Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-01
BETTER FARMING
HINTS.
Fall Flowing,

Fall ploWlng is almost always good
farming practice. The Arkansas Col
lege OF Agriculture insists that the
fall blowing this year of thousands OF
acres OF cotton fields in Southern Ar
kansas will be absolutely necessary to
insure cotton crop next year. The
boil weevil has done great damage in
the last lie Wweeks and the only safe
thing for the cotton farmer this wear
is to pillow under all cotton stalks and
leaves and then to clean up along the
fences, bitches, around stumps and
sheds and old buildings and burn all
trash that can not be plowed under.
Fail ploWlng puts the soil in good con-
dltlon but even if some fields or many
fields will demand another blowing
ne Inspiring it will be found profitable.
If the big planter can't pillow all his
cotton fields this fall he will do we'll
to plan for planting corn or potatoes
or oats or other crop on the remain
ing acres. If there is not united ac-
ton from now to next spring the boil
weevil will hit Arkansas harder blow
than did the war in 1914. The Ex-
tension Division of the College of Ag-
riculture and United States Depart
ment of Agriculture is repeating the
warnings Of the entomologist. Its
county agents in the cotton counties
have been for weeks urging thorough
fall blowing of cotton fields Just as
the final picking is finished. Let us
swat the Weevil."
Winter Cover Crops.
Farmers should not forget the value
of wheat, oats and rye for cover crops
There are 4 distinct values of these
cover crops: Q) Winter pasture: or
lessons washing of soil; 60 the green
plant uses plant food that is being
liberated and when plowed under said
plant food is saved that would other
wise be lost; ca the growth to be
plowed under in April will add to the
humus supply, thus adding to the fer
tlllty of the soil an dalso adding to the
moisture holding capacity. The extern
sion divisions of all southern states
have been urging campaign for more !
WINTER cover crops. The non-legumes
where the clovers can not be seeded
Grow Mere Hogs.
Arkansas should have twenty times |
as many hogs as are now in the state, |
why not a campaign for one or more
pure bred sows on every Arkansas
arm Bankers are ready to lend
money to farmers for year at 6 per
'ent Tor purchase of pure bred bulls.
Now the extension division of the Uni
Ierslty OF Arkansas and United States
department. of Agriculture would like
o suggest that bankers offer to lend
money for the purchase of pure bred
sllts. 1t in county forty farmers
Vho now 90 not own one pure bred
log could be helped to buy pure bred l.
'llts IN November, gifts bred to far
ow about the last of February, it
tart movement for more wealth
mong the small farmers.
The County Woman Agent.
The most interesting and the most
Interested worker in the extension
vision, Of the College of Agricul- (
are and United States Department of (
is the county woman {
gent: Arkansas has thirty-one coun-
es that are wise enough to employ I
omen to organize their girls into can
me, and poultry clubs and to advise
III hthe farm women on matters of
ltal Importance to them, household
onvenlences, sanitation, care of ba-
es, canning vegetables, etc. One :
'unty has two women agents and {
icy are all worth their weight in G
Did State and government funds 6
i'll be available by January 1917 4
II cooperating with ten additional <
untles. Progressive women in conn X
IS that now have county agricultural X
rents should organize and submit re. \
lest to their quorum courts for a Y
agent. Persons interested ?
ould write C. W. Watson, state 9
'entt, old state house, Little Rock, for Q
tails and requirements. O
Cotton CHASING. 3
Farmers and planters who want q
elr cotton classed should write c Is
Atkinson. office of markets, United q
ates department of agriculture, Old &
ate house, Little Rock, for instruc- *
rs for sending SAMPLES. This help 3
nee and the farmer can have this <