Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-02-03

| of Agriculture, addressed delegates and legislators of the third annual
 convention of the Arkansas Stock | Growers Association. The conven- toned opened at the Hotel Marion.
 "The most optimistic of us can hard" ly see the possibilities of this sec. tion," said MT. Rawl. Where you have
 sunshine, nine months growing sea- son, 60 inches of rainfall and fertility you will have grass-grass in abund- ance good stock pasture. Why not have good stock to eat it? am great believer in the Arkansas scrub Start with what you already have and do the best you can with it."
 Ticks cost Arkansas $6,000,000 last year, according to the government fig ures. Cut this estimate in half. At the reduced figure, it means loss of S5 a head, 12 cents an acre, in the 39,000 square miles in Arkansas below the quarantine line
 For S500,00O one-sixth of the an nual loss, we can do away with this lUSS lOIGNGI. we COulu uO u D6lOIo September. The government will fur nish one-half of the sum required. For
 every dollar you give, or the state gives, the government will give a dol lar'
 H. s. Mobley of the Russellville Ag- Farmers Union of Arkansas, made plea in behalf of the small farmer, and asked that the big farmer extend a
 helping hand.
 Fruit growers of Benton county are
 indignant over clause in the new child labor law prohibiting children under IA years of age being employed for any purpose, excepting that they may work for their parents. The fruit men declare that the law will prove llurtful to the strawberry and black berry industries, as great share of the berry pickers are children. Lead ing berry growers are making an ac- tive campaign for Benton county's ex- emption and petition to the end to be
 presented to the legislature are being largely signed. Representatives from Benton county are in favor of the ex- emption. Thousands of children are employed every year during berry sea- son, and they often earn as much pick ing berries as skilled workman.
 Paxton Thomas, cashier of the Citi- zens' bank of Batesville, shot and kill ed himself while alone in the bank building. It is believed his action was caused by worry over the suit involv- ing the $500,000 estate of the late w. J. Erwin Officers of the bank say Mir. Thomas affairs in connection with the bank are perfectly straight.
 Charles w. Highf1eIl of Paragould, grand master of the Independent Or der of Odd Fellows, announced that he would not visit Pine Bluff and ex- plain to the local lodge his position in regard to turning back to the Shirey heirs the $200,000 worth of property
 acquired by the order under settle ment of the Shirey will contest. Twelve cars of fat cattle were ship
 ped from Berryville. More than half of the shipment is silage fed and prob- ably will top the market This is the first shipment of silage-fed cattle from Carroll county. Buyers in this county f hF ye shipped about 100 cars of stock " thin the last year.
 
 fhe estimated loss in the United Estates in 1913 from the cholera alone was S65,OOO,OO0 according to Dr. J. E.
 Gibson, veterinary field agent of tie i Federal Bureau of Animal Industry,
 working in cooperation with the Ar
 kansas College of Agriculture at Fay etteville.
 For the first time in several years farmers of Centerton have raised
 enough feed and grain for their own use and then have some to sell. Two carloads of wheat and one car of corn
 has been shipped out recently. During l recent years it has been necessary to ship in grain and hay to feed stock
 over winter.
 An effort is being made by the stock