HOW TO MAKE YOUR
COM GRADE UP
Must Be Harvested Promptly and
Handled Promptly To Get
Top Price.
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By W. E. Ayres, Arkansas Experi
ment Station.
Now that the cotton crop is practi
cally made it is necessary that it bo
harvested promptly and handled
properly. Cotton is sold on the best
markets on the basis of its grade.
Quality of lint, color, amount of trash
and dirt, tinges and stains, and gin
cuts are the factors which determine
the grade of a cotton sample. The
highest grades are produced by cotton
from the first picking if this picking
is done at the proper time and with
proper care.
Three Pickings Necessary.
If the cotton crop is to be harvested
In the best condition at least three
pickings are necessary. Picking
should be begun as soon as a good
picker can pick 125 pounds per day.
A second picking should be made
when three-fourths to five-sixths of
the crop is open. A third picking
should be made before the frosted
“top crop” opens. The frosted cot
ton should be harvested but should
never be mixed with the superior cot
ton of earlier harvests. The same is
*true of faulty bolls and locks and
weathered cotton from thp ground.
Have Clean Cotton.
To pick cotton free from trash re
quires more labor than to merely
"gather” it, and all unnecessary trash
should be avoided. Clean cotton pro
duces a better grade and therefore
sells for a better price. Mixing in
ferior cotton with cotton of better
quality always mean loss. This loss
is variable, but may, in extreme cases,
amount to fifteen or twenty dollars
per hale. By mixing small amounts—
as much as one hundred pounds—of
poor cotton with cotton of the first
picking, bales are often produced
which sell for less than they would
have brought had the poor cotton
been left out.
Keep Cotton Dry.
Ample storage room shoutd be pro
vided so that no picked cotton will
have to be exposed to the weather.
With the coming of 25 cent cotton the
practice of piling picked cotton on
the ground in the field should sure
ly cease.
Cotton picked while wet should be
spread over the top of the pile, or on
a sheet in the sun and dried thor
oughly. Naps and gin cuts result from
ginning wet cotton. Bales carrying
these imperfections arc always bought
at a discount.
The hack yard or lot is too often
I used as a storehouse for baled cotton.
| The bales are often thrown off in such
j places for a "few’ days” which last
: for months. Cotton so exposed ab
sorb* moisture and blues (rots). Such
i cotton sells for eight to twenty dol
i lars less than it would have brought
. had it been properly stored. All
| bales should be housed or at least
put off the ground under a shed—
THEY SHOULD BE KEPT DRY.
Don’t Sell Cotton in the Seed.
The practice of selling cotton in the
seed is another source of loss. No
buyer can determine the grade, the
per cent lint, nor the shrinkage due
to moisture, of seed cotton. For this
reason all buyers of such cotton must
buy at low figures to avoid risk. It
is a safe guess that cotton sold in
the seed brings ten dollars per bale
less than It is worth.
The state produced 1,134,000 bales
of cotton in 1916, worth approximate
ly $100,000,000. It is safe to estimate
that on such a crop no less than $5,
000,000 would have been saved by ob
serving the six cotton don’t*:
Six Cotton Don’ts.
Don’t let open cotton remain in the
field.
Don’t harvest any more trash than
can be avoided.
Don’t mix inferior cotton w’ith that
of better quality.
Don’t pile picked cotton Bn the
ground in the open.
Don’t gin damp cotton.
Don’t allow baled cotton to take the
weather.
Save the Best For Seed.
All cotton is not good cotton. Some
varieties have the ability to produce
from $12.00 to $15.00 worth of cotton
per acre more than others, according
to results obtained at the Arkansas
Experiment Station. This difference
has largely been brought about by
careful selection of planting seed. Un
der the usual farming conditions in
Arkansas cotton deteriorates very
rapidly from year to year because of
failure to select the best seed and
because of admixture at time of gin
ning. This deterioration can be over
come and cotton can be improved by
careful seed selection. Choose next
year’s planting seed while the crop is
still in the field. Have good pickers
go over the field ahead of the regu
lar force and save the best bolls from
the best plants, choosing from those
that show ability to yield; watch also
for earliness, for size of boll and for
storm resistance. Get the best, got
enough of the best to make at least
one bale, have this ginned free from
admixture and save the seed for plant
ing purposes. Good seed selection
will mean an increase of several dol
lars per acre next year.
Mrs. Sarah McConaughty kept e
boarding house in the heart of th<
Catskills. She was assisted in the
various duties of her position by hei
daughter, Margaret, who was as prettj
an Irish girl as could be found in a
day’s Journey, and whenever her eyes
met those of Walter Bloke she bocnme
even prettier.
Walter had come to Ferndale In the
early summer, and there he had met
another Margaret, a Miss Fischer,
whose home was in New York. She
had admirers by the score, and Walter
Blake was one of them. During the
first part of his visit, he had followed
her around much in the manner of a
faithful collie who will not be driven
back when his master wants to go
somewhere without him.
But one night he had disconsolately
watched her drive over the hills with
Edgar Nolan, and turning, had found
Margaret MeConnughty looking at him
with the hint of a twinkle in her eyes.
Seized by a sudden impulse, he had
asked her to drive with him, and they
had gone together to the movies in
Liberty. The boy had frankly enjoyed
himself that night, while as for Mar
garet It became the event by which
al. other Incidents of the summer were
measured
After that, they saw each other fre
quently, but one night when Walter
had asked her to go with him to a
barn dance in one of the neighboring
hotels she had been forced to refuse
hecause of the stern necessity of help
ing her mother with the supper dishes.
And he had been Inclined to argue.
“I don’t believe you want to go,”
he had said.
“But I do.” Margaret’s eyes had
begged for confidence, but Walter had
turned away.
“All right,” he had announced. "I'll
ask Miss Fischer.”
Three days had passed since then,
| and Blake hud paid little attention to
his country friend. He was contin
uously in the company of her rival,
however
On Saturday evening, however, an
hour before the strawberry festival
was scheduled to be held In the village
church, Walter found Mnrgnret Mc
Conaughty sitting on the back porch
hulling berries.
i “Art- you going to the festival to
night?” he asked.
I “I'm going to have a little festival
all of my own,” she answered. "There
are fifteen boxes to be hulled before
I go to ben tonight."
“But can’t you just sneak away and
r.ct do them?" He did not understand
that Mrs, McConaughty was accus
£
tom pa to he obeyed.
Hu* before she was driven a rhonce
to answet, another figure appeared at
the foot of the steps. It was Margaret
Flschei
“Oh. hello, Walter!" She spoke with
apparent surprise, Just as If sbe had
not known that her most faithful fol
lowet had been talking to Miss Mc
Conaught.v for the past ten minutes.
“We'd better start for the festival
soon."
“I don’t know whether I’ll go or
not.’ Foi some reason or other, he
did not seem especially pleased at the
Interruption.
“Oh. come on; I’ve saved a place
for you beside me In the wagon.” She
seized his hand playfully, and led him
off hall reluctantly.
“He’ll b? sitting there In the dark
with her,” Margaret said to herself.
“And then he can’t see the paint and
powder on her face. She’ll be all
dressed up in her Broadway togs, and
he won't give a thought to me sitting
here hulling berries. I hate the
things." She took a red and rosy one
from the box and threw it vehemently
into the darkness at the rear of the
house. It struck something with a soft
thud.
“I’lease don’t fire at me,” a voice
pleaded.
Hei heart Jumped as Walter Blake
appeared at the foot of the steps.
“I didn't know you were there?”
she laughed. "Wh»t are you doing in
the back yard?”
"Just walking around.”
“Aren’t you going to the festival?”
She looked at him hopefully.
“Yes.” Her hopes fell.
"With Margaret, I suppose?’
“Yes.” he answered soberly, “with'
Margaret.”
She returned gloomily to her berries,
while he wached her silently. Mar
garet Fischer’s voice floated to them
from the front of the house.
“Ob. Walter, nfe you coming?” r
Blake did not answer.
"I'll go and find him,” they heard
her say.
She found him where she had ex
pected to.
“Hurry up,” she said lightly. “It’s
time to start.”
“I’m not going.”
“What!” She looked at him in
amazement.
“I’m not going,” he repeated. “I’ve
decided to stay home tonight."
“Oh, very well!” She spoke haught
ily, and without another word made
her way to the wagon.
Mnrgnret McConaughty looked at
her companion with a hnppy light in
her eyes.
“I thought you said you were going
to the festival with Margaret?” she
questioned.
"I am,” he answered. “The festival
is going to be held right here on the
back porch, and the girl I am going
with is Margaret McConaughty.”
(Copyright, 1918. by the McClure Newspa
per Syndicate.)
Garibaldis for Freedom.
Where his study window looks out
on the yellow waters of the Tiber,
winding through the Koine for which
be fought so long and bravely, I lis
tened, one afternoon In late December,
to that fiery old warrior, Gen. Rlcciot
tl Garibaldi, w’hlle he spoke of the war
and of Italy’s part in it, Lewis R. Free
man writes in World's Work. “All of
my boys are fighting,” he had said,
“and my daughters and my wife are
nursing. Two of the boys are gone—
killed in France—but the other five
are with the Italian army. They are
all good fighters, I think; but one of
them—Pepplno, the eldest—is also an
able soldier. Or at least he ought to
be, for he has been trained in the
‘Garibaldi’ school. There hasn’t been
a war (save that between Russia and
Japan) or revolution In any part of
the world in the last twenty years in
which he hasn’t drawn a sword, car
ried a rifle or swung a machete.”
Babies' Cries Set to Music.
The crying of babies is not regard
ed as musical, but nevertheless it is.
Rev. Noel Bonava Hunt, a senior
curate of St. Matthew’s church, Wllles
den, England, bus set infants’ cries to
music. He was particularly impressed
with the benuty and musical quality of
the wuils and cries of the infants at
the baptismal services held at St. Mat
thew’s. He tried to persuade the
church musicians to catch the sounds
and set them to music, but they re
fused. At length Rev. Mr. Hunt him
self recorded the sounds in the form
of a chant set to the words of the One
Hundred and Thirty-seventh psalm:
“By the waters of Babylon we sat
down and wept, when we remembered
thee, O Zion.” “The composition is
original,” Rev. Mr. Hunt says, “and it
is a little grotesque, but it is musical.
It represents the meaning of the words
to which it is set.”
Bauxite In British Guiana.
Bauxite in considerable quantities
has been discovered in British Guiana.
Prospecting and development work
has been carried on for the past two
and one-half years with satisfactory
results, and today the first shipment
of this product is being inude, a full
cargo of 980 tons being sent to con
signees in the United States. Develop
ment work hus now reached a stage
where a steady output Is assured, and
other shipments are expected to fol
low at frequent Intervals.
More Than Fair Exchange.
Grandma said to little Romaine:
“Your mamma took my boy away from
me.” The little fellow sought in vain
for some excuse for this act on his
parent’s part, and then suddenly point
ed dramatically to his mother and sis
ter, who were sitting In the corner
together, and then to himself and an
swered. “Well, see what you got 1”
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROCK * MONROE RY.
South North
7:46 a. m.Huttig .5:59 p. m
9:50 a. m. Monroe .. 2:07 p. mj
local. *
Leaves Arrives
11:25 a. m.. Huttig . 12:50 p. m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain &, Southern
FARMERViLLE A SOUTHERN RY.
North South
5:22 a. m. Huttig 2:32 p. m
7:21 a. m. _Farmerville 6:45 p. m
local, f
10:10 a.m.. Huttig 2:22 p.m.
tArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
viile.
* Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe.
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.
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. St
S. M.—Meets every fourth Wednesday
! night of each month. Visiting compan
ions welcome. T. B. Weaver, T. 1. 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. O. O. 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. 0. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
Lester Malone, C. C.
J. C. Bridges. Clerk.
Sweet Bay Circle No. 146, W. C..
meets every second and fourth Thursday
night at 7:30 o’clock. Visitors are cor
dially invited.
Mrs. E. S. Etheridge, Guardain.
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