The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-06-18
WORK DONE DURING
PAST FIVE MONTHS
Farm Demonstration Submits Splen-
did Report Indicating Deep In
terest in Diversification.
(From Saturdays Daily Press)


At the suggestion of members Of
the Paragould Chamber of Com
merce, Thos. j. Bentley, farm
demonstrator for this county, has
submitted a report showing the
amount and class of work done in
his department during the past
five months. The report was read
at a meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce held Tuesday after
noon and met with the hearty ap-
proval of those present. When the
quorum court refused to make an
appropriation to continue this
work the Chamber of Commerce
took the matter up and attempted
to raise enough county scrip by
popular subscription to Justify the
demonstrator in giving his time to
this important field of activity.
While the full amount desired was
not raised, enough was secured to
finance the demonstrator for six
or eight months. There is a
shortage of about two hundred dol
lars in scrip and within the next
thirty days the officials of the
Chamber of Commerce will make
an appeal to the farmers to sub
scribe this amount. The citizens
and business institutions of Praa-
gould have contributed more than
5000 in scrip to the demonstration
fund, and it is believed the farm
ers, who are the direct beneficiaries
of the work, will be willing to
come forward with two hundred
dollars in scrip.
The report submitted by Mr..
Bentley, together with some rec
concentrations, follow:
Number of demonstrators en-
rolled, 40
Number of co-operators, 375.
Miles travelled in interest of
work, 500.
Boys enrolled in corn club, 81.
Boys enrolled in peanut club, 20.
Boys enrolled in pig club, II.
Total boys in club work, 142.
Hogs vaccinated against cholera,
3S5.
U. S. department bulletins sent
out to farmers, 500.
Special bulletins in interest of
diversification, 500.
Arranged with banks to finance
pig club work, amounting to $3.50.
Made several demonstrations with
Babcock test for butter fat for ben
eft of dairymen.
Have interested several farmers
in better rotation of crops and by
inducing them to raise more food
and feed crops they have planted
and sown several hundred acres of
various crops, that were previous
ly raised only on a small scale.
These crops include various le-
gumes for building up soil fertili-
ty by storing atmospheric nitro
gen in the soil
Some of the things l want to do
during the remainder of the year.
Get two dozen silos erected on
as many farms.
Get farmers to increase the num-
ber of acres of fall sown grain.
Get more winter legumes sown
for winter cover crops to be grazed
off and residue turned under for
green manure.
Get the farmers interested
enough in hog cholera that by con-
certed action we can drive it from
the county in three years.
Get DR.. Morgan of the U. S. de-
partment of agriculture to assist
me in organizing live stock asso-
Citations for the systematic grading
up of our hogs and cattle.
Get Mr. Mason of the U. S. de-
partment or agriculture to assist
me in building up a larger and
more profitable dairy industry
within a radius of miles of
Paragould, by inducing the dairy
men to use better sires and by ed
ucating them in the use of the
milk scale, Babcock tester, keep
ing debit and credit accounts with
each cow. BY this means the "star
boarders' may be sent to the butch
er's block, and the herds increased
by keeping heifer calves from those
showing good profits
Mary Jane Pumps S2.OO
L., e.. d