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The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11
CROP ROTATION.

Crop rotation. says the Royalton
Banner, may be defined as a sys-
tematic succession OF the three gen
eral classes of farm crops. namely.
grain crops, grass crops and Guilt
waited crops in such way as to pro-
vide large yields of grain, pasturage
and forage needed on the farm at
the least expense of labor and fer
tility.
Rotation systems must be adapted
to each farm or class OF farms and
to the particular condition of each
farm. With a knowledge of what it
is desired to accomplish by rotation,
namely, an improvement in the con-
dition of the soil and a correspond
ing increase in the net income per
acre il is easily possible, knowing
the character of the farm, the ell
mate, the line of farming desired
and the tastes of the farmer to plan
systematic rotation for that farm
which will give the desired result.
The essentials of a good rotation are
that the net yields in money value
per acre be maintained or increased
that the land be kept in good phys
ical condition, and free from weeds.
Grass crops must be grown on barn
gard manure applied, or both, to
keep up the supply Of vegetable mat
ter. A cultivated crop occasionally
and good tillage are necessary to Kill
h4lv MT hn
good filth. These things are natur-
ally brought about by alternating the
three classes of crops-that is. one
or more grass crops should appear
on each field every four to eight
years.
Corn Or other cultivated crops and
manure should appear one or more
years in the time grain may be
grown.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11
FRUIT GROWERS FIGHT SCALE.
While Pest Has Not Grown Alarming
in Crawford, Orchardists Are Pre-
pairing to Stamp 1t Out.

Van Buren.-While the peach orch
ards of Crawford county have been
practically free from that greatest
enemy to fruit culture, the San Jose
scale. orchardists have at last real
lied that their large commercial pOach
orchards that have been brought TO
state of perfection only by years
of labor are endangered and are now
planning to wage a war upon the pest
with sprays and the axe.
The ravages of this tree disease in
Crawford has not grown alarming;
however, there are enough diseased
trees in the county to scatter it to
every one of the million trees now
growing in this county. Our growers
have been making a more careful
observation of their trees this spring
than common and the result is there
is not an orchard of any size but has
more or less affected trees.
There are those who feel like aban
doning their orchards, while others
will fight the plague with spraying
apparatus and where trees are so bad
ly affected that they will not bear,
the axe will be applied and the last
vestige burned. By this means they
hope TO be able to check the ravages
of the disease, If they do not com
pletely eradicate it.
There is feeling among the own
ers of the large commercial peach
orchards of Crawford county that the
present legislature should pass an act
providing for an inspector to condemn
all affected trees and compel their
destruction without loss of time and
compel growers to spray their unaf-
fected trees with preparation that
would make them immune to the dis
ease, this, in their opinion, being the
only effective way of fighting the
scale plague.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11
CRAWFORD
WANTS LFvfES
Bill viii Be introduced Into legisla.
ture to Allow Issuance OF $780,
GOO Bonds.

Van Buren-P. d. Scott OF this city,
who for many years has been an ar
dent levee advocate, is having pre-
pared special bill that will be pre-
scented to the legislature next week,
creating the Crawford County Levee
District, and believes that there will
be no trouble in securing it's passage,
for the proposed district would pro-
tect every foot of overflow land in the
county. The bill will provide for
bond issue of 100000, that being the
estimated cost of the levee for the
Arkansas river and the leyeeing or
the two small streams that flow
through the proposed levee district
into the Arkansas river as far back
as the backwater line.
Some of the largest cotton planta-
tions along the river west of Little
Rock are to be found in Crawford
county and the proposition is meeting
with the support of practically every
land owner interested. as we'll as be-
ing encouraged by the commercial
and other interests throughout Craw-
ford county.
For many years the owners of Ar
kansas river bottom land in Craw-
ford county have been considering
the ACCESSIBILITY of taking some steps
toward protecting their property from
the Arkansas river, but the undertak-
ing locked like a gigantic one and
action has been postponed year after
year and year after year the river has
overlooked, each time costing the
owners of land subject to inundation
as much as it would have cost them
to levee the river.
There is no more fertile land to be
found along the Arkansas river than
that lying between Van Buren, on the
west and the town of Mulberry on
the east line of the county. Several
thousands of acres of this fine cotton.
corn and alfalfa producing land has
been made barren waste many times
over by the Arkansas river, depress-
ing the value of the land and making
it almost impossible to get renters to
fill some of the larger plantations en-
braced in the overflow area.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11
Rice Growing Is Profitable.

Rice threshing has been going on
in Texas for the last two months and
is now practically finished. The CROP
is confined to the upper gulf coast
region, and is comparatively a new
industry. 1t is conservatively estt
mated that the rice yield in iexas
this year is approximately 100000.
sacks. Each sack contains four bush.
els. The price per sack early in the
season was 1915, but it has since
dropped to 1926. The United States
production of rice last year was in
sufficient to meet the home demand,
and 100000 sacks had to be Inn
ported. 1t is said that the average
cost Of production is little more
than 81 a sack. This leaves a nice
margin Of profit ranging from $40 &c
$50 per acre for the planter.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11
FORT SMITH TO THE FRONT
Enterprising City Appropriaths $780,
900 to Advertise Itself

Fort Smith, Ark, is in line with the
general movement for civic improve
ments that is sweeping the Middle
West, and perhaps a little ahead OF
the procession. The city has appro.
priated $4,000 to advertise its many
advantages, and has given a contract
to S. w. Bolles Of the Humphrey Ad-
vertising Company of this city for
the preparations o. the copy and the
placing of the advertising. Fort Smith
is paving its seventy-one miles of
streets. and this is probably the only
intance on record where a city has
iet one contract providing for all its
paving
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11

A steamer loaded with petroleum
from the Standard Oil Company took
fire in the harbor Of Singapore. and
when all attempts TO extinguish the fire
failed. the harbor agents appealed to
the commander of the Notifications to
sink the vessel 1t was two miles
away. but a few welldirected shots
from the six-inch guns sent the ship to
the bottom. Thus do warllke weapons
have their victories no less profound
than the implements of peace
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11
Farmers Educational
AND
Co. Operative Union
Of America
THE FARMERS BOY.
In Many Instances He Has Mis-
taken idea Of City Life.

taken Idea OF City Lire.
The great trouble with country boys
is that they are not aware of the cir
cumstances under which the city boy
is compelled to live and work If he
has to earn his living by the sweat
of his brow. The idea held up to
the country boy is to go to town and
get a nice, easy. soft snap, such as
So-and-so has. How many OF them
do it? Not one in a thousand. Far
more go there to find work in some
close, stagnant mill. to sweat amid
the fumes of steam or tobacco smoke.
or perhaps in some iron mill or foun-
dry. surrounded by the curses of their
fellow men, toll out weary day OF
eleven or thirteen hours and after
the day ia over go homeland to such
home, Up some little back street
in a bandbox built of brick and
named house more than likely
our workman has his home, there 10
pass away the weary hours OF the
night amid the heat and stagnation
of probably filthy street only few
feet wide, hot, close and dirty. In
any large city on some sultry night
one may see the workmen and their
families in these little narrow city
streets stretched about the steps and
payements in all conditions. These
are not slums either. but fairly re-
spectacle neighborhoods.
To such a condition of life, many
of our country boys have gone, and
many more are today preparing to
CO. Fat pay and big pay envelopes?
Not in these times. If our city labor
er averages $12 a week he is a lucky
man. Tens of thousands get less
rather than more Country boy, be-
fore you make the change, in the
name of that country you have been
taught to hold in reverence, look
and do not leap, If you understand
farming there are just as many
chances on the land to be worked out
as there are in the city.
This Is a great country, and if you
do not like the kind of farming you
are working at there are many 9th
ers. If you belong to family that
follows the grind, grind system OF
all work and no play, when you reach
your majority and start for yourself
follow out an easier system. Do not
condemn country life just because
you have been unfortunate enough
to be brought up in the home of a
hn nnthinr hnt grind
Do not overlook the fact that if such
q man was your boss in the city he
would grind your life away. Long.
long before you were twenty-one
years old you would be occupying
some six feet of green turf, where at
call and curse of the boss.
Country life may not be and prob
ably is not what many would like TO
color it, but, all things being equal.
it is far preferable to city life That
is just where 1t comes in. City life
is never compared with country life
on an equal plane. Remember tina,
If you must work in the country for
living you will have to work in the
city for one, too. and II you possess
the ability in yourself to rise above
the ordinary workmen in the city
that same ability will carve out
home for you in the country Look
before you leap, consider all things.
and if you are sure you can better
yourself in the city, go; If not stay
on the old farm.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11
Facts Concerning Cost Of Production.


That the average Oklahoma cotton
planter makes profit of nearly $40
per acre on his cotton crop is shown
by the statistical data in the biennial
report of the Oklahoma state board
of agriculture, which has just been
placed in the hands of the printer.
The figures on the cost of producing
cotton are furnished by +. w. Gist,
special agent of the United States
Department of Agriculture, and pub
lished by special permission of Sec
rotary Wilson. The figures on cotton
production In detail are as follows;
Cost of preparation of land per acre,
Sl.40; cost of planting per acre, 5000.
cost of cultivating, 1898; cost of pick
ing, 1923 cost of ginning. etc, s2.57;
total cost per acre. SIZES; receipts
per acre for lint and seed, Splits;
profit. 1855. From the profit is TO
be deducted the rental value of the
land, which Is shown to be 50. S5.40.
or 80 cents per acre, according 20
whether cash rental or part of the
crop is paid. 80 cents being the aver
age rental paid on school lands. The
average yield per acre is shown TO
be ga pounds of seed cotton, the cost
per pound, 2.15 cents. and the re-
ceipts per pound, 3.47 cents, giving
an average profit of 1872 cents per
pound. The yield of lint from seed
is shown to be 31.76 per cent.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11
School Building Burns.

Altus.-The high school building at
this place was destroyed by fire dur
ing a fierce electrical storm at 4:30
O'Clock Saturday morning. The build
ing was covered by insurance to the
amount of $4,000. The fire originated
in the third story of the building and
was evidently caused by lightning.
The two pianos used in the school
and q small amount of furniture were
saved. The majority OF the books
and school equipment of the scholars
were destroyed by the flames.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11
Wants $4,000 For River.

n.-Congressman Robin
son is trying to get an appropriation
for the protection of the banks OF
the Arkansas river at Douglass, Ark,
and it is thought that favorable ac-
ton will be taken on his bill to ap-
propriate $4,000 for the protection
of the banks and the Strengthening OF
the channel of the river The bill
which is now under consideration
calls for $4,000 to be used for a pre-
liminary survey at and near Douglass,
the object being to protect the levee
at that place.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11

In Spain about the only kind of
plow in use Is primitive wooden az
fair with one handle and tongue. To
this is hitched pair OF small oxen or
mules yoked up like oxen. The driver
rests his right foot on "a rear exten.
sion to keep the plow from jumping
out OF the ground, steadying himself
by touching his left foot when about to
lose his balance.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11
lovee Contract Awarded.

Pine Bluff.-The commissioners
Levee District No. 3 met at Pine b
and awarded the contract for
construction of the levee TO A.
Morrow. II is stipulated that
work shall be commenced within
days. The $4,000 of bonds iss'
by the distdict was purchased
the Pine Bluff Trust Company.
levee is to be built in the VICE
of England, jefferson county, and
be about seven miles In length.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11
Helping Our Neighbors.

That which stands out bright and
shining above all the tragedy of the
Italian earthquake is the worldwide
and instant response to the need OF tie
suffering survivors. The calamity it
self was neither new nor strange, I'M
and Calabria have been often visited
by disastrous earthquakes, both In an.
cient times and recently. Since the
beginning of the present century. still
less than ten years old, the great cities
OF San Francisco and Valparaiso, In
the western hemisphere, have been de-
stroyed by seismic upheavals. to say
nothing of the wiping out of st. Pierre.
with all its population, by the eruption
OF Mont Pelee, In the island of Marti-
niQue. At the time of each of these
great cataclysms the rest OF the world
contributed to the relief of the suffer
ers. and once again the draft on hui
man sympathy has been honored, says
tho Youths Companion. Not only did
Italian warships and the Italian king
and queen start for the scene OF the
earthquake as soon as news OF II
reached Rome, but British, French and
Russian squadrons in the Mediter-
ranean headed at full speed for the
help OF the stricken country. This was
government aid. The people, the men
and women, in Europe, Asia, Africa
and both Americas, were equally
prompt In offering their money for the
purchase of food, clothing and shelter.
that the widowed and the orphaned
might not go uncontrolled. The hui
man heart is wondrous kind, and there
is no surer way to make it beat with
helpful sympathy than to disclose to 1t
the existence of suffering. 1t has an
swered the old question of the lawyer
And who is my neighbour" by includ-
ing within that intimate and friendly
fellowship all those In need the world
over.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11
Build Up the Soil.

The manure product from a single
COW, according to figures of the De-
partment OF Agriculture, ranged in
value from $50 to $40 a year. The
corresponding figures for horse ma
nure are not presented, but it is pre-
sumed that the value would be equal
ly great, II not greater. since horse
manure is heating and If kept from
fire fanging has an additional
beyond it's own fertility In causing
bacterial fermentation and rotting OF
bedding and other waste material.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11

Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gill
man ought to rise to protest against
the governments expected argument
that when Mrs. Chan |. Wing. the pref
ty Chinese woman now being held by
the authorities on the charge of being
unlawfully in this country, left her
husband she became 'laborer." Mrs
Gilmans contention recently has been
precisely opposite.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11
Man Killed Near England.

England.-On Frank Barton
two miles east of England, az
o'clock Saturday night, Jess MOI
shot Dennis Harris three times
a 80 Colts revolver, killing HIN
most instantly. They quarreled
woman, 1t is said. Justice o.
Peace G.. w. Harris held an inqY
but the negro witnesses did mol
any evidence of any weight. Mo'j
is at large, having escaped a.
after the shooting.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11
Poultry Pointers.

One gobbler to ten turkey hens 4.
enough. Do not keep too many.
Keeping the houses perfectly clean
and CHEEKY, SO that good health may
be maintained and that lice may be
discouraged in making their head
quarters about the premises.
II you commence TO pick the feath
ers Immediately after killing the
bird, you will find that they will pull.
many times easier than they do 4
you leave them even for LITTLE
whila
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11

The timber supply OF the United
States is fast fading away. Every
working day sees the cutting of 100,
900 acres of our forests, perhaps 30,
less than 100000, 900 acres in all
The future timber supply, particu
larly hard wood timber, will be the
one greatest econonf problem the
next generation will be called upon
TO solve
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11
LIGHTNING HITS BUILDING.
Brick Structure Near Public Square
in Hamburg Destroyed.

Hamburg. -During a thunder storm
lightning struck and completely de-
moished the brick building north of
the public square at this place, oc-
cupied by s. F. Baker & Co., general
merchants. Several clerks in the store
at the time escaped without injury.
storm in Ashley for number OF
years.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11

observation-disclosures Biggs, young
white man, aged about 20 years, was
accidentally shot and killed while
hunting The young man, who was
employed on the farm of J. c. Vann,
was out hunting and in climbing over
a fence the shotgun was discharged
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11

1t makes a lot OF difference where
looking for Cinderella with foot
tiny enough to fit the slipper. A Mary
land girl, of course, was the only one
found who could fill the bill, remarks
the Baltimore American. Had she
been born in Chicago.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11

One out of every three girls in Min
nesota is wage-earner. BY the way,
what II the fare to Minnesota?
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11

Lonoke.-Circuit court has been in
session for a week For the first time
in the history of this county three
murder cases have been tried in one
week, together with several other i'm
portant cases. Walter Bevins was
sentenced to one year in the peniten-
tiary for killing j. w. Wilson; Mar
cellus Talber. a negro, to five gears
for killing his brother, and John b.
gan. negro, was acquitted for the
killing of Tom Cherry, also a negro.
Will Estes pleaded guilty to stealing
a pair of horses, and took one year In
the peniteutiary.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-02-11
Land Brinus $4,000.

Conway. C. Hoyman of the firm
of Durham & Holman has just re-
turned from Foreman, Little River
county, where he closed a deal in
real estate, in which the considera-
ton was 100000 cash. The property
transferred is plantation of IT'S
acres of Red river bottom land and
was sold by Mr.. Holman's brothers,
]. T. and f. w. Holman, to M. ID.
Matteson of Monmouth, Ill. The land
lies in the extreme corner of the
county.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1909-05-25
Money For Sale.

The Ideal Building and Loan Association
will eell money Tuesday evening, June
4 1909, at 7:30 o'clock.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1909-05-25
@ A r = E N
SEEDS.
LANDRETH's GAR1EN AND FLOWER
sEEDs ARE NOW ON SALE is OUR
PLACE.
LANoRErH's GARnES AND FLOWER

Compare some of these prices with what
you have been paying in the past.
Extra Earlv Valentine Beans 9Octe quart.
Extra Early Peas, Dwarf and stick. for
25cts or lrt.
Large white Eastern Lima Beans, rs cts
Quart.
Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans. scots Quart.
large variety Of bulk seeds, AL sri NV
fresh, comprising Bush and Pole Beans. Ear.
Y aud Late Peas, several varieties OF each;
kadishes. Head and leaf Lettuce; Sauasb.
Tomato, abbage. Onion, Satisfy, KaIe, E,e.
We don't need To tell you about the quality
OF Landreihs Seeds, II you have ever used
them yoa know what they are; il You have
not come to US and we give You names oi
people who used them last year
We are perfectly Satisfied TO have Won 20
to them aud ask the results they obtained
by planting Landreth Seeds.
Satisfied users are the best references
We have lot OF Stonewals Evergreen
sugar Corn which We sell for ID cts per Or
or 20 cents gallon.
Better buy early and get the advantage of
picking from full stock
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1909-05-25
THE HUMAN RACE.
VIII Man Simply Shrink Of the Face
OF the Earth?

OF the Earth?
A French statistician who has been
studying the military and other rec
ords with view of determining the
height of men ar different periods has
reached some wonderful results.
He has not only solved some per-
picking problems in regard to the past
of the human race. but is also enabled
to calculate its future and to deter
mine the exact period when man will
disappear from the earth
The recorded facts extend over near
ly three centuries.
II is found that In 1910 the average
height of man in Europe was LIS me-
tiers. or. say, five feet nine inches. In
100 1t was FIVE feet six inches. In
1920 II was five feet five inches and
fraction. AT the present time Ii is
FIVE feet three end three-quarter inches.
1t is easy TO deduce from these figures
a rate of regular and gradual decline
in human stature and then apply this,
working backward and forward, to the
past and to the future. BY this calcu-
lation Ii IS determined that the stature
of the first men attained the surpris-
ing average of sixteen feet nine inches.
Truly, there were giants on the earth
in those days. The race had already
deteriorated In the days of 0g, and
Goliath was quite degenerate or
spring of the giants. Coming down TO
later time, we find that at the begin
ming OF our era the average height of
man was nine feet, and in the time OF
Charlemagne 1t was eight feet eight
inches But the most astonishing re-
suit Of this scientific study comes from
the application of the same inexorable
law of diminution to the future. The
calculation shows that by the year
1000 A. d. the stature of the average
man win be reduced to fifteen inches.
At that epoch there will be only lilli-
putians on the earth. And the con-
clusion of the learned statistician Is
Irresistible that 1.-The end of the world
win certainly arrive, for the inhabit-
ants viii have become so small that
they will finally disappear" finish by
disappearing" as the French idiom ex-
presses it--"from the terrestrial globe"
London Tit-Bits.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1909-05-25
Money to Loan.

Fund of $4,000 to invest. Lien on farm
land desired Apply to
JOHN L. PORTERFIELD.
Feb 26-6tn Attorney
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1909-05-25
New Corn Meal Mill.

hive put in mill and am prepared TO do
all kinds of
Feed And Corn Grinding
by an expert miller. Public patronage re
spectfully solicited.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1909-05-25

III COTTON goods never properties
man Proverb.