The Pulaskian., 1920-08-12
A SHORT RAMBLE

was out Ol CdSIs bdIly OuI Ol food and still worse 1 was entirely out of aything new for this column, so l just had to ranble. Having promised J. W Stewart to visit him and he only living four or five miles started out for his place. He was at home and we'll pleased with his new location on top of the mountain. When he sold out and started to move from the Big Maumelle his neighbors all asked him if he was going onto the mountain to starve to death He has corn and other stuff nearly equal to the river bottom lands and has no idea of starving. He raised four acres of good oats and after cutting them turned around and planted most of. it in sorghum for hay and it is now ready for the first cutting and if cut at once will make another crop. He planted the remainder h peas. He raised fine crop of Irish potatoes and has dug them and planted a fall crop on the same ground. His sweet potatoes are as fine as they can he. While his corn was not planted as early as it should have l,ecn nor cul. t,";ed propell., it will make t~en. ly,five bushels to the acre. The town man, who irno eyed the place and lived on 1t several years was never able to make anything OH 1t.
 Mir. Stewart had seveial moeking- birds to furnish him music until the martins left, when they also took their departure. One was an educated bird and could say several words plain enough to be understood. One of its favorite stunts he said was to call Stewart, Stewart" It made its home in the trees about his yard. l am under the impression hat this is rather early forsthe mock ing bird to leave and if so it would indicate hard and early winter.
 The Best Farmer in tue County2
 It is rather risky businesss to pro- nounce any man the best farmer in Pulaski County, but when I tell you what c. W. Gillespie, the colored manager of the Bryant farm is doing l think you will admit that he Is en- titled to the honor. He came here four years ago from Northeast Mis- sissippi and has since been living on and farming this place. When he got possession of the place it was making a lot of awful fine hay and still is The hay is Bermuda grass with stand of beggar lice in it as thick as any peas 1 ever saw growing broadcast. There Is also some Johnson grass on the place. He sold about $500 worth of hay off the place last year. There is not near as much naeadow on 1t as there was for he is 7ieaninq It up especi- ally around the edges where sprouts and briars have gcttea start and putting 1t in cultivation. On this Bermuda sod he is raising the fiaest stuff grown in the county the first year after putting ii in cultivation. Lying out so long with the occasion al overflow on portions this land has gotten as rich as it ever was and tliere is nothing surprising about its making good crops with Tremendous .s;eids wheH properly cultivated. The surprising thing IS that it can l'c cultivated properly og at all. He $ the only man ever kaew of doing il successfully. It is generally con- sidcred next te impossible to get rid of Bermuda ard make a crop on t the first year, but he is doing it and 1t Is the first time 1 ever saw 1t done. l have seen crops planted in Ser muda for over forty years but there was seldom anytHing made where there was goo1 stand of Bermuda te s,est with.
 ,iist to give you ar 'ea or what he is doing I will describe one cut of about twenty acres of corn plant. ed on a thick Bermuda sod this spring. It is about twelve to fifteen feet high and the most of it has two or more ears to the stalk. Frequent ly there are two suckers to the stalk with one or two ears each and they are as perfect as the parent stalk. Some hills will make as many as six ears of corn. He only counts on seventy bushels to the acre, but it looks to me like it would make a hundred. One man, who is familjar