The Mena weekly star., 1917-04-19

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 Two very useful bulletins for the farmer are the Want and For Sale Bulletin of the K. c. s. Ky. Co, by j.. II. Tull, Mena, Ark, and the bulletin by John F. Nicholson, Dept of Mar kets, Fayetteville, Ark. Write for these bulletins. They are free. II you want to buy or sell tell them and their bulletins tell thousands
 If we fall down on raising a crop to feed ourselves this year, Old Mother Hubbard won't be the only one who found her cupboard bare. Other states cant possibly supply US this year and they won't need to if we leave out some of the cotton. By the way, iSc or 20c cotton does not look very good when you are trading it for s7 flour and sl.75 corn and 3Sc bacon.
 The first ripe strawberries ap- peared at the Pines Plantation April s. These, of course, were the Ex- celsiors. When these are just past their best the Kiondyke is nearly ready to pick, and are closely fol- lowed by the Aroma. A still later berry IS the Evening Star and the Candy These are all good berries and G0 fine here. You can have s to 9 weeks of strawberries by plant ing the above varieties.
 My God, What will I do?" a poor fellow said Saturday when told flour would cost him S6. Visions of baby faces dependent on him wrung these words from his heart If you are thinking of letting that spot of ground lie idle this year, don't do it. For your sake and the sake of others, produce everything edible possible, or there will be many more asking God the same question, before another crop comes.
 Bread corn sold as high as Si.75 per bushel in Hatfield last week. With the embargo and light wheat crop in Argentine, with England talk ing over the entire Canadian wheat crop, with the winter wheat killed or badly damaged in Nebraska and Kansas, and with no reserve sup ply, the farmer with a cornfield this summer will be the most independ- ent man on earth. Plant sweet po- tatoes, beans, peas, etc. 1t is too awful to contemplate, but suppose there would be corn failure?
 Another car of pigs and light hogs shipped out Saturday, making five cars from here lately. It is too bad this light stuff, and especially the breeding stock, must be sold, as there will surely be a meat shortage with the price prohibitiye to most people. Even now we can scarcely afford a bacon rind to grease the saw. However, the grain saved might do the people more good now than the meat would later. One farmer said, taking a hint from The Star, he had provided pasture which was bringing his hogs along nicely, and he would net need to sell.
 A letter come to our desk from the National Farm Organization Society, asking us to call attention of our governor and Secretary Houston of the Department of Agriculture, to the acute shortage of farm labor and have them .remonstrate on the en- listing of men from the rural dis tricts until the food supply of the nation and the necessary exports are assured. Much land will lie idle which might be disastrous to the nation unless something along this line is done. The shortage of food always hits the civilian population before if does the military. If this meets your approval. write as an in dividual to the Governor of our state, also Secretary Houston al Washington.
 The National Forest, that Old Man of the Sea, that Polk County has had to carry on it's shoulders in recent years, is notifying parties with cat tie grazing on or in it's vicinity that permits will have to be secured at varying costs if they wish to graze their cattle there in the future. People owning land in or adjacent to the forest are allowed to graze 9 head free. If this does not over stock the range, others are permit ed, preference being given to parties who have been using the range heretofore Some property owners think the department should fence if they don't want stock 10 graze free, same as the farmer does. Ne- braska and Colorado solved the waste land problem by giving 6i0 acre homesteads, which keeps a nice herd of cattle and gets the land on the tax books. Why not go after our congressman. urge him again and again to have this forest revert Ito homestead entry, get a $40 acre homestead law for this kind of