The Ozark Mountain region of Missouri and Arkansas as it appears along the line of the Kansas City southern railway . he leading industry. Cotton is grown ex-tensively and yields from one-half to onebale to the acre, with a total production of10,000 to 15,000 bales, valued at $500,000to $750,000. The uplands produce about 25bushels of corn per acre and the bottomlands about 40 bushels. Oats and millet dowell and are grown extensively; wheat, ryeand Kaffir corn are grown in smaller quan-tities. Sugar cane yields as high as 700gallons of syrup per acre; sorghum is grownextensively for molasses a
The Ozark Mountain region of Missouri and Arkansas as it appears along the line of the Kansas City southern railway . he leading industry. Cotton is grown ex-tensively and yields from one-half to onebale to the acre, with a total production of10,000 to 15,000 bales, valued at $500,000to $750,000. The uplands produce about 25bushels of corn per acre and the bottomlands about 40 bushels. Oats and millet dowell and are grown extensively; wheat, ryeand Kaffir corn are grown in smaller quan-tities. Sugar cane yields as high as 700gallons of syrup per acre; sorghum is grownextensively for molasses and also for and peanuts produce abundantlyand timothy, clover and red top do well inmost parts of the county, though not ex-tensively grown. Bermuda grass is excellentfor lawns, pasturage and hay and Japanclover is a volunteer crop. Among the otherfield crops are broom corn and tobacco. Twocrops of potatoes are grown, the first cropmaturing about the end of May. They areshipped northward in car lots. Tomatoes,cantaloupes and commercial truck aregrown and shipped in large quantity. THE OZARK REGION 43. CX>RN FIEL-D, LOCKESBURG, ARK. All varieties of peaches do well and someof the largest peach orchards in the UnitedStates are located in this and the adjoiningcounties. The Southern Orchard PlantingCompanys peach orchard between DeQueenand Horatio, this county, has over 3,000acres in peach trees, all bearing, and thereare 5,000 to 6,000 acres more at other rail-road stations. Early apples do well, plums,apricots, cherries, figs, grapes, pears, black-berries, strawberries, dewberries, etc., yieldsatisfactory results. Stock raising is profitable. Horses andmules, cattle and hogs are being raised inincreasing numbers and the grade is beingcontinuously improved. Sheep and goatsthrive on the uplands. Poultry of all kindsdo well and increasing attention is beinggiven to standard breeds of poultry. Most of the large game has been killedor driven away, but small game is yet
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