The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-09-22
WHEAT BEDDING DEMONSTRATION
SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER Is
Local Hardware Dealers VIII Hay,
Demonstration Near AshdOwn
September %; Many People
Will Be Present.

The strongest argument of wheat
bedding demonstrations. is the de-
mand what is being made for them
since few communities of Arkansas
began the innovation. There is al
ways spectator at each wheat bed
ding demonstration from some other
community, and he wants the demon
stration repeated near his home in
order that the farmers there may have
the opportunity of seeing the modern
method of wheat growing
Every agency in the state, and most
those outside, is preaching plant
more wheat. The Hoover forces, the
state agricultural department, the
bankers. the jobbers, the University
OF Arkansas end all the state agri-
cultural schools are going out of their
way to interest the farmer in growing
wheat. 1t is now his only bit, but his
salvation as we'll.
Wheat bedding demonstrations have
now been held in not less than 20
counties o. the state At the begin
ming the Arksnsas Retail Hardware
Dealers Association planned to have
ahOut %. in as many counties and
scattered over as much of the state as
BOSS Bile. Arrangements We're made
with the machinery manufacturers to
assist, with machines as we'll as with
experts, s,1d the agricultural forces
also agreed to attend and lecture on
he different steps in wheat bedding
Then the retail hardware dealers in
other sections of the state began to de-
mand the same thing for their people,
and instead of only 25 demonstrations
near 100 will be made. Practically
every county in Arkansas will have its
demonstration, and some counties
two.
The demonstration in Little River
county will tie held at Ashdown OH
Tuesday, September 25 and it will no
doubt be gala day for the farmers,
as it has been in other sections.
The process of wheat bedding is de-
cidedly interesting. First the ground
Is disced with two horse disc. This
breaks up the sticks, weeds and other
matter on the ground and makes it
possible for the two horse sulky plow
to break the soil to a considerable
iepth. The ground is then again disc
cd and the wheat drilled in with a two
horse drill. The final stage is rolling
The ground with heavy roller
Nothing can be more important to
he people o. Arkansas at this time"
says B. c. Powell, former president Of
the Arkansas Bankers Association,
and head of the agricultural board of
the association, than the growing of
wheat. This is the time the farmers
should begin preparing for the crop,
and l think these bedding demonstra-
tions are responsible for much great
er interest than would be possible if
'he farmers we're not shown how to
plant the grain. l have been over
considerable portion of the state rec
emily, and in all sections I find the
proper interest in wheat and that
many of the farmers are going to
nlant at least enough to supply their
own wants. l think that the farmer
vEo does not is going to lose The
communities that grow no wheet are
going to be the lean counties. The
Arkansas farmer does not require near
so much encouragement to try some
thing new as he did few years back.
He has tried the things that were re-
commended to him, and done we'll, so
he is willing now to follow any plan
that seems plausible. and the plant
more wheat is not only plausible. but
common sense. Let's plant all the
wheat we can.