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Bradley County - 1919 Statistics show that in no other county of the State of Arkansas does systematic farm work produce better results than is obtained in Bradley County. No other section of the country is better adapted to such a variety of crops. The County that is noted for its two and three crops a year. An acre of land in Bradley County has yielded 79 bushels of Oats and three months later tons of Lespedeza Hay; 50 bushels of peas and nearly 100 tons of pea hay; an acre has yielded 50 bushels of oats and a second crop of peay hay and twenty bushels of peas; watermelons will bring over $100 an acre; five hundred pounds of cotton have been raised on an acre and a quarter and the same year a second crop of 200 bushels of white potatoes; one girl canned 300 three-pound cans of tomatoes from one - tenth of an acre, besides selling a large quantity of fine tomatoes in the market; almost $700 was realized from one acre of tomatoes this year; over $600 have been realized from one acre of strawberries and over $400 from less than an acre of blackberries; ribbon cane produces from 200 to 400 gallons of syrup to the acre; worlds premiums have been taken twenty-six times on Bradley County long staple cotton. One of two steel bridges erected in 1919 over the Saline River in Bradley County at a cost of $20,000 each, which enables farmers from adjoining counties to reach the market at Warren. Recently the Arkansas Legislature passed an act providing for 110 miles of hard surfaced roads in Bradley County, the government allowance for highways in this county has just been made and is over $62,000.