The Mena weekly star., 1918-05-23
HATTIE's HoTsTUPH.

Wheat is looking fine and heads are filling nicely. It will probably De ready to harvest bv the first to the fifteenth of June.
 The Rcd Cross drive started Tues day morning here. The bond sale was taken as a working basis in allottlng the amount to be subscribed by each person
 w. C. Nelson. after few days here on business returned the first of the week uo his home near Oklahoma City. He reports his son Ernest. as doing well and with bright prospects, for the coming year.
 day in Hatfield. 435 head of cattle and 35 goats were dipped last time and Saturday Supervisor Hall expects 500 head. as there will be no con- fusion about dates.
 Elgin Ayers of Omaha. Neb.. is here planning improvements for a farm he recently purchased in Two Mile valley MT. Ayers is skilled mechanic in the Union Pacific railroad ance to carrv just now is few acres of land in a country that will produce a living
 The first picking of cherries were gathered and marketed the past week at the Pines Plantation. There are about 600 young trees of 3 varieties ripening about two weeks apart. which helps the picking and market ing problem. The automobile trade was a new feature this year. over three-fourths of the strawberries and cherries being sold to autoists who have engaged the entire crop of early plums.
 We like the nice. solid meat from our corn fed hogs: we brag about the nuttv flavor of our. corn and peanut fed pork: and we all know good feed makes good meat. but what becomes of these scavanger hogs that are feed ing in the open closets and cess pools around town? Medical men tell us this meat contains tubercular and tv- phoid germs. tape worm cvsts. .chol- era. etc The owner surely would no more eat one of these hogs than he would buzzard, and we know we have no one who would sell his neigh bor this meat. so we ask again what becomes of these hogs?
 Cattle ticks are expensive either to have or Co get rid of cattle. Shippers tell us they. probably more than .oth- CTS. feel the money loss. especially when .hev see their cattle sell on the market from $500 to $1000 per head less than those the. same weight from above the quarantine line. There IS also an enormous loss from stunted cattle. decreased milk flow. with a loss now and then from tick fever. The cost of getting rid of these pests is no small item. There is the cost of all these vats to pay. of our help to look after the dipping. the dope. Dr. Getz says is S2.00 for this year. Crop pledges show there are 2.056 farmers in this county. which IS an average of one dav or more lost from every farm in the county every two weeks ard perhaps the most import ant day Is a man and team worth S5 a day on the farm during crop time? If so that item alone. is S10.- 325 every two weeks. Then there are many others not farmers but business and professional men where time is also money. which must be added to the expense of getting rid of this neu- sance. We must be at this expense and trouble every year. therefore 1t behooves us not only to din our own stock. but see that all others dip. If they are unable to dip as the rules now are let us help them. We need not talk of penalties. One dipping IS worth more to the community than many fines. If one man is unable. to dip 1t is your business. as we'll as his to help him. Fining him wont't keep his ticks off of other stock