The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
HAVE YOU RAISED
 YOUR MEAT FOR l9'O?
T. P. Fulton Makes aa Earnest Plea for Better Stock Raising, Par ticuIarIy as to Hogs Mild
 Arkansas Climate Helps.

,d,nt oi A ksnsrs, 1 h,ve never n,rmitted auy man 10 excel me, ,liher by spoken or written word, i. paying tribute of praise in inc d set lers of the state, to the intrepid pioneers vho blaz Il the first trails through tn, almost impenetrablc forests that . retch, d westward from the M sslssi ppi river. And yet while e<toIlipg their courage aud indus try lu paving the way for crude el,llz z4siot, have endesyored to impre s upon their minds the cess,ty of adapting themselves tp the changing conditions that have been necessary to round out a hi. h 1T ard better civilization. l. other wor Is, have earnestly l advised them 10 cut loose from their old customs, 10 improve ii ion theIr slip-shod and shiftless method of farming, to put better blood into ihe,r horses, cattle and ] hogs, to plow and hoe more and " little ls ss. to reverse the sppli- | c.,ion of the advice of that wall- eyed old hog, Mary Ellen Lease. who, several years ago, told the f.rmers of Kansas to ''raisc more hell and less corn z
 Without the least shade of abas or ridicule, I have endeav ored ia my humble way to point out better plans for increasing tbe prosperity Of my old settler friends, and to treat the subject | at hand as purely business propositions.
 The limit of sarcasm and slan- d,r has long since been reached by the yeuemous ,raducers of Ar kansas and her people and would be the last mal 70 add word or l:ue to the long columns of ridicule and derision that have been printed about them. What have seriously and cnnscieu- tiously aimed to do has been to point the way to better and brighter day of prosperity fo: the | farmer elemeut of my community, aud in pursuing tbis policy have made special plea to the farmers to depend more upon what they can produce and less on the cor ner groceries. In other words, to produce more feed stuffs and more eating stuff. In fact, in the language of President Taft, who said in his spesch to farmers of the South. delivered at Jackson, Miss; "Move the smoke houses of Iowa to your back yards In this connection I desire to sub- nit the following editorial clip ped from recent issue of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, which fits we'll into the discussion of the hog law question::
 Have you raised ee::::ssss::::s=h hogs tom k yont meat tor 1910? Has II occurred io you that mat during 1909 has brought the highest price for many years? "Tbe retail price in Memphis now, per pound. islam, 2lc, bacon, 2Se; side meat, l0c. With pasture for your hogs, peas in your crib and a little corn, you can grow meat tor g. 10 s per pound.
 Have you ever fl gufed how l Inc farmer in Iowa, on land worth sl5O per acre, is getting rich rais- Ing hogs? When you buy meat from their hogs. you pay the ex- Fense and profit to the farmer,
 lhe hog buyer. the railroad to Chicago, the packing house, the railroad to Memphis. the middle
 man, the railroad to your town
 and the country merchant W tn
 whom you deal. Can any coun-
 TT stind this draiu7 Can any
 people prosper aud pay so high
 icf their meat? Recently a car
 q hogs grown in Shelby county,
 Wss shipped 10 St. Louis. sold fol
 sooa per cwt. and brought the
 farmer 1.232
 Prior to 1860 the South raised
 ner hogs. Is there any good req
 son why you cannot do 1t now?
 Examine your meat bills fol
 aSo9 aud get to thinking"
 oue ot your correspondents
 M Editor, claims that 1z1s bu
 shsls is the average for uplan,
 eoFn' but he does not say wher'
 tne "uplaudv is loeated. Nov