The Mena weekly star., 1922-01-05
COMMERCIAL
 CLUB PICKUPS s
Rv F. .. SMITH.


 poultry specialist. viii be in Mem
 January 12 and 13 to assist members
 of the Polk County Poultry Associa tion in making matings for the breed l ing season. More than a dozen breed CTS have already requested the serv-
 ices of Mir. Lansden for this purpose
 and it is likely that at the regular
 meeting of the association to be hele
 at Commercial Club office on the af- 1 ternoon of January 10 there will bs
 still others who will request his serv' ices. An effort is now being made te get Mir. Lansden to remain over un' | til Saturday afternoon, January IA since the dairy meeting to be held a1 the Lyric on the afternoon of the lztf
 will interfere somewhat with the
 work of culling poultry focks.
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 Thru cooperation with Congress
 man Wingo, the Commercial Club has filed another requisition for fish to be
 used in stocking Irons Fork, the Qua chita and Mountain Fork rivers. The requisition has been made for black bass, which the commissioner Of the | bureau of fisheries has decided Is the
 best species for the Polk county
 streams. The distribution will likely
 be made some time next May If at
 that time there is sufficient stock
 available at the government hatchery
 at Neosho, Mo. The commissioner in
 honoring the requisition says: Only
 a sufficient number of fish of one spe- cies to serve as brood stock can be furnished during one year, and 1t IS expected they will be properly pro-
 tected until they are old enough to reproduce.D
 The manufacture of syrup is one of the new uses to which the southern sweet potato is to be put. Samples of home made sweet potato syrup have been on exhibition at the Com- mercial Club office for about two years, and for about. that length of time Dr. H. c. Gore, head of the lab- oratory of fruit and vegetable utlll- zation, bureau of chemistry, U: 5. De- partment of Agriculture, has been at work developing process thru which this product can be manufactured on a commercial and economical scale. Dean Bradford Knapp, of the College of Agriculture, University of Arkan- sas, recently in writing to the secre- tary on the project of making sweet potato syrup, said: Regarding the syrup from sweet potatoes would say that I have had samples for more than two years past. The men in the department who undertook this work in the beginning were friends of mine and they keep me posted on the progress. They are refining the from time to time, and now are able to produce very clear and very fine quality of syrup"
 H. E. Dvorachek, head of the de- partment of animal husbandry and dairying at the College of Agriculture at Fayetteville, in a letter to J. F. Callahan under date of December 29, writes that he will be in Mena on January 12, to help in the dairy cam paign. Mir. Dvorachek, will be ac- companied by MT. Stallard, of Wis consin, the Gurnsey fieldman. who will be in Arkansas for week com January 10. Mir. Stallard has two reels devoted to the dairy in- iustry which will be shown as part of the educational campaign in the Mena trade territory. The Commer- rial Club will cooperate with the ex- tension forces to make the arrange ments for the meeting which will be held on Thursday afternoon, January l2, at 1:30 o'clock at the Lyric. Man ager Mccall has not only proffered he use of the hall but has consented o look after the mechanical part of the reels. Business men in- crested in the development. of the country should plan not only to at ,end this meeting, but it would be a ane thing also if every merchant would personally invite some farmer to come in on that day. The meeting will be over in time so that everyone can return home in the evening.