The Huttig news., 1911-09-02
SOME GOOD ADVICE.
Commissioner of Agriculture Sloan Tells the
 Farmers Some Good Things.

Crops are all laid by. Bugs and worms are assualting it in every section of the state. Catch a few of them and box up with a small portion of the eaten stalk or boil or ear and send it to Prof. Paul Hay hurst, state entomologist. Fayette- vile, Ark. He is competent and accommodating and will give you prompt and courteous reply, couched in terms that you can un- derstand. reciting it's name, it's na- ture. it's effect upon the crop and plan for it's destruction. It wont cost you one cent. Send them in. Anything from a cotton flea to a breachy mule that is destroying the cfop Remember for the future what he says. Itis instruc- tive.
 Break the land lying between the crop and fence. the best streak in the field, harrow weeds out of it and in it and all the clean open middles SOW in rye for winter pas ture for the stock, and a crop for the land. It won't 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 as it is good and go then into the rye field for winter and with little feed in our climate, both will do well and the colt will Wean off onto the tender grasses in spring, in stead of dry stalk field, and the mare will go back into the blow without annoyance by and support Of the colt. Fall colts are good ones.
 Gather up the blows and tools out of the weeds and fence cor ners. Put 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 not destroy. Build shed and put them under it. Hundreds of dollars are lost to the farmers of Arkansas each year by the decaying wood and rusting iron of the farming emple- ments. Industry will make some money, but waste will as surely dissipate it. To have oompeten- cy, 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 un- til it is about the thinness of cream. Buy brush for 40 cents and whitewash everything (house if not painted j. barn, smokehouse and all fences around the place, and if you will not pick up the loose plank lying around, give them a coat too. Gut the weeds in the yard and SOW white clover. Give the place neat appearance. Il will please the passer-by, cause the good wife to appear in her new cal ico, the girls will be happy and you will strut around, feel stuck-up and talk disparagingly of your neighbor who does not do likewise
 Wash off the mules and horses in the creek and grease their bumps, bruises ana 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 the grass is short feed once day.
 Don't forget the boys and girls. The seni-annual season of rest. recreation and jubilee has come. They have done well and have earned it. Buy him a new . shoo fly" and let him get out among 'em at the Sunday 5 o'clock singings and the other gatherings of his set