THE HETTIG NEWS.
DEVOTED TO THE (INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. XI. NO. 16
HUTT1G. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. AUGUST 18. 1917.
PRICE. $1 PER YEAR
BETTER FARMING HINTS. M
PICK WEEVIL RESISTANT CORN.
The best authorities are agreed
that the best way to select seed
corn is to go into the field, since
there is a great deal more to the
corn than to the ear, the stalk
playing an imporant part in the
matter. One thing that the farm
ers of Argansas have to look out
for is the weevil which usually de
stroys great quantities of corn in
storage each year. L. W. Osborn,
agronomist with the University of
Arkansas, says that seed ears
which will have a tendency to be
resistant to weevil can be relected
as well as those that have the most
characteristics for the production
of grain. In picking seed corn
which will be most resistant to
weevil, select ears with tight husks
and well covered tips. If this is
borne in mind, it will be possible in
time to select a strain of corn
which will be practically weevil re
sistant.
In fact, weevils in corn can be
prevented by husking in the field.
In so doing you will leave most
of the weevils in the field.
Moreover, corn when stored with
husks on will be subject to about
four times the amount of damage
done through weevils than unhusk
ed corn.
In husking, have a division in the
wagon bed; on one side put all the
badly infested ears, and on the oth
er put the sound ears. A box may
be attached to the back of the
wagon bed to receive seed ears. In
storing, put all the sound ears in
the back of Uxe bin and those which
are infested in front of the bin so
that the latter will be used up first.
LEGHORNS THE BEST LAYERS.
Recent experiments conducted
by the poultrymen with the De
partment of Agriculture show that
leghorns produce eggs cheaper
than hens of the general purpose
breeds, including Rhode Island
Reds, Orphingtons, Wyandottes
and Plymouth Rocks. This state
ment is based on the fact that leg
horns eat on an average 55 pounds
of feed per head as compared with
70 to 85 pounds eaten by the gen
eral purpose breeds. At the same
time they lay as many or more
eggs and the egg yield exceeds
that of the general purpose breeds
during the second and third laying
years. Leghorns, therefore, are
thought to be more profitable for
the production of eggs only.
At this time it will pay every
farmer to increase the number of
fowls in his flock, not only for the
purpose of producing plenty of eggs
for a ready market, which will un
doubtedly be the case because of
the high prich of various kinds of
meat, but for the production of
meat, because chicken flesh can
be produced on less grain per
pound than any other class of live
stock found on the farm; and, since
chicken is palatable to most peo
ple, the comparative prices be
tween chicken and other kinds of
meat will increase the demand for
them and a real profit can be real
ized. Raising more chickens with
out a great deal of labor and
scarcely any expense and a sure
profit is a real advantage for most
Arkansas farmers. Why not get
busy?
THREATENED PORK SHORTAGE.
According to government statis
tics, there were 313,000 less hogs
is the country in 1916 than in
1915, and there is every indication
that the number of animals have
been greatly reduced during the
present year. This means that
pork will undoubtedly remain ex
ceedingly high in price, and every
man who is far sighted enough to
conserve his breeding stock cer
tainly has a chance to make money
out of hogs, the only other essen
tial being that he raise his own
feed and have plenty of pasture
J. H. McLeod, livestock specialist
with the Extension Division of the
University of Arkansas, will be
glad to hear from any man who ex
pects to purchase hogs or who has
been confronted by any difficulty in
their care and management.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo,
Lucas County, ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
is senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing business In the
City of Toledo, County and State afore
said. and that said firm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for
each and every case of Catarrh that
cannet be cured by the use of HALL'S
CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 6th day of Decem
ber, A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON,
(Seal) Notary Public.
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Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Another Pioneer Dead
Mrs. J. A. Finley, aged about 70
years, who lived five miles south
west of Strong, died of acute indi
gestion at 3 o’clock Friday after
noon, August 10, 1917, after a
week’s illness and was buried at
Hillsboro late Saturday afternoon.
The deceased was one of the
oldest settlers of Union county
and leaves a devoted husband, four
daughters and four sons to mourn
her death as follows: Mrs. P. W.
Seaman, Strong: Mrs. Geo Milton,
Chatanooga, Tenn.; Mrs. W. H.
Lindsay. Hamburg; Mrs. J. L.
Crow, Crossett; Hugh, Thurman
and Marcus Finley, Strong, and
Aubrey Finley, who lives in Texas.
The Fire Fiend Says:
There’s something about these
war-time fires
I’m keeping very still.
Every time you waste and burn
You're boosting Kaiser Bill.
Methodist Church Services.
The following services will te
held at Union church Sunday: Sun
day school at 10:00 a. m. Preach
ing at 1 1 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. by
the pastor. Junior League at 3:C0
p. m. Epworth League at 6:30 p.
m. A cordial invitation is extend
ed to all to attend these services.
Rev. A. Turrentine, Pastor.
Notice.
The Union Saw Mill Company
will pay $50.00 as a reward to any
one, not in its employ, who will fur
nish information from which any
person shall be convicted of depre
dating or trespassing upon the tim
ber of said Company.
This 1st, day of February, 1906.
Union Saw Mill Co.
By F. W. Scott,
Se<’,\ and Treas
If good advice could only be re
ceived in the spiiit in which it is
given, more of it would be given.
Sehon-Maroney.
Miss Minnie, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Sehon. Sr., and Mr.
Gordon E. Maroney, of Huttig,
were united in marriage at the
Baptist parsonage in Strong at 4
o’clock Sunday afternoon, August
12,1917, by Rev. J. U. H. Whar
ton. The bride is a native of this
county and the groom of Union
parish, Louisiana, having been
reared at Oakland, and both have a
large circle of friends who will join
in wishing them much happiness
and success. They intended to be
married at the home of the bride's
parents just west of town, but on
account of the absence of both
Rev. A. Turrentine and Rev. E. F.
Cole, who were conducting revival
meetings at Chidester and Cecil
they were married at Strong. A
large number of friends and rela
tives were at her home to welcome
them on their return. The groom
was just recently examined for the
new army and passed the physical
test at El Dorado.
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Dry Weather Dangers.
Dry weather dangers are ac
cumulating at this time. It seems
that every little season has a dan
ger all its own but none can deny
that the hot dry weather of mid
summer makes danger from fire
exceedingly acute. Now there
fore, says the fire prevention editor
of the Construction News, of Little
Rock, let us get busy and thwart
the fire fiend.
Drying weeds and grass should
be carefully removed from proxi
mity of wooden buildings and
fences. Trash fires are common
at this season. Everything has
dried out until it is easy to ignite.
Beware of the deadly bon-fire.
Then too, Demon Gasoline is
abroad in the land. The gasoline
stove is saving motor's health but
it's bad on father’s pocket-book if
not handled with respect mingled
with caution and a little whole
some fear of the stuff. Never fill
a gasoline stove by lamplight or
while the stove is lighted or with
other open flames in the same
house.
MINDS OF DIFFERENT SIZES
Soma No Bigger Than Chigger'a Instep
—Then There’s Master Mind En
countered In Moving Pictures.
.Minds are small but powerful lit
tle devices which, since their discov
ery, have been confined to cells—brain
cells. In view of this fact It Is diffi
cult to understand how the expression
"an open mind” sprang into being.
Minds are useless contrivances, for the
greater part, and are never in perfect
working order, but most people who
are never satisfied to let well enough
alone are constantly trying to improve
upon theirs. Strange to say, the fel
low who is working the hardest to Im
prove his nyind generally has one that
needs less working on than 99 per cent
of the ones he sees about him.
Minds are of various dimensions,
runging in size from those no bigger
than a chigger’s instep on up to the
master mind, which Is encountered
only !n story fiction and the moving
pictures. Through a wise provision of
Nature, who makes the distribution, a
guaranty of satisfaction goes with
each mind, leaving no man to hanker
after the other feller’s, but being con
tented to scrub along with iho one he
has.
Mind is the opposite of matler, but
that doesn't matter to the fellow who
lias something the matter with his
mind, as he doesn’t mind such a mat
ter. Minds are sometimes very useful
for thinking purposes and should he
encouraged in this respect.—Indianap
olis Star.
ANIMALS HAVE NO INSTINCT
Acquire Their Knowledge of What la
Good to Eat and What la Harm
ful by Experience.
“Animals seem to acquire their
knowledge of poisonous plants .from
experience, and not by any Innate in
stinct; our domestic animals, when
transported to other countries, nt first
eat poisonous plants, which they learn
afterwards to avoid. Snell observed
that strange sheep frequently fell vic
tims to the poisonous hellebore that
grows abundantly in the valley of the
Ahn, but that it is carefully avoided
^by the sheep of the neighborhood,
writes Raymond Crawford in the Lon
don Lancet.
“Lambs and calves, grazing in the
same field as their mothers, are far
more prone than they to eut poisonous
plants. Morgan concluded from ob
servations of feeding young birds with
various caterpillars, beetles and worms,
that, in the absence of parental guid
ance, young birds have to learn by ex
perience what is good to eut and what
is not, and that they have no in
stinctive aversions. At first they
peck at everything, but once they have
found that a particular thing is dis
tasteful or harmful, in future they en
tirely avoid it.”
Had Plan of Their Own.
One day soon after Pope’s defeat at
the second ltull Run and ChantiUy a
private soldier belonging to an Ohlc
regiment sought an interview with hi?
captain, and announced that he had a
plan for a military campaign which
must certainly result in crushing out
the Secession. The officer very natural
ly inquired for particulars, but the
soldier refused to reveal them, and
asked for a chance to lay his plans be
fore Tope himself. After some delay
he was given a pass to headquarters
He did not get to see Pope, but aftei
the chief of staff had coaxed and prom
ised, and threatened for a quarter ot
an hoi..', the Ruck eye stood up and re
plied: “Well, sir, my plan Is for John
Pope and Bob Lee to swap commands,
and if we don’t lick the South Inside
of 00 days you may shoot me for a
patent hay-fork swindler!’’ When he
returned to camp he was naturally
asked what success he met with, and
he ruefully replied: “Wall, they had
a plan of their own.” “What was it?’
“Why, they took me out and booted vat
for a mile and a half.”
The Ministry of Newspapers.
It Is by the ministry of the news
papers that the nation is united. In
formed, summoned, and led.
So many people take the newspaper
for granted, they never tldnk what the
sheet Is doing for them, or for the
land we love. The universality of the
newspaper is the sign of Its vast util
ity. The development does not rest
merely on a craving for the distrac
tion of news: it is less so now than
ever, though the news today is beyond
anything In the history of the world.
At the bottom, the craving Is the
will to live In realities. That is why
newspapers should be clean, never
playing a mere game. If we do not live
now in the realities, we may never re
cover our hold of them. No matter
what bread costs, we must know a lit
tle of where the world Is.—Methodist
Recorder,
Bishop’s Pretty Compliment.
No titled indy has been working
harder in connection with the war
than the duchess of Beaufort, who
is just now taking an active Inter
est in the women-for-the-land move*
ment.
The duchess, who is noted for her
charming manner, was once paid a
very pretty compliment by a certain
bishop.
At a dinner party at her home, at
which the bishop was present, she
apologized to him after the meal be
cause for some reason or other no
grace had been said at the table.
“Don't mention it," said the bishop
instantly: “your grace is quite good
enough for me."
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