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Opportunities for Making a Home and Developing a Profitable Farm Offered in Clark Co.—By B. G Parker, Commissioner of Immigration
Clark County farms yield fully as great a variety, and as much per acre of products as those of any county in any state in the Mississippi Valley. Whatever food plant an exacting market demands, its farms produce, and liberally. Your proposal to issue a special Clark County edition of your paper will demonstrate what is being accomplished, will stimulate local pride, and given proper distribution this edition will afford a pleasant surprise to those looking for homes. For, what its farmers have done in developing herds and flocks, what they are doing in building silos, in introducing better methods of crop rotation, and their efforts to make dairying more profitable, are matters to be given strong emphasis.
The chief item of interest to home seekers is the soil in a given locality. The prevailing type in Clark County is classified as Colby Silt Loam, having a gently rolling surface shading into a sandy loam and frequently lighter sandy types in parts of the western and extreme southern portions of the county. The predominating soil is officially described as follows:
Potato Field in North End of Clark County.
“The clay soils of this formation constitute throughout good strong laud, very productive and durable. Because of its good drainage, practically every acre of it can be utilized for farm crops, and it gives every promise of being equal to the best and richest agricultural portions of the state or of the northwest. All farm crops are successfully grown. Grass and clover is an abundant crop, and dairying and stock raising is wisely becoming the chief source of the farm income. The small grains, corn and potatoes can readily be grown and should be raised in rotation with the feeding crops for dairy stock, sheep, and swine. Small fruits and garden truck are easily grown, and upon well selected sites the hardier fruit trees can be grown with success.”