Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-02
SETTER FARMING
 HINTS.
Raise More Poultry.

Raise More Poultry.
 1 Yes, more and better poultry should
 be good slogan for all active farm
 CTS. A country grocer in Conway
 county has announced that he will eggs all summer, although he may
 count eggs. This is one step. Now of Arkansas and United States de
 partment of agriculture has been cam
 paigning all year for more poultry on
 the small farms. Let 50 laying hens
 be the minimum limit for any progress sive farm family. Let us study the
 poultry business. Send to extension division, college of agriculture, Fay etteville, for bulletins. Plant an eX- tra patch of cowpeas for the hens for December and January and let them run to the stack after the first of December Save the bullets Don't fry them. Eat the old hens and the young rOOSterS.
 The Clover and Grass Campaign. One hundred and fourteen regular extension workers in Arkansas are en- listed in the campaign for more clov- CTS and grasses in the state. Over five hundred bankers and thousands of other business men are urging farm CTS to increase their clover and grass acerage. A thousand country teach CTS in rural summer schools are be- ing provided with "lessons' and bull letins on clovers. Three hundred pa triotic editors of newspapers are open ing their columns for articles and let ters about clovers and grasses, es- pecially letters about local successes Remember that clovers, unlike other crops, will pay a profit if neither cut or pastured. Let every farmer get in to the game and plant from five to one hundred acres of one or more clovers. Let every farmer resolve to have from three acres to one hundred acres of Bermuda or Orchard grass with two or three clovers added. See
 the county agent and tell him you want to join the "Clover Brigade" and get bulletins and suggestions. If no county agent, see the local banker for
 bulletins, or write the extension divi- sion, college of agriculture and United States department of agriculture
 Fayetteville or Little Rock, for bull letins on red clover, crimson clover, bur clover, Japan clover or Bermuda. For Winter Feed.
 Don't forget that rape planted in August will make fine pasture for the pigs in October and November, that turnips planted in July or early August will make find feed for the COWS and calves all winter; that sweet
 potatoes planted by the first week in July will make fine feed for the pigs.
 Plan ahead and raise all the feed needed for all the stock and be sure | to plan for green pastures for every month. Then don't forget the pump kins. Stick in a hundred or more seed in the corn field, along the edges of
 any field, in the old orchard, around the stable, along the creek banks or "any old place." The Kentucky Nam moth is a good variety for COW feed, and no person should forget to plant one hundred seed of the sugar pump kin for pies.
 Consult the Banker.
 Farming must be thought of as a business if it is to be uniformly prof itable. That farming will be most successful that is conducted in the most business-like manner. The bankers of Arkansas are keen busi- ness men, and today, like the bankers of all other states, they are sincerely interested in the real and permanent prosperity of the farmers. Every successful merchant consults frequent ly with the banker on the business policy of a business that the banker knows little about. Then why should the progressive farmer hesitate to consult the local banker on the busi- ness policy of this or that farming venture, even if the banker should not know the technical side of the farmers business. The entire exten- sion service of the state agricultural colleges and the United States depart ment of agriculture is committed in the interest of the farmer, but it is safe to say that the permanent pros perity of the farmers of Arkansas will henceforth be advanced by a closer cooperation with the bankers on questions of farm policies.