The Mena weekly star., 1921-04-14
FARM NOTES R,y Jar,aE A Clofo
By James A. SIote.

Quotations on bushel baskets seem to be some less since the freeze. :: :: ::
 Hogs, cattle, tie and lumber ship ments made Hatfield busy loading point the past week.
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 The Pines Plantation canned as- paragus the past week. also small special order of strawberries.
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 Quotations on July wheat is 1.06ls but the freight on car of flour to this point is from about $200 to over $500.
 Mir. Keith while in town Saturday i was getting lined up on berry packages to ship his Dallas and Me Donald blackberries which he reports | in splendid shape. Fred Yeakey also reports his blackberries in good con- dition.
 Some of the Hatfield Fruit and Truck Growers are shipping in their basket filters and containers, and have a local party make the crate or carriers at saving nearly one half. A hint that might be useful to others.
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 Don't get careless, last year was a fat one, who knows but this may be lean one. Look out for your food and feed supply; dry, can, salt and cure, at least enough for your own use as it comes in season. What you consume of your products has always the same value, it is your surplus that varies in price.
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 Frank F. Rork whose knowledge and Judgment Is unusually good on garden and trcuk growing, saved his green bean crop during the recent | freeze by turning a light covering of earth over them. These are now set | ting for bloom, and the earliness~ will pay well for the extra work to save | them.
 Packers cans are the same to two dollars higher than last year, freight is considerably higher, No. 3 (quart cans) in 5000 lots, cost nearly 5h cents each laid down here, shipping cases 24 quart size, 25 cents, fables, $2.50 per 1000, solder 40 cents per pound. Owing to the freeze and so many canneries suspending operation, for this year, we are hoping for . drop in prices.
 Without permit in this state a nurseryman cannot offer expert ad- vice on planting and caring for trees and plants as part of the sale price. l This should also extend to seedmen and sellers of vegetable plants on
 whose advice planters often lose the profits of their entire crop. Some
 growers right here in Polk county are now planting varieties of truck for early, that have the same chance of winning as draft horse has in a mile race with thorobred However. the planter is also partly to blame as the county and state have men here
 who make a study of this and would
 be glad to advise you regarding var | iety to plant for your purpose. He knows soil climate and market con- ditions better than distant seed deal CTS. | l.. K. Collins of Siloam Springs was here recently organizing a civic or | taxpayers league local The plan in
 brief is for township locals to have a
 secretary at the county seat and the counties of the state to maintain a state secretary at Little Rock to look after the interests of taxpayers and
 especially to notify them of any spec | iai legislation effecting their inter
 ests. Locally the object is to equalize assessments, work for honest govern ment and try for full value of all ex- penditures. This league is the out
 growth of the road situation the north counties of the state. some of which we are told, were assessed for six roads. some created by special acts. We understand it was the facts and | figures as presented by this league that caused the eruption of Governor McRae regarding the road laws of this state. Those building the Jeffer- son highway in Polk county have req
 sons to be thankful there is req
 sonable limit placed on their assess ment. !, The Quau1ne Thss Bees Net AEs<t ne naa1 B>c.use of its tonic and laxative effect. IAxA- ITVE f<u(Ix<0 JIiI<INE Tshlefsi cen Afs s~k>-