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Published Every Friday at McCrory, Ark
WALTER W. RANEY, Ed. and Pub.
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Phone: 40
Entered as second-class mat
t r August 26, 1915, at the post
'rfice at McCrory, Ark., under
> Act of March 3, 1879.
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THE CORN CROP
Half the corn crop raised in
Arkansas does not pay the
cost of raising. Another crop
should be raised at the same
time with the corn. It is only
on rich land that in an average
year corn alone will pay.
John MqCrosky, Pulaski
County, planted velvet beans
last spring in corn, one bean to
each stalk of corn. The soil
was sandy, bottom land that
had been in cultivation many
years. The yield of corn was
35 bushels an acre. The
bans in the pod, taken from
one virfe that covered one corn
plant, weighed 2 pounds 10
ounces thoroughly dried.
With single stalks of corn 4
feet by 4 feet apart each way
and such a vine on each s*talk,
the yield of beans in the pod
would be more than 7,000
pounds. The feed value of
this quantity of velvet beans
in the pod is greater than 100
uusneis oi corn. nit; vuics
and leaves yielded more than
IV2 tons dry feed an acre.
Mh McCrosky, by planting
on bottom land velvet beans
with his corn, raised four
times as much feed an acre as
he would if he had planted
corn alone, and the velvet
beans made the soil richer.
Dr. W. B. Dormon, Nash
ville, Arkansas, planted com
on thin upland, making the
rows 6 feet apart. On part of
the field he planted velvet
beans in the row with corn
and on the other part soy
beans in the corn rows. He
planted the middles in all
the field with Spanish pea
nuts. The corn planted on
neighbors’ fields adjoining!
Produced 10 bushels an acre.!
The late cultivation given the!
Peanuts made Dormon’s corn
yield 12 bushels an acre.
The crops were gathered in:
the field by hogs, saving the;
c°st. of labor. Enough of
each crop was gathered to
find the yield. The average
Tield per acre was: Corn, 12
bushels; Spanish peanuts, 20
bushels; soy beans, 25 bushels,
jjnd velvet beans, 40 bushels.
The average yield of the
nhxed crop on 40 acres had a
feed value equal to 85 bushels
of corn an acre.
Dr. Dormon, on upland, by
planting velvet beans, soy
beans and Spanish peanuts
with corn, produced 8V2
times as much feed as where
corn was planted alone and1
the velvet beans made the
soil richer.
Dr. Bradford Knapp told
me that in the past two years1
velvet beans had matured at
the Experiment Station, Fay
etteville. This is in the
northern part of the State.
They will grow on any land
that will produce cotton, and
besides yielding well, they
make the soil richer.
H. M. COTTRELL, Arkansas
Profitable Farming Bureau,
Board of Commerce, Little
Rock, Ark.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
The following marriage li
censes were issued the past
week through the Bank of
McCrory:
March, 12, 1921, Mr. E. C.
Massey, 27, and Miss Carmon
Covington, 27, both of McCrory
PICKERS WANTED FOR
STRAWBERRY CROP.
We want for the coming
strawberry crop 2000 (Two;
Thousand) pickers. Picking!
will start about middle of
April. We pay two and one
half (21/2) cents per quart
for picking. Houses fur
nished to families. Apply to
SHIPPERS UNION or A. M.
KITTLER, Pres., Judsonia,
Ark. Adv. 3-ll-3tc.
Mr. H. Arnof spent this
weekdn Memphis.
Mr. Geo. H. Proulx is doing
some extensive improvements
at his home.
Mr. T. T. Loftis returned
Sunday from a business trip
to Little Rock.
Sewing Wanted: See Mrs.
Maud Pemberton at Mrs.
Lula Shue’s hotel. Adv. 3tp.
It is reported that Mr. Vern
Hollemann is a victim of small
pox at the home of his father,
Mr. ^Frank Hollemann, near
Tip.
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Feb. Prices . Mar.
WINDOWS
14x16....$4.00 14x16.—$3.25
12x14.... 3.75
10x14.... 3.65
10x12.... 3.25
8x10.... 2.50
12x14.... 3.00
10x14— 2.85
10x12— 2.65
. 8x10.... 2.00
LINSEED OIL
Per gal..$1.75 Per gal..$1.50
CAN YOU BEAT IT?
THE ARKMO LUMBER CO.
J. F. RIPLEY, Manager.
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There are many Tractors clamoring for the patronage of the
farmer. The very air is charged with the noise of claims. One
would think ^iat all the farmer had to do was to buy a Tractor and he
would enter into the,.Millennium.
Well, consider this fact—there are a great many different
makes of Tractors. Tractors have been in the American market for
twenty years. In that some three hundred thousand Tractors have
been sold to the farmers in the United States.
Two and two make four. Two and two always will make four.
If the Fordson Tractor had not delivered more good work, more satis
factory work, more economical work, than any other farm Tractor, it
would not have sold in the ratio of anywhere from five and more to
one. “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.” The proof of the
superior merits of the Fordson Tractor is in its larger sale and use.
The Fordson Tractor then asks you to buy it because of what
it has done for your neighbors. It asks you to buy it on its merits. It
asks you to buy it, Mr. Farmer, because you have use for it every day
in the year. All the uses for the Fordson Tractor have not yet been un
covered because new places where machine power can take the place
of human power, where machine power can supplant horse and mule
power, are being, found every week, and wherever such discovery oc
curs, the Fordson Tractor will fill the bill more satisfactorily than any,
other form of power.
The Fordson is simple in design, and it is very strongly maue
of the highest quality of iron and steel. It is the product of the great
est mechanical genuis the world has ever known, and it is most ec
onomical in first cost and after expense. The Fordson Tractor on
your farm will increase the value of every foot of ground in that farm.
It will put more dollars and cents into every hour you put into the'
farm.
Now why not have a Fordson right away? Take up the sub
ject with us. Come in and get the details, and all the particulars,
it is only a matter of time until you buy a farm Tractor—that is sure.
So don’t put it off when it means money to you to act promptly.