The Mena weekly star., 1920-02-19
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(By Fred J. Smith, secretary1

(By Fred J. Smith, Secretary.)
 J. c. Hauerwas of the Hauzier Farm, in .Mena one day last week, brought in canned beans, tomatoes, turnip kraut and products of the home canner operated on the Haul zier Farm. While in the city MT. Hauerwas placed an order for $500 cans, which, with the 4500 already on hand, will be required to handle the 1920 crop. Mir. and Mrs. Haurwas are just coming into their own after years of patience. persistence and hard work, having. made their hame in the primeva timber, and having begun with very limited means. Some day the story of their struggle, fol- lowed by success, will be written and then experience will then be an inspi- ration to other who are just begin ming.
 One day at the Commercial Club office when the fatalities among cattle from eating sorghum hay was under discussion, w. K. Watkins tersely re- marked that from his experience and observation more cattle die from the want of sorghum hay than from eat too much.
 What, when and how to plant are the subjects that are taken up almost daily a the round table discussions at Commercial headquarters by the farmers and others who drop in from time to time Newcomers are taking advantage of the help they can get from those who have had he experi- ence, and the oldtimers are getting the benefit of the optimism and en- thusiasm characteristic of those just making he sart.
 w L. Satterfeld of Staunton, Ok, who wrote the secretary early in De- cember for information about Polk county, arrived in Mena last Friday, having made the trip overland and having been month and half on the way. He was accompanied by his wife and children and his father and mother.
 Mir. and Mrs. w. H. Carpenter, who arrived in Mena last week from Los Angeles, Cal, and have since bought the Campbell property on Miller av- enue, are going to devote their atten- tion to poulry raising, and fruit and truck growing. They are planning now hatch chickens, and later will buy baby chicks.
 J. D. Molter and Judge E W. Mills are going to make trial of growing English walnuts in his section of Ar kansas. They have received ship ment of trees of three varieties, and each is going to set out part of them.
 An order went out this week thru the Berry Cherry Farm organization for 10000 strawberry plants, which in addition to the plants for the Ber- rye Cherry Farm included orders for 13 persons, who will put in from few hundred plants in the garden to a patch of two acres. The entire or der will plant approximately 100 acres, and in addition to that many persons have made orders for plants on their own account, so it will be safe to say that in 1921 there will be from 125 to 130 acres of bearing strawber- ries in this community. An order has also been made for blackberry plants sufficient to set out 10 acres on the Berry Cherry Farm, and the acre. age planted by private parties will bring he blackberry acreage a point where it will be possible to make car lot shipments in 1921. Five acres of cherries will be the start made on the Berry Cherry Farm this spring with this popular and profitable fruit.
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 Using bushel baskets to ship eggsi That was the exclamation several men made at Commercial Club headquar- ters last Saturday when F. J. Grein- CT announced that he placed an order for baskes for that purpose. Explain ing further, he stated that bushel basket held 100 eggs wrapped, and that they were shipped out for hatch ing purposes. In this connection it is interesting to note that the pen of Barred Rock bullets from the Golden Rule Farm are making good record in the egg laying contest being con- ducted by the department of animal husbandry at the State University. Out of 100 bullets, one of the Golden Rule pen has fourth place during the month of January, and the pen of five Golden Rule bullets is fifth in the con-