The Mena weekly star., 1913-06-26

uses It to enable his customers fin rotate their crops. If the Arkansac farmer expects to compete with those ot other states he will have to do this, as well as change his methods by using more and better stock and implements.
 The Iowa farmer produces abouf 9I'ooo per year, hires several men and has about four horses. The av- craze Arkansas farmer produces about Sl5O per year, does not hire llelp and has nine-tenthS of a mnIn and poor implements to work with. The man with better stock and tools works less and makes more than the man with poor ones. A great many people think the local agent ought to visit every farmer and show him how to make a living without working at all. He can only Nlslt those most centrally located and make stations where his neigh DOTS can come and get information. You all are fortunate in having one. We buy fertilizer by the carload. So do you, but you don't know what Kind to buy. You should have your soil analysed to find out what crop IS most suitable to it and what kind of fertilizer it needs. You ought to raise more live stock. The major lty of farmers are trying to culti- Yate too much land. You should turn some of it out. We are will Ing to help all who really want to learn, but the salvation of the coun- try lies m the boys and girls of to- day. It Is our aim to educate them If we could get the farmers of Ar kansas to think We would have no trouble. Use your head. Quit working from the shoulders down. All working and no thinking is as bad as all thinking and no working. You don't take enough interest in your neighbor Help him out: he may be literally starving to death under your very eyes, his land get tlng poorer and poorer each year. You have no moral right to take a piece of land and run 1t down until 1t won't produce anything. You should study the plants which you put in the ground. One reason northern men are sometimes not successful here is because they try to Use methods suitable to other lo- cations but not to this. The farm agent ought Jo be a great help to them. Help the other man to solve his problems. Our work k a sue cess. If We have increased the pro- ducllon of one bushel to the acre we have paid the agents expenses We would moi tell a man who had nothing to Use better tools and stock but To improve his methods and gel the better implements.
 'Ii you could not get money at the bank or credit al the store 1 be- lieVe you would raise your own meat and bread This is one way the business man flinders. Raise your own hay Do you know that millions of dollars are taken out of the state each year for these two thineS-meat and hay? This is wrong. You have the same chance as other people. The northern man iS as much interested in the boil Weeyil as you are Why? Because it affects the output of cotton. 1 can tell by looking at a man Wheth- er he buys store meat or not. This k a stock raising country. You ought to get busy and kill the ticks and the stray dogs which help to spread cholera and the buzzards which, though protected by law, are in reality carriers of disease.
 "Go out after the good roads They are absolutely necessary if you expect To have a dairy busi- ness. Lei the bushes, man and the farmer pull together and make ! This stock raising country We are in a progressive age. The farmer i, .be only one who con 1 tinues fo use thc methods of twenty u thirty years ago, The hing is Io keep Dhp boy interested on the l raru Do0t work hum uoti. he is 1 tWeuDy-ouc and then Ic' him eo. Give him am interest in Ihe busi- ness This is the only way to mend matters.'
 Al the close of his speech Mr. Watson asked That anyone who had anything to ask or say would do So.
 The question as Do adyiSahility of trrracine hilly land was asked, Mr. i Watson said il is done and is nee es,ary in some eases The thing 10 do is to cef at it before the land is washed away He said he will | furnish full particulars to all who wish them.
 Bermuda grass wa, discussed and declared to make an excellent pas ture. and in some favored localities good hay. Johnson grass and clover were also said to grow well and prohtablv. He said that any inior- nation wanted would be readily furnished on any subject by ad- dressing him al Little Rock or ny asking it from the local agent.
 W. F. Hayden was advertised to make a talk on what has been ac- complished in Fouthwest Arkansas. lbut as il was so near train tune when he began he was only able 10 make a short general statement on | fhis subject. Nr. Hayden expects io make a return visit soon and .,,ord so,.oral days in Polk county