Farm And Canning Demon
stration.
The farmers and farm women
of Woodruff county are beginning
to take an active interest in bet
ter methods of farming.
Meetings were held during the
week at Union Church, Tip, Hun
ter and Ebeneezer with a total
attendance of 700. The most
pleasant feature of these meet
ings was the splendid dinners
prepared by the ladies of each
community. These meetings
were held under the direction of
R. H. Abbey, county demonstra
tion agent and Miss Ruth Ander
son, canning club agent, with
the assistance of Mr. R. H. Ma
son, dairy specialist of the De
partment of Agriculture and Mr.
Earl Kilpatrick, of the Extension
Division of the University of
Arkansas.
At each of the meetings Miss
Anderson gave a demonstration
on the canning of the tomatoes
in which the women and girls,
took a great interest. Our tarm
women are beginning to realize
that more fruit and vegetables
during the winter means better
health.
Miss Anderson’s work has just
been started in the county but
even this year a large number of
girls are growing a tenth of an
acre of tomatoes and canning
them under her directions. Al
though the canning season is only
started Susie Barber, a little |
twelve year old girl of McCrory, |
has put up 538 quarts. These to
matoes are put up in neat tin cans
bearing the 4H brand which sig
nifies head, hand, heart and
health. In other words these
girls are taught to use both the
head and hand with a will which
means health and etficiency.
Next year the poultry clubs,
bread making clubs for the girls
and butter making: for the home
demonstration clubs will betaken
up.
Mr. Abbey has been pushing
the hog cholera vaccination, cul
tivation of corn and cotton, per
manent pastures and better
seeds. During the season he has
vaccinated 1,689 hogs for the |
farmers of ttoe county. Of this !
total number only eight or ten j
have been lost that were treated!
before they became sick. So
many of the farmers, Mr. Abbey'
says, wait until the herd is in-1
fected before sending for the!
county agent. The government!
claims that the vaccination is a
preventative and not a cure, so
that a treated sick hog is liable !
to die. A number of the farmers
have clubbed together, buying
instruments for themselves and
vaccinating thier hogs with much
success.
“One of the food products sad
ly neglected in all the cotton sec
tion is milk and butter,” says
Mr. Mason. While he does not
' urge dairying on a large scale he
thinks that every family should
j have one or two good milch cows,
and that these cows should be
given proper feeding and hand
ling. According to Mr. Mason
one quart of good wholesome
milk furnishes as much food as
two pounds of meat or eight
eggs. This being worthy of
some attention during these days
of high cost of living.
Every year a large number of
farmers go to the cars or the
store to get their seed corn or
the gin for their cotton seed.
This means a poor quality of seed
and reduced yields. In order to
grow the most profitable crop,
good seed, good soil, and good
cultivation must be used. The
average yield of cotton in this
state is only about a third of a
bale per acre and the yield of
corn 19.8 bushels per acre. The
value of the products will just
about pay for the cost of produc
tion of such yields. In other
words just so long as any farmer
grows yields of that kind just
that long he will not have money
to build a good home or have the
conveniences in the home that go
to make home life comfortable.
Mr. Kilpatrick says that by the
use of better seed alone the av
erage yields of the state can be
increased by at least twenty per
cent. During the week a large
number of farmers agreed to se
lect their seed corn and cotton
from tne field this season. Mr.
Abbey will visit these men and
help them in this work.
Notice of Confirmation
of Title
In The Woodruff Chancery Court,
Northern District, Sept.
Term, 1916.
E. C. Kramer, Ex-parte.
x't • 1 .
ic> ucicuy ^jveu, mat uii
this, the 19th day of July, 1916,
there has been filed in the Wood
ruff Chancery Court for the
Northern District of Woodruff
County, a petition, by E. C.
Kramer, praying- that his title to
the following lands be quieted
and confirmed in him, to-wit: —
The West half of the North
east quarter of Section 26, town
ship 7 north, range 2 west.
Any and all persons who claim
any interest in the said land are
hereby warned and called upon
to appear in the Woodruff Chan
cery Court for the Northern Dis
trict at its September Term, 1916
and show cause, if any they can,
why the title of the petitioner
should not be confirmed.
Witness my hand and seal this
19th day of July, 1916.
L. W. WlNFREE,
Clerk of the Chancery Court,
Northern District of Woodruff
County.
By T. L. Gardner, D. C. Adv. 6t.
, Chancery Sale of Real Estate.
Notice is hereby given that un
der and persuant to an order of
the Woodruff Chancery Court
for the Northern District, made
and entered at its May Term,
1716, I will sell to the highest
bidder, at public outcry, at the
front,,door of the Farmer's &
Merchants Bank building, at
McCrory, Ark., at two P. M.; on
Friday, Sept. 15th, 1916, the fol
lowing described property, to
Wit:
East part of Lot No. 12, Block
Six, of the town of McCrory, on
which lot and as a part thereof
is the Farmers & Merchants
Bank building, said building be
ing brick, 50x25 feet; and includ
ed in this sale, and as a part of
said property, are the fixtures in
the said Bank building, as follows,
to^wit:
1 fire proof vault/with shelves
arranged in order.
1 set of bank fixture rail
ings.
1 Dalton Adding _ machine.
1 Check file.
1 National Safe & Lock Co.,
screw door safe..
1 heating stove.
1 lot of chairs.
1 Todd Protectrograph check
writer.
1 lot of stationary including
letterheads, checks, pass books,
ink, and etc.,
1 counter check file.
1 Book case.
TERMS OF SALE.
This sale will be on credit of
three months.
Notes bearing interest at six
(6%) per cent will be required
for the purchase money.
Witness my hand this August
10, 1916.
(Signed) John M. Davis,
Bank Commissioner of Arkan
sas.
By Geo. W. Barber,
Denutv.
The “Devil” was in Augusta
Sunday,
If you are not in favor of pro
viding better schools for your
own town or community, do not
be so selfish or narrowminded as
to try to prevent others from
bettering their condition educa
tionally. Vote for Amendment
No. 12, and let the citizens of
the state have just as good
schools as they desire.
Only now and then is it neces
sary to reiterate the denial that
Amendment No. 12 would in
crease the tax rate. The people
are becoming well informed on
the subject, and most of them:
now know that this Amendment
only seeks to remove the restric-'
tions which now hamper the de
velopment of our schools.
More Winter Pastures.
The shortage of corn in most
parts of Arkansas ought to
make every farmer anxious to
plant wheat, rye or oats for cov
er crops and for winter pasture
Let every patriotic man in Ark
ansas urge his neighbors to have
enough winter pasture for all his
stock and lots of green stuff to
plow under next March. Rye
may be seeded for winter pas
ture from now on up to the first
of November, in cotton and corn
middles or in other fields. The
Extension Division of the Uni
versity of Arkansas and U. S.
Department of Agriculture is en
gaged with its whole force of 115
people in a campaign for clover
and other winter cover crops
and is grateful for the assistance
of the business organizations of
the state, the Arkansas Bankers’
Association, the Farm Bureaus
of the Morrmhis and T.itHo
Boards of Commerce, the Rail- '
roads and the many other pa
triotic agencies in the State.
School books are not paid for •
out of the public funds, hence no
part of the revenue which may
accrue from the adoption of
Amendment No. 12 will find its
way into coffers of the text book
publishers.
ANY MAKE OF
PLOW STOCKS
delivered on short notice
and guaranteed perfect
T. E. DYE
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