The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-02-10
MASON FARMERS TO
PLANT POTATOES
COMMITTEE TO REPORT THE
NUMBER ACRES SECURED
ClOptOn Organization to Meet to
Complete Plans-Meeting at GAR
land Friday-Price on Strawberry
Plants, S2.5O--ArticIes on Straw
berries to Appear in The Leader.

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Plants, S2.50-ArticIes on Straw
berries to Appear in The Leader.
At meeting of farmers at Mason
Friday, a committee composed of
Messrs. Gus Somervill and F. B. Will
hanson was appointed to get the
exact acreage to be planted to sweet
potatoes and for the erection of
suitable curing houses. This com
mittee is at work and will report in
few days the exact acreage Sc
cured. Good results are expected
from the start made at Mason.
A meeting of the Clopton Co oper-
alive Farmers Club will be held on
Thursday afternoon for the purpose
Of completing plans started at a
meeting held some weeks ago. At
this meeting the committee appointed
for the purpose Of ascertaining the
acreage to be planted to sweet pota-
toes will report, as win the dairy
committee on the number of mem
bers who will start shipping cream
comparatively and the number Of
cows to be used. This live commun-
ity is setting an example that will
be of great benefit to Upton county,
and every community in the county
will do well to watch the progress Of
this farmers club that is getting re-
suits.
The Upton County Council of Ag-
riculture, which is organized on the
same plan and in the same way as
the farm bureaus of the Northern
States, is beginning to get results
and other farmers clubs will be
organized in the near future. The
cooperative marketing Of the farm
ers' products is the salvation of the
farmer and only through these farm
ers' clubs can this be ACCOMPLISHED
in the right way, as these clubs are
"of the farmer, by the farmer and
for the farmer"
With the weather permitting, a
meeting will be held at Garland on
Friday, February II, at 2:30 D. m.
Mr.. J. M. Polk, secretary of the
Upton County Berry Growers AS
ISOLATION, has on hand sample ship
ment of plants that are excellent, all
young stock. tied in bundles of from
Is to 100, this being optional with
the grower, packed either in baskets,
1000 to the basket. or in crates of
larger capacity. These plants aru
properly packed to hold moisture
and can be furnished to the growers
at $3.50 per 1000, verv low price.
This price is at the delivery point
here with all express charges paid.
All growers desiring plants will do
well to give their names to Mr.. Polk.
On page two of this issue of the
Leader an article on the growing
of strawberries will be found. This
article was written by an expert
enced, successful strawberry grower,
and other articles will appear weekly
for about nine weeks. The Leader
has made special efforts to obtain
these articles and they have been
prepared especially for its columns,
and are written to cover the con-
ditions and matters that will present
themselves to the growers in this
section. If you are now growing
berries, or expect to plant even a
small acreage to this crop, it will
be well worth your while to read
this entire series Of articles. The
Leader believes that there is a great
future for the strawberry crop in this
county and is anxious to do all it
can to encourage the planting of this
crop. Just an acre or two on every
farm in the county will mean a great
deal toward it's welfare.
A great amount Of interest is be-
ing manifested in the Atoka vicinity
in the wrapped tomato business and
a tomato association is to be formed
at that place at an early date. In
dieations are that there viii be a
large acreage planted to this crop
this year.