The Pulaskian., 1920-11-04

was so successful, bringing down al the timber at once, with the loss oi only two or three logs, and at cos1 of only 20c thousand, that he was employed the next year at S20O 2 month, from which position he wenl from one to another, usually at bet. ter pay until he got tired of it all and quit for farm life.
 He has shown the same spirit on the farm with the result that he has accomplished some wonderful things. For instance he commenced eight years ago with some little Red Mex ican peanuts, two seed to the pod. which he has developed into much larger ones, with four and five seed to the pod. The Mexican peanut sold in Little Rock for one dollar a bush el or four and one-half cents a pound. For his improved ones, the peanut roasters pay him 20 cents a pound. The big Virginia peanut will not grow successfully on his land, while this one does, being strictly an Arkansas peanut. One drawback to his raising them is the fact that MT. Sunderman, hitherto the Pulaski county peanut king, has sold his thresher and he has to thresh them by hand. He does that by beating them off on a wire screen over a bar rel, which separates them from the dirt and dust.
 MT. Harry has been greatly handi- capped because of his inability to hire help. For instance, if he want ed a man to help him saw wood dur ing wet spell, it took him so long to find man that the soil would be dry enough to work before he found one. He saw an ad in his farm paper of a one-man saw which would saw down trees, so he ordered one of them. It cost him only about $50 and he can do more work with 1t than four men can do with an ordinary saw, and at night he would not be as tired as he would have been help ing another man the old way by noon. The company asked him to take the agency for 1t, which he did Others are ordering saws from him His address is E. s. Harry, R. r. D, No. 2, Jacksonville.
 While Mir. Harry has been success, ful in developing improved soil, etc., he has been equally as successful in discovering new pests. One is tiny cream colored miller, which develops in the corn in the field tiny larvae which works on the same line as the weevil, and without careful investi gation one would think it was the weevil. With him 1t is much worse than the weevil, as he can prevent the weevil, but does not know how to fight this insect. His corn is being eaten up by it. Fortunately 1 reac in farm paper since then that the government has been Investigating the weevil and has issued bulletin on it. One thing the government recommends is to select seed corn il tn field and to select the ears which are most thoroughly protected by the shuck. The further the shuck ex tends over the silk end the more diff. 6cult 1t will be for the weevil to gel in. Also, the harder the corn the less it will be bothered. These same directions should be good for the pre- Vention of this insect. The agricul tural department should take note of my description of new pests and eliminate them before they spread.
 Another pest he has discovered is a bug of about the same size and class, which is destroying his peach trees. This insect bores into the limbs, about one inch apart on the lower side, and out ot each tiny hole runs such an excessive amount of gum that 1t reaches from one hole to another, until the whole under side of the limb is one mass of gum hanging down about one inch. This always kills the limb and they keep on extending their operations until the whole tree is killed.
 He has a white flour corn, which I have been looking for for forty years. My father got a start of ii in Texas from the U. s. Department of Agriculture over forty years ago, and 1t made the best corn meal I ever ate, and it is a tremendous yielder, bearing three or four ears to the stalk. Mir. Harry's crop yielded this year at the rate of about one hundred bushels to the acre. Its greatest dis. advantaoe is tbat inc xveevil U5orL oY,