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THE CO-OPERATIVE flOG
SHIPMENTS
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Farm Bureau has shippped 7
cars of hogs on the co-operative
plan since January 1, 1922.
Four of these cars were ship
ped from Batesville and three
from Sulphur Rock, all being
sent to the National Stock
Stock Yards, 111. There werel28
men furnished the 890 hogs for
these seven cars, making a total
weight of 120,350 pounds.
These hogs sold on the St.
Louis market for $11,239.51
and the total expense of ship
ping and selling was $389.30
leaving $10,350.15 that was
distributed among the 128
farmers who made up the cars.
The average cost per 100
pounds for freight, commission,
yardage, feed, and insurance
651cents. This includes all
the expenses incurred from the
time the hogs are loaded on
the car until they are sold in
St. Louis.
The average price received
by the farmer after all expen
ses were paid, as 8.0 cents
per pound. This does not mean |
that the hogs are sold and thej
farmers paid the average price
received. Each hog is marked
and is sold according to .its
grade and weight. In the last
car shipped from Batesville
there was hogs belonging to
twenty-five different farmers
and we received twenty-five
individual statements showing
exactly what each grade sold
for. Some men had as high as
six grades of hogs. These cars
were made up of all grades
and weight, the weights rang
ing from pigs of sixty pounds,
up to sows and stags of four
hundred pounds, and the
grades varied as much as the
weights. The lowest price
received in St. Louis was five
cents per pound and the high
est eleven cents. In each of
* these cases the farmers receiv
ed what their hog sold for, less
the expense of shipping and
selling.
During the period covered by
+40* this statement the localmarket i
prices was from 4 to 7 cents
per pound, 6 cents per pound
being proably a high average!
price during this time. Taking
as the average price paid on
the local market and 8.6 cents
average net price received by
shipping, we have a difference
of 2.6 cents per pound. This
amount on the 120,350 pounds
makes $3,129.10 received by
the farmers of the county over
and above what they would
have received had they sold
their hogs on the local market.
The figures above are com
piled from the tatements sent
us by* the commission men who
handled the cars, and can be
verified by any one who wishes
to do so.
CORRECTION OF DATE OF
NEXT SHIPMENT
By mistake it was published
in the papers last week that
the next shipment of hogs
would be made from Batesville
April 22. The date should
have been April 29. Please
bear this in mind and do not
bring hogs on the 22nd.
J. B. DANIELS j
, County Agent j
SPECIALIZES ON POTATOES
Newport, Apr. 14.—S. L Bur
kett, young business man of
this city, who finds time from
his clerical duties to look after
the growing of sweet potato
slips, has entered extensively
in the business. He has more
than 200 bushels of sweet po
tatoes bedded and on lots near
town and will soon have plants
ready for market. His pota
toes are bedded and raised in
accordance with the state plant
board and he has them certi
fied.
PEN POPULATION
The report of the Arkansas
Penitentiary Commission for
March, shows a decrease of 11
in the prison population for
the month. There were 1,350
convicts on hand February 28,
and 1,339 March 31. During
the month 73 were paroled,
51 freed on expiration of their
sentences and 11 were granted
indefinite furloughs.
55
Hon. William J. Bryan
May Tour the State
Unless he is called away on
special business, William Jen
nings Bryan, the Great Com
moner, will make an automo
bi 1 e tour over the
state as a guest of the Arkan
sas Advancement Association.
Colonel Bryan is now recup
erating in Hot Springs, and
said that he would like to see
some of the great natural re
sources of the state, if he has
the time. He has been inform
ed by the association that if
he will set aside two days for
such a trip he will be taken
to the diamond mine, the big
peach orchard, the bauxite
mines and several o t h e r
places of more than ordinary
interest. Colonel Bryan has
been told that he will be en
tertained a month if he will
give the time, thus making the
trip to all sections of the state
possible.
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TOO MUCH GAB
Anyone who wants to can
get his name in the paper these
days. All one has to do is to
think up some new, utterly ab
surd, unreasonable or idiotic
doctrine and propound it in
public.
Thus we have a aldy who
makes an address before a
school organization and who
says that the troube with
America is too many can
openers! We are suffering be
cause our housewives don’t
cook enough food, but depend
too much on the eanner. Won
der if we talk over the phone
and not enough face to face;
or travel too much on a train
and not enough on horseabek;
or read too much by electric
lig-ht and not enough by cand
le light?
And now comes a Chicago
lawyer before the country
with much publicity be^o-se.
he contends that no man oCer
fifty is really sane.
Remi n d s one strangely]
of Dr.Osier and chloroform for
all men over forty. Why fifty,
Mr. Lawyer? And what
makes men over fifty insane—
too many lawyers?
The real thing the matter
with this country, if anything
is the matter with it, is neither
too many cans or can openers
nor too many insane people of
fifty, nor even too many law
yers; the real trouble with' us
all is too many mouths saying
nothing worth hearing.
Less gab and more real con
structive work would help all
of us, and the world generally.
Subscribe for The Journal,
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PAROQUET HEWS ^
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Paroquet, Apr. 19.—We are 1
having tine weather, .some cot
ton is being planted ami gar
dens are looking promising.
We are having quite a lot;
of sic kness in this section.
C. C. Whisnant transacted!
business in Newport Thursday.;
John. D. Witt and Herman!
Williamson of Newark were;
here on business Friday.
Mrs. J. O. Phillips of Little
Hock is spending a few days
here this week with relatives.
Mis. Martin Dry is spending
a few days this week at Mount
Pleasant visiting relatives.
Mrs. ('. C. Whisnant spent
Saturday at Newport shopping.
Mrs. 1. C. Moody spent Sat
urday at Newport shopping.
Alfred Marshall made a busi
ness trip to Newark Saturday.
Henry Wodruoff made a
business trip to Newark Friday
afternoon.
Edd Rousel made a business
trip to Newark Friday.
G. W. Yaney made a busi
ness trip to Newark Friday.
Mrs. Lillian Hunter of
Jacksonport spent a few days
here visiting relatives.
Willis Rayburn of O’Neal
spent a few days here last
week visiting relatives and
friends.
Mrs. Virginia McCaleb spent
Sunday in Logan toynship visit
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Holmes.
Reed Galloway spent Satur
day at Newark.
Mrs. Willie Searcy spent Fri
day at Newport shopping.
1). C. Selvedige made a busi
ness trip to Newark Saturday.
Joe Rayburn made a busi
ness trip to Newark Saturday.
Prof. I. C. Moody made a
business trip to Newark Satur
day.
Miss Bessie Sanders spent
Saturday in Batesville.
Miss Eunice Doolin spent
Saturday i nBatesvIlle.
Clede Nash of Newark was
visiting friends here Saturday
night.
Bud Hutchinson of Newark
spent Saturday night here with
friends.
Sam Williams made <i busi
ness trip to Newark Saturday
B. R. Clark made a business
trip to Newport Monday.
Rev. Danner of Sandtown
filled his regular appointment
here Saturday night and Sun
day.
j. C. Crumpton made a
business trip to Newport Satur
day.
Mrs. J. O. Phillips spent
Wednesday at Newport with
her husband.
63 HENS BRING $75
Walnut Ridge, Apr. IS.—
John Brown, who lives near
Egypt, brought 63 barred
Plymouth Rock hens to town
Saturday and sold them to the
Goodwin & Jean Company for
$74.80.
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