed $So.0oo,000 and a conservative esti- mate shows an increase in adjoining land values of over $500, ,000, 900.
 Arkansas banks have supplied mon- ey without interest to boys who de- sired to purchase pure bred swine. and have purchased pedigreed cattle which were sold to farmers on their own terms. Arkansas, with such forces assisting the farmer. is rapidly becoming a leading live stock state.
 Arkansas produced one of the lead. ing portrait painters of the United States, Louis Betts, of Chicago.
 Arkansas was the birthplace of Ed ward Mims, one of the foremost Eng fish professors of the United States.
 Arkansas has sent missionaries in- to nearly every foreign field, and Bishop Logan H. Roots of Hankow, China. is a native of Arkansas.
 Arkansas has three Episcopal bish. ops. more than any other state except New York.
 Arkansas, according to the last cen. sus report. had 170.526 acres of land devoted to producing legumes for hay.
 Arkansas has produced machine which shreds the top of growing oats, | wheat. barley and rice. removing the | grain and leaving the stalk standing. | The grain is less injured than by | thrashing. and the process is more economical.
 The United States government | maintains an Army and Navy hospital | in Hot Springs, also a free bath | house.
 The Masonic fraternity and the In. l dependent Order of Odd Fellows | have commodious homes at Bates. | vile for the care of their widows and | orphans.
 Arkansas will raise 75.0O0. .000 bush. | els of corn, 10000, ,000 of oats. OO0 |