The Mena weekly star., 1921-07-21
HERS NEW PLAN
 FOR LOCAL FARMS
cerience al Home and Elsewhere Suggests to Good Citizen a Program-Wants Dairy
 Rally July 30.
'e Editor of The Star.

E good citizen is one who is will at all times to make some sacri- ] of his time, means and conven- ce to advance the common well ! and has such an abiding interest this that he is always watchful
 needs no urging to do his duty" Ion. Judson A. Harmon, Ohio.
 His quotation is my only apology fhis letter. My years of wander
 from the Atlantic coast to the I8ouri river, and from the Cana n border to the Rio Grande, has on me certain knowledge of con- |0ns outside of Polk county, and
 six years close observation of oatic conditions and possible pro- kion of Polk county soil leads me to conclusion:
 Ebe agricultural slogan for Polk uty should be: A cream check |Ey week for current expenses, and *rry, fruit or truck check once a |f for improvement and the pro- |bial rainy days" and a we'll im- Fed happy farm home with high &s stock to hand down to a proper Educated posterity. What better what else can we strive for? Can Afford to strive for anything less ? 1pr timber is practically gone. Our 1eral resources are out of farmers r The day when a man could "a a living hunting squirrels and Eng in Polk county is past. 1t is M to think of competing with the Iners on the broad expanses of 'irie land in raising grains, where man can blow and seed 160 acres 70 days; five men harvest and stack 6 four days and one machine thresh Fl one day; or where they cultivate 5r cotton and corn with a two-row <Ivator, and rows are Q mile or < long. Now, let me tell you a few IFS l know we can do. We can bur farm in condition to pasture Ee cattle per acre for more months Be year than they can. We can af- E our cows pure spring water to 1k and shade to protect them from E hot sun. We can house them in winter without expensive barns &rotect them from the severe cold. kcan avoid the danger of contagion, fuch diseases as tuberculosis by <needing to keep our cows in close, Xly ventilated barns for a long sea- each year. We can raise two or |>e crops of forage or hay per year, &re they can raise one, if the frost X not get it. While the flies are enough here, they have fly pests Inc North of which we know noth- here. l have milked in a smoke &dge many times in South Dakota,
 mo other man nor beast could be |Et ten seconds on account of mos |tpes.
 [he market value of our dairy pro- 4zs as they are today regardless of 1Iity is based on the value of poor Fer produced by poor methods as |ease' to be shipped away to be |Llovated," as no grocer could af- H to pay 40 cents to one farmer & 20 cents to another for butter, <her could he afford to pay 40 cents 70 product he could not dispose of
 more than 20 cents. The home |de butter is an article of wide di- Hence in quality. The only solu- : IS to market the cream, and the M interests themselves are asking
 laws prohibiting the sale of cream |It for producing good butter.
 There are different ways of mar 'ing cream. The most unsatisfac- 'x, l believe, is to sell to local buy 5 and paying him 3 cents per md, the usual commission, for Idling it. The best is a local Emery operated by local capital, t not a cooperation concern,-w hot ready for that here yet. l be- yS that the building of creamery Iexarkana is a certainty. One in M county would be better for us, { naturally we would like to see < in our own town, but if Hatfield Eome other town would make the |Et, they would get the cream from whole county with no fear of To- Competition for a long time at
 In conclusion I would suggest
 her Dairy Rally before the Hat Y fair, by farmers from all over the
 @ty with a basket dinner, ice
 n, etc, and then follow up with a
 Ial dairy COW day at the Hatfield
 Farmers, let us get together and
 ourselves and stay by others who
 willing to help us. :.
 ithout being presumptious, will
 lest that Saturday, July 30, be the
 Tor the all day rally, and my
 & and yard will be open for all
 come. A program will be out * by men who know by practical =rience whereof they speak.
 t July 30 be an epoch-marking
 for Polk county.
 J. P. Callahan,
 Twin Gates Farm JuIv 19.