The spectator., 1921-02-22
Pay With Poultry

Pay for the things you have 1 to buy at the stores in 1921 with poultry and eggs. This year
 go on cash basis. Thousands
 of mothers and daughters work
 ed hard all last summer and fall
 ill the cotton fields, and the cot
 ton will net pay what the fam,
 flies owe the storecs. If each
 of the women knd girls who
 worked so hard in the cotton fields had two dozen young hens
 last spring, had taken good care
 of them and of the chicks they
 matched, the work would not
 have been so hard as the field
 labor. Groceries. shoes, and
 clothing would have been paid
 for yin cash, and New Years
 Day the families would not have been owing the store one dollar
 for anything used in the homes.
 DO TT THIS YEAR.
 The farmers wives and dau- 1 ghters in Missouri get an aver
 age of $300,000,00 every day in
 the year, except Sunday. for
 poultry and eggs more one
 hundred million dollars I year, $500.00 a year for every farm family in the state. Think of
 the comfort and freedom from
 worry and debts the families on
 the farms of Arkansas would l now have if the women aad girls on them had done with poultry
 what those on Missouri farms did. instead of working in the cotton fields. Tie sale of poul- 1920 averaged less than $25.eo q farm family.
 X cotton grower in Southeast ] Missouri did not pay expenses with cotton. but made $2,00S.00 clear profit from 400 carefully selected laying hens last year. Every merchant and banker in Arkansas should be anxious to give every woman and girl l2 years of age or older. in fanH- lies who do business with then, credit to buy 24 laying young hens and bullets, and to help new poultry raisers get the in formation they need from eX- perts. The men in every farm family owe it to their women folks to build cheap good shelter
 fer the poultry GOODS for the hen with chicks
 Twenty-four laying young hens and bullets will furnish all the eggs an ordinary Iamily will eat land eggs co sell. Each hen should be set three timea. Set two hens at q time. When Droods under one hen and get the other to laying quickly tn this way 30 chicks ca nbe raised to marketing size from each hen. 1 Let the family eat all ,i4@v Wan' it will save meat bi!'s; and there ! will be 800 to 300 chicks to sell |
 Each beginner should learn | how to select hens that will pay. 1 Learn how to keep lice and mites away. Learn what t0I buy to go with homegrown 1 feed to produce eggs cheaper. Learn how to take care of set ting hens. Learn how to take ! care of and feed a hen and her chicks. Learn how to mar tet poultry and eggs to get the highest prices. II. B. Lansden, poultry man. State Extension Department. Southern Trust Building. Little Rock, can tell you all these things. HeI knows. Get up big meeting in your county; get every family in the county to come to it. and get Lansden to show beginners how to make money from pOu.- try.
 It is the moral obligation ci every storekeeper in Arkansas who sells to farmers to buy the'rl eggs and poultry at q fair price. Merchants within 100 miles oi Little Rock have paid farm Wo' men 10 cents a dozen for eggs when they were worth whole sale 40 cents at Little Rock. and it costs less than four cents al dozen to ship them. Such a practice on the part of mec-l chant is as bad as highway rOb-1 bery. Merchants, give the Wo