THE HCTTIG NEWS.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. IX. NO. 16
HUTTJG. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. AUGUST 21. 1915.
PRICE. $1 PER YEAR
CANNING DEMONSTRATION.
Expert ifl Charge of Work Will be In Ituttlg
on Friday, August 27.
Pearl Carmical, canning club
agent for the United States De
partment of Agriculture in this
state, will hold a canning demon
stration at the home of G. R.
Duncan just west of the new j
school grounds, on Friday after- j
noon, August 27, at 2 o’clock, to
which every lady in Huttig and
surrounding country is cordially in
vited.
Each member of the canning
club organized for this locality re
cently is requested to be present
and bring tomatoes to can if possi
ble. If you have no tomatoes,
bring some other vegetables or
fruit.
Mr. Duncan has kindly consent
ed to furnish his canning outfit for
the demonstration and we trust
every member of the canning club
and as many of the ladies of the
community as can will be in attend
ance to encourage the club mem
bers as well as gain a practical
knowledge of how the work should
be done. This is a great work and
is doing much toward helping
“Arkansas Feed Herself.”
Record-Breaking Production ot Bauxite and
Aluminum.
The production of bauxite and
the consumption of aluminum in
the United States in 1914 were
the largest ever recorded. The
report prepared by W. C. Phalen,
of the United States Geological
Survey, shows an output of 219,
318 long tons of bauxite, valued at
$1,069,194; in 1914, against
210,241 long tons, valued $997,-j
698, in 1913. The States which!
produced bauxite in 1914 were
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and
Tennessee. Arkansas produced \
more than 80 per cent of the out-!
put, owing to the extensive opera- j
tions of the American Bauxite Co.1
in Saline county, and the output
was larger in 1914 than in 1913.
Bauxite is used in the produc-'
tion of metalic aluminum and the
manufacture of aluminum salts, of
bauxite bricks and of alundum.
The use of bauxite in the produc
tion of the metal aluminum is by
far the most important one, and the
the largest part of the bauxite pro
duced in Arkansas, as well as most
of that imported, is used in the
aluminum industry.
Alundum, which is used exten
sively as an abrasive, is made at
Niagara Falls, N. Y., by fusing cal
cined bauxite in an electric furn
ace. Alundum is especially effic
ient for the grinding of steel forg
ings and castings. Only the best
grades of bauxite are used in the
manufacture of such chemicals as
alum, aluminum phosphate and
aluminum salts, as freedom from
oxide of iron is desirable for such
purposes.
Another use to which bauxite
is adapted is in the manufacture of
calcium aluminate, which gives a
quick set to plaster compositions.
Aluminum is the most abundant
of metals and ranks third among
the elements which compose the
crust of the earth, baing exceedSd
only by oxygen and silicon. It is
an important constituent of all
common rocks except certain sed
imentary rocks, as sandstone and
limestone. It is never found na
tive, or in elementary form, but
occurs as an oxide, hydrous oxide,
fluoride, phosphate, sulphate sili
cate, or other compound. The on
ly source of the metal so far com
mercially utilized is bauxite, an ore
that contains 50 or 60 per cent of
alumina (the common oxide,)
which corresponds to a metallic
content of 26.5 to 31.8 per ..cent
of aluminum.
The consumption of aluminum is
constantly expanding, and aside
from its use in the manufacture of
cooking utenils, it is being em
ployed in the construction of auto
mobile castings and of welded
tanks used by brewers, preserve
manufacturers, fat Tenderers and
for wire for power-transmission
lines. Other uses which are im
portant in their adaptability and ef
ficiency, but which absorbs only a
small portion of the domestic prod
uct, are the manufacture of pow
dered metal used as a paint pig
ment and in making aluminum fjil.
Aluminum foil is gradually dis
placing tin foil, which heretofore
has been used for wrapping cheese,
candies, tobacco, tea and other
products.
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acting directly upon the Mood and mu
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sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Take Ball’s Family Pills for constipation.
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Railroad Statistics.
In the y ;ar ending June 30,
1914, the railroads of the United
States, operating 246,000 miles of
road, with 64,430 locomotives, 2,
304,26? freight cars and 52,004
passenger cars, collected for their
services $3,041,293,000. They
carried 288,746,432,000 tons of
freight one mile at an average rate
of 7.28 mills a ton a mile, and 35,
129,269,000 passengers one mile
at an average rate of 1.S8I cents.
The average length of each pas
senger's trip was about 35 miles,
and the average haul of each ton
of freight was almost 150 miles.
I Nearly 36 per cent of total reve- j
| nue comes from the hauling of the !
products of mines, nearly 23 per
cent from passengers and only
7.43 per cent from products of
agriculture. More than 45 per
cent is paid out directly for labor,
14 per cent for interest and only 4
cents out of every dollar goes to
the stockholders and to surplus.
Methodist Church Services
The following services will be
held at Union church Sunday: Sun
day school at 10:00 a. m. Preach
ing at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. by
the pastor. Junior League at 3:00
p. m. Epworth League at 6:30 p.
I m. A cordial invitation is extend
ed to all to attend these services.
Rev. S. K. Burnett, Pastor.
Increase at State University.
From reports that have been
turned in to the president of the
State University indicate that un
favorable financial conditions will
have no appreciable effect upon the
attendance at the University next
year. On the other hand, from
most places an increase is expect
ed. Even from that section of the
state which is devoted almost en
tirely to cotton raising, the attend
ance will be good. One town of
not over 1,500 inhabitants located
almost 300 miles distant from Fay
etteville will next year send twelve
students to the University.
The total attendance at the Uni
versity last year was 783. This
number does not include summer
school students, correspondence
student!, extension students or
students attending courses for only
a few days or weeks. If all these
were included, the total attend
ance for last year would be more
than 2,500. The indications are
that the attendance on the regular
nine months courses for next col
lege year will reach 900.
Tell us the news for the News,
Canned 4,500 Cans of Products.
As a diversified farmer D. W.
Spencer, who lives just west of
town, is entitled to the blue ribbon
for this section from what we can
hear.
Besides planting part of his land
in cotton for a money crop and
raising all the corn and other feed
stuff necessary for his stock he
ran a truck wagon all summer sell
ing at retail all the produce possi
ble and has canned 4,500 cans of
his surplus stock to sell during the
winter. He has also raised a large
cro$ of ribbon cane from which he
will have a number of ga'lons of
syrup for sale during the winter.
If all the farmers would follow
his example and live strictly at
home and can the surplus produce
and fruit they raise times would be
materially better in Union county.
Notice to farmers.
I am having my gin put in first
class shape by an experienced gin
man, and will be in better shape to
serve the people this season than
last year. 1 will gin the first bale
free and pay $10.00 premium.
7-24-lm. S. R. Neel,
Young Lady Dead.
Miss Jewell, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Walton, who reside
north of Strong, died at 7:30 j
o’clock last Saturday evening j
from congestion, aged about 18
years. The funeral was held at
3:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon
from the Ebenezer Presyterian
church, services being conducted
by Rev. John Stanley Thomas of
El Dorado.
TN Weak * MMMnv
Monday, August 16, Battle of
Bennington, 1777.
Tuesday, August 17, Charles X
of France retires to England. 1 830.
Wednesday, August 18,' Queen
Victoria and Prince Albert visit
France, 1855.
Thursday, August 19, Revolu
tionary tribunal set up in’ Paris,
1792.
Friday, August 20, McClelland
assumes command of the army of
t ie Potomac, 1861.
Saturday, August 21, Death of
Queen Dowage-Christina of Spain,
1878.
Sunday, August 22, Fire in San
Francisco, loss $2,000,000, 1886.
Physicians who have been study
ing alfalfa as a medicine report that
it stimulates the bodily functions,
cures mental depression, increases
the appetite and causes an im
provement in weight. A tincture
of the plant is used internally.
Uncle Sam has more than 36,
000 employees in Washington to
whom he pays average of $ 1,135 a
vear, or a total of about $41,140,
000. The highest average sala
ries are paid to White House em
ployees who get $3,900 a year,
and the lowest is paid to employees
in the state, war and navy building,
averaging $560 a year.
VISIT THIS STATE
Farmers Should Be Prepared to Meet
Invaaion by This Pest With Pois
oned Bait of Arsenate of Lead.
Those of us -who have had trouble
In 1912 with the grass worm will take
warning in the fact that this insect
16 busy this year In Texas and is very
likely to work its way northward.
The ravages of this insect are largely
to be averted through intensive culti
vation and the use of arsenate of lead
and poisoned bait.
The full growto grass worm or fall
army worm, as It is often called, is
about one and a half inches long. It
Is of a pale yellowish brown or black
color, being mottled and streaked
with yellow. On each side of the ab
domen there is a broad waving band
of yellow, mottled more or less with
reddish. On its head there is a yel
low inverted “Y.”
Feed* on Corn and Sorghum.
The grass worm is essentially a
grass pest, feeding upon our various
wild grasses and upon our tame
grasses, including corn, sorghum,
Johnson grass, Sudan grass, millets,
c. It is also very fond of alfalfa,
and will feed upon cotton when
grasses are not readily available.
Particular care must be taken to
keep the late corn and cane well cul
tivated. It might be said in this con
nection that many fields of corn wrere
lost in 1912 on account of poor culti
vation. The worms will feed upon
crab grass which is allowed to grow’
up in a field, and will later turn their
attention to the main crop. Aside
from this, the importance of cultiva
tion will become apparent when it is
known that the worms enter the
ground for the purpose of transform
ing to the pupa? stage. By cultivat
ing, fifty to ninety per cent of the
worms in the ground can be killed,
thus preventing a heavy emergence of
moths which would otherwise deposit
eggs for a larger generation.
Use Arsenate of Lead.
Where the worms have made their
appearance in a corn field it is ad
visable to dust with arsenate of lead
at the rate of three to five pounds per
acre, the latter being mixed first with
two or three times its weight of cheap
flour. The material is applied in the
lame way that cotton is dusted for
the army worm.
Where corn is to be used as fodder,
dusting with arsenate of lead would
be attended with danger. In such an
event a poison bait can be scattered
broadcast on the ground where the
worms are at work. This might be
applied at the rate of seven pounds
per acre.
Poisoned Bait.
Poisoned bait can be made as fol
lows: Mix one hundred pounds of
wheat bran with two to three pounds
of Paris green, and after the poison
lias teen uniformly worked into the
brthi, wdrirtfie matter httt. a thick
dough with three to four gallons of
molasses, to which has prevously been
added the juice of six lemons or or
anges. This material will then be
ready to apply.
Alfalfa fields which are infested
should be immediately cut where this
practice can be resorted to without
injury to the plants. After the hay
has been removed, one may apply
poisoned bait, or else the worms may
be killed by taking a number of folds
of chicken wire, weighting this down
with a section harrow and dragging
it over the infested field.
Where fields are threatened by mi
grating worms they should be sur
rounded by a deep furrow. Worms I
which fall into this furrow can be
killed by dragging a log back and
forth as long as the migrating is tak
ing place.—George J. Baker, Professor
of Entomology, Arkansas College pt j
Agriculture.
BITTER ROT IN ORCHARDS
To Be Controlled, Must Be Fought
With Bordeaux Mixture.
Bitter rot this year is proving seri
ous in some orchards. It is the one
disease of apples which must be
fought hard from its first appearance
in the orchard if it is to be controlled
at all. Even if there is only a tree
or two showing the disease, steps
should be taken at once to spray and
to clean out the diseased fruit. It may
be worth while to strip the affected
tress entirely and take the fruit
to the evaporator rather than take
any chance on leaving a small infec
tion to later become a rotten sp<j»
and help to spread the trouble.
Bordeaux Mixture Spray.
The spray mixture used for bitter
rot is bordeaux mixture at a strength
of 10 10-100. Its application to the
fruit and twigs and limbs of the trees
simply prevents the spread of the
disease by preventing the growth of
germinating spores.
Spraying will not pay where the
bitter rot is not first removed from
the trees, and if there is so much rot
in the orchard that it cannot be re
moved without taking all the fruit,
that portion of the orchard would
beat be stripped—J. Lee Hewett.
Plant Pathologist. Arkansas College of
Agriculture. FayetteviPe.
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part of everything he earned and laid it up for the future
business chances that he knew would come.
You will find that he is a banking man and if you knew
his business dealings intimately you would be sure to find
that more than one of his, good business deals was made
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BACK IN 1900.
15 YEARS ago a little furniture store was opened at 121
North Second St., Monroe. La. Through the full fifteen years it
has progressed and prospered until today it occupies four big
floors 70 x 150, and besides commanding an enviable position in
the merchandising affairs of Monroe, it is recognized far and
wide a^ one of the leading furniture stores of the state.
Occupying its own building, and thus having no rent to pay,
The Monroe Furniture Go., gives its customers, of which it num
bers thousands, the very maximum value for the money in every
instance. Fifteen years experience in buying and selling furni
ture. carpets and home furnishings has taught us what our cus
tomers want and where to obtain it for them. Our furniture
goes into a majority of the HOMES of this section; it furnishes
comfort to the home of the well-to-do business man or
planter, and it answers the need of the working man's cottage.
No matter what may be the size of your pocketbook you will
find what you want and save money on it.
“From the Cheapest that is
Good to the Best that is Made”
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