fHE NEWARK JOURNA!
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GOOD PRU SiNG POi
(Orchard May Bo Put on Paying
Basis by P;oper Work.
8trlve to Secure Low, Broad-Spreading
Branching System, With Open Cen
ter to Admit Sunlight—Cut
Limbs Close.
Farmers who wish to jiut their or
chards in shape for profitable produc
tion should begin pruning, win nev
the wood Is not frozen, in midwinter.
Trees in heavy-hearing condition ill
make stronger growth if pruning is
done during late winter and ■ arly
spring. Pruning during June and July
will slightly cheelt the rank growth on
trees that are making too much wood
growth and tend to throw them into
bearing for the following year. Dr. J.
C. Whitten, professor of horticulture in
the Missouri College of Agriculture,
gives directions for winter pruning.
Remove all dead or badly diseased
limbs. Clean out all canker wound -
Improperly Pruned Tree.
the trunk and main limbs with a tree
scraper. Cut well into the rim of
healthy wood on all sides of the wound,
to get rid of the disease. Then paint
the wound with common white lead
and oil paint, to each quart of which
has been added one teaspoonful of bi
chloride of mercury dissolved in tur
pentine (about one ounceV Paint all
canker and pruning wounds as soon ns
made.
Begin at tlio top and prune the tree
to secure a low. broad-spreading
branching system, with open center, tc
admit sunlight and air from above. Ho
not remove strong lower limbs if they
can be given suflicient light from above.
Aim to secure hearing brandies
throughout the main body of the tree.
If the tree is shaded by too much
growth at the top, the inner and lower
twigs will weaken and die instead of
bearing fruit.
Out back the strong, upward-grow
mg icmrm in ;
Fide branches. This induces the tr
to spread laterally instead of growing
too high. It admits light through the
Center to fruiting branches below. Ti
limbs cross each other or crowd badly
thin them out enough to admit: flit on .
sunlight to all parts of the tree.
In pruning cut limbs close, so as to
leave no stub or knot. A protruding
knot will not heal. A wound cut close
will allow the growing layer to close
over the wound.
Paint all wounds over one-half Inch
In diameter with tin* disinfecting paint
Love and Potatoes.
A member of a well-known club, on
being asked to define “love,” compared
It to a potato—first, “because It shoots
from the eyes,” and secondly, “because
It becomes less by paring.”
Gloomy Assumption.
“Are you for peace at any price?”
“There Isn’t any such thing. Even if
you were willing to bargain on that
basis, sooner or later you’d get into a
row about the price.”
Faces and Figgers.
A woman’s face is her fortune for
the reason that with it she usually is
ible to land a man who measures his
bank account in six figures.
To Clean Brass.
Wet a cloth with ammonia and
sprinkle cleaning powder on the am
monia and rub the brass with it. It
will clean beautifully.
Sicily to Produce Acids.
Citric, tartnric and sulphuric adds
»re to be manufactured at M • ina,
Sicily. Sicilian fruit growers are financ
ing the venture.
Age of Women.
This is said to be a woman's
fet women have little to iy t
:helr uge.—Cincinnati Time- Star.
BUILDING
EXPERIMENT IN GOOD ROADS
Road to Chevy Chase ‘‘Text Book In
Concrete, Brick and Stone”—Ex
perts Are Interested.
There is here a text book in con
crete, brick and stone- the road tc
Chevy Chase, built by the plans and
under the direction of the office of
public roads of the United States and
for the sole purpose of informing the
public and the members of congress
interested in the improvement of the
public highways upon the methods and
cost of construction, types of roads,
adaptability of material and economy
of maintenance.
Thousands of people travel over
this road, which is built in many sec
tions of different types, every day, and
hundreds of practical road builders
from all parts of the country have in
spected it from time to time and have
Sand Tpnd Gravel Piled on Subgrade
R'-ady for Use, Experimental Con
•tte Road, Chevy Chase, Md.
(i^rvelcd at the excellence of the
work.
Manufacturers who have supplied
bituminous materials for the treat
ment of the road have detached their
special experts for this service and
the traffic over the road has demon
strated under carefully observed con
ditions the relative value of the sev
eral types of road making up this great
highway.
The Chevy Chase road is experi
mental. It consists of different types
of pavement—bituminous macadam
laid by the penetration method, sur
face treatments of waterbound ma
cadam, asphaltic surfaces on concrete
foundations, bituminous surfaced con
crete, plain and oil cement concrete
and vitrified brick, all of which are
under daily observation by expert
road builders to ascertain which of the
types ir, best suited tojlio traffic and
which is condemned by practical test
under the same conditions of climate,
Boll, rainfall, heat and cold and like
traffic requirements. It would be just
the same to the office of public roads
which has written this open book in
concrete, brick and stone whether any
a11 y«*» is ui it miuuiu uiu,
failure in materials used, in construc
tion, in durability, in cost, in mainte
nance—the test is the thing.
Road building is aoffence now, and
efficiency is the o^iMrst of quaiity.
In the stones ikflHnt the construc
tion of the Che^^Chase road, their
specific gravity, their weight per cubic
foot, their water absorption, their per
centage of wear, their hardness and
toughness are all determined by the
most careful scientific tests. Patrol
men are constantly employed on this
road to keep account of whatever de
fects in materials and construction
may develop and exact data as to th#
cost of maintenance.
The Chevy Chase road was fortu
nately placed for the reason that all
of its section; of types have been sub
jected to precisely the same sort of
traffic year in and year out and the
section or type that has not stood the
strain has been as important an object
lesson to road builders as the section
or type that has maintained itself un
der like strain. The road, as a whole,
a great-experiment conducted by the
most competent engineers to demon
strate the most practical things.
Good Stretches Useless.
Local contro1 in road building means
a go.d patch where the officials are
up to date, and a poor stretch where
the localjauthorities are slack in their
road work—and the poor stretches of
road make the good stretches useless.
Up-to-Date Roads.
We have the spectacle in most
states of pioneer roads for twentieth
century farmers whoso equipment in
farming consists of modern machinery
and modes of travel. When, oh when,
will he put the up-to-date mode of
travel on an up-to-date road!
Drag Improves Surface.
Is your road to town rough and
hard to travel over '. A split log or
iron drag drawn ovei tho road after
each rain helps to gi\ r good but- 1
tace and does not cost much.
J'lIFMJ'
•5?
MUST TAKE CARE Of
There Can Be Too Much Farm Ma
chinery Just as Well as Too Little
—Either Must Be Avoided.
Hy V. H. Kern, Specialist in Farm Im
plements, Extension Division,
University of Arkansas.
Because or the labor problem, which
ts making itself felt in our state, ami
because of the necessity of increased i
food and feed production, the buying, J
caring for and using farm machine!;. i
are subjects to which the aver.- ]
farmer should pay more real attin j
tion. He should realize that the pm J
chase of farm machinery is «; mu. i 1
of a business proposition as the pur 3
chasing of a pure bred lull or pur 1
bred Duroc-Jersey hog. The farmei j
does not buy the pig merely for fix
sake of having the pig, but he mala :
Rn investment from which he intends
to realize the greatest profit. The
better the farmer cares for the pig, the
more net gain he realizes from his in
vestment. Farm machinery Is also an
indispensable means of profit, and the
more care taken in selecting, uh'i •
and caring for farm implements, V
more will be the net earnings, and th<
most economic agriculture is not pos
sible until the right kind of efficient
labor and time-saving implements as
the farm warrants is used.
Too Little Machinery to the Farm
There can be too much farm ma
chinery just as well as too little.
Either is to be avoided, and the sys
tem of ^rop rotation and the labor
problem will largely determine the
amount of machinery necessary. As a
general rule we find too little machin
ery to the farm in Arkansas. If farm
ing conditions are such that two-horse
Implements cannot be used, those con
ditions should be changed.
Implements an Index to Advancement
of a Community.
The kind of farm implements is an
index to the advancement of a com
munity. From the pony plow, solid
sweep, middle buster community with
Inadequate schools and churches we
pass to a more highly developed coun
try with adequate schools, efficient
teachers and churches of which the
community is proud. The proper
types, use and care of farm imple
ments helped to accomplish this.
Points to Observe in Purchasing
Implements.
To most farm implements the fol
lowing purchasing points should be
t" died, bearing in mind that we are
riiiking an investment from which we
exnect a dividend.
Efficiency of the machine ip, to he
considered first of all. What is the
quality of the work that it will do"
How much can he accomplished? The
machine should he selected with this
In view, that the greatest possible
amount of efficienffcvork may he
squeezed from the impPment.
Construction of the machine should
b,- noted. Will the implement stand
nn under the strain for at least eight
■• ears, which should be the average life
with reasonable care and housing’
The implement manufacturer puts out
a now machino and finds somo parts
aro of weak construction. When this
is called to his attention he reinforces
these parts if his aim is to help the
farmer. If it is not. he allows the
farmer to suffer the loss, and in the
lo ver run both are the losers.
The farmer is justified in not grab
bing the untried and newest machine
put on the market. If it is an experi
ment he fan afford to wait a short
while until it is tried out. If it
proves a success as a time and labot
saver he should not be the last to la>
a ‘ de old methods and adopt new.
Of two equally desirable imple
ments, select the one for which re
f-airs can most readily 1. obtained
Time worth hundreds of dolors cm
easily be lost because of inat^Lssibil
! v to repairs. Purchase inipfWu-nt
made by reliable manufactu 'ers.
Keeping a machine in proner repa'r
will materially lessen its final expense
and give the owner greater satisfac
tion. Haling wire nu v serve as a re
pair part to finish the day’s work in
some instances, but do not try to make
it take the place of the part broken.
You may run the cost of upkeep of
the machine into dollars instead of
cents. Keeping in proper repair in
cludes tightening loose nuts, oiling to
lessen wear and produce less draft
Proper Care Means Money Saved.
Even with our inadequate supply of
farm implements there g| some $25.
000,000 invested in this V|fe. Annu
ally the farmers lose V^gp.oOO. as
nearly as it can be esUniatWLrith the
present data. Were the farfa^k^pm
polled to pay 15 to 20 per cent intend#*
on borrowed money he would feel un
Justly treated, but farm Implements,
from the cheapest plow to the thresh
er, are In most instances left in the
weather the year around. Instead of
lasting eight years or more, very often
two or three years is the life of those
implements. If shed room can not be
provided, the implements should be
painted and oiled at the end of the
reason. Even though a shed is ae
< ssthle, all wearing surfaces should
'■< c 'ive a coating of grease to prevent
Stop the losses In farm m.t
.’linery aud increase the farm profits
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Raney’s Bargains in
REAL ESTAT
. ssar. 2 jam-* ~iMxauatf.-jmL~y
In and Near Newark—The Best Town in the South
Bargain No. 1
Four room dwelling, ordinary barn, good well, 2 acres level
land that will hold fertilizer, nice shady grove. Three blocks
I rent Public Schcl. I’lItCK $800.
Bargain No. 2
Six (loom dwelling, ordinary barn, good well of water, three
acres cl land, one-half mile front the schol house. This place has
two acres lYr truck patches and one acre lor buildings. You can
raise $100 in truck on this next year. I raised $1.50 worth of to
matoes tin one-half of acre this year. I can sigh! you.
Bargain No. 3
135 acres of hind with ordinary four room house, enc half in
be hills, (he balance in the bottoms. It) acres cleared in the bot
toms, 10 acres in line pasture w ith a spring that has not been dry
in 40 years, 10 acres of hill land cbartfj you can make a living
on this land if you will work hard enough. IMflt’F, $1,000. 1 mile
from school house.
* Bargain No. 4
ICO r.cr“s creek land 7;'» acres in cultivation, geHxl six re- m
frame dwelling large metal roof barn. All enclosed with \V".on
wire fence, flood Bermuda pasture. The improvements arc
worth $2,000, four miles from Newark. School house » u cm eci r
rf the* place that has < months school. PRICK $1,000.00.
Bargain No. 5
2U) acres river land with three tenant houses, large bain and
site. 220 aces in cultivation. You can raise enough c.n {hi: phe
it'd ye . - t« pay for it if you will, work it Seven miles from
Ne wark, autcmediile read. One mile
$14,000.
freim school liejuse. I’ri<
Ml this property will secure a loan Ieir one half value and 1
v, ill help ycu get the money if you can pay ,)I1(. half cash.
IT YOl WANT TO nrv \T \ BARGAIN sef me. if
YOU WANT TO SELL AT A BA 'GAIN SEE ME. BI T I DO
NOT HAVE ANY TIME TO TRY TO SELL ANYTHING FOR
MORE TRAN IT IS WORTH.
Will Show You Any of These at Any Time
T. J. RANEY
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