II NATIONAL CRISIS;
FOOD THE 610 ITEM
Mr. Farmer, Protect Your Family
Join the Army of Food Pre
paredness—Do It Now.
MR. CITIZEN, WH.L YOU DO
YOUR SHARE?
Farmers, Uncle Sam needs you at
homel
Hon. D. F. Houston, Secretary of
Agrlculture, member of President W'l
son’s Cabinet, has made these decla
rations:
1. Upon the American farmer rests
the final responsibility of winning
this war.
2. The world's supply of surplus
food is practically exhausted.
3. America must feed herself and
her allies.
4. Prices for all kinds of crops are
6ure to be high.
5. Every farm should be made to
produce as much as possible.
The South Will Contribute.
1. Every farmer must protect his
family by raising a sufficient supply
of products for home consumption.
2. Every farmer must have one or
two milk cows, hogs sufficient for his
meat supply and plenty of chickens.
3. Plant velvet beans, soy beans,
cowpeas, or peanuts in every acre of
corn.
4. Plant sufficient of staple food
and feed crops, corn, cowpeas, soy
beans, velvet beans, peanuts, Sudan
grass, sorghum, etc., to furnish ample
supply for all stock on the place.
5. The world must have cotton.
IS. Make every acre planted to cot
ton produce a maximum yield.
7. Plans are being made by the
government to market all surplus sup
plies for the farmer.
A Patriotic Duty To Raise Food Sup
pi/ For Family.
By Harry P. Kapp. District Agent,
Southwest Arkansas.
Mr. Farmer, It is your patriotic duty
in the present national crisis to raise
a food supply sufficient to protect
your family and to produce maximum
crops on every tillable acre of land.
Prices for all kinds of food crops
will be high and the government is
making plans to market your surplus.
If maximum crops are to be had,
attention must be given to early cul
tivation and the proper implements
shonld be used.
Remember, young plants in the field
must have the beat opportunity to
live and grow 1/ the largest crop* are
' to be obtained.
Early Cultivation Means Big Crops.
Mwt of the Arkansas farms have
j been tilled In such a manner as to rob
J the soil of its humus supply. In this
condition soils pack extremely hard
| from our beating rains and crust heav
ily after a rain followed by a couple
of days of sunshine.
Don’t Allow Soil To Pack.
If the young plants are permitted
j to stand in hard, packed crusted
1 ground it cannot be expected that
1 they will make the rapid, sturdy
j growth necessary to maximum crop
production. The importance of early
| cultivation must be so apparent to
the thinking farmer that discussion
at length is unnecessary.
Use a Section Harrow.
The question then is—What is the
! best implement a farmer can use for
| early and rapid cultivation? Our an
swer is, A fifty or sixty tooth iron
j section harrow. It is not an expensive
I implement; it is one that is needed
on every farm at all seasons. With
a good team fifteen acres per day can
be cultivated. The teeth are adjust
able so that the ground can be pul
verized with a minimum amount of
digging that would tear up the plants.
The section harrow can be used be
fore and after the seeds are up. When
a beating rain follows the planting of
a crop the harrow should he used Just
as soon as the ground will pulverise.
This will prevent crusting, form a
mulch for the retention of moisture,
warm up the ground, enable the young
plants to come up without difficulty
and promote their rapid growth. If
corn or cotton is not. planted on a
high bed—a practice that shouM not
be followed except on badly drained
lands—the section harrow can he
safely used after the plants are well
tip. It is the best early cultivation
that can be given such crops. It breaks
and pulverizes the whole surface in
and out of the row. It kills all the
early weed growth and gives the crop
every chance for the rapid growth so
highly desirable.
Cultivate With Care.
In harrowing corn or cotton after
the plants aje up the team should
not be driven with tho. rows nor di
rectly across them. If the rows are
followed a harrow tooth is likely to
plumb the center of the row and tear
up all the plants. If the driving is
done directly across the rows the
whole top of the row may be pulled
off if planted on a slight bed or roll
«s It should b* firive diagonally
across the rows each time. Always
cross harrow after the first operation.
Corn may be harrowed until it Is so
tall that it will break and cotton until
It is chopped out.
'Try the harrow, Farmer. It is
the speediest, best early cultivator
you can use. If you are afraid It wtll
ruin your crop, try H on an acre or
two and watch results.
Beware Deadly Nightshade Berries.
T)je berries of the deadly nightshade
(•tropa belladonna), now ripe, are
such a tempting fruit for children that
they and their parents ought to know
the plant and the terrible danger of
eating its berries. These are the
source from which the poisons atro
pine nnd belladonna are made.
Tl'.e deadly nightshade grows from
three to five feet high on strong,
branched, purple-colored stems. Its
pointed, oval leaves vary in size and
stand in pairs on short foot stalks.
The flowers are purple, pendent and
bell-shaped. These appear in June
and July, and give place to shining
black berries in August and Septem
ber.
This poisonous herb is of the same
family as the tomato and potato.
Georgia Fish Go on Spree.
■Walter Taylor, city clerk of Atlanta,
Ga., declares that the tisli In South
river should have the attention of the
Humane society. They are being gross
ly mistreated by the city, since the
police began dumping “blind tiger”
liquor in the sewers, be states.
He said after a trip to the river
with Oscar Cochran, manager of the
city parks, that he found the fish in
a maudlin condition, due to excessive
use of alcohol. Most of them were in
h disgraceful state of intoxication, and
the ones that were not were fighting to
get their share.
He says the river is rapidly becoming
stocked with fish from further down
the stream, coming up to get a share
of the liquid. And he adds that the
inhabitants of the region are trying to
find some way to extract the alcohol
without having to eat the fish, recogniz
ing that the two don’t go well to
gether.
Price of Roses.
A small flower shop in the humbler
quarters of n Southern city. A young
hospital nurse, still in training, is
asking the price of roses, her rounded
cheek, itself a rose, half turned to the
open door.
The daily tasks of the hospital
training school are exhausting. But
she has managed to embroider a work,
bag—a wedding present wrought by
her own hands—and she seeks to
adorn the package with n few buds.
To the question she puts there Is
no reply; only a thoughtful look.
Such voice as is “an excellent thing
in woman” repeats it. Then the wom
an of the shop, quietly:
“I heard you the first time, de*r,
and I’ve heard your voice before. You
were good, so good, to my Alice at the
hospital. How she suffered! And
how patient to the end 1”
Then, turning to the boy, she bids
him give the lady all the flowers she
nitty need. And she herself pins a
! white rose on the young nurse’s
I bosom.—New York Independent.
Tell-Tale Signs Mark Benedict
By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for a heritage.
How can you tell whether or not a
man’s married? Why it’s simple
e u o u g h. Just
watch him for tell
tale signs. The sin
gle man is usually
polite to the la
dies, hut not over
officious. The idar
rled man is over
zealous in his ef
forts to make him
self agreeable Jo
the feminine sex.
The single mun is
not often, if ever,
staring after
young girls. The
married man sel
dom lets one pass
h i m unobserved.
Of course he may
he just comparing
them with his wife or daughters. We
will suppose this to be the case and
let it go at that.
A single man is not versed in the
ways of women and takes no chances
in trying to get up a flirtation with a
charming young widow. The mairied
man gives a widow back ns many
glances as she turns in his direction,
lie knows she could not accuse him of
flirting.
The married man is nlwnys looking
after babies he sees on the street. Put
ting them on the head, dangling them
on his knees or whistling to them if
they are at arm’s length, is his way,
The single man steers clear of them.
If one was thrust within his arms he
would bt> nettled until someone relieved
him of the burden he held so awk
wardly.
The married man does not stammer
or grow confused in the presence of
women. On the contrary, he enjoys
confusing the gentler sex. A married
man cannot accept an invitation to an
affair offhand. He knows very well
that his wife will have something to
say about that. A single man's hours
are his own outside of business. There
is no one to dictate what he may or
may not do. He can make an engage
ment on the spur of the moment for
anything thnt suits his fancy.
The married man shows his responsi
bilities on his face. The single man’s
face shows absence of them. The
married man shows plainly that he has
no heart to lose. The single man’s at
titude toward women shows that he is
looking about for the right one.
The married man has no real interest
in any woman outside of his own fam
ily or circle of close friends. The sin
gle man has interest wherever there
are likeable young ladies who appeal
to him. A married man is always ready
to go to his dinner at the tap of the
hotel gong. If a single man Is con
versing with a single young lady he
forgets dinner, everything in the pleas
ure of her charming presence.
There are upward of a thousand
ways, never failing signs, by which you
can tell whether a man’s married or
single. Hut if you have mastered the
few hints given you here you have
learned quite enough to help you deter
mine whether the fascinating stranger
you have recently met is married or
single.
(Copyright, 1317 )
We Gan Make You Some Good Clubbing Rates.
Training Children.
Do not bo afraid of lotting your chil
dren enjoy themselves. Make them
just as happy as you possibly can, even
if they do break a piece of furniture or
ft little bric-a-brac once in a while. It
is infinitely more important to train
children to cultivate a happy temper
ament, to try to establish in them the
hopeful, cheerful, optimistic habit, than
to Rive them n college education or
leave them a fortune. It is infinitely
more important to show them how to
; face life heroically, cheerfully, serene
ly. than how to make money or to at
tain fame.—The Mother’s Magazine.
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Biggest Natural Bridges.
The biggest natural bridge* In the
world are to he found In the United
States, according to the National Geo
graphic Magazine. The largest of
these, the Rainbow, 308 feet high,
would span the dome of the United
States capitol, with room to spare, and
is nearly as high as the Flatiron
building, in New York. Its span is
six times us great as that of the Nat
ural Bridge of Virginia. Utah alone
has three natural bridges thut are
higher and of greater span than any
other nuturul bridge in the world.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROCK 6 MONROE RY.
South North
7:45 a. m.Huttig . 5:69 p. m
9:50 a. m Monroe 2:07 p. m
local. *
Leaves Arrives
11:25 a. m.. Huttig 12:30 p.m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
FARMERVILLE * SOUTHERN RY.
North South
5:22 a. m. Huttig . 2:32 p. m
7:21 a. m. Farmerville. 5:45 p. m
local, t
10:10 a.m. Huttig 2:22 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.
10DGE DIRECTORY
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. & A.
M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:50 o’clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
T. B. Weaver, W. M.
W. P. Reasons, Sec’y.
HOWARD CHAPTER, No. 122, R. A.
M.—meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
J. M. Gibson, H. P.
C. A. Berry, Secy.
ZEDEKIAH, COUNCIL. U. D.. R. &,
S. M. Meets every fourth Wednesday
night of each month. Visiting compan
ions welcome. T. B. Weaver, T. I. M.
R. N. Benson, Recorder.
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. J. A. Brignac. W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec’y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 I. 0. 0. F.
meets every first and third Tuesday eve
ning. All brethern cordially invited.
H. C. Bedford, N. G.
Harlan Sehon, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66,
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o'clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Wilkie Frost. N. G.
Mrs. Murray Maroney, Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 4 1 1 W. O. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
Lester Malone, C. C.
J. C. Bridges. Clerk.
Sweet Bay Circle No. 145, W. C..
meets every second and fourth Thursday
night at 7:30 o’clock. Visitors are cor
dially invited.
Mrs. E. S. Etheridge. Guardain.
Mrs. J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
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