Pocahontas star herald., 1914-11-20
ron TIE ARKANSAS PRESS

loss each wear To the cattle raisrrs
Of Arkansas, will completely disap.
pear from the State when the Texas
Fever Tick is eradicated. About
one-fourth of the entire area of the
State has already been freed from
the tick. With the modern meth
ods Of tick eradication, entire
counties can be freed at little cost
m from one two TO seasons ofsystem
attic work, IL is ouly a question Of
a lew years when the whole State
should be entirely free from the
costly disease, Texas Fever.
Even though not every county in
the state Is ready Tor tick eradioa-
ION, il is entirely practical for a
group OF four or more counties to
eradicate the ticks within their
boundaries, aud derive the full ben
eils. No section Of the State
should wait for any other section,
but progressive men should take
the lead, aud by freeing their coun'
ties from The ticks should make
live stock raising sufficiently profit
able to force the neighboring coun-
ties into the eradication movement.
In this way the work will spread
rapidly until the entire State is tick
free. When this is accomplished,
stock raising may assume its right.
full place as one of the leading in.
dustrles of the State.
The State laws are such that any
county or group Of counties may
organize into a tick eradication dis
trict, may levy a tax on all cattle to
pay expenses of the eradication, and
may look to the State Veterinarian
TO take charge and assume the bur
den Of the Sork. The Federal
Government makes substantial ap-
preparations for aid in this work.
The Bureau of Animal Industry
Of the United States DE.
partment of Agriculture now has a
corps Of men, under direction Of
DIR. A. 4. Wright, in tick eradica
tion work under the State laws and
co operate with the State authori.
ties.
7. J. Bentley, agent for Green
county, states that the farmers Of
that county are trying the pooling
plan for selling their cotton. Mr..
Bentley ald J. II. Brewer, manager
of the warehouse, have taken sam.
Piles of SO bales of cotton that had
been stored for that purpose. These
samples will be sent to Little Rock
for Official grading. When the
grade of each bale is established the
cotton will be offered direct to the
spInners according to the grades
gwen. If this effort is successful
the great bulk of cotton in that
county will be marketed in that
manner.
X. X. Mcpherson, agent for
Craighead county, reports that Tom
Cox, Of Jonesboro obtained a yield
of So bales of red top and timothy
per acre on hill land. The hay
sold at G5 cents per bale, giving
him a gross income of $52.25 per
acre.
j. J. Bellamy, of Lawrence
county, gives the following inter
estiug data on crop Of peanuts.
Henry uartsell, of Portia, planted
two acres of peanuts on sandy land
that was rather low in organic mat.
ter. lie cultivated the crop ac-
cordjng to demonstration methods,
using no fertilizer. From the two
acres be threshed l55 bushels Of
peanuts aud baled lO5 bales of pea
nut hay. He sold most of the
nuts TO the Jonesboro Mills at 9Oc
| per bushel and all the hay he cared
to spare at GOc per bale. AT these
prices this peanut crop on the two
acres was worth $2O2.5O. Mr..
llartsell is Of the ropinion that
there are other crops worth more TO
the farmer than cotton and no
wonder.