The Mena weekly star., 1917-06-14
Correspondence
nArruE,s HATFIELD morsrurH.

Oat harvest fs with us again.
 The promise for a big nut crop was never better.
 Just as a little relief from the II c. l. is promised by the new crop. the R. R patriotically comes to the front and asks an increase in rate.
 Boyd Coleman. who Is an expert auto driver. is in Kansas City getting post ed on the very latest kinks of the trade at one of the best schools Of inc struction.
 Timber scouts are quite busy in this section The contracts which they are endesvoring to secure call for all timber on the place 9 inches or more thru. feet from the ground with a long or Indefinite time for removal
 Another car of hogs brought Co town Saturday. and SEQ to S25 per head was no uncommon price for some While some Of the smaller stun really should have been kept while longer, as new corn win soon be here. Early corn Is sili<ing out now,
 Look your apple trees over now for wooIy aphis especially the young trees At this time they are in the wounds or dents in the bark They look some what like blue mold, but are q low form of insect life. Later they will return to the roots and stunt the tree.
 J. If. Allen of Mena was in town last week to Close deal for 120 acres Of land one mile north of town Mir Allen represented the Hudgins heirs and Jas. Slote represented J. Fl. Hoilen- beck of Nebraska. who purchased the land There is considerable pine tim Der on this place, good soil and close
 The past two weeks have been so favorable for the oat crop that they win make nearly. if not an average yield. some small patches promise an enormous yield while most Of the large fields will average perhaps 20 bushels per acre Joe Anders has about 30 acres that will yield at least that much.
 When you find nice sample of grain or grasses tie up bunch about as thick as your wrist get the heads even, tie below the heads In the mla- die and at the ends. wrap in a news paper and leave at the bank. We'll want fl to decorate with at the fair. and later for the agricultural room of the school
 John D.. the papers state, bought several million dollars of Liberty bonds Another place 1t also states that gasoline went up cents, or about st per barrel. Our own paper states the K c. S. Railway bought Liberty bonds IL also states their re- prssentatives were here arranging Tor an increase in rates. But then' IL might have just happened so.
 ii was said few months ago the south could win this war by feeding herself Just on this one line or rali- road hundreds of cars of potatoes ana other vegetables have been going north for the past month. from to 10 cars of potatoes on every train and one train last week had 21 cars of tubers The south is rapidly becoming the pantry of the good old Y s A
 Luther Cummings, one Of the ap- praisers of the Federal Land Loan As- sociation here. has visited some 70 or Ed farms in his line of work, besides many others he saw while going to and fro He says at no time has he ever seen so fine and large gardens, so much corn and beans, and some SUI nlantfnr He also says everything ls exceptionally clean and we'll culu- vafed4 and Polk county will produce record crop of edlbles Now this re- port is by a man who knows the ceuh- ty and his judgment Is good as is m dicated by the position he IS hiling
 For the benefit of distant readers some of whom ask us will say our gardens now provide us with spuds cabbare turnips, beets, beans onions peas etc. In fruits we have the Early Wheeler, Red Bird cling. and May flower peach: early Triumphs also are now ripening: second aariy cherries, a few Evening Star and Gamby Straw berries still left; Red June and Wild Goose plum just commencing to rlp- en: Red June apples lust right Tor pieS Of the wild fruits we have now ripe. inc Mulberry Dewberry the little Red Chickasaw plum just turning and the green huckleberry just fine now Tor pies wild blackberries an enormous srron