The Mena weekly star., 1919-03-27
INFORMATION THAT
 WILL HELP MANY
James 4. Slote, Secretary of the Hat aeId Fruit and Truck Growers As sociations. Offers Suggestions to
 Farmers and Others.
special to The star.

Special to The star.
 Hatfield, March 24.-For the bene- fit of new farmers in PolkRounty and others interested, we offer few items gathered from the experience of members of the Hatfield Fruit and Truek Growers Association. First we found the season for moss sarly fruit and vegetables advanced from southern points steadily northward until it reached point 30 to oO miles south of us, according to sea- son. From that point 1t jumped to nearly 100 miles north. In other words, in most years growers 90 to 100 miles north of us started ship ping early produce about the same time people 30 miles south of us did. The reason for this is our altitude, with it's cool night air. With this point in mind, truckers can plant more inteiligently. as where competi- tion is keen the cream of the market is gone if your crop is few days late.
 All vegetables do well here. Get cold weather vegetables in early, such as onions, cabbave, celery, potatoes, etc. Also make late planting in the fall.
 Early apples are sure money mak- CTS in this county, being the first on northern markets, and bring S3 to an high as $4S0 per bushel. Red June, Yellow Harvest. Transparent, etc, are most common.
 Strawberries are sure if given att tention. For shipping, Klondyke and Aroma are standbys. For earlier, Excelsior or St. Louis, the latter be- ing large and sweet, but rather soft.
 All brier berries do well. In rasp- berries, the black seem to thrive best, especially the Gregg, for us.
 Watermelons do we'll, but of course, thousands of cars have gone to the Northern markets before ours are ready. Cantaloupes do well, the green flesh perhaps best. The mar ket season is long and keeps getting better. Plant only one variety. They market better and seed keeps pure.
 Sweet potatoes do well. There is good late market for them. Nancy Hall for general market, Yellow Yam for Southern trade. T. P. Davis of this place raised six that weighed ? pounds more than 1 bushel. If you sell plants, have your beds examined by J. Lee Hewitt, Little Rock, secre- tary of State Plant Board. Cost is $500 and expense of trip. Don't forget. It might save penalty.
 The moving from place to place of uninspeeted fruit trees and shrubs is also prohibited.
 Peanuts do exceptionally well, es- pecially the White Spanish and the Tennessee Red. The Spanish is want ed by the oil mills, which are always in the market for carlots. Our soil is rather deficient in lime for sue cessful growing of the Jumbo varie- ties, which causes too many pops. The small Spanish sells on the North ern market at the same price as the large # hulled. A Little Chief hull CT costs $3.50. One of our threshers with a thresher of his own design, can set his machine to hull most of the nuts while threshing, and not break the kernels. The vines are fine for hay, especially for milch cows. The nuts will make port faster than any other one feed. A member of this association holds this states horticultural premium for peanuts.
 Plant some standard broom corn. Several broom makers here will make up your straw on shares.
 Sorghum-of course it pays-from $90 to S150 per acre in normal years, altho twice that has been produced by some, at times.
 Canning overlook this. Start right in with the spring. We will soon start with asparagus; then come peas, beans, beets, strawber- ries, cherries, huckleberries, black berries, etc. The writer has the state horticultural premium 8 years in suc- cession for quality and display of Polk county canned products, one year exhibiting variety of 80, all produced on one Polk county farm.
 This association is strong on can- ming, usually buying cans in carlots. Get home canner and get busy.
 In shipping be sure to use contain CTS holding dry measure, full quarts, pints, etc, and mark the contents and number on end of each case.
 If you are planning on shipping leaf tobacco, find out if the new rev enue law, which goes into effect April 1, effects your shipments.
 Do not try to ship uninspected meat or meat products in interstate shipments. However, if you raised and slaughtered the meat on your own farm, it may be shipped by fill ing in couple of forms, one to at taeh to package, the other for the station agent. Sure. When you are ready to ship, ask us for a couple. The courtesy of stamp would be ap- preeiatcd. Jas. A. Slote, Sec.
 Hatfield, Ark.
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