The Prescott daily news., 1916-01-03
BETTER FARMING HINTS"
State and Federal Extension Division
 Fayetteville, Ark.
More Hogs for Arkansas.

them to farmers. This winter he ex- poets to kill one hundred and sell to his neighbors. What a shame Ev- cry one of those men could grow his own meat for less than one-third what he will pay this rich farmer. Every farmer in the State should have one or more sows and grow his own pork
 Orchard Pruning.
 Whether the orchard has a hundred acres or one acre or even dozen trees, this Is the month for pruning. Cut out the useless dead stock and let the sunlight in. Keep the lower limbs so the picking will be easy. If a farmer does not know how to prune his trees, he should find a neighbor who can teach him or he should change work with some one or hire the work done. But prune now. It will help the tree and make the place look bet ter.
 Plan Spring Crops.
 Now is the time when the forehand- ed farmer is planning his spring work He needs to decide now where he will have one or two patches of rape for the pigs; where he will SOW clover; where he can add another acre or more to his permanent pasture, Bermuda, orchard grass, bluegrass or lespedeza; where he will have corn and what spots need manure and what low places need ditching. If his own farm is not large enough, now is the time to rent a small field somewhere for spring oats or millet or Sudan grass for hay. Now is the time for getting up wood for the summer, getting 1t all nicely split for the good wife and now is the time to plan for the finest gar den he ever had It is better to have a fine garden for the women and girls to handle than to have them in the cotton field. Plan for peas and pea nuts, both for hay and feed and for their fertilizing value. Make sure of enouge seed for all the plantings. Slow on Perishables.
 Many farmers made the mistake last spring of planting rather too heavily of perishable crops without consider ing the difficulties of marketing. An acre of tomatoes means work to grow and demands ready market unless the farmer has a home canner. An acre or ten acres of sweet potatoes will demand a ready market or good sweet potato storehouse. Irish pota- toes also demand ready market. With any perishable crop grown for market there is need of cooperation whereby several farmers can grow the same crop and the same variety and ship a car load. Grow perlshables but see the market. Don't plunge! Double the Flock.
 On four-ffths the smaller farms Of Arkansas the poultry flock should be doubled. to say the least. Gull out the two-year old hens and buy more young ones: sell the old roosters if you have common stock and buy one good cock erel and keep him with your pest hens for three weeks before you wish to use any eggs for hatching, Keep one breed. whatever breed you like hest. It will pay neighbors to get tocetber on one breed of chickens as with cattle and hogs. Write the FIX tension Division of the College of qriculture for free bulletins on Poultry.
 Watch the Roads.
 January and February are hard months on country roads. Two-thlros of the really bad places could often be prevented by few minutes work at the right time. Why wait for the ot- fcers to do these little jobs? Then "wash" down the center of a hill that later will cost fifty dollars to flX' Omen up the ditches and keep the wat pr off the road. Drainage is the hrst law of roadmaking and dragging IS the next great law. The Extension Dl- vision of the College of Agriculture at Fayetteville, will sent free oulle- tins on roadmaking on request. The Cotton Outlook.
 Recently it was announced that uer- many had found a substitute for cot ton in making gunpowder and that