The Mena weekly star., 1920-01-08
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 a. Davis. in rom the yerba Ba- ena farm enc day last week. called at Commercial cub headquarters to en- roll x -toekholder of the Mena Rerly-Cherry farm He himself will not ea into The small fruit growing bueiuess very extensively until the Nena-R0cky improved highway E com -oleted. when the handicap of market ing fruits over bad road will he re, moved Until such time, Mir Davis viii devote his time t0 raising pea- nuts, sweet potatoes and other truck crops He had in four acres Of pea nuts last season and up to Christmas had sold more than one thousand pounds of shelied peanuts, which, he stated, had not made start on the re- turns from the four acres. Under his management there is little waste in handling the peanut crop The vines are mixed with fodder, run thru a feed cutter and then fed as roughage to horses and cattle. The hulis. after the peanuts are shelled. are mixed with corn and run thru a feed grinder and then fed to horses as the grain ration, AS motive power to run his feed grind CT, feed cutter and wood saw, MT. Davis uses a 2-horsepower gasoline engine.
 Guy Beavers, carrier on rural route NO 1 out of Mena, makes good use of his spare time in raising food crops on his home place on Bethesda avenue. His principal truck crop last summer was sweet potatoes, and he made a splendid success curing the sweets that he plans this year to put out acres. Mir. Beavers built a curing house, but erred in making it too small. and the coming season will build another of two or three times the capacity of the present structure, which has a capacity of about K5O bushels. It is by 12 feet in dimen- sion, the frame work being by 1 and the space between filled with studdings, shiplapped on both sides, and the space between filled with saw dust The roof is shiplap covered doors at the entrance. window in the rear, and ventilation is secured thru hole in the bottom of the door and iAli U II NAONEHApO III tnN OBROnAfN 6hbtN- The heat for the curing process was secured from Rochester lamp. at an expense of not to exceed five cents per bushel There are now 137 bush els of cured sweets in the building, and the advanced price at which they will sell will more than pay for the expense of building the curing house.
 "A nf Ia Belle Farm, Dallas Valley, is demon. strating that it pays to raise thorough bred stock. At the dispersement sale held November by the Polk County Polandd China Breeders association, Mir Read bought Queen Bess, a pedi- greed bred Poland China SOW, paying $90. On November s, she farrowed litter of eight pigs, six of them being gilts. Of these he has already sold two at $25 each, and had prospective sale for another at the same price. MT. Read however. is only one-half the firm on the Forest Bell farm, the better half being Mrs. Read. who is a breeder of Rhode Island Red chick ems. She recently received a fine rooster to head her flock of high bred outlets.
 ]. B. Dyess, who with his family came to Mena recently from Grand Saline, Tex. is soon to get possession of the j. B. Isavinder farm bought on a recent trip to Polk county Mir. Dyess reports that he will start out this season by putting out strawberries and blackberries, and then he will make sweet potatoes the principal truck crop.
 F F. Princehouse, who moved to a farm near Gillham this week after sell ing his Mena suburban home, spent some time at Commercial Club head quarters Monday studying bulletins and getting pointers on strawberry blackberry and cherry culture, stating that he planned to put out consider able acreage to these fruits ad to that end would keep in touch with the de- velopmet on the Mena Berry Cherry farm.
 I. l.. Hagan, one of the heaviest stockholders and chief promoters of the Mena Berry-Cherry Farm is back ing up his faith in the movement as a good business proposition by buying a farm of his own which he eventually will also develop into a Berry Cherry ! Harm Mir. Hagan recently bought Hill crest. the lQ-aere farm located on the western limits of the city and former 1 ly owned by Will & MacLafferty He plans to plant all of the tillable ground to sweet potatoes this coming season, and then in the summer and fall he will work out his plan to set out cher ry trees and start the berry patch In course of time, Mir. and Mrs. Hagan tplan to give up the grocery business and make their home at Hillerest
 NIr ad Mrs. w. l.. Leaman of Eagle
 ton. while in Mena Friday to have cot ton ginned and to do trading, called al
 Commercial Club headquarters to re bort that they had 250 pounds of fine sun dried apples to sell for which they asked the secretary to help them find Ia market E. R. Sommerville of Two ] Mile is another farmer who has enlist. led the aid of the Club in helping him
 find market for 90 bushels of pea.
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