The Mena weekly star., 1921-04-28
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 CLUB PICKUPS 5

v At club headquarters one day las week to get information about tn cannery project worked up during tn' last few weeks. Even tho living ou some distance, he is planning to groV tomatoes for market, hoping to D' able to furnish some for the canner, also. MT. Lawrence and family eam' from Texas, where they had raise' annually from 60 to 75 acres of cot ton. and while he has not promised himself to get entirely away from cot ton. he has set his stakes to grow tirs his own living, and feed sufficient t' handle from the three to four cows his work stock and his hogs ant chickens.
 Edward Benson, here from Tulare Calf, for the last several weeks or prospecting trip, has not been dis couraged by the recent frost ant freezes, for he has been up against those same conditions in the citrous growing sections of California. He has found, too, that the citrous grow CTS and prune growers, even tho unit ed in the best marketing organization vet worked out in this county, are confronted with as serious marketing problems as are the producers Tn tnls section of the ountry. As an lllus- tration .he points out that the lemon growers of Italy can place their pro duct on the New York market Tor less than can the lemon growers or Caii- fornia. Mir Benson is locking for location near Mena where he can en- gage in the dairy and poultry busi- ness.
 Orlando J. Smith, ex-service man, who had been taking vocational train ing in poultry husbandry at the Mag nolia Agricultural school, arrived Tn Mena last week, to start his poultry farm. He has bought four-acre tract in the western part of the city, on the Taiihina road, and here he plans to develop a modern poultry farm. He is making start this spring with 1855 White Leghorn and 35 Rhode Island Red chicks, having secured them from Professor Austin's flock at Magnolia. While doing the practi- cal work with his own flock, MT. Smith will still be given placement training" probably at the Golden Rule farm, but under the direction of the Federal board of Vocational train ing.
 A. P. Cantrell, secretary of the DeQueen Chamber of Commerce, has sent to the Mena office some advertis- ing matter for the Traffic Opening Celebration to bs held at DeQueen at some date to be announced later when traffic will be opened from Dierks, Ark, to Valiant, Ok.
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 The club has received an appeal for aid for the people of the Tornado swept area about Blevins, Ark, the appeal being sent out by committee headed by P. c. Stephens, president of the Bank of Blevins. The track of the tornado as about mile wide and sixty miles long, passing thru the territory about mile east of Blevins. Blevins is caring for about ten miles of this devastated territory.
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 Working on the theory that dairy ing, poultry raising, trucking and small fruit growing are lines for which this section is best adapted, and believing the permanent prosperity will come with the development of these industries, J. F. Averitt and others are seeking to interest certain communities in the introduction of dairy cows. The plan is to secure good grade cows of some of the lead ing dairy breeds, preferably the Jer- sey, and then buy a few thorobred sires, selling the stock to the prospec- tive dairymen on condition that pay ment may be made monthly from the proceeds of the sale of the dairy pro- duets.
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 Forest Rangers Payne and Cox have completed the survey of line for the mountain trail to the Peak north of the city, and as soon as the men can be released from the forest service work will be begun on cutting out the trail and in doing the grading. Early m July the forest rangers expect to be visited by representative from the department at Washington. and at that time it is expected plans will be approved for a lookout tower on the Peak.
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 J. F. Hood has what he considers one of the best dairy cows in Mena, She is heifer, twenty months old on April 9. Her dam was a registered Jersey formerly owned by MT. Hood and her sire is the Pedigreed Holstein owned by J. H. Cox. The young ami maj has the form and build of her dam and the markings of her sire, She brought calf a short time ago, and now, Mir Hood says, is producing four gallons of milk daily. Four to six cows of this type on the average farm would mean a good sized cream check every month.
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 H. Wehner, living near Rocky. one Of the best informed and most sue cessful sweet potato growers in the county, is doing his share toward the development of the industry in Polk county He has sold upwards Inf bushels of seed this spring to his neighbors, has bedded out IS bushels and expects to plant at least three acres, distributing the rest of his slips among his neighbors and others who desire them. Mir. Wehner has a curing house of his own, which has been successfully operated for several years. - POETS ADVICE ON coon pnAnc