The Springdale news., 1917-05-04
Dage's Weskly Better

Little Rock, May 3@There has been great amount of agitation about
 raising more food stuff to meet the
 war situation. You will remember that l have always told you that the farmer is the dependence of the gov ernment, both in peace and in war The present condition and agitation -verifies that statement The nation must be sed and clothed by the farm CT; and if we win this war, we must go even further and help to feed and clothe the allies who are fighting the battles at the front. In the present agitation the cry is to produce more food stuff Some have ill-advisedly undertaken to tell farmers what to raise and how to raise it. This was mistake The farmers know the best crops for their land and how to raise them. It is not so much a mat ter of better farming and diversified tion as of food supply What l want to say is that we must take this thing seriously. The condition confronting us is serious, but not frightful. We must produce our living in our own state, and we must produce the feed for our live stock, and We must keep our live stock at home for our own use. To produce our own living, we must grow what we can keep through the winter months when no food stuff can be grown. It Is we'll to pro- vide ample gardens and truck patches to feed ourselves through the sum- mer, but not to produce perishable products in great abundance to rot and waste. Small home canning out fits should be bought to take care of the surplus garden vegetables and fruits that can be canned and preser- ved
 It is we'll to look after your supply of sugar in advance, for there may be a shortage and you may not be able to get enough to can and preserve your fruits and berries. The tomato is an easy vegetable to produce and ean-do not let any go to waste. Sweet potatoes can be kept by hous- ing, banking or canning. Turnips can be banked and kept for winter use. Turnip greens are easy to pre- serve by canning, and make good diet the winter. Pumpkins can be canned and kept for winter use. kale makes good greens late in the fall and early in the spring. Collards make good vegetable diet fo1fMinter use Winter onions, or multiplying onions are valuable. Fall beans are fine and grow well, and besides bring a good price on the market.
 Every farmer should plant a few acres of dwarf Essex rape early this fall. Rape makes good pasture for hogs until late in the fall and comes out early in the spring. Rape also makes good greens for table use.
 Plant corn field beans or peas in all your corn and along all fence rows, turn rows and ditches. The best pea to plant is the white, blackeped Cali fornia pea It natures early and makes fine dish all through the win ter. They are sold in most all gro- cery stores and are now retailing at the rate of seven to eight dollars a bushel Pick and shell your peas and you will find a ready sale for this var iety.
 Give good attention to your corn crop. Cultivate 1t well, and buy fer tilizer for it if necessary. It will pay this year. Corn is surer and better crop than cotton at the pres ent. Arkansas will furnish market for all the ce.i you yill raise, and the nr;.,sse will not be under dollar a bus hel It is more pror table than fif- teen cent cotton.
 Keep all your brood s5ws, cows, gz.nd mares Sne breed them raise feed for then. You can not lose on this proposition.
 If you need help to buya home can ming outfit or cans for your fruits and vegetables, apply to your local mer
 chant and banker; they will finance you K