HOW CATTLE TICKS
AFFECT THE PRICES
Government Report Shows
Ticks Cost Arkansas Fanners
Enormous Sum Every Year.
According to a report just is
sued from the Department of
Agriculture at Washington, the
cattle over two years of age in
ten tick infested states—North
and South Carolina. Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Florida,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklaho
ma, and Texas—was $25.90 on
January 1, 1916. For the re
mainder of the country on
that date, it was $48.47. In
every tick-free State, with the
excetion of Vermont and Ten
nessee, the average value was
$40 or more and in eighteen
the average was over $50.
There are two reasons why
cattle in a ticky country are
worth less than in a tick-free
one. They weigh less and they
bring less per pound. They
bring less because they cannot
be sold on the open market but
must be disposed of in quaran
tine pens for immediate slaugh
ter only. Experienced dealers
estimate that buyers offer from
fifty cents to two dollars a hun
dred less for cattle from below;
the quarantine Jineandtheown
er, who cannot tranship his
herd to another market or sell
the animals as feeders, is in no
position to stand out for a bet
ter price.
1 it*ky cattle weigh less be
cause they are scrubs to begin
with and because the ticksucks
the blood they need to make
flesh. Experiments have shown
that when the ticks are abun
dant they will take in the
course of a year 200 pounds of
blood from a thousand-pound
steer. They don’t take it all at
once of course, but they take
it nevertheless and the steer,
in order to live, has to make
new blood. While he is busy at
that, he* is not likely to‘put on
much weight. Fattening ticky
steers is like trying to keep a
leaky barrel full; there is a lot
of waste in the procer.s.
Furthermore, as all cattle
men know,there is more money
in grade stock than in scrubs.
Elsewhere in the country farm
ers are turning their attention
to grading up their herds, to
securing animals that will re
spond to good treatment and
feed; in the tick-infested sec
tions of the South this has been
impossible for no one will risk
bringing pure-bred bulls into a
ticky country to die from Tex
as fever.
NOTICE OF CURIA DRAIN
AGE DISTRICT TAXES
Notice is hereby given that
the tax books for Curia Drain
age District have been placed
in my hands, and that the tax
es for the year 1915 are now
due thereon. By order of the
Board of Directors the taxes
must be paid not later than
July 15, 191(>, after which time
a penalty of 25 per cent, and
interest, will immediately at
tach. Payment can be made to
the undersigned or to the Citi
zens Bank & Trust Co., of J
Batesville, Ark.
CHAS. F. COLE,
Collector.
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SWEET potatoes
This can be a profitable crop
or a failure. Success will usual
ly call for cooperation. It will
pay each neighborhood to
plant the same variety and
plant what tin* northern mar
kid wants, the Jersey or the
Nancy Hall for certain markets.
Then all should agree to cull
and grade and ship stuff in
fine condition. The little po
tatoes and big potatoes should
be kept for home use and for
the pigs. Then it will pay to be
safe and build a storehouse.
Write the Experiment Station,
Fayetteville for the sweet po
tato bulletin. The most import
ant point is neighborhood co
operation in variety and in
marketing, o
INFERTILE EGGS
Great porgress has been
[made in Arkansas this season
in the matter of marketing in
fertile eggs. Many cars of olo
roosters have been shipped out,
and in many places hotels and
dealers are paying a premium j
on infertile eggs. It will pay
famerrs in a neighborhood to
work together on this and mar- i
ket eggs by the case, all guar
anteed infertile and market ;
twice a week.Don’t keep roost- i
ers with the hens during the .
summer. i
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USE ARKANSAS GOODS
Why not put our patriotism i
Lo a plain, practical test ami
always ask for Arkansas goods?
Two thousand girls will soon
begin to can tomatoes. Thou
sands of farmers’ wives will
soon begin to can various vege
tables for their home use and
will have some to sell. There
are several excellent canning
factories in Arkansas. Let Akr
ansas cities buy Arkansas can
ned goods. Then let us all buy
goods made in Arkansas, fur
niture, wagons, and everything
made in Arkansas, in prefer
ence to things made elsewhere.
In many towns there are small
shops that make useful articles
that are not bought readily by
the townspeople and the far
mers. A man in Arkansas a few
weeks ago went to a store to
buy a garden fork handle and
was sold a handle made in In
dianna when there was a fac
tory in that to\yn making han
dles just as good and probably
the handle he had to buy was
made of Arkansas wood. Ask
for Arkansas goods.
GROW CLOVERS
Plan it now. a clover seed
ing schedule. Sow bur clover
on all the Bermuda grass. It
makes the best of winter pas
ture and saves corn and hay.
Sow two bushels of seed in the
bur or fifteen pounds of hulled
seed broadcast. It is not con
sidered necessary to plow, disk,
or harrow the Bermuda tostart
the bur clover. For every
twelve acres in cotton sow the
best acre in bur clover, (three
bushels in the bur) and cover
with the A harrow. Try two
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thought the pain would kill me. 1 was hardly able
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as well as run a big water mill.
I wish every suffering woman would give
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and it always does me good.”
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET
For Governor—
CHAS. H. BROUGH
For Congressman—
W. A. OLDFIELD
For Circuit Judge—
DENE H. COLEMAN
For Prosecuting Attorney—
EARLE CASEY
For Representative—
JAS. K. YORK
S. A. MOORE
For County Judge—
T. M. VALDRIP
For Sheriff—
LAWRENCE RUDDELL
For Circuit Clerk—
B. F. ADAMS
For County Clerk—
E. R. HOOPER
For Tax Collector—
S. D. LINDSEY
For Tax Assessor—
GEORGE W. WYATT
For County Treasurer—
W. R. WESTBROOK
For Surveyor—
J. P. MILES
For Coroner
A. R. TUNSTALL
good acres in crimson clover.
Fifteen pounds to the acre,cov
ered lightly, should be suffi
cient. It grows in winter, pro
tects the soil from washing,
minimizes leaching, furnishes
early spirng pasture adds nitro
gen to the soil, and makes a
good green manure crop for
turning under previous to the
next cotton or corn crop. For
more forage sow 25 pounds of
hairy vetch with two bushels
of winter turf oats or with four
pecks of rye. This produces
usually about one ton of hay
per acre, at a time of year
when the land otherwise would
be idle.
STATE HOSPITAL SAVES
$23.75 A DAY ON MILK
Hospital Uses 250 Gallons a
Day and Board Makes New
Contract at Big Saving.
Little Rock, June 20.—Haz
en is to supply the State with
milk for the 1,900 or more pa
tients at the State Hospital for
Nervous Diseases. Beginning
July 15, Little Rock dairies no
longer furnish the milk for the
institution.
The Board of Control has
contracted with brokers at Ha
zen to furnish 250 gallons of
milk a day, at an average price
of 21 1-2 cents a gallon, deliv
ered. The milk, under the con
tract, must contain not lessthan
4 per cent butter fat.Under the
contract the State, during some
months, will pay 24 cents a
gallon, and in other months as
low as 19 cents, making an av
erage cost of 21 1-2 cents.
At present the State is pay
ing 22 1-2 cents a gallon, the
milk to contain 3 1-2 per cent
butter fat. The board has found
the milk unsatisfactory, mem
bers say.
The old State Board of Char
ities paid 31 cents a gallon for
milk containing 3 1-2 per cent
butter fat. Comparing the price
to be paid after July 15 with
that paid by the old board, the
new contract will save the
State $23.75 a day on its milk
bill.
PROHIBITION LAW
IS AGAIN UPHELD
Constitutionality of Two Con
tested Sections Declared
Good By Supreme Court.
Little Rock, June 1 !>.—The
supreme court today passed
upon two contested sections of
the statewide prohibition act,
upholding in each case their
constitutionality.
The law was attacked be
cause a corporation, for viola
tions of the law, could not be
punished only by a one-year
penitentiary sentence. Secondly'
because the law fixed the pun
ishment and left no decision
with the judge or jury,and that
it denied the right for a judge
to suspend sentence.
All tht* contentions were ov
erruled by the supreme court.
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CARE AND ATTENTION
OF LATE POTATOES
Good Seed Should be Used and
Planting Done About 15th
or 20th of July.
The early potato crop is
about ready to be dug and mar
keted. and the time to consider
the late potato crops is here.
Nothing is more necessary for
table use than the potato. Ev
ery hotel and restaurant in thi
land serves potatoes practically
every meal, 365 days in the
year. This is an index to the
value of the potato as tabic
food. It is at the home of the
potato, on the farm, where this
nutritious and edible vegetalbe
is absent at the greatest num
ber of meals. This should not
be. and the difficulty can be
overcome. Too many ot our 1 ai
mers content themsevles with a
small crop of early potatoes
and fail to plant a late crop,
with the result that the early
potatoes do not keep through
the fall and winter and the
family does without potatoes
through the winter or they are
bought from the store at a high
price. This should not be.
Splendid varieties of late po
tatoes that are good keepers
can be grown where the early
potatoes grew. They will keep
well through the winter with
ordinary care, and will help
round out many a good meal.
Often an early variety of po
tato is planted as a second crop
but seldom with satisfactory re
sults. One trouble is the poor
stand and another is the poor
keeping qualities of some ofthe
varieties.
To get a good stand for a
second crop of an early variety
always use a potato of last
year’s crop, that has been kept
in cellars or cold storage. Cold
storage potatoes of last year’s
crop planted in two or three
days after taking out of stor
age will give a good stand.
A variety of potato known as
the “Lookout Mountain,” has
obtained some notoriety as a
late potato. It hail its origin or
Lookout Mountain, Tenn. It bar
given very satisfactory results
in this state. The yield is good
they are a white potato ant
good keepers. They are growr
extensively by the Bonanzt
Seed Farms, at Booneville, ant
been selected by them as tht
best variety for Arkansas.
To grow these otatoes mos
successfully, break your hint
deep, disc and harrow it wel
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and got in good condition, and
plant from July 15 to 20. As
soon as your early potatoes are
dug plow up the ground and
begin to get in shape ofr tin*
late crop.. Break the land a
second time, double disc and
harrow just before planting'
time. Always cut the potatoes
in the afternoon and plant the
next morning. Some try the
wetting process to insure a
good stand, which is to pour
the potatoes into a large tub of
water. As you pick up the po
tatoes, first rub off all sprouts
and then cut and put back into
the sacks. Late in the afternoon
open the mouths of the sacks
land pour more water over the
potatoes, two or three times,
i The next morning plant rather
deep in a fresh furrow and cov
!jer well. The wetting of the
potatoes tends to make them
'Ifirm and aids in germinating.
(This process usually gives a
good stand, wet or dry. Of
(course, cultivate well and if
. your land is poor add wtll rot
ted manure in small quantities,
commercial fertilizer of wood
ashes.
J. H. PAOK, Commissioner
NOTICE OF DATES
FOR DIPPING CATTLE
The undersigned will be at
the following vats on dates
named, for the purpose of su
pervising the dipping of cattle.
All cattle owners are requested
to have thi ir cattle at their re
spective vats on dates as given
below:
Leggett Vat.—June 13, July
13 and 25, August 15, Septem
ber 5 and 26, October 17.
Moon-field Vat.—June 15,
.July 6 and 27, August 17, Sep
tember 7 and 2S, October 19.
Newark Vat.—June 19, July
10 and 51. August 21. Septem
ber 1 1, October 2 and 23.
Self Vat.—May 31. June 21,
July 21. August 2 and 23, Sep
tember 13, October 1 and 25.
T. A. SHARP,
Inspector, Batesville.
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