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THE YELLOW SHEETS 

Vol. 2, No. 6 
LD. Gole 

_ Our unusually wet winter and spring 
have been followed. by our usual mid- 
Summer | ‘drought. » - Normal for us to 
have about six viroks of hot, sunny 
days from) late mid-June to late July. 
Where proper care of land is given, 
this does not prevent good crops, nor 
keep intelligent farmers from making 
money when not hindered by polliti- 
cians. Some years one crop pays best, 
some years another. A farmer here 
needs to use as much intelligence as a 
banker, to understand and profit by 
market conditions. The not using this 
intelligence is the prime cause of the 
hard condition of so many sharecrop- 
pers, and the landlords cannot justly 
be blamed for that. Goodness knows! 
most of them try hard enough to get 
their tenants to use good sense. And 
I speak from rather more than fifty 
years association. 
This year, Backberries have been 
our best money crop, as shown by the 
following, printed from the De Queen 
Bee. 
GRANNIS FARMERS 
GETTING $10 A CRATE 
FOR BLACKBERRIES 
Blackberries were bringing 25 cents 
per pound or about $10 per crate net, 
at the Cragar Cannery in Grannis this 
week, and growers of that vicinity 
were expecting unprecedented returns 
from their acreage. 
The blackberry crop has nee the 
most successful venture the Grannis 
farmers have ever undertaken, ac- 
cording to those who have been pro- 
ducing them regularly, and even back 
September-October, 
Grannis, Ark., Editor 
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when they sold for 5 cents per pound, 
they brought more profit per acre than 
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Cucumbers have also proven highly 
profitable this year; but if | were a 
farmer, next year I'd plant only 
enough for my own table. Plans are 
now for an enormously increased acre- 
age of them, which may glut the mar- 
ket. Then we'll have a howl about 
how Wall Street is grinding down the 
poor, and what the politicians at 
Washington should do about it. 
Radishes are supposed to be a fool 
proof crop in the garden, but not al- 
ways. One of my friends and I were 
comparing garden notes recently and 
she told me that her Radishes had 
been a failure—luscious heavy tops 
but no root development. Her garden 
is small, had the wash from the barn 
yard for years, and each winter heavy 
applications of leaves, hardwood 
ashes and animal manure. I rather 
suspect that her ground needs phos- 
phorus. But | could sympathize with 
her. My first planting was on rather 
poor soil, first year from _ pasture. 
Light application in row of super phos- 
phate and Vigoro. Poor stand, but 
growth satisfactory. Second planting 
on and in corn in 45. Previous winter 
land fertilized with manure and wood 
