SELECT TOUR SEED
COTTON THIS FULL
Be 8ure to Secure Good Strain by
Getting a Variety That Hae Proved
Ite Ability to Give Good Ylelde.
To succeed with a crop, the grower
must use the best methods of tillage
and fertilisation, and in order to ob
tain maximum results from tillage
and fertilisation, he must use im
proved farm seed. By using improved
cotton seed, selected from a variety
known to do well in a given locality,
the grower may increase his cotton
yield per acre even though the acre
age has been cut down.
Secure Qoed Strain.
No one variety of cotton is best for
all soils and all climatic conditions.
No single variety has maintained
ftrst place year after year at any ex
periment station. Seleot a variety of
cotton that will give a high yield of
lint per acre, Will set fruit early and
mature early, one that has a good
length of fiber, one that has medium
to large bolls, one that will hold the
lint in the burr, and one that, provid
ed the cotton does not fall out, is easy
to pick. Whatever variety is used, if
no method of selection is followed,
your cotton will become poorer each
year. If a good strain of cotton is ob
tained, selection must be practiced in
order to hold it up to maximum
yields.
Select Your Plants.
The farmer should, during the
growing season, watch his crop and
pick out the vigorous plants here and
there tagging them so that these
plants may be easily loeated at
the time of picking. When se
lecting plants, keep the following
qualities in mind: High yield of lint
per acre, early setting of fruit and
early maturity, long fiber with a view
of a better price per pound, medium
to large bolls to facilitate picking,
ability to hold cotton in the burr in
spite of wind and rain, ease of pick
ing and trueness to type.
With a sack and a reliable picker,
the grower should go into the field
Just ahead of the regular pickers and
pick the cotton from the selected
plants. Pick the cotton from the
lower two-thirds of the plant, and pick
enough to furnish seed sufficient for
the next year’s crop.
Avoid Admixture of Seed.
When the selected cotton is gin
ned, be sure that the gin rolls are
thoroughly cleaned. Do not let the
seed pass through the chute, but allow
them—*» Mi eet awM Ati
front of the gin, by this means insur
ing no admixture of seed. It is im
possible to blow out all the seed from
the chutes through which the gin-run
seed pass.
Lastly, store these seed in a dry
place. Experiments show that seed
are not injured when stored In small
lots.—M. S. Baker, Assistant Agro
nomist, College of Agriculture and
Experiment Station, Fayetteville.
THEY LOST MANY CATTLE
BUT STILL REFUSE TO DIP
A Few, But Very Few, Grant County
Farmers Oppose Installation
of Vata.
‘‘We have a jeal live interest in
Grant county in canning of vegetables
and fruit for home use," said W. C.
Vickry, county agricultural agent.
*Six months ago there was scarcely
a home canner to be found. We have
one merchant here in Sheridan who
has ordered and delivered to farmers
about fourteen of these canners up to
date. He is selling the Williams can
ner. The people of Grant county are
determined to have more to eat, and
also more home raised feed for stock.
I believe from what I get from
farmers over the county that there
Is a 50 per cent increase in potatoes
for home use, and I am sure that
there will be sorghum enough for the
home if nothing happens to the crop.
While this is true and there is a
slight reduction in the cotton acre
age, the crop is being worked better
than usual, and we hope to make a
thoroughly good yield from that crop.
In his last report to the Extension
Division of the University of Arkan
sas, Mr. Vickry said that the farmers
of Grant county are fighting the fever
Texas tick as they never did before.
Several cattle, he says, died recently,
and reports are coming in almost
daily of deaths from cattle tick fever
in various sections of the county, and
that farmers are using the rumors to
influence others to take hold of the
movement through a systematic or
ganisation. "We organized recently
a farmers’ club at Erin, which,
through its committee, has gone to
work to locate a place to build a dip
ping vat for their cattle. Some farm
ers who have lost stock from the
Texas fever tick oppose the installa
tion of the dipping vat.
8ow Rye In Cotton Rows.
Plan to grow a cover crop of rye on
your cotton land this fail. It can be
done, and you will be improving your
soil. How? By preventing the wash
ing of the land and the washing out
of the fertilizing elements and by add
ing organic matter to the soil, thus
loosening the soil and making avall
aWe »)««l food.
■ ING HIM STARTED*!
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* By GRACE HOGE. I
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Sfciily emitted a Bound like that of
an unmuffled motor. Then he slammed
down his glass and gasped like a fish
ou| of water.
"I'll be dodgasted if 1 will!” said
h% ,
Mrs. Skelly did not move an eye
la»h. “The class meets at the
Finches,” she proceeded, "and your
Tuxedo will be all right.”
“Dancing class at my age!” Skelly
roared. “Why not marbles? Me tie
myself up In bowknots doing the
tango when I ought to be dandling my
grandchildren on my knee telling
them stories of the war—”
“You haven’t any grandchildren, and
•a your son is only fourteen, you
don’t have to worry about that for a
while,” remarked Mrs. Skelly. “And
there is no sense in our being back
numbers when every one else is do
ing such things. And I want to learn
the one-step tonight. It is great fun.
Besides, I promised that I’d join.”
"Why did I ever get married?” Skel
ly demanded hotly of the chiffonier,
as he Incased himself in the Tuxedo.
“Why doesn't a man ever appreciate
his freedom when he has it, I'd like
to know? Why didn't I stay down
town with Powett when he asked me,
instead of coming home to pass a
happy evening in the bosom of my
family? Dragged out of my comfort
able chair to make an idiot of my
self—”
“The electric has come,” said Mrs.
Skelly, peering from the window.
"Come along, Arthur.”
"What chance has a man got, any
how?’ Skelly demanded furiously of
five other men in the dressing room
at the Finches. “No chance at all!”
The other five agreed tumultuously
and gloomily.
“I feel like a fool,” Skelly said, as
they surged in before the teacher
with their wives. “I think age should
be dignified. Any pictures of the
tango that I’ve seen show the people
climbing chandeliers or sliding on
their shoulder blades. I put it to
you, Emily, would I look well sliding
on my shoulder blades? Would you
like to have our son see me doing
it?”
“Miss Grlppy,” interposed Mrs. Skel
ly sweetly at this point in the mono
logue, “my husband, Mr. Skelly."
“Some looker," commented Skelly,
with a show of interest. “Is she to
teach us? Why didn’t you intimate
something to that effect sooner?
Cracking good ankles, hasn’t she—”
“Arthur,” Bald Mrs. Skelly severely,
“you're supposed to be listening to
what she's saying!”
“All speech is not verbal,” Insisted
Skelly. ‘What’s that she is saying
about a grapevine? It sounds compli
cated.”
The rest of the class managed to
master the grapevine step shortly, but
Skelly had a terrible time. It was
necessary for Miss Grippy to give him
a special, personal lesson twice be
fore he permitted the class to go on
to the second movement of the one
step.
“One-two-three-four," he gasped to
Mrs. Skelly. “Are there curls flowing
over my shoulder, and do I see my
nurse waiting for me in the hall with
my tippet and overshoes? Look at
Finch grabbing the teacher for a sim
ple one-two three four—I won't stand
for such monopoly! Teacher's pet!
I want her to show me the drag
step!”
“Anybody with sense could do the
drag step without being ehown,”
growled Finch. “If you think this one
step is so hard whatehu going to
do when it comes to the tango? There
are 64 steps and I bet you never learn
'em!”
“Bet I do!” said Skelly warmly. “1
don’t know that you and the others
have anything on me when It comes
to a simple matter of memory! Why,
I was the best dancer in the crowd
when I was a boy! Took up every
new dance the minute it came out,
and I guess these new fangled things
aren't so very different from the old!
Learn 'em? Pooh! Bet I get the tan
go down before you and the other
fellows have had time to cross your
feet once! And at that I'll bet you'll
cross ’em the wrong way!”
“Oh, stow your brag!” said Finch.
“Watch me! Light on my feet—
what?”
“Can’t learn it! Pooh!” Skelly said
to Mrs. Skelly on the way home. “Why,
did you hear what Miss Grippy said
to me? Said I was getting the one
step better than any one else in the
class! Isn’t there another lesson for
a week? I think that’s too long a
time to wait. Don’t you? Say, Emily,
what are you larghing at?”
10 Bales on Small Plot.
Special Demonstration Agent J. C.
Melton of Lonoke county, in a letter
to C. Wr. Watson, state agent in co-op
erative extension work at Little Rook,
said that E. L. Jones of Wattensaw
R. F. D. No. 1 of Lonoke, made 1'
bales of cotton last year on eight an
one-half acres of old upland soil b
using 200 pounds of commercial ferti
lizer containing 10 per cent phos
phoric acid, two per cent potash and
1.65 per cent of nitrogen. He follow
ed demonstration methods in prepar
ing soil, cultivation and seed selec
tion. His neighbors on land of same
fertility made only from 200 to 300
pounds of cotton per acre by “old
methods” of farming.
DIET FOR THE BRAIN-WORKER
Should Be That Nourishing to the
Whole Body, With Special Refer
ence to Nervous System.
A great deal has been said about
the value of certain articles as brain
food, and one of the pet theories of
popular physiology has been that fish
and other substances composed large
ly of phosphorus are the most appro
priate diet for brain-workers. But
modern science is emphasizing that
the best food for the brain is that
which nourishes the whole body, with
special reference to the nervous sys
tem. ' '
Brain power is largely an expres
sion through the nerves of bodily vi
tality. In discussing this point in a
recent treatise. Dr. George M. Beard
says that the diet of brain-workers
should be of large variety, delicately
served, abundantly nutritious, of which
fresh meat should be a prominent con
stltuent.
In vacations, or wherever It Is d»
sired to rest the brain, fish may, to a
certain extent, take the place of meat.
He says we should select those arti
cles that are most agreeable to our
individual tastes and so far as pos
sible we should take our meal amid
pleasant social surroundings.
In great crises that call for unusual
exertion we should rest the stomach,
that for the time the brain may work
the harder, but the deficiency of nu
trition ought always to be supplied in
the first interval of repose.
ALL MUST BEAR THE BURDEN
Children, If They Are to Be Strong
and Self-Reliant, Have to Learn
That Fact.
On the lower deck of one of our
river packets a little pile of pig iron
was carried on the trip up the river,
and when the cargo was unloaded the
pig iron was not removed, but was car
ried again on the trip down the river.
When the reason was asked, the an
s-wer was given, “She travels steadier
when she carries a weight.” And thla
is true of men and women. The world
has little use for the young man or
woman who has no furrow of thought,
and no wrinkle of responsibility. And
we are not kind to our own children
when we seek continually to shield
them from the hard things of life. We
may wish to spare them some of our
own hard experiences, but If they are
to be strong and self-reliant they must
reach it by putting themselves under
the burden, and feeling the pressure of
some of the difficult things in life. You
want your boy to be strong and man
ly; you must push him off the plank,
that he may learn of himself to swim.
“Every man shall bear his own bur
den.”—Pittsburgh Christian Advocate*
LODGE DIRECTORY.
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. & A.
M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:30 o'clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
C. T. Thompson, W. M.
G. A. Berry, Sec’y.
HOWARD CHAPTER, No. 122, R. A.
M.—meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
L. F. Magee, H. P.
R. W. Beede, Secy.
HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 320, Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs.C.,A. Berry, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec'y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 I. O. O. F.
meets every Tuesday evening. Visiting
brethern cordially invited to attend.
A. P. Holtsford, N. G.
E. L. Ware, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66.
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o’clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Dona Holtsford, N. G.
Mrs. May Claybaugh, Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 411 W. 0. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
L. M. DeSpain, C. C.
J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain &, Southern.
LITTLE ROCK A MONROE RY.
South North
5:25 a. m . . Huttig 3:23 p. m
7:55 a. m Monroe 1:00 p.m
local. *
Leaves Arrives
11:55 p. m. .. Huttig . 12:15 p.m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain 4, Southern
FARMERVILLE A SOUTHERN RY.
North South
4:42 a. m. Huttig 3:54 p. m
3:15 a.m. Farmerville 5:20 p. m
local, f
10:15a.m. Huttig 2:25 p.m.
tArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
ville.
’Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe.
NEILL C. MARSH
Lawyer
Practice in All Courts. Rocms 15 and
16, Postoffice Building
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