Good Fruit Country and Fruit Industry Prospects at Mena
A article extols Arkansas as a prime fruit region with prolific huckleberry and peach crops. It notes eighty acre and fifty acre orchards near Mena under L A Goodman, plans for one mile of experimental gardens, and calls Polk County a future blossom field. It urges readers to plant fruit, profit, and enjoy year round harvests at Mena and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stilwell
Mena
Robert Gillham
L. A. Goodman
Prince of Fruit
Missouri State Horticultural Society
Polk County
Engraving of Game Display at Kansas City Market Mena
The photograph shows wild game and domestic meats from Polk Z county displayed in front of the Kansas City Market in Mena last December by proprietor M. E. Pumphrey. The exhibit includes six black bears ten genison ninety wild and thirty five tame turkeys four dozen ducks ten dozen quail one beaver three foxes several dozen squirrels and rabbits two dozen geese one dozen raccoons and possums and many fish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk Z County
Kansas City
Mena
M. E. Pumphrey
Fruit potential shaped by Mena belt rail reach
The article extols Mena and adjacent areas for berry and fruit growth, noting low berry prices by the gallon, abundant blackberries, thriving strawberries, and favorable climate. It cites rail access expanding markets to Van Buren, Sallisaw, and Missouri, with prices up to fifty cents above competing regions. Four horticultural societies form along the railroad from Mena to Grannis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mena
Horace Greely
van Buren
Sallisaw
Sarooxie
Missouri
Growers Start Fruit Venture in County
First named places indicate growers have begun, with ibis fruit soon bearing. About 150 acres along the road in the county are planted and expected to come into bearing this season, matching the star’s previous issue. Arrangements neared for a colony of fruit growers and vegetable gardeners on about 1,100 acres near the railroad, five miles south of the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Star
Big Hogs in Arkansas Rise in State Hogs Weigh Heavy
Clippings from State exchanges detail record hog weights and backyard production in Arkansas. Merrill killed a 503 pound dressed hog. Bell’s season’s champion dressed at 4659 pounds. Wofford’s Poland China pair weighed 635 pounds together. Canada’s hogs dressed to 1212 pounds with several yearlings in the 327 to 370 range. Hancock sold a 453 pound Poland China Berkshire hog raised on slop. Jones fattened 250 head in a river bend field and butchered 140 at five cents per pound, with costs of $1 to $2 per head and potential returns of $7 to $12 each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Merrill
C. W. Wofford
Peria
Poland
China
Malvern
R. W
Canada
Beebe Tootes
A. T. Hancock
J. A. Lindsay
Berkshire
John F. Jones
Has Helped the County by Local Railroad and Town
Wm. J. Medford, an old resident living with his son, says Polk County has benefited most from the railroad and town. People travel forty to fifty miles to sell cotton and other produce here and obtain lower prices for goods than in Hot Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. J. Medford
Polk County
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Bankston Photo Co
Ark
Grannis
Mena, Ark
Savagh
W. J. Bell
Beebe News
The
Arkansaw Store
Queen Stree
J. B. Littlejohn & CO
MUSIC
Stetmentat
Jam
Nellie Ll. Moore
East Mena Street
R. M. Watters
J.C. Byers
Attorney At Law
Gerstle
St. Joseph’s
General Merchandise
R. S. Allen
Hudgins Block
Queen St
W. I. Boyer
Pickering Avenue
Ilena Grocery
Menand Honert
B.h.christy
Grocer
Mena Street
Janssen Ave
Theffena Lumber Co
Sherwood Avenue
T. D. Morton
Prop
Finney, M’g'r
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