JUDSONIA FARMERS GROW
$175,000 WORTH BERRIES
Net Returns Show That the
Farmers Will Average $125
Per Acre for Their Berries
This Season.
Judsonia, May 23.—Judson
ia this week is finishing mar
keting the biggest strawberry
crop in its history. The ship
ments from White county points
alone aggregate 500 cars,, or
more than 200,000 crates,
bringing to the farmers appro
ximately $250,000, according
to W. C. North, president and
sales manager of the Judsonia
Strawberry and Vegetable
Growers’ Association. This as
sociation marketed 350 cars of
strawberries this season.
The rain last Saturday will
prolong the harvest by several
days and greatly improve the
quality of the berries now re
maining.The first car was ship
ped April 24 and it is expected
the last load will go out Satur
day of this week or Monday of
next week. During the week of
May 8, 24 cars a day were ship
ped from Judsonia. The big
gest day that Judsonia everhad
was Monday, May 8, when
$20,000 was paid out to the
shippers by local banks.
More than 3,000 pickers
were brought into the berry
district to gather this immense
crop. The price paid for pick
ing was two cents a quart, or
48 cents a crate. The average
picker easily made $1.50 a
day and the earnings of some
of the larger families frequent
ly aggregated $10 to $15 per
day. In every field there were
more berries than the people
could pick and the shipments
represent not what the land
produced, but what the pickers
could gather.
25 Buyers Present
Tw’enty-five buyers were
here and 90 per cent of the ber
ries were sold on the track at
Judsonia for shipment to Pitts
burg, Boston, Buffalo, Toronto.
Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Chica
go, Denver and intermediate
points. In the matter of mar
keting Judsonia ships farther
than the Louisiana and other
southern districts.
Prices ranged from $2.50 a
crate at the opening to $1.50
during the dry weather period,
then went back up again to
$1.75 with a promise of closing
around $2. It costs the grower
about 75 cents to pick, crate
and sell the berries under the
Judsonia plan. There is good
money in growing them at $1.
50 a crate and they are fortune
makers at $1.75 and $2 aerate,
says Mr. North, the largest
strawberry grower in the state,
who has sold$4,000 worth from
his 40 acres at Judsonia. The
net returns from this year’s
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movement will show that the
growers averaged $125 an acre
for their strawberries. There is
estimated to be 2,000 acres
bearing.
Three Varieties
The leading varieties of ber
ries grown in this district are
the Excelsior, Klondike and A
roma which ripen one after the
other, permitting continued
picking from the last of April
until nearly the first of June.
In size, color and flavor they
are similar and each variety
has excellent shipping quality.
Judsonia has been in the
strawberry business for 35
years and it is today one of the
biggest, if not the biggest,ship
ping points for this fruit in the
United States. The pioneer
growers of this section com
mercialized the strawberry
industry in the South and made
it profitable to the farmer.Jud
sonia has originated practically
every one of the commercial
varieties of strawberries now
grown in Arkansas, Texas.Ten
nessee, Louisiana and Missis
sippi. Millions of plants are
shipped to growers in other
states.
Credit for much of the suc
cess that has come to the berry
growers of Judsonia and the
neighboring towns is given to
the excellent cooperative mar
keting system worked out
through the Judsonia Straw
berry and Vegetable Associa
tion, which was organized in
1898. It now has a membershn.
of 350, each shipper being a
member or stockholder, and in
cludes practically every com
mercial grower of berries in the
district.
Through this co-operative
organization the growers buy
their boxes and crates, which
also are products of Judsonia.'
They also buy at wholesale and
in car lots their feedstuffs and
fertilizer, which works out a
considerable saving to the far
mer in the consuming as well
as the producing end.
Railroads Assist
The railroads have done
their part to encourage the
building up of this industry at
Judsonia, the transportation
service this season being in ev
ery way satisfactory. A special
Iruit train has been operated
daily to handle the strawberry
crop from Judsonia, Searcy,
Iligginson, McRea and Bald
Knob, in connection with a re
icing station at Hoxie.
Cars loaded at these stations
in the evening are put in St.
Louis the next morning in time
to make connections with fast
freight lines north and east
bound.
The banks at Judsonia stay
.open during the strawberry
season from 7 o’clock in the
morning until midnight, hand
ling the daily business of the
growers and the main street of
the town resembles a minature
\\ all street. At night the berry
pickers come in from the fields
and the stores, refreshments
stands and traveling carnivals
do a rushing business.
C. M. Erganbright, a Jud
°ma banker, says that these
strawberry growers never lose
their farms on mortgages, lie
ga\e the name of one grower
who buys a new farm after ev
harvest. New strawberry
land is being opened up every
year.
Berries Cash Crop
1 he strawberry grower,hav
ing from six to ten acres in ber
ries, will also grow Irish pota
toes and sweet potatoes, corn
and cotton,, cowpeas and
glasses, and he will raise hogs
and cattle, things that fit right
in with the system which in-:
eludes strawberries. The pro
ceeds from the diversified crops
more than pay the expenses of
t he farm, leaving as clear pro
tit the receipts from strawber
ries and cotton, which always
are cash crops.
As soon as the strawberries
are out of the way. the Jud
sonia association will begin to
make plans for moving the ear
ly Irish potato crop, which is
ready for shipment about June
10, and which this year prom
ises to amount to 125 or 150
cars. The yield of early pota
toes will average 100 bushels
to the acre, the rain Saturday
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The crop in the east last fall j
was a partial failure and the I
Judsonia growers are expect
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which will be shipped North I
and East.
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VANDERBILT STUDENTS
OBSERVE FOUNDERS DAY
Little Rock, May 24.—A din
ner of former students of Van
derbilt University will be held
at the Marion Hotel in Little
Rock on the evening of Satur
day, May 27, which is Found
er’s Day at the University. It
is announced that invitations
are being issued to all Vander
bilt men in Arkansas and that
similiar dinners will be held at
the same hour in many other
states. Dr. G. W. Dyer,‘Profes
sor of Economics at Vanderbilt
will be the principal speaker.
The local committee on ar
rangements is Dr. J. P. Shep
pard, Superintendent of the
Pulaski County Hospital; J. B.
Webster, Attorney, Southern
Trust Building; W. L. Heming
way, Vice-President Mercan
tile Trust Company; A. M.
Lund, Civil Engineer, Southern
Trust Building; and P. B. Hill,
Civil Engineer, Southern Trust
Building.
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FARMER IS INJURED
BY RUNAWAY HORSE
Newport, May 22.—C. Big
gers of Bandy’s Chapel, 10
miles north of Newport, suf
fered severe bruises when a
horse ran away. Mr. Biggers
was driving in his buggy and
leading a high-spirited horse
by a rope, which was tied to
the buggy top. The horse be
came frightened, jerked the
top of the* vehicle from the
body, throwing Mr. Biggers to
the ground, inflicting severe
bruises about his body, but not
injuring him dangerously. The
horse hitched to the buggy ran
away with it, completely wreck
ing the vehicle.
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INQUIRY FROM EDISON
FOR ARKANSAS LIME
The Arkansas Lime Com
any of Ruddells received an in
quiry last week from the Thom
as J. Edison plant at Orange,
N. .J., for chemical lime. It is
for use in their phonal plant,
and an analysis was requested.
The quantity wanted was 360 j
tons to be delivered in monthly
consignments of 120 tons per
month.
COUPLE SLASHED BY
CRAZED SON-IN-LAW
James P. Cole and Wife of
Near Conway May Die as
Result of Family Quarrel
Conway, May 22.—James
P. Cole, a farmer living near
Mt. Olive schoolhouse, 13
miles southeast of Conway,and
his wife, were probably fatally
slashed with a knife in the
hands of Clyde Gilliam, their
son-in-law, in a family quarrel,
at the Cole home last night.
Cole received a deep wound
on the left side of his chest
near the heart, and a second
wound back of the neck. His
condition this morning is seri
ous, and physicians think may
result in death.
Mrs. Cole received a long
slash on the back of her head.
Young Gilliam is believed to
have been demented, as he
ceased his attack on his wife’s
parents at the call of Roy
Young, the fourth person in
the room at the time. Realizing
the damage he had done, he is
said to have called a doctor,
to the aid of the wounded cou
ple. and later voluntarily came
here and surrendered to the
sheriff’s office. He is now in
the county jail.
Domestic trouble is given as
the cause of the difficulty.
Young Gilliam and his wife had
lived with Mrs. Gilliam’s par
ents for about a year.
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BAPTIST MINISTER'S WIFE
IS BURNED TO DEATH
Pocahontas, May 20.—Mrs.
I). N. King, of near Warm
Springs, died yesterday from
the effect of burns she receiv
ed the day before while engag
ed in putting out the family
washing. She was standing near
the boiling kettle when her
clothing caught fire, and be
fore the flames could be ex
tinguished she was badly burn
ed. Mrs. King was the wife of
Elder I). N. King, a Raptist
minister. She was about GO
years of age.
JONESBORO BOY IS
KILLED BY TRAIN
Jonesboro, May 19.—Harry
Williams, 14-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Williams
of Vine street, was found dead
on the Cotton Belt road this
morning by the passenger crew
of the northbound train due
here at 7 o’clock, near Gibson
Spur, eight miles from Jones
boro. The boy left home last
night, having asked his mother
just before leaving to give him
a dime to purchase some tobac
T0, Be said he would, return
I soon. It is be lived he boarded
a freight train and fell beneath
the wheels.
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FARMER GETS GOOD
'PRICE FOR HOGS
H. W. Moore of Black Rock
sold a carload of hogs in St.
Louis recently which he raised
himself. They were September
pigs, weighing an average of
200 pounds, and topped the
market at $19.95 each.
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PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITITION OF THE STATE
OF ARKANSAS.
Notire is hereby given that the fol
lowing joint resolution, proposing an
amendment to the State Constitution
was passed by the General Assembly
at its regular session of 1915, and that
tlie same will be submitted to the elec
tors of the State at the next general
election, to be held Tuesday. November
7. 1916, for adoption or rejection.
Proposed Amcnilment No. 14.
That the following is hereby pro
posed as an amendment to the Consti
tution of the State of Arkansas, which,
when agreed to by a majority of all
numbers elected to each house and
adopted by a majority of the electors
of the State voting at the next gen
eral election for senators and repre
sentatives, shall become a part of the
Constitution of the State of Arkansas:
"Section 1. The county courts in
their respective counties. In addition to
tne county tax now allowed to be lev
ied. shall have power when authorized,
as hereinafter provided, to levy an an
nual tax not exceeding three mills on
the dollar on all taxable property,
which shall be collected and expended
in making and repairing public roads
and bridges in their respective coun
ties: and said court shall have power,
after authority given as hereinafter
provided, to levy a tax not exceeding
ttiree mills on the dollar on all taxable
property for a period of time not to
exceed thirty years, to borrow money.
Issue bonds, and pledge the revenues
arising' from the tax levied for a pe
riod of time, to pay the interest and
principal of any sum or sums so bor
rowed. All bonds issued by authority
herein given shall bear a rate of Inter
est not to exceed C per cent per annum.
All sums so borrowed shall be used ex
clusively in making and repairing the
public roads and bridges in the county.
The annual tax and the tax for period
of years shall not both be levied and
be in force at the same time in any
county—the levy of one shall exclude
the levy of the other.
Before any levy of taxes herein au
thorized shall be made, the question
of levying such tax shall he submitted
to the qualified electors of the county
at a general or special election called
for that purpose, at which a majority
of the qualified electors voting at such
an election shall have voted in favor of
such levy of taxl>s.
Approved February 2, 1915.
The above resolution was filed in the
office of the Secretary of State on Feb
ruary 2. 1915.
Each elector may vote for or against
the above amendment.
Witness my official signature this
19th day of April, 1916.
EARLE W. HODGES,
Secretary of State.
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