The Dermott news., 1919-07-10
Demonstration Notes

Wae m SL. LOUIS last week when top hogs sold for s22, 30 per hundred pounds. Again let me say, do not sell your live hogs for 12c or for 20c dressed when there is a market like this waiting for your hogs To get the top price they must be of good quality well finished and the proper weight, about POO pounds. Hog raising is a mighty good line 10 have on every farm. It is good crop insurance for cotton.
 Inquiries have been coming to this office about planting late crops for feed and grain. This (Monday) morn ing rain may put even this late plant ing out of the question in some fields and they will finish the year without a crop being planted.
 If this is the case on your farm. don { let 1t go on the same way all winter. At the earliest possible chance get the land plowed and in shape to plant. Get Abruzzi rye, wheat or oats and SOW them early to get big growth of fall pasture. With these crops you can SOW some clover next spring and have a crop of hay af- ter the grain is cut. Burr Clover sowed early will make good winter pasture and is great fertilizer. It natures early enough in the spring to allow planting crop of corn after the clover Is plowed under.
 When crops are bad and the weather makes having hard is the time to make a special effort to make the fields now lying out ::grow good crop. Rye grows here we'll and is great pasture and profitable grain crop. There Is good demand for this seed. Burr Glover should be on every acre of land in the county. It will not interfere with any other crop and is valuable it. self in many ways. This year and last the seed has been returning $l00. 00 an acre as an average besides the grazing and help to the land.
 Don't buy hay this winter The feed will all grow on the place if you will give it a chance. Don't quit be- cause you get discouraged over the cotton crop. The Agricultural College of the University of Arkansas and the Department of Agriculture ask and urge every farming farmer to plant clover and winter cover crops. This information and this message comes to you thru your County Agent Ask him for any further information.
 As the season goes along the good crops are looking better and the bad ones poorer. The tour of the farms of the county Is going to be very interest ing and instructive in the contrasts oi the different fields and crops Why i, one field so good and another so poor How Is 1t that different men make sue cesses of the different crops of tn, county? Alsike Clover and Timothy il doing well near Lake Village How il 1t Tn other parts of the county? there Is none grown but near Lake Vii lage there should be. Alsike Clover i doing well and furnishing hay pastur on some of the wettest land
 A Horticultural Specialist will be il the county late in the summer to hell those who want help in planning an planting some new orchards. Mir J. <. Knox, of Extension Division o the University. has been here an looked the county over and says tha there Is no reason why a home or chard shall not be success. He vii be glad to help select the trees an later come back to help with the set ting out, the pruning and still late spraying. Orchards must be sprayed
 Prepare the ground as soon as possi ble for the permanent pasture. Al well balanced farms have part of thei acreage in permanent pastures. Use mixture of grasses and clovers and vol will have grazing nearly the entir year Consult the County Agent abou a pasture mixture. II. P Wood.
 County Agent