The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-28
ARLINGTON TAKING
STEPS TO IMPROVE
Short Course Idea Stimulate
Community to Work for
Better Farming.

me short course meetings held at
aIIlngton Monday and Tuesday by w.
~. LandeSs, county agricultural agent,
4 nd Miss Mary MCGOWAN, county home
1ehiohstratlon agent, aroused a great
zeal or interest in Arlington and ue-
suited IN the taking Of immediate steps
hy members of the community to or
ganize for the promotion of the ideas
@eApounded in the lectures Of the course.
! committee was named to arouse and
alfect interest in such cooperative pro
Jeets as marketing of live stock, sweet
potatoes and other products, and in
general foster movements for the good
OF me community. J. /, Beard was
maze chairman of this committee and
me following We're added as members
IDf' W. 5; Mccormick H. S. Griffin,
L, z. Richardson. L. b. Williams, r.
= Cole, Or. R. Z. Herring and |. B.
morrison. Mr. Beard was also appoint
ca committeeman to represent Ar
nuston IN the Shelby county organiza =
non OF The national councils of agri-
Among those lecturing at Arlington
sWeFe sGeofge K. James. Ise Moore of
hatF. oaks farm, near Chattanooga. and
w. watson, market director of the
Chamber of Commerce farm bureau
Mr.. James spoke on Service" TAX
mig as his text the Rotary motto, HE
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declared that the landowner who takes
the best care of his tenants, of his
i've stock and his soil is the land
owner who is naturally going to get
the business returns from his land AS
an Illustration of the way in which
merit takes its proper place, Mr.. James
cited the case of. big and little potatoes.
He said that if you start to market with
load of potatoes before you get there
all the little ones will have sifted to
the bottom and the big ones will be
on top.
Mr.. d. Watson's talk was along the
lines of cooperative marketing. He
declared that farmer should have
some say so as to what his produce
should bring, but that he can not do
this individually The farmer must
work through an organization, through
which he may learn what his produce
costs and set a price on it which will
give him a fair profit.
Mr.. Moore. who is a very successful
farmer, lectured on soil building, de-
iclarlng that a man may StarVe to death
on poor soil which he could very easily
make fertile by care and intelligent
handling. He declared that on his own
farm by saving manure from his live
stock and using phosphates and cover
crops, he had restored a tract of run
down land from a production of S12
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IN three years. He declared that it
] would be to a farmers good to cult
Nate less acreage and put his surplus
fand to clovers, such as Japan, and
PASTURE live stock on it, thus being
able to more carefully cultivate what
land was under cultivation and to build
up that which was producing crops to
be taken off. He also recommended
the feeling of cotton seed meal and
soy bean seed to work stock to cut the
average feed bill in two.
The George r. James community will
be the next in which the short course
Nill be held. This will be on Thursday
and Friday About the same speakers
who went to Arlington will lecture at
the James community. In addition the
local speakers win be Mrs. j. B. Ellis
and F. D, Houston Dean A. r. Wit
tenborg and Dr. A W. Sweet acting
professor of bacteriology at the Uni
Nersity of Tennessee medical college,
viii conduct medical examination of the
children at the James community as
at Arlington.
At Cordova, which will be visited Feb.
and 3, Mrs A. L'Moore will be the
local speaker.
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