The Mena weekly star., 1921-02-03
RAISING FOOD FOOD AND
 FED IS RALLY CRY
F Newsom, Agriculturist for the < ausas City Southern, Made Key note Speech" in Mena Tuesday
 Urges Cow, Hen and Porker.

Raising food for ourselves and feed 4or our stock was the keynote of the &daress delivered Tuesday afternoon 4v ! F. Newsom, agriculturist of the Kansas City Southern railway at the $ally held at the courthouse. MT. kewsom came fresh from a conference Recently held by the leaders of agri- Eultural extension work of the state of A rkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Louis- 3hna. Likewise he had early last &uonths attended meeting of the ag- +icultural forces of this state in a Eouference called by Dr. Bradford Knapp. dean of the Arkansas school zf agriculture at Fayetteville. He has Extended other conferences of agri- #lltural workers, and the message of &afe farming which he brought to RoIk county Tuesday was the sub- #tance of the conclusions reached at &.ese meetings.
 * In this discussion of the underlying Principles of safe farming Mir. New <om strenuously made the point that <he future held out no immediate hope /hat the farmers in any section were <ure of living if they relied upon a Bash crop in 1921. Discussing more Particularly the conditions prevailing z the cotton growing secton of the <ountry, he pointed out that the hold Ever crop of 1920 was of such magni- Rude that even if the acreage of 1921 ere to be reduced 25 per cent there &ould be no assurance that growing zbttoa would afford living. Speaking Specifically about Arkansas, he stated ||hat prosper as much as we may in b2l, fundamentally such prosperity Eill come in raising a living on the Rrm plus some cash crop. Yet, he bid out no assurance that there would market for the cash crop what Yer it might be owing to the break Down of the markets of the world and ke restricted buying capacity of con- Miners. Bearing out the statements B Mir. Newsom the most recent issue i the Market Reporter published by De United States Department of Ag-
 culture states that domestic con- Imption of cotton has decreased 25 er cent and that exports have gone bwn 21 per cent.
 In this process of re-adjustment, Ir. Newsom stated efforts are now be- Ig made to solve the marketing prob- km of the farmer along the lines
 Iopted by the eitrous growers of the acific coast, such movement being bw on foot among the cotton grow
 s of Oklahoma and would be in Ar Bnsas. The same effort, he said,
 Ould be made among the sweetpotato
 uwers, the apple and the tomato kowers of this state.
 Pressed for a specific line to be fol- $wed in Polk county in the program # safe farming, he recommended the eiry COW, the hen and the porker, Suggesting as he did so that the com
 unity that had shipped in 300 car
 ads of feed during the last year as bd Mena very evidently needed to 3ok after the solution of the feed
 oblem.
 l c. W. Broyles, county agent, and
 rs. M. Austin, home demonstration kent addressed the gathering, as
 Bring those assembled that they
 
 ere in Polk county to be of service kd that the amount of service they puld be able to render would be de-
 ndent largely on the farmers who
 sired and needed the services of the
 Tension department or thcu them
 e services of the United States de-
 rtment of Agriculture. F. J. Grein-
 w. K. Shinn. A. F.. Wear, A. k. Mhitstrock, w. E. Flick and W. c. B.
 Fen were among those to take part
 the discussion following the talks
 the extension workers
 The meeting was attended by ap-
 oximately 100 farmers, representing
 ery section in the community tri-- Rtary to Mena, but the attendance of
 siness men was light. The com
 ittee from the State Bankers As Zeiation for some reason failed to
 i've representative at the meeting
 had been announced they would
 i've.