The Mena weekly star., 1921-08-11
Polk COuntp Agricultural
 Notes
By c. " BROYLES.
 Farm Demonstration

. When a commercial nrm Wisnes to secure special information relating 3 to it's business activities it will send . representative anywhere from Hali- fax to Timbuctu. Various firms in our own United States. who are interested in developing South American trade r are now not only sending young men
 to study trade conditions in that con-
 tinent but they are first sending these
 representatives 10 school, teaching . them Spanish and other related sub
 iects. SO that they may go better
 equipped for obtaining this desired information. Why do they do itg Rest assured it is from no philan- , thropic. altruistic or charitable mo- lives. There is only one simple and
 explicit reason: Because 1t pays m
 dollars and cents.
 1t is just as necessary for farmers
 to have at their command the vital
 information relating to the business
 of farming. A trip to the Annual Farmers Short Course at Fayetteville August I6 to l9 inclusive. is sound business investment, paying divl- dends, returnable in dollars and cents to any farmer. Here Arkansas farm CTS will have the opportunity of study 1 ing under field conditions the latest and most approved methods in pro- duction of all farm crops, but the one i thing which looms the biggest of all 1 is the opportunity of coming in per- sonal contact with the leaders of the great farm commodity marketing movements that are now sweeping the South. Our farmers must be in- formed about these movements. One of the wisest, most practical, and most profitable investments that commun- itv could make would be to send at least one good practical farmer to rep i resent it at this Short Course, paying his expenses if necessary.
 Remember railways are granting !, reduced rates of one and one-half fare for the round trip. The regular fare from Mena to Fayetteville is S5.S2 which would make the fare un- der the special rate $8.73. Meals will cost 35 cents each and no charge will be made for rooms or lodging. Our party will leave on No. 2 Monday morning, Auugst 15, which leaves Mena about o'clock, and will join the special train from Little Rock at Fort Smith about D. m. You will pay full fare going and ask your ticket agent to give you a certificate showing this fact. Upon representa- tion of this certificate at Fayetteville for the return trip you will be sold a return ticket for one-half fare. So turn Dobbin out to pasture for few days, take Kitty over to the neigh bor's, and ask them to feed the chickens while you and mother are away We will look for both of you aboard No. 2 Monday morning.
 Lime at Small Cost.
 The Weekly Star in one of the lat est issues carried the announcement that manufacturing firm in Joplin, Mo, has offered to give the county ag- ricultural agent carload of crushed limestone for demonstration purposes, provided our farmers would pay the freight. Upon investigation the county agricultural agent found that the regular rate on limestone from Joplin to Kansas City is S3.40 per ton. The matter of securing a special rate was presented to Mir. J. T. Newsom, agrieulturalist of the Kansas City Southern railway. As result of these negotiations the following let ter from Mir. Newsom has just reached the county agents desk:
 "I am this morning in receipt of a letter from Mir. J. F. Holden, vice 1 president in charge of traffic, from which l quote as follows:
 'Replyink to your letter of Aug ust 2nd, and returning letter from ! Mir. C. W. Broyles, county agricultural agent of Polk county, Arkansas, this ] would be willing to accord rate on the car of crushed . limestone from Joplin to Mena If this is satisfactory to Mir. Brovles, please advise, and we will arrange for the one-half rate
 'I am very glad to be able to se- cure this one-half rate for your peo- pie and feel sure that a judicious use of lime on most of the soils of Polk county will show results so gratify- . ing that others will be induced to make use of it. Please advise whether or not this arrangement is satisfae- tory, and l will be glad to cooperate with you in any way desired to see that the demonstration is a real one
 Yours very truly,
 J. F. Newsom,
 Agriculturist.
 This will make the limestone cost the farmers $l,T0 per ton delivered at Mena All farmers desiring to se- cure limestone from this car are re- quested to submit their list to the county agricultural agent immediately and arrange the details with him. The farmers of the county surely will not let such splendid opportunity pass.
 The eyes of all Arkansas farmers will be turned this week towards Lit tie Rock where delegates from all the various county farm bureaus turnout the state will meet for the purpose of eifecting the permanent organization of the Arkansas Farm Bureau Feder- ation, on August 9 and 10. Gov. T. c. Mckae, Dean Bradford Knapp of the Arkansas College of Agriculture, and Secretary J. W. Coverdale of the American Farm Bureau Federation will address the meeting. The Polk County Farm Bureau will be repre- sented by Mir. A. E. Wear, who left Tuesday to attend this meeting. |
 
 One of the things really needed bv Polk county farmers is a strain of seed | corn adapted to local soil and climatic | conditions. Local coalitions under which corn is grown influences the | weld more than perhaps any other one |