The Mena weekly star., 1922-01-05
FARM NOTES
By JAMES A. sLoTE.

The fire bug is busy. This time il is the Stockton house and outbuild- Hings east of town. i This long-contin- ned form, of lawlessness is 2 reproach to the. citizens as we'll as our officers, and this week alone it cost us two winter and one summer residents, who were afraid to build for this req son as their houses would be vacant several months each year.
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 Frank Rork sold L. W. Hall large turkey recently for 25 cents per pound. With the proceeds Rork bought at the Latch sale n nice heifer coming fresh in the spring, and had little change to jingle besides.
 The cyclone in the south part of the county blew everything off some of the farms but the mortgage.
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 Butter, eggs, poultry, cream, a ready market and present money val ue considered as good or better than war time prices. Were you one of the fortunate ones who took The Stars advice year ago and prepared to get your share of these profits?
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 If present plans carry, Hatfield will soon have a sweet potato curing and warehouse.
 Prof. Middleton is building a strict ly modern bungalow on 20 acres re- gently purchased from Luther Cum mings, this being part of the Vaught place.
 Local Markets--Butter, 35c; eggs, BOG; butter fat, 35c; dressed hogs, 6h to Sc; hay, soc; chops, $1.40; corn, 50c; spuds, $2.
 Some time ago we received an g. page letter from National Forest official protesting our attacks in The Star on the present system of rules and management. This week a circu- lar letter comes from Clifford Pinchot asking support of the present man. agement. A letter also from the state experiment station of California, at Berkely, asking for plum trees as buds that were discovered or origin ted by local grower, and was prob- ably suggested to them by the horti- Guibult QCVdI IttnSub at w III. Outsiders are taking considerable in- terest in some recently discov- cred by l.. w. Daugherty. Keep your eye on Polk county.
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 At Christmas time many had roses in bloom in somewhat sheltered places. Ed Muldrow picked hat full of Red June apples from his tree. Frank Rork had nice green onions from fall planting sets. Also rad ishes, mustard and turnips from his garden. Mir. Floyd has an apple tree in full leaf. Several here had new potatoes, however, the freeze had killed the tops. Nearly every farm has hen. or two with flock of baby chickens. An unusual season, truly.
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 The high cost of packagesl Had you thought of it? The next time you step in grocery store, notice the packages, the beautiful Autographs and the printing. You pay for this, also the cost of putting these pro- ducts in the packages. Some, of course are necessary. Others if it could they had in bulk would be much cheaper. For instance, notice oat- meal, the flake, also the steel cut Some institutions are now being sup piled at BIZ and 4 cents per pound Now add your dealers reasonable anC necessary profit to your next package and you will arrive pretty close tc the cost of packing and container, ol molasses. Instead of taking your jug or pail and having 1t drawn from . barrel, you buy gallon bucket of it and the pail costing 15 cents is usu- ally thrown away. And vinegar, if you buy a quart you give or cents for the bottle and throw that away, or perhaps hire them carted away. Bottles are heavy and freight is high. And lard buckets, dried fruit pack ages, and, we'll, we could go on in- definitely. Careful buyers, here is an economy, for the coming year. Let's go.