The Prescott daily news., 1920-02-13
CLUB EN-
 DORSES CUCUMBER CULTURE

The Commercial Club met in reg ular session at the city hal last night with about htirty-five members pres ent President Buchanan presiding. Secretary Randolph P. Hamby asked for reports from the different com
 mittees, none of which responded with anything special.
 The Club was disappointed in the
 inability of MT. Kapp of Little Rock
 to be present, his absence being caus- ed by the late arrival of Missouri
 Pacific train no 6, which was four
 hours late. MT. Kapp will be invit- ed to be present at the next meeting of the club two weeks hence. Secretary Hamby called up for dis cussion the proposition of securing a
 salting station for Prescott through
 the planting of 200 acres of cucum-
 bers by farmers in this section. As
 has been stated in a previous issue
 of this paper, about 25 farmers at
 a meeting held at the court house last
 Saturday expressed themselves as be-
 ing in favor of trying the cucumber culture this year. Another meeting
 was saked for by the farmers for
 tomorrow (Saturday) for the pur- pose of interesting others in the plan and the proposition will be definitely decided upon at this meeting. MT. E. J. Watson, agriculturist of the
 Prescott and Northwestern Railroad, who was present at the meeting of the club last night, told the members that
 in his opinion cucumbers could be
 grown here at the prices offered by
 the Thomas Pickling Company, very
 profitably, especially in view of the assurance of the price before plant
 ing. After thorough discussion, the
 Club went on record as heartily en- dorsing the plan and pledging it's
 support in securing the necessary
 acreage. MT. Watson said that about $45000 would be paid for cucumbers
 by the pickling company in Prescott
 within about six weeks, during May
 and June.
 The proposition of erecting a sweet
 potato curing plant in this city with
 capacity of 15,5OO bushels was dis
 cussed and plans for such building
 as recommended by the Government
 was outlined by Secretaory Hamby
 and the government blue prints were exhibited before the Club. This pro-
 position was deferred until later
 meeting at which time J. H. Full of the government bureau of markets, will meet with the club and explain the plan in full and make such recom- mendatios as might be necessary MT.
 Watson, last night, highly recom-
 mended the building according to
 government specifications, adding that the wooden plant on the govern
 ment plan had proven a success wher- ever used.
 President Buchanan asked for con-
 sideration of the club, the matter of creamery to be located here. He said that large number of farmers had asked the cooperation of the club in this matter. Information will be available on this subject also, when MT. Tull visits Prescott. In almost every discussion which arose at the meeting the necessity of county agricultural agents for this county was shown; proving beyond a doubt that the county cannot advance to any great extent in an agricultural way without an agent to work each proposition up and give it his time and attention. The cooperative mar keting plan which is proving such financial success in other counties, would be almost failure without the county agent.
 After all matters were disposed of the meeting adjourned to meet two weeks from last night.
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