The Mena weekly star., 1916-05-25
Correspondence
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 Good pry Flint Hides 2lc ID. wm Lowe. Adv. Nos and I now meet at Potter in- stead of Hatfield
 Just received a car os Caidweii's Rcst 11 S Flour. Lowe Adv.
 w. Fl Terfy returned "Wednesday frofn a business tilr to A+heaA
 Idus Parham fell from a tree one day last week and hroke both arms
 Mrs Merton Bales and son osborne. visited relatives at Rocky Sunday
 X live stock association has just been organized at Rogers We need one
 1T you have any news items for these columns. leave them at the postotlice. The heaviest rain for 25 years fell here Saturday night and |. washed land badly
 D Henderson and l.ouzo Hall were elected as additional school directors SaturdaN
 Afr. anu Mrs ciaud Bennett after q weeks visit Nith relatives. returned to Aiena Sunday
 R E AlcCann. the Photographer, will he in his sfrdto in the Frost huildine Saturday Mas 27 Advtt Pleas Rouse, Lewis Johnson and Pr. Connnlly left for Ahdown Thursday to spend a few days fishing on Little Riv- CT
 People need 70 be informed of the
 
 and bushes have about taken the place, and in some places skeletons are almost in plain view
 The Aroma strawberry Is just at it's best here now. perhaps little late Co get the cream of the northern market, but 1t Is fine for southern shipping. Ii is good size. meaty and a nice color.
 A number of young people gathered at the home of Mir and Mrs. Norton on Six-Mile and tripped the light fantastic until a late hour midnight lunch was served and all returned to their aiomes tired but happy.
 Chaperoned by Mrs. ]. D. Henderson, two wagon loads of Sunday school girls went to Mountain Fork Monda3 to fish and have days outing. There were about 25 girls. and as it Is neces- sary to keep quiet to catch fish, asking them how many they caught Is un- necessary.
 j. & Knox of the agricultural de- partment arrived here Wednesday and ards and truck gardens in this vicinity Mir Knox Is a man thoroughly interest ed in his work and has a very inter- esting and entertaining way of impart- ing his knowledge of various fungus and insect pests Even in his general talk he is continually dropping hints of useful information. Probably his greate-t good here was calling atten- aion to the damage being done the gardens by the harlequin bug, a red. black and yellow bug about the size of q potato bug which sucks the sap from the leaves of the tnsnip. cabbage mustard and such vegetables They should be caught early in the season and killed. If they become too nu- nerous for that sprinkle the plants with kerosene emulsion on the under side of the leaf the eggs of this in- sect are found They resemble tiny grey kegs even 10 dark rings reseno- iin0 hoops These bugs have as keeu an appetite for greens as q railroad has for increased tariffs and they never seem to have aus slides m their alimeu, fary canal either
 We stood at one street corner Sat ufdAy and counted nearly 100 sacks O shipped tn feed on wagons. either ieav fng or about to leave town. This does not mean they were all farmers, bu' some were and it is a leak that coult and should be stopped Shipping In hay IS about thing of the past here and most farmers are raising their feed oi one kind or another Several farmers and freighters have fed nothing but peas for feed for the past six months and all say their stock does fine on less than corn chops Seed peas are cheap this year. Plant lots of them and everything else you can raise to save buying and We will soon quit paying for plug hats and autos for the farmers in the gislin bell, They are bowling now. Listent Last year the South raised over the year before near ly 45.000'e00 pusnels ofcats over 200. oo0,000 bushels of corn and f606, 0o0 tons of hay. Now this is Just the in crease over the year before. The as sistant secretary of agtsculture says II this continues the farmer of the middle west must find foreign markets or take less for their products. as the Southern farmers. who always took million ot dollars worth will soon be producing all they need and more