The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1915-11-11
better farm tools.

Every business farmer should have
a money crop and it should be his am
bition to produce more each year from
given acreage There should be such
a rotation of crops. such use of logumes
or other green manure or pasture crops
as would increase year by year the fer
tlhty of this money crop land.
Or if dairying should be the source
of his principal income II should be his
business to SO improve his herd by bet
ter milk producing feeds and better
care and treatment so as TO increase
his income. Cows cannot produce milk
at profit from Sudan grass hay
They need alfalfa or clover and they
need cotton seed meal Then the herd
should be built up by use of pure
bred dairy sire. Ii too far from town
for dairying the beef type cattle should
be used and improved by proper feed
and by proper breeding The scrub
bull must be banshed and the scrub
stallion should be banished. Arkansas
cannot build up its agriculture without
more and better livestock and it cannot
build up its livestock until we eradicate
the tick and the scrub bull Arkansas
can be made one of the greatest live
stock states in America if farmers can
turn their attention to problems of
breeding and care and feeding. With
and mild climate and our greatest of
all feeds, cotton seed meal and alfalfa
We can beat the world in fine cattle and
horses
The business farmer must employ
his land more weeks of every year with
rotation of crops, cover crops and
legumes and he must employ his team
more days of each year in profitable
labor and he, himself like the business
man IN town must so plan his farm as
to be protitably employed as many days
as is the town business man, practi-
cally, two hundred eighty days of each
and every year and his teams must be
employed for at least two hundred and
thirty days if they are to earn dividend
A farmer would think merchant about
crazy if he would close his store about
half the time and yet the average
farmer. especially the cotton farmer. is
idle ut least one half the working days
of year. To overcome this the farm
business must be planned as carefully
for each month as the town business
We are confronting in Arkansas
very grave danger just now. due to the
high price of cotton and seed If cot
ton planting were to begin next week
fear the roads might be plowed up
and planted TO this one crop. If such
thing We're to be done even child
would know that the over production of
cotton would force the price down to
hve or six cents a pound and seed down
to $500 or Sli. 90 per ton. However,
feel sure that the satisfaction of hay
ing Their own feed and food stufrs and
having their debt reduced will long be
fore next April lead ninty per cent of
our farmers to keep the cotton crop
down about TO this years acreage and
thus have land left for corn and feed
crops and more clovers and more
stock
ITO sum up; all organizations and
all men interested in building up the
state should get together and work for
prosperous agriculture. And that
means tD To grow food and feed for
the family and stock ca To build up
our soils for bigger yields per acre.
(3 More sources of cash income
throughout the year (4) More live
stock. 60 Cash every week and money
crops for the bank 60 To keep out
of debt for living These mean com
petence for the farmer and prosperity
for all. :"