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Early Breaking Good.
A good many farmers have
fceen breaking land during the
fgood weather of the last two
weeks. Early breaking is good.
Of course it is far better to
break the land in the fall, and
break it deep, but winter and
early spring breaking is next in
importance. Do not break as
deep in the spring as you would
in the fall, but be sure to break
the land as deep as it was broken
last year.
Set apart your oat patch and
prepare to sow early. Get the
ground in good condition. Re
member that an oat crop is not
cultivated, and good preparation
of the land before planting is es
sential to a good crop of oats.
Select your oat land with a view
to following with a crop of cow
peas. Thus you get two crops
from the same land in one sea
son, and you keep the land in
better condition. Buy your pea
seed early, because peas are
scarce and hard to get. The:
farmers should raise more cow
peas. They are easy to raise,
threshers and hullers are avail
able and do not cost much.
The price of cow peas is al
ways good. They are worth
$2.50 to $3.00 per bushel now.
And speaking of cow peas re
minds me that I have a letter
from a firm, in Baltimore want
ing the names of farmers who
grow cow peas and have them
onlo Sn there is a market, at
home and abroad for the eow
pea, and besides it is one of the
best soil builders we have in this
country outside of alfalfa.
I hope the farmers of Arkan
sas will plant more soy beans
this year. The soy bean is about
the best food obtainable for the
hog. They will yield abundantly
and will make hay as well as the
bean. The hay is good and the
bean is rich in protein. The soy
bean is equal to or better than
the cow pea in building up soil.
In planning your farm work
for this year, try to reduce your
cotton acreage. Better still if
you can avoid cotton altogether.
Give some thought and study of
your soil and the crops best
adapted to it. If you can grow
strawberries or truck, or small
fruits, give some attention to
those things. Maybe you can
grow crops that will be bringing
in some money all during the
year.
Then don’t forget the stock.
Keep one or more cows so you
will have all the milk and butter
the family will need. Keep a
few good brood sows on the
place. Look after the hen house.
Spend a few dollars for poultry
wire and fix up for the hens, so
the women and children will
have no trouble in providing
plenty of eggs and chickens for
the table. j
PInnf n arnnrl a-urrtHii mid lieln
your wife to work it. Grow
plenty of corn and hay to feed
all the stock all the year. Keep
"ome good pasture for the cat
tle and hogs, and have a small
pasture for the work stock to
run on at night.
Farm work carried out on this
plan does not require much mon
ey to run the farm, and is sure
to bring success, one year with
another.
John H. Page,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Governor Buys Home.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 24.—Govern
or Hays has bought the home
that was occupied for a short
time by Governor Joe T. Rob
inson at 19th and Marshall sts.,
and is moving in this week. He
has two sons, aged 9 and 17, and
the younger, and probably the
older, will be placed in the Lit
tle Rock public schools.
Clayton Hailey of McCrory
was here yesterday going to
Batesville.
———THm—HiBiniii irmly wwiibmmp—
COUNTY SYSTEM
OF HIGHWAYS
Proposed Through Special \et
Creating District of Count \
Excluding Glaize and
Harren Townships.
A system of modern, well
constructed and permanent ma
cadam highways for Jackson
County is to he outlined, togeth
er with estimate of cost, prepar
ed by the state engineer and sub
mitted to the voters of Jackson
county in the March primary.!
That such a system of public |
roads can In1 const meted through I
an improvement district , whose j
bond issue will not become or be
a burden upon the land holders
of this county is the statement '
ol If. R. Carter, stale highway
engineer, who spent Monday
here in conference with the ad-j
vocates ol such a system of
highways.
Mr. Carter is now engaged as
the engineer in charge of a num
ber of such improvement pro
jects over the state, where val
uations are much lower than in
Jackson county and where the
cost of macadam road construc
tion is much greater than here.
County Clerk George L. Rob
inson is now compiling the real
valuations of the county by
tnwnsVnn in malm- lli-it tin* nnn_
pie may be intelligently and ac
curately informed of what the
cost, will be, the size of the bond
issue required and what will be
the tax upon improved and un
improved lands of the country
within the proposed district,
which is to embrace all of -lack
son county except Claize and
Barren Townships.
The state supplies the ser
vices of engineers and with the
overhead expenses of organiza
tion and construction reduced to
a minimum, and the people of
the whole county directing the
district’s affairs thorugh a board
cf commissioners composed of
one member from each town
ship included, there could be no
charge of favoritism against
any one section of the county.
Mr. Carter has volunteered
his services in the coming cam
paign to accompany the county
candidates and lay the merits of
the project together with all
facts in which the people would
be interested, before the voters
that they may intelligently
pass upon the issue.
The advocates of a reasonable
system ofhighways areconlident
the people would endorse the
proposition and the next mem
ber of the legislature from this
county, would be expected to
carry out the will of the people
as expressed at the polls.
Great dissatisfaction exists in
every part of the county over
the past expenditure of the $20,
000 collected each year in the 3
mill road tax and the remedy
lies in an improvement district
and bond issue through which
an adequate system of real
roads, good fot* hauling and
travel day or night, 365 days in
the year can be constructed and
maintained at a tax that will be
found amazingly small consider
ing the benefits that will accrue.
| This project is not a vision
ary scheme, but a practical and
needed improvement, one the
times, amount of travel and
richness of the county demand.
Such a system means a saving
not an expense. The money will
be well spent under a body of
men, to which each township
will contribute one of its best
citizens. Through a system of
roads instead of individual road
improvement districts, there
will be an estimated saving of
15 per cent.
The Iron Mountain railroad
has an assessed valuation of one
and a quarter million dollars in
Jackson county, and yet Mr.
Carter assures the advocates of
the proposed road system that
the railroad companies are not
only willing to stand their share
of the tax but to haul the rock
at about half of the tariff rate.
Why do they do this? Because
they have found that roads de
velop a country, increase its
productive capacity and thus
furnish more outgoing freight
and consume more incoming
freight.
Kvery farmer, every land
owner, every merchant, business
and professional man ought to
be and is interested for the
same reason. The mud tax is
the biggest tax Jackson County
is paying today and we are all
paying it. The man. who never
travels a mile over the country
roads is paying it, just the same
as the farmer, who lives at the
(•tiler end and uses two teams
and two drivers, where only one
should be necessary, who short
cuts the life of his stock many
years and reduces the life of his
wagon, buggy and harness the
same way.
If we would only stop to figure
how the earning capacity of ev
ery man in the county is lessen
ed by reason of roads impass
able or almost, a portion of the
year and none too good the re
mainder, then the people would
insist upon a change of methods
and expenditures. Such a plan
will be submitted for their ap
proval. To be made effective, it
must have their endorsement.
Let us all awake to the pres
ent opportunity and lend the
project our active and loyal sup
port. Let us acquire for this
generation and ourselves what
the county can well afford. Let’s
pay a reasonable road tax rath
er than an excessive, grinding
mud tax.
Is The Work Worth While.
The question has been asked
me if the work of the Corn, Cot
ton and Canning Clubs is really
worth while, and what there is
to it. A few figures will, I think,
show the merits of the work.
Approximately there are 2,475,
000 acres of corn in Arkansas
in 1913. The average yield per
acre of the state is about 20
bushels. The Corn Club boys
have made an average of 45
bushels per acre, a gain there
fore of 25 bushels per acre.
2,475,000 acres at a gain of
25 bushels per acre give a to
tal gain of 01,875,000 bushels of
corn, which at 70 cents per bush
el, and this is reasonably low,
would give an increase in dollars
and cents in the corn production
in Arkansas for 1913, of $43,
312,500.00, had every acre of
corn in Arkansas been worked
There have been approximate
ly 2,400,000 acres of cotton
grown in Arkansas, in 1913.
The average yield per acre in
the state is about 570 pounds of
-~ .1 i a Lmro Vin VO
eraged 1081 pounds of seed cot
ton per acre. There has there
fore been a gain in round num
bers of 500 pounds per acre.
2,400,000 acres with a gain of
500 pounds per acre, would give
a total gain of lint cotton of
of400,000,000 pounds, which at
10 cents per pound, and this is
reasonably low, would give a
gain in dollars and cents of $40,
000,000, had every acre in cot
ton in Arkansas been grown un
demonstration club methods.
Arkansas therefore would have
been over $80,000,000 to the
good had every acre of corn and
cotton been grown under demon
stration club methods. I leave
it for the reader to say whether
the demonstration club work is
worth while.
N. J. Jernigan,
Assistantnt State Agent, in
Charge of Demonstration
Club Work.
Eugene Wallace came up from
Little Rock Sunday and is spend
ing a few days at home.
SENATOR T. J. RANEY
(Candidate For Railroad Commissioner.
Raney For j
R. R. Commissioner
Senator Raney of Newark An |
nounces His Candidacy For
Railroad ( onimissioner.
Senator T. J. Raney of Newark
Independence county, candidate
for railroad commissioner, to
succeed Major George Bellamy,
has authorized the Independent
to make the announcement of
his candidacy.
He is well known, both person
ally and by reputation, to a large
number of people in this coun
ty- His record in the senate for
four years was the best, being
always in the side of the people
for the moral interest of the
state. He was especially active
in behalf of the appropriation
for the Slate Agricultural
School and was a friend to the
scnooi m me senate.
Mr. Raney is a native of Inde
pendence county, and one of the
most popular men in the coun
ty. He is a young man, being
only 37 years of age, but he has
been honored by his people more
than once. He represented In
dependence county in the Lower
House of the general assembly
in the session of 1905. The re
cords show that he never missed
a day during that entire session
and his devotion to duty was not
only shown by that, but the fact
that he was the loyal champion
of every bill that was favored by
the moral element of the state.
After his most efficient serv
ice as a member of the House
Mr. Raney was elected to the
Senate from the sixth district,
and served two sessions as sen
ator. His work in that branch
of the legislature is too recent
to have been forgotten. During
his term he was the foe to every
scheme and trick that was sug
gested to thwart the interests
of the people of the state
Fought by an ('lenient that tie
mantled pledges that Mr. Itaney
declined to make, lie was de
feated by a narrow margin for
president of the senate.
Rut his loss as president made
him at once a Moor leader in the
senate, and lie was a man to be
reckoned with.
Mr. Raney enjoys the confi
dence of the public through the
entire district which he seeks
to serve. He is known to the
people of the entire district, hav
ing traveled over it. lor the last
ten years. No man is better
known than he in the district.
As an official, Mr. Raney has the
consciousness of always having
done his duty and his friends
know that lie has. He is a suc
cess in every business enterprise
he has ever undertaken, and he
wil be fair to the railroads and
true to the people, when he is
elected railroad commissioner.
Duty is always first and fore
most with him, and he does not
shirk it whether he has the com
mendation or the condemnation
of the crowd.
If elected railroad commission
er, Mr- Raney states that he will
represent the peopde, and
not the railroads. He will en
deavor to see that every conven
ience is had for the public and
will be for the interest of the
people. He has a record for
doing things and is the kind of
a man that will make a good rail
road commissioner, and will
be dominated by the best inter
ests of the public at all times.
Senator Raney has the en
dorsement of the religious press
of the state, all commending
him for his active work in be
half of morality while serving
as state senator and also com
mending his candidacy for rail
road commissioner. He is also
endorsed by the labor interests
of the state.
Call Meeting of The Democratic
Central Committee of Jack
son County, Ark.
On Saturday, February 7th,
at 2 o’clock, at the City Hall in
Newport, Arkansas, each com
mitteeman is requested to be
present at a meeting of the
Jackson County Central Com
mittee and furnish the names
of judges and clerks to be select
ed to serve in the Primary elec
tion to be held March 25th, 1914,
and to transact all other busi
ness that may legally come be
fore said committee.
Given under our hands on this,
the 23rd day of January, 1914.
W. N. Nance, Chairman,!
L. Mack, Secretary.
Democratic Central Committee.
Sutton-Iirandt Wedding.
Jonesboro, Jan. 24.—Mr. Ros
eoe Sutton of Crowder, Mo. and
Mrs. Eva II. Brandt of New Ma
drid, Mo., were quietly married
in the clerk’s office in Jonesboro,
Arkansas, Thursday, January
22, J914. Mr. Sutton was the
third son of Mr. O. T. Sutton and
was raised by an uncle, W. H.
Page of Crowder, Mo., and was
well liked by all who knew him.
Mr. Sutton is engaged in the
dredging business and is a splen
did young man.
His bride, an only daughter of
W. H. Jefferson of New Madrid,
County, Missouri, for a number
of years before his death, is a
fine young lady with many
friends who wish the young
couple a long life of happiness
and prosperity.