The Green Forest tribune., 1911-09-01
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Commissioner of Agriculture Sloan
 Gives Us Medley This Week.

SoHlHlISStOneF or fSflCultufe SlOan
 Gives Us Medley This Week
 Crops are all laid by. Bugs and worms are assaulting itin every section of the State Catch few of them and box up with small portion of the eat en stalk or boil or ear and send it to Prof. Paul Hayhuast, State Etomola- gist, Fayetteville, Ark He is compe- tent and accommodating and will give you prompt and courteous reply couched in terms that you can understand, reeiting it's name, it's nature, it's effect upon the crop and plan for it's destruction. It won't cost you one cent. Send them in. Any thing from cotton flea to breachy mule that is destroying the crop. Re member for the future what he says. It is ins tructive.
 Break the land lying between the crop and the fence, the best streak in the field, harrow weeds out of it, and in it and all the clean open rniddles SOW in rye for winter pasture for the stock and a cover crop for the land. It won let the winter rains wash the ground, and is an enricher besides.
 Mate the mares now. The colt will not follow until crops are laid by next summer, when, all the work being over, the mare and foal will have the run of the pasture as long az is good and go then into the rye ff l for winter, and with little feed in our climate, both will do well, and the colt will wean off into the tender grasses in spring in stead of dry stalk field, and the mare will go back into the blow without any annoyance by and support of the colt. Fall colts are good ones.
 Gather up the blows and tools out of the weeds and fence corners. Put a little extra oil in the paint and spread it on handles, beam and blades It will shed next spring better than rust and will preserve and net destroy. Build a 9 shed and put them under it. Hun dreds of dollars are lost to the farmers of Arkansas each year by the decaying wood and rusting iron of the farming implements. Industry will make some money but waste will as surely dissi~ pate it. To have a competency, saving is equally if not more important than good steady work.
 Mix half bushel of lime, gallon of salt and pour on water and stir until it is about the thinness of cream. Buy brush for 40 cents and whtewash every thing (house if not painte6D, barn, smoke-house and all fences around the place, and if you will not pick up the loose plank lying around, give them a coat too Cut the weeds in the yard and SOW white clover. Give the place neat appearance. It will please the passer-by, cause the good wife to ap pear in her new calico, the girls will be happy and you will strut around feel stuck-up and talk disparagingly of your neighbor who does not do like wise.
 Wash off the mules and horses in the creek and grease their bumps, bruises and harness marks with salty bacon rind, and turn them out to grass. If you have cultivated as well as you should they will need and enjoy the rest, Give plenty of salt and good clear water, and if grass is short, feed once day.
 Don't forget the boys and girls. The semi annual season of rest, recreation and jubilee has come They have done well and have earned it. Buy him a new 'shoo-hy' and let him get out among em at the Sunday o'clock singings and the other gatherings of his set and associates. Let them cul- tivate a little social ease so that he will not scratch his left shin with his right toe evefy> time her limpid orbs turn towards him, nd she will not shy