VC L. VII. NO. 43
HUTTIG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY MARCH 7 .914,
PRICE. SI PER YEAR
(if t Heady for Planting.
Planting season is almost at
hand. The farmers have not had
the advantage of much cold and
freezing weather, that is so heirful
in killing out insect life and loosen
ing the soil, but the recent cold
snap helped some. A good freeze
about 8 inches deep is fine for the
soil. It is almost equal to fall
plowing. We do not have this
n'.tural advantage like they do in
Illinois and Iowa. We need more
deep fall plowing than they, and
get less of it. It is always a wise
course to prepare the land well be
fore planting. Pulverize the soil
thoroughly, where it is of such
character as to admit it. Prepare
the land for level planting and level
cultivation, where your soil and
surface conditions are favorable.
Conditions sometimes are such as
to require bedding to some extent.
That is alright where necessary,
otherwise not.
Corn should be planted by the
first of April or sooner, and not
later than the middle of April.
Your corn land should be well
drained. If it is. the wet weaLher
will not hurt it much. By planting
in March yoircorn will have the
benefit of plenty of rain. The
drouth seldom hurts if it comes be
fore the first to middle of July. If
y:ur corn has ninety days thy start
of the dry weather, it is safe. No
man should raise corn on land that
will produce less than fifty bushels
to the acre, under fayorble condi
tions. If your soil is not good
enough to do this begin to doctor it.
You can make it so it will yield
that much *r more, if it is adapted
to corn at all. Remember that it
takes just as much labor to culti
vate ten-bushels-to-the-acre land
as it does the eighty-bushel kind
Put some of your labor and capital
in building up the soil for your corn
Do not plant corn among the
stumps, where you have to culti
vate by running around it with a
single plow. Select corn land
where you can use a harrow when
it is coming up. and a two-horse
cultivator later on. Select your
land and prepare it for corn so you
can use altogether improved ma
chinery and improved methods in
cultivating. Otherwise it is not
going to pay you to raise corn. ye1
corn should be your foundation
crop. First corn, then hay anc
forage. Have plenty of corn for a)
purposes, and proportion all othei
crops accordingly.
Raise corn to feed stock. Raise
pastures to save corn. Raise hay
peas, etc., to go with corn to make
a balanced ration. Then get gooc
males and raise plenty of gooc
grade stock to eat it all. and if yoi
have any land or time to spare yoi
might put it in raising cotton as e
surplus and money crop. Do nol
plant cotton on land that will noi
make 1.000 pounds *o the acre ir
g^od season. It will not pay. 1
the land won't yield that much, gc
to work and build up the soil. Pul
it to pasture clover, vetch, peas
etc., and turn under a green crop
or two before you waste time try
ing it with cotton. The average
yield of corn per acre in Arkansas
is about 1 6 bushels, and the aver
age of cotton is about 500 pounds
in the seed. At this rate the
average farmer with forty acres oi
corn and cotton would make aboul
eight bales of cotton and about 25C
bushels of corn. That is not enough
for cultivating forty acres. B>
keeping stock and using plenty o!
manure he can make the same
amount on thirteen acres, eight ir
cotton and five in corn, and have
twenty-seven acres for pasture
where the stock would be daily en
riching the soil. A field put tc
clover and pastured a'l summei
and turned under in the fall wil
have to be poor land if it does nol
I
make a good crop the year follow
ing. If clover is not available use
Bermuda or something else for
; pasture.
John H. Page.
1 Commissioner of Agriculture.
Call for Mass Meeting.
A mass meeting of the voters
J of Huttig will be held at the Town
Hall Monday night. March 16. at
!7:30 o'clock, for the purpose of
selecting candidates for the offices
j of Mayor. Recorder and five Alder
1 men to be voted for on Tuesday.
| April 7. 1914. All interested
' voters are urged to be present.
C. T. Thompson,
Mayor.
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Some Affidavits.
H. C. McCain, who is opposing
L. L. Goffman for Auditor of State
| for a second term, signed a petition
| nominating Chas. E. Taylor an in
dependent candidate for Governor
j at the last election to run against
Geo. W. Hays.
Hays' name was cert'ficd to the
Secretary of State July 2nd, 1913,
as the nominee of the Democratic
party. McCain's petition nomina
ting Taylor (Independent) was
■filed July 3rd. 1913. one day later.
The following is on file in the
! Secretary of State's office:
i I. Earle W. Hodges, S-cretaryof
i State of the State of Arkansas, do
hereby certify that there was filed
I in this office on the second day of
jjuly, 1913. under signature of A.
J. Walls, Chairman, and W. U. Hut
ton. Secretary of the State Central
Committee, a certificate to the ef
: feet that:
WHEREAS. Geo. W. Hays had
received a majority over Stephen
Brundidge of 861 votes, he. Geo.
W. Hays, was declared the nomi
nee for the Democratic party of
the State of Arkansas for the office
of Governor of said State at the
special election to be held on the
23rd day of July, 1913.
In Testimony Whereof. I have
hereunto set my hand, and attached
my official seal. Done at Little
Rock, this 20th day of February,
1914.
Earl. W. Hodges,
[seal] Secretary of State.
J State of Arkansas,
County of Pulaski.
! To the Honorable Earle W. Hodges.
Secretary of State of the State
of Arkansas:
We. the undersigned electors of
the State of Arkansas, do hereby
nominate Chas. E. Taylor, a quali
fied elector of the State of Arkan
sas. Democrat, as a candidate for
the office of G <vernor of the State
of Arkansas, at the special election
to be held in the various counties
and voting precincts of said State
, on the 23rd day of July, 1913.
We hereby request that the
name of said nominee be certified
to the various County Boards of
Election Commissioners and print
ed on the tickets to be voted at
, j said election at the time and in the
manner provided by law.
Witness our hands this, the 3rd
day of July. 1913.
Signed. H. C. McCain,
AND OTHERS.
Is this the kind of a Democrat
you are looking for for Auditor of
State? adv.
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Hear Hon. W S. Goodwin at the
Princess Theatre next Thursday
night.
f arm Sch'Mii a Success.
The farm school held at El Do
rado last week was largely attend
ed by interested farmers and was a
decided success, but it is to be re
gretted that the at endance was
! not three times whot it was. as tile
1 benefits would have been enjoyed
by that many more farmers.
Demonstrations were used where
; ever possible to illustrate principles
j and practices. The instructors j
made a number of trips with f<irrr>-,
ers to their farms to inspect
orchards, live stock and so ls, and
to recomm-nd m thods of fertiliz
ing and management.
The state farm schools are b<-ing
operated in connection with the
Arkansas division of the Unit'd
States Department of Agriculture
in various counties of th« state.
HIm' is Good f-jp Headache?
One lady says, aft r suffering
dreadfully for about seven years,
she tried Hunt's Lightning Oil.
which almost instantly relieved
her, and nas been entirely free from
those dreadful headaches since.
Ask your druggist.
The Weather in February.
The rainfall in this vicinity for
the month of February was four
and forty-three one - hundredths
inches. The highest temperature
wa3 recorded on the 3rd wh°n the !
thermometer registered 76 above,
and the lowest on the 8th and 24th
when it was down to 21 above.
The thermometer did not go above
36 during the day on the 24th.
. which was the coldest day of the
winter.
To the Voters of lapile Townsh'p:
I
Having announced my candidacy
for the office of Road Overseer of
Lapile township and it being im
possible to meet personally a'l the
voters of the township. I take this
method of placing before the peo
ple sorr^e of the reasons for my
claims to the office. 1 have never
had any other occupation but grad
ing. both rail and highways. I have
been in the business for the past
.eighteen years and am equipped
with the experience that peculiarly
fits me for the office. I have a
thorough knowledge of d'rt of the
different grades and the most eco
! nomical method of handling same,
from the shovel to the most intri
| cate machinery.
If elected to office I would use
'all free labor (and that includes all
able-bodied men not exempt by
'law) in getting stumps and other
impediments out of the road in or
der to facilitate the use of road
i machinery, as one grader properly
handled can do the work of forty
| men on a highway. 1 would also
! put continuous ditches on both
| sides of all roads, thereby giving
, much needed drainage, '’-hich in
my estimation is the greatest es
| sential in road building and main
tenance, as there is no material
J wil! hold up without proper drain
age. At all places where water
i crosses the road boxes should be
installed and the road on each
side raised above same. This pre
vents erosion in roads and keeps
them in better shape contiguous to
the waterway. All hea,ry hills in
the township can be cut down so
as to make hauling 50 per cent
easier, the only problem being the
disposal of dirt excavated, and that
could be easily solved by working
both ways, that is, making embank
ment at foot of hill with uirt taken
I from top. All low peaces on roads
I should be raised enough to give
drainage from center of road to
ditches at sides. All leaning trees
on side of‘road should be cut down
and taken out of the way. thereby
eliminating a danger to man and
beast.
If elected to office 1 pledge my
| self to ail the aoove improvements
as ca t as they can carried out
and 1 promise to g’ve all roads ir
the town-hip the same attention
1 live about 7 miles from Strong
about 4 ; i! ,s f. :n Huttig and 4
mbs from La pile, which locates
me centrally in the to a- h o.
You would not have a cio t:at
tenu your f m;;y or a surveyor run
your knd lines or eny ctosr pro
fessional work dot e w.thout first
knowing that th* man doing it v.. s
trained in his profession. Yet. a
great many people think that an
untrained man can make a,n i main
tain good roads. That's a mistake.
There is as mu h science in the
making and upkeep ct roads with
trie material at hand is there is in
any other profession. A man has
to know the different grades of ma
te! ia! that abound in th= township,
which to use and wt ich to discard,
for instance, red clay, while mak
ing a good Paso for a road, make--? a
mignfy oad surface, and loam, while
making a rotten base, makes an
excellent surface, and so on. I
would also prohibit the use of any
vegetable matter in roads, such as
pine tops. etc. No perishaole nr -
terial should ba put in a rial as
wherever such is put it h l iving
the foundation for future trouble of
a near date. 1 do rot believe in
putt'ng dirt in a hole already full of
water, thereby doing a positive in
jury to the road.
In concluding I would say I ha', e
no other occupation and am in a
position to spend all my time on
road improvement if e'ected Py
following the above methods and
keeping toad machines at work al'
the time and effecting needed re
pairs to all bridges, the roads ir
this township can.be made tr com
pare frt.varra.t-ly witti r>caascompose
i of like material in any township i
the State of Arkansas. Oi# th
above method of road conslructioi
1 base rry claims, and submit rm
candidacy to your kind and car fu
consideration at the polls on Marcf
25th. 1 am
ResprcYu’ly your-,
Joe CumminjS.
Hon. W. S. Goodwm. congress
man from this district, will address
the voters of Hut tig and vicinity
on th- issues of the day at the
Princess Theatre Thursday night
March 12th. at 7:50 o’clock. Ev
erybody cordially invited to b
present and hear him. The Thurs
day night picture show will be
given on Friday night.
F. W. Scott and D. M. Clownej
were business visitors to Shreve
port this week.
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