Page’s Weekly Letter
Little Rock, June 6.—This year
great care should be taken in
saving the wheat and oat crop.
Don’t let these crops get too ripe
before cutting or they will shat
ter out and much grain will be
lost. The proper time to cut
these grains is when the kernel
is in the hard dough stage. This
can be determined by mashing a
few kernels between the fingers.
Usually about twelve bundles
make a good sized shock. If too
many bundles are used drying
out is too slow. If too few are
used there is danger of the shock
blowing down. By all means, in
tViicj Stafp paoh shook should he
capped. This is done by spread
out the heads and butts of one
or two bundles and placing on
top of the shock. The cap pro-'
-tects the heads from weather and
from birds. Many farmers al
low the grain to stand in the
shock until it is damaged by the
weather. In many cases the
kernels all sprout. Just as soon
as the straw in the bundles is
thoroughly dry it should be
stacked. In the stack the middle
must be kapt very full, and the
outside bundles must have a good
slope to them or the rains will do
serious damage. Every year far
mers lose a great deal of grain
and have the quality reduced be
cause of not taking proper care
in harvesting, shocking and
stacking the crop.
Lands that are in wheat and
oats should not be allowed to be
bare during the fall and winter.
By discing or stirring the soil
with some tool as soon as the
grain is off, cowpeas or some sim
ilar crop can be put in. This
win iurmsn a good aeai oi pas
ture or hay late in the season.
Usually a good many peas can be
picked, which will be profitable,
considering the high cost of cow
peas. The material that is left
after pasturing or picking the
peas can be turned under, which
will add manure to the soil. A
large manure supply in the soil
increases its moisture holding ca
pacity, makes the soil work much
easier, and makes the plant food
already in the soil available so it
can be used by the growing crop.
A soil short in manure is a dead
soil; nearly all our soils should
have a larger supply of it. Cow
peas, if turned under, will also
add considerable nitrogen to the
soil. It is the element that gives
the rank green growth to the
growing crop. If cowpea seed
cannot be secured, put in some
early rye, wheat oj* oats. All of
them will furnish a splendid fall
and winter pasture and cut down
the feed bill. With the present
price of corn and other feed
crops, it is very important to
grow some green crops and cut
out some of the concentrated
ASSESSING NOTICE
DON’T FAIL TO BRING YOUR LAST TAX RECEIPT
I will be at the following named places on the dates mentioned for the purpose of
assessing the per capita, real and personal property of Woodruff County, Ark.
JUNE
DeView
Morton
Penrose
Hilleman
Hunter
Grays
Tip
Bullville
Wiville
Howell
Mayberry Store
McClelland
Cotton Plant
Friday and Saturday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday and Saturday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday, Thurs., Friday and Sat.,
= JULY
8-9
11
12
13
14-15-16
18
19
20
21
22-23
25
26
27-28-29-30
Revels Monday July 2
McCrory Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 3-5-6-7
G egory Monday 9
Fitzhugh Tuesday 10
Snapp School House Wednesday 11
Augusta Thursday, Friday and Saturday 12-13-14
1 will be in my office in the courthouse in Augusta until August 15, after which date
penalty will be attached. NO LIST WILL BE ACCEPTED BY MAIL UNLESS PROP
ERLY SWORN TO before a notary public or justice of the peace.
EDGAR MILLER, Assessor.
feeds. These crops will also
keep the soil from washing, sc
that next year’s crop will be
more profitable. The top soil is
always the best. Some green
growing crop during the fall ,and
winter will hold this surface soil.
John H. Page,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Commissioner’s Sale
Notice is hereby given that un
der and pursuant to a decree
rendered in the Woodruff Chan
cery Court for the Northern Dis
trict at the May term, 1917, in £
cause therein styled Lula T,
Boon, D. L. Boon, J. R. Boon, el
al, expartee, I will sell to the
highest bidder, at public outcry,
at the west door of the couri
house at Augusta, Arkansas, ai
2 o’clock p. m. on Monday the
11th day of June, 1917, the fol
lowing described real estate, to
wit:
All Section two in Township
eight north, range one west in
Woodruff county, Ark.
The south half of the south
west quarter and the west half
of the southeast quarter of Sec
tion Nineteen, the southeast
quarter of the northwest quarter
and northeast quarter of .Section
thirty, all in Township nine north
of range one east in Cross coun
ty, Ark.
Southeast quarter of southeast
. quarter of Section twenty-four
t and the east half of the north
east quarter of Section twenty
five, all in Township nine north
. of range one west in Jackson
county, Ark.
; Said sale will be made on a
; credit of 8 months, purchaser
i giving bond with approved se
■ curity for purchase price thereof,
with interest at 6 per cent from
date of sale.
Witness my hand and seal this
16th day of May, 1917.
Ludie W. Winfree,
Commissioner in Chancery,
adv 5-18-3t
Ford cars will save you money
in the long run. Riggs Brothers,
McCrory, Ark. Adv.3-3
Feed, Lumber, Coal
Shingles, Doors, Rubber
Roofing, Paints, Brick and
Lime.
Corn, Oats, Chops, Hull*
and Meal.
H. D. SWAVZE