FROM MISSISSIPPI
Walls, Miss., April, 8/1921.
Editor Home News,
McCrory, Ark.
Dear Sir:
A few lines from an old
Confederate Veteran who;
once lived in good old Wood-!
ruff County when McCrory
was only a cotton field more!
than 50 years ago while the j
South was being over-run with I
earpet-bagers. Those werej
re-construction days when!
something had to be done to j
save our country. Those |
were the days of the Ku-Klux,
the grandest organization that
was ever known. They work/
ed for four long years by'
night and drove the carpet
bager out of the country,!
placed the Democrats in power j
and then, and not until then, I
the South was a free people, j
The Democrats elected their j
own oofficers and the trouble
was over.
\
I was living at that time m j
Mississippi. I got into some
trouble and was forced to
leave my home. I crossed the
river at Memphis and landed
in Woodruff county, Ark., a
stranger, in the fall of 1869
and remained there until 1872.
Those good people over there
treated me so nice I married
an Arkansas girl and have her
yet. When the Democrats got:
in power I returned home with!
much love for those Arkansas1
people and every chance Ij
have I make them a visit which
is not often. It makes me
feel sad to go back there, just
a few faces left that I knew
when I lived there, they have
nearly all crossed over the
river to their eternal reward.
Our country is facing the most
critical time just now that we
have ever faced. For the last
three or four years money was
so plentiful folks lived so high,
bought too many fine automo
biles, burned too much gaso
line and bought too much
high-priced land on install
ments. When the bottom fell
out of cotton it left them broke
and a great many farmers in
this country don’t yet know
where they can get help to
make this crop. As for my
self, I am sitting steady in the
boat and kept what money I
had and I can live one more
year if nothing breaks.
I keep posted on the times
in Woodruff county by read
ing The Home News sent me
every week by my friend, the
editor, whose father and
mother were among my best
friends.
Respectfully,
BRIT HUGHEY, Sr. j
A CASH CROP
t -
Who said strawberries?
Do you know that you are;
missing some cash money each!
year by not having a small i
acreage of strawberries on
your place? I
Won’t you be one of one
hundred farmers who will
agree and who will set out a
half or an acre of strawberries
this spring, so that we can
make car load shipments of
strawberries from McCrory
next year, and bring back
some of the cash money which
we have been sending north
each year?
Get the fever and give these
strawberries a try out and you
will not be as sorry as when you
sold that last balq. of cotton
which cost you more to raise
than you received for the
same.
We have the land, climate
and the labor for raising these
strawberries but these must
be put to work to realize any
profit, so with a spirit of co
operation among one hundred
farmers you can not realize
the showing that can be made
with strawberries.
If this were a “wild cat” oil
scheme it would not be any
trouble to get one hundred
people interested, in a get rich
quick scheme, but with these
strawberries you will have to
plant them out, work them
during the year, and get them
on the market next spring to
realize any money. If you
are not willing to do all the
work required and give them
your attention for the money
you will realize from them
next year, then do not plant
any for they will not make you
any money by themselves.
Get busy, talk this over with
your neighbor, and let’s get;
a club of one hundred farmers;
who will agree and who will
plant out these, berries at once|
so that we can market them’
next year. Who will help get;
this movement under way by |
seeing your neighbor, and get
ting him to help out in this
movement. Have you been
reading accounts of different
places where they have been
selling strawberries at fancy
prices despite the abnormal
conditions existisg at this
time. A SUBSCRIBER.
DR. C. P. HARRIS
DENTIST
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McCRORY, ARK.
Office Hours: 8-5
$3.25 FOR $3.00
We will sell you Purina feed
at $3.00 and guarantee same
to be of equal feeding value
to oats that cost $3.25. Save
your quarters and your dollars
will take care of themselves.
QaJuavol}
ANGUS & HAYES, McCrory
Miss Ora Lee Hunnicutt re
turned to Little Rock Monday,
after .having spent the week
end at Jelks with her mother,
Mrs. N. J. Bass. Miss Hun
nicutt is attending Draughan’s.
POWER FARMING WITH THE FORDSON
The Fordson Tractor is taking care of every job; it is taking the
drudgery out of farm work and solving the labor problem. Power
farming with the Fordson reduces the cost of preparing land to almost
one half what it would be with horses, and saves a third to a half of
the farmer’s time. What machinery does for the factory, the Ford
son Tractor is accomplishing on the farm—it is increasing production
at lower costs and making farm life attractive.
Apply this power farming
idea in your threshing. More
and more farmers are making
themselves independent of un
favorable conditions by using
the Fordson tractor linked up
with a light thresher. By
seizing the right moment and
being able to do the job with
out waiting and in quick time,
crop lossess are avoided and
profits increased.
The Fordson operates with
kerosene. When used on belt
work, running at full power at
1,000 R. P. M., the fuel con
sumption does not exceed 2%
gallons per hour. It will run
the electric light plant, operte
the milking machines and
straw baler—will take care of
every care of every kind of
belt work.
The Fordson plows 6 to 8
acres in a 10-hour day, hand
ling two plows with ease in
the average soil. It requires
an average of only l1/^ to 2
gallons of kerosene to the
acre.
It is the ideal year-round
tractor. It will pay for its
fall and winter keep in many
ways such as road work, haul
ing grain to the elevatofr
pumping water and moving
granaries.
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