Orcharding and
Gardening
Eight Studie* in Handling the Or
chard and Garden.
' EDITOR'S NOTE.
The Extension Division of the Uni
versity of Arkansas, in co-operation
with the United States Department of
Agriculture, will offer this year,
through this paper, a free correspond
ence course in “Orcharding and Gar
dening, * consisting ,of four lessons in j
each subject. These lessons will appear
in this paper at intdjnvals of six weeks.
These who wish tw. take this cotjhse
should write to the director of the Ex
tension Division ofvthe University of
Arkansas, at Fayetteville, stating
n£me* occupation, and a lyord
about his or her general education/and
stating that he (or* she) proposes, to
carry the work through for the eight
lessons. A farmers’ bulletin will be
sent to supplement lesson No. 1, and
later for each le&ron, if the question
blank be returned for the preceding
lesson. These blanks will be sent with
each bulletin. The lessons on “Or
charding" will be “Planting the Or
chard," “Orchard Management,” “Har
vesting and Marketing." and "Fighting
Insects and Diseases."
II. ORCHARD MANAGEMENT.
J. S. Knox, Extension Horticulturist,
University of Arkansas.
The question of orchard manage
ment is one of primary importance to
the fruit growers of the state, and al
so one in which every orchardist.
should be intensely interested. No
matter how ideal the soil, location,
rainfall, climate, etc., one is not likely
to meet with success in orcharding
unless the orchard Is properly man
aged. As proof of this statement one
has to go but a very short distance
from his own home. The men who
%re devoting their time and attention
§ to their orchards and keeping them in
good growing condition by cultivating
and combatting the various insects
and diseases are the ones who come
out ahead every time. There is al
ways a fair market for well grown
ana the time is past when one
can "grow first-class fruit without giv
ing his orchard proper attention.
Tillage. One of the first problems
that confronts the orchardist is that
of tillage and here is one point, the :
importance of which needs to be Im
pressed upon the minds of the fruit
growers of the state. It is by no ,
means uncommon to see young or
chards coming on where absolutely
no care is being given them. Such
treatment is bound to result in the
destruction of the orchard before ,
many years, or at least to prevent its i
ever coming into very profitable ;
bearing.
Generally speaking, the orchard
should be given at least one thor
ough and fairly deep cultivation In
the late fall of the year, and, if a
cover crop of rye, winter oats or
wheat Is sown at this time, it will
help to prevent the washing of the
land and also help to hold some oi
the soluble fertilizers in place Dy
taking them up and returning them
again when turned under in the
spring of the year.
Cultivation during the growing pe- |
riod should be frequent, but shallow. I
This can be done either by a disc ;
harrow or by several makes of spring
tooth harrow. The object is simply j
to keep down weeds and to hold the j
soil moisture by keeping a soil mulch |
established to break the capillary j
tubes which bring the moisture to the
surface.
In order to defray the expense of
cultivating a young orchard, crops
like beans, peas, sweet potatoes, tur- j
nips, etc., may be grown between the
rows. In cultivating the orchard the
other crops will also be kept clean.
Do not trj to cultivate too near the
trees and generally by the time the
orchard is from 4 to 5 years old it is
time to cease the cropping method,
excepting of course the cover crop
which may be sown every fall.
Soil Fertility... In order to keep an
orchard in good bearing condition it is
neccessary that we use some method
of keeping up the fertility of the soil.
A heavy crop of fruit every year is
bound to deplete the best of soils
within a few years time. So if we
expect to gather a crop of fruit every
year we must get some means of add
ing this fertilizer back to the soil.
This can be done largely perhaps
by the use of leguminous cover crops,
such as cowpeas, soy beans, etc. Sta
ble manure is one of the best fertiliz
ers that one can use. Lio
not spread the manure close
around the body of the tree, but
rather some distance from the tree,
especially on the older trees. One
can tell when the orchard is lacking
In fertility by the growth, color of
Foliage and general vigor of the trees.
Pruning. The time to begin prun
ing is before the young tree is
planted. All broken roots should be
removed and in case of a two-year-old
tree the branches should be thinned
)ut to four or live and these cut Dack
ronsiderably. It is generally consid;
?red best to cut to an outside bud
■ather than an inside bud as this will
rause the tree to spread more and
:hus give an open head, which is so
lesirable in case of a peach tree. The
jranches should be equally distrib
lted around the body of the tree
ind should be at least four or five
nches apart on the young tree. Trees
ihould not be allowed to become five
>r six years old before pruning is be
;un, because it is then necessary to
•emove some large branches, thus
making wounds on the tree that are
hard to heal. On the other hand,
trees that are kept pruned from the
time they are planted have only the
necessary branches left and all that1
is necessary is to keep the growth
thinned out and shortened back.
IN LIFE’S LAST HOURS
THOUGHTS OF CONDEMNED MAN
AWAITING EXECUTION.
No Authentic Record Has Ever Been
Made, but One Man Here Sets
Down How He Imagines He
Would Be Affected.
It Is a curious fact that no man con
demned to death by process of law
has left what might be accepted as
an authentic account of his thoughts
and acts during the closing hours, W.
R. Rose writes in the Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
For the most part condemned men
are not intellectual men. To put their
feelings Into words and transcribe
them on paper would be a task for
which they could have no liking and
little aptitude. They approach the
hour of death, we may believe, in a
dull and largely unemotional manner,
keeping their thoughts away from the
dreaded hour and getting such com
fort as they can out of the immediate
moment. With men of higher grades
of intellect it would be different. The
mind of the man of reason and imagi
nation would be beyond his control
To be alone with himself and his
thoughts and his sense of absolute
helplessness would be maddening.
Robert Louis Stevenson could have
clothed these final hours in poetic Eng- j
lish; Poe could have given them a
ghastly finish; O. Henry would have
made them worldly and cynical.
If it were possible to put yourself
in thought in a condemned man's
place how would your mind regard
the situation?
This is the way one man says it
would affect him:
“I roused up this morning with a
sudden start. Something called me
It battered at my ears.
“Two more days—two more days!
“I wonder why I sleep, I wonder
why I eat! I’m ashamed of my body.
It is a clod. It doesn’t understand.
Once in a while, however, my stom
ach has that horrible sinking sensa
tion and my body realizes for a mo
ment what my mind endures. Then it
goes back to its old ways—its appe
tite, its demand for exercise, its call
for sleep.
"I am beginning to look upon my
self as something apart from my body.
Perhaps I am. Perhaps it is only my
body they will hang, while my spirit—
but why should I speculate when 1
am so soon to know?
“Of course I pray. That’s the primal
Instinct. I cry cut for longer life. 1
beseech and I make promises—a cow
ard’s cry. Yet there’s comfort in it. It
draws my mind from that one mad
dening thought. I
"There’g something ejpg in which, 1
find a little comfort. * I am going on
a journey that billions have under
taken. The millions who are alive are
only a small part of the host that has
peopled the earth. I am going over
to the great majority, and whatever
my destination may be 1 shall have
company. There are near and dear
ones in that tide of outgoing souls.
Is there a shadow’y shore where we
may meet?
“God, it is night again!
“The guard has just looked in. The
death lamp in the corridor is burning.
A single thread of light comes through
the grating. Is it hope?
“One more day.
“I feel torpid. Is the thought of
death dulled? Have I exhausted its
terrors?
“I faintly wonder if my body will
shame me? Will it break my pride?
“There will be no tomorrow. Some
how, the thought doesn't unnerve me.
No, no. I'm not going to break down!
“There are men in the corridor. 1
hear their tramping feet, their hurried
voices. Someone has called my name!
My heart bumps my ribs. Hope is fum
bling at the lock!
“I—I am reprieved!”
Found Plungers’ Oil Supply.
It was known to the English admi
ralty that German submarines appear
ing in the North sea were obtaining
oil from some point off the English
coast. For a long time the most care
ful search failed to disclose the source
of this supply. Every ship going out
of port was minutely examined, but
nothing was discovered.
The oil supply remained a mystery
until one day a ship, which had come
in, delivered its cargo and was about
to go out again into the North sea,
was observed to carry on its decks
more cable than seemed necessary;
in fact, the whole deck of the ship
was dotted with coiled rope. It oc
curred to one of the English customs
officers that this type of ship could
have no use for so much cable. An in
vestigation was made. It was found
that the great heaps on the deck were
merely fope wrapped round metal
drums. The drums were filled with
oil.—Melville Davisson Post, in the
Saturday Evening Post.
Whale Cuts Submarine Connection.
A short time ago the cable connec
tion was suddenly cut off between
Skagway and Juno, up in the Fair
banks district of Alaska, and for some
time the trouble could not be located.
At last the cableship Burnside found
what was wrong. In some inexplic
able way a large whale had become
entangled with the cable, and the div
ers from the cableship found him with
a half-hitch of the cable around his
head and lower jaws They removed
the dead whale and re-established the
connection bv mending the break In
the cable.—World's Advance.
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DIVINE WORSHIP IN MINES
Workers Underground Are Afforded
Places in Which They May Per
form Religious Devotions.
In the Myndd Newydd coal mines,
in Wales, there (s an "apartment” used
exclusively as a place of worship.
This underground chapel dates from a
period of more than fifty years ago,
i since when it has always been used
as a church, the miners assembling in
this strange room every morning to
I perform their religious devotions.
The chapel is situated close to the
bottom of the shaft, so that the min
| ers, on descending the pit, can attend
before proceeding to their various
stations. The “apartment” lacks or
namentation or adornment, the pillars
and beams supporting the roof being
of rough wood. A disused coal trolley,
turned on end, serves as a pulpit.
The miners sit upon wooden benches
placed across the chapel from side to
side, and the oldest worker of the
mine performs the duty of pastor.
In the salt mine at Wieliczka, Aus
tria, there is a chapel of St. Anthony,
a Byzantine excavation, supported by
columns, wtih altar, crucifix and life
size statues of saints, apparently in
black marble, but in reality made of
salt.
Cures for Ivy Poisoning.
The American Botanist publishes a
letter from a Brookline (Mass.) cor
respondent stating that fishermen
along parts of the Massachusetts
coast find a prompt cure for the ef
fects of poison ivy and poison sumach
in the fireweed (Erechtites hieraci
folia). The poisoned parts are rubbed
with the leaves of this plant, which
must be fresh each time, bruised and
crushed so that the sap moistens the
skin freely. An editorial note men
tions the fact that a large number of
other plants have been recommended
for ivy poisoning—notably touch-me
not and burdock—but that “it seems
doubtful whether any of these herbs
can do more than take the attention
of the patient from his troubles and
cure him by mental suggestion.”
Peculiar “Soft" Drinks.
Among the prohibition drinks con
sumed by the Russians is shetnia,
composed of honey, pepper, hot water
and boiling milk. Shetnia has been de
scribed by non-Russians as by no
means a fascinating tipple, but it is
declared to be much more alluring
than a concoction of the Laplanders,
made of hot water and meal, strongly
flavored with tallow, and also with
reindeer blood, if any be available.
Fitting Place.
“How iong shall we make our new
club garage?”
“Listen, all of you. The question
of feet is now on the carpet.'1
LODGE 01 Rif,TORY.
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. &, A.
iVI.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:30 o’clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
C. T. Thompson, W. M.
C. A. Berry. Sec’y. 0
HOWARD CHAPTER, No. 122. R. A.
M.—meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hail. Visiting
companions welcome.
L. F. Magee, H. P.
R. W. Beede, Secy.
HUTT1G CHAPTER No. 320. Order cf
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. C. A. Berry, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec y.
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HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 I. 0. 0. F.
meets every Tuesday evening. Visiting
bretiiern cordially invited to attend.
A. P. Holtsford, N. G.
E. L. Ware, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66,
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o'clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Dona Holtsford, N. G.
Mrs. May Ci.aybaugh, Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 4 I I W. O. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
L. M. DeSpain, C. C.
J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
Sr. Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROCK A MONROE RY.
South
5:25 a. m
7:55 a. in
Leaves
1 1:55 p. m.
Huttig
Monroe
local. *
Huttig
North
3:23 p. m
1:00 p.m
Arrives
12:15 p. m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain &. Southern
FARMERVILLE & SOUTHERN RY.
North
4:42 a. m.
3:15 a. m.
Huttig
Farmerville
South
3:54 p. m
5:20 p. m
local, t
10:15 a m. Huttig 2:25 p.m.
tArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
ville.
^Arrives Tuesday. Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe.
DHS. MAGEE & MAYFIELD
Fhysicians and Surgeons
At Company Hospital
Office Hour*—8 to 12 a. m., I to 6pm
£>undays--9 to I 1 a. m., 3 «o 5p. p m.
Kesidence Phone 12; office 18
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