Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-05-20
FARMER SHOULD
 LIVE OFF FARM By JOHN H. PAGE, Commissioner of Agriculture.

Cool nights retard the growth of the young cotton plants, but when the warm days and nights come the cot ton will grow rapidly if it is in good condition. Keep the grass and weeds cotton will do it's best when the warm weather gets here. Corn pests are giving more or less trouble now Cut-worms do great deal of damage to growing corn and other things too. Paris green mixed with wheat bran and sprinkled along the rows will kill off good many cutworms and also some of the other corn pests. The small wire worm is perhaps the hardest to contend with. The govern men is now making an investigation of the wire worm in this state.
 Plant Peas and Beans Now.
 During this month is good time to plant soy beans, velvet beans or COD peas. Cow peas should follow the oats as soon as harvested. Early potatoes should be followed by peas or some other crop. Late cabbage is good follow crop. The custom of topping corn and pulling fodder are both bad. Other arrangements should be made for forage. More than the value of the tops or fodder is lost in the corn when it natures. Of course the labor is lost. The reason is be- cause the corn stalk is weakened by being topped or having the blades pulled off, and so much of the vital ity is taken away that the ear does not mature to as fuil weight as it would.
 Grow Truck Crops.
 Lots of land in Arkansas is better for truck farming than for staple crops. Truck farming requires more work per acre but pays bisS2r. Truck farming, hay raising and stock grow ing will pay the best. Of course the most of the farmers do not believe this and will go on raising cotton and some corn and buying the balance. However, if they will look into things closely they will find that the farmers who raise truck crops, fruit, hay and stock, and enough feed to keep the stock, are the ones who are keeping out of debt and doing well.
 The little Spanish peanut is a good and profitable crop in this state. Watermelons is another good crop. Fall beans makes splendid truck crop. There is always demand for string beans in the fall at a good price. Those who are raising sweet potatoes for the market should get m touch with J. G. Norden of Russell ville. and join the potato growers association. The farmers or Arkan- sas should give more attention to vegetables and small fruits for nome consumption. In this day of high prices the farmers wives and daugnt- CTS, with the aid of fifteen dollar canning outfit, can put up enough canned goods from the surplus vese- tables and fruits ofi the place 70 furnish good table all through the winter. This is good means of pro viding a good living at home with al most no expense.
 Chicken Meat Cheap.
 Now is the time to kill the rooster. It is tco late to set any more hens until fall, and the rooster is of no more use until then. Kill them off and buy new ones in the fall. The hens will lay just as wei without the tooster, and the eggs will remain fresh long time. The farmers should eat the eggs and chickens produced on the farm unless they have surplus. Eggs and chickens served on the table are cheaper than most an food that can be bought in town and far better.\
 Every upland farm should have a small bunch of goats. The kids make fine fresh meat, and the goat being a bowser is good animal to clean up the assafras and persimmon sprouts. Just dissolve some salt in water and sprinkle it over the bushes or briers and turn the goat in. They will do the rest.