The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1921-01-06
COMMERCIAL
CLUB
PICKUPS
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IhS DCob iIHcu poultry DTceuefS III
Polk county, has two pens of hi.
fowls in egg laying contests this year
one at Fayetteville and the other al
College Station, Tex. His pen o,
Anconas in the Arkansas test tied fol
first place in November with a per
of White Wyandottes and a pen Of
Rhode Island Reds, making a better
showing than the two competitors
however, on account of the heavier
weight of the eggs. In the Texas
contest his pen of White Leghorns
were seventh in a total of 102 pens
in the contest, the six pens excellinp
his being also White Leghorns. Mr.
Mullins is now anxiously awaiting
the reports for December. Doctor
Mullins used to pay more attention
to breeding show birds, but of late
years his attention has been directed
more particularly to breeding for
utility
j. p. Callahan has begun the foun-
dation for a Guernsey herd He has
owned registered male for some
time, and last week shipped in reg
istered heifer which will freshen in
April. The heifer is a granddaughter
of Mary Bell, formerly owned by F. j.
Grelner, who in an eight months test
made record of $500 pounds of
milk containing per cent butter fat.
The ancestry also traces back to Gov
ernor of the Chene," a noted male of
the Guernsey breed and to starlight
Excelsior" of Hoards' Dairy Farmer
herd. Still another of her ancestors
is Con-" famous Guernsey cow now
owned by Kansas University. The
male owned by Mr.. Callahan is car
mored Billie" whose breeding runs
back to three of the most famous
families of the Guernseys.
w A. j. Smith, J f. Williams and
Abner Barker are among the town
farmers that have reached a decision
as to what they are going to grow
next spring for the chief money CROP,
having selected the Irish Cobbler po-
tato as their leader, and having decid-
ed to plant at least five acres to the
! tubers- There will doubtless be 9TH
ers in that neighborhood to fall in
line with them, SO it win be safe TO
predict that a carload of marketable
Irish Cobbler potatoes will be grown
next season in the northwest part of
the city.
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There never was a time in the his
tory of Polk county when farmers
were casting about more earnestly for
some profitable crop to grow in place
of cotton. The matter has been M
for discussion in the Glover Leaf Com
niunity Club, in the Dallas Cor,mun-
ity Club and elsewhere, but as yet no
definite conclusion has been reached
When the new farm demonstration ar
rlves. he will find the folks of these
communities ready to respond to lead
ership in working out a program for
unified farm activity. The opportun-
lty for service on the part of live
torward-visioned demonstration agent
was never better.
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Copy went out from Commercial
Club headquarters last week for d.
rectory of Polk county breeders of
purebred livestock and poultry which
will be given place in Opportunity"
the agricultural and industrial bulle-
tin published by the Kansas City
Southern railway. The directory,
while necessarily incomplete, having
been made by the secretary from
memory except for the assistance Sc
cured from J. c. Allen of the Bank
Of Cove and from w. T. Myers of
Hatfield. contains the names of thirty
individuals. and contains among
breeds of cattle the following: Short
horn. Hereford, Polled Angus. Polled
Durham. Guernsey, Jersey and Hol
stein. Breeds of hogs represented in
the directory and Poland China. o. ].
G., Spotted Poland China and Hamp
shire. White Wyandottes, Barred.
White and Buff Rocks. White and
Brown Leghorns, Ancona, Rhode Is
land Reds. Langshans, Silver Span
gled Hamburgs are among the stan
dard breeds of poultry represented.
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James McCaghren. living out near
Nunley is one of Polk county farmers
who has worked out cropping plan
for next season. His past experience
has been in truck growing. and that is
the line he is going to follow. Among
the things that he plans to raise on
"a commercial scale are potatoes.
sweet potatoes, radishes, cantaloupes
watermelons. cucumbers, onions and
cabbage, having already placed an
order for 5000 cabbage plants. and
having made his order for the seeds
Tor the other crops Among the truck
crops with which he is going to ex- I
pertinent are caulif'ower, celery, salsi- (
fy and egg plant He will also grow
stock beets, Belgian carrots for stock
feed, and then some lettuce, tomatoes
turnips, mustard, beets and other gar
den truck for home use. For fertiI-
ger he will use chiefly barn ward
manure, having hauled out some from
Mena, and secured some from a tenant
neighbour, tho he is also gathering in
formation about the efficacy of acid
phosphate and cotton seed meal as
truck fertilizers. While he is making
his cropping plans he is reading trade
journals to get posted on picking.
packing and marketing.
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X. l.. Mullen and son, Carol. were
IN hena Tuesday to investigate condi-
tons with view to locating, They
recently came from Braunfield. Tex.
to Vandervoort, but have not vet de-
clded to locate in that community.
They. are particularly interested In
Locating where some progress has
been made in fruit and truck GROWING
and where the chances are good for
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