A CLEAN ARMY.
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Two news items, one from France
and one from Chicago, which were
published in the Gazette of yester
day morning, should give greater sat
isfaction to parents and wives
throughout the country than news of
a wonderful victory over the enemy.
_ The news from France told of reports
to our government issued by army
chaplains of both the protestant and
the Catholic faiths telling of the ex
cellent moral conditions among our
men over there. “The military au
thorities are vigilant in removing
temptation,” the report says, ‘"‘and
the result is thus far, we have a
clean army.”
The other news item gave a state
lment from Dr. S. B. Hingeley, cor
responding secretary of the Board of
Conferences of the Methodist Episco
pal church, who has just visited nine
training camps, containing approxi
mately 150,000 men. He said “Any
report which seeks to make our army
at home or abroad a drunken army is
viciously false.”
Many of the army camps in this
country are located in prohibition
territory and those that are not are
protected by special regulations. Not
only is liquor kept away from the
soldiers, but special, care is taken
with the general health of the men
and special efforts are made by care
fully selected agents of the govern
ment to prevent the presence of im
moral women in the vicinity of the
cantonments.
War is a terrible thing, but many a
boy now in the American army will
leave the service better mentally,
morally and physically. — Arkansas
Gazette.
| JONESBORO LADY HOLDS
RECORD FOR KNITTING
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I It is thought that Mrs. William
Larry of Jonesboro has the record
! over any woman in Craighead county
| for knitting socks. She has been do
! ing much knitting for the Red Cross
i lately, and seeing reports of various
i women over the country, who were
i claiming that they were fast and ex
j perts in this line of work, she decid
! ed to time herself^ and ascertain just
i how quick she could knit a sock. She
; has been successful in turning out one
| sock in four hours, which is a much
! shorter period than any so far re
ported, and it is thought by the lad
lies here that Jonesboro has the fast
est knitter in the country. If any one
i knows of a better record it is time to
let it be known. The work of Mrs.
Larry too is especially nice and is
being commented on by all who have
i seen the class of work she is turning
j out.—Jonesboro Tribune.
| Aping New York so unpopular in
Chicago they have changed Fifth ave
1 nue to Wells street.
I
| Marrying parson of Crown Point,
: Indiana, has united 18,000 couples,
i once wedding 52 couples in a day.
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Former Ohion now in New York
i has sent $8 to pay for the times he
j crawled under fence at state fairs at
I Columbus,
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Monkey broke from his cage in a
Patterson (N. J.) bird store and ate
| 30 goldfish for his Christmas dinner.
! The only tank not overturned was one
i containing a snapping turtle.
IKE YOUR SHADE
TREES PECAN TREES
This Is the Advice Given To Arkansas
People By J. S. Knox, of the
Extensk.i Division.
Make your shade trees pecan trees.
Then you will have shade in summer
and a good supply of pecans for the
winter. This is the advice given to
Arkansas people l>y J. S. Knox, hor
ticulturist for the Agricultural Exten
sion Division of the University of
Arkansas, who says:
“Many of the farm homes over Ar
kansas that do not have shade trees
could be made far more attractive by
'he planting of several pecan trees
about the premises. Not only do the
trees make excellent shade trees, but
they will also furnish an abundance
of delicious nuts, which, according to
different authorities, are the richest
in food value of all the nut fruits.
The writer has been very favorably
impressed with the possibility for pe
can growing in this State because of
the fact that in many sections thou
sands of wlid pecan trees seem to
thrive and bear crops of nuts. The
wild species is, however, so far infe
rior to the cultivated varieties that
it does not pay to plant them for
commercial purposes.
Pecan Trees Demand Fertile Soil.
The soil best suited to pecan cul
ture seems to be the rich bottom lands
where the drainage is good, but as
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! Little RocK, Arkansas
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is the case with otner truits, it can
be grown on a great diversity of soils,
provided the soil be made fairly fer
tile. Trees have been seen growing
on soils that were far from the rich
est in fertility, but as a rule trees
planted on such soils make a very
slow growth. It will pay the grower,
therefore, to see that tne soil is put
in good shape, so far as fertility and
cultivation are concerned, before the
trees are planted:
Plant Trees Three to Four Years Old.
It is generally considered best to
plant trees from three to four years
Old, and some nurserymen would plant
them even five to seven years old. It
seems, however, that for trees so
large, damage done to the root sys
tem in digging would be hard to over
come. It makes little difference
where trees are bought, so long as
they are well grown trees that are
true to name. This means, of course,
that they should be secured from a
reliable nurseryman.
Do Not Plant Pecan Seed.
It is not considered advisable for
the amateur to try to bud or graft
his own trees, because pecan irees are
more difficult to propagate than the
average fruit tree. One should not
plant pecan seed and expect the trees
which they produce to bear nuts like
the ones planted. At the South Car
olina Experiment Station about 50
nuts from a single pecan tree were
planted and nor one of the trees
grown from these nuts bear fruit like
the original tree. As a rule the seed
ling trees are far inferior to the
budded or grafted ones.
How to Plant Pecan Trees.
The distance apart to plant the
trees depends upon the kind of soil
upon which they are to be grown. On
the thinner soils from 45 to 50 feet
apart each way may not be too close,
but on the rich lands they should not
be planted closer than 65 to 70 feet
each way. If planted 65 feet eaoh
way it will require only about ten
trees to plant an acre, or twelve trees
if planted 60 feet apart. Since there
are only a few trees for each acre,
one should use everv care to see that
the trees are planted just right. Saak
tree that dies means ona-tenth of an
acre to plant over.
Hew to Care fer Pecan Trees.
Pecin orchards should be kept cul
tivated, and for the first few years of
growth the orchard may be in
tercropped, using tr’ck c~o-«s or any
of the farm crow Hist do not inter
f re irith the growth of the y-een. It
should be remembered, however, that
it does not pay to ret closer than
four to five feet of the y< "">% trees
an intercrop. »nd ?s the trees
»:row older the di-Vue* —he in
cur) ed from the tree®. Th■» question
is o'ten asked hov,r o’d pecan trees
are before they begin to bear. Here
no definite answer can be made, but
usually a few nuts are borne in from
for to five years after the trees are
planted, provided trees ^re three t«
four years old when they are set. I
have known trees to reach an age of
ten to twelve years before begtnning
to bear. The fact that it takes the
trees so long to come into bearing is
one of the principal reasons why the
trees are not more generally planted.
It should be remembered, however,
that after an orchard once reaches- a
bearing age it is ordinarily good for
a long period of years. Pecan trees
seldom pay any profit until they are
ten to twelve years old.
Varieties to Plant.
As to varieties, there are several
that do well in our State. The Van
Denman, Stuart, Schley, Russell and
Frochter are all good, and for safety
In pollenizing, it may be well to plant
several varieties in the same field.
Take C<ve of the Orchard.
Write to the Extension Division of
j th* University of Arkansas at F&yett*
j ville for the Spraying^ Manual.
Did you take more on your 8
J* plate at dinner than you I
could possibly eat, or did i
you eat more than you I
, needed? Did you have one or more too many courses I
Did you throw away a good piece of twine or crumple wrapping
paper or newspaper and toss it into the fire?
Did you leave lights going all over the house last night? Did you
leave the heater draft open too long? Did you leave the soap in the Y
water or in a wet soap dish? ;;
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Even if you can afford little wastes you cai
single wasteful habit.
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Permitting, habitually, wastes of any kins
weaving a dangerous habit into your character,
some grievous setbacks in your progress.
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Cut out the trivial wastes. Make it your hs
i only of money but of the materials you emplo
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Letter from U. S. Engineers in France *
On Service in France
The American Tobacco Co August 24, 1917
Gentlemen:
As we are on the Western front where there are no can^
teens that sell "good old Bull," we are writing to ask you if you
can introduce your tobacco into the English canteens where we
have to go to get our smokes. This foreign tobacco has no kick
in it at all after you have smoked the genuine home article.
Hoping that you will be able to send us some of the re&l
‘ stuff, we arc, with thanks in advance,
^ Ycurs truly,
Squa ’ • * N. <A rnd 1!. ^o. P .
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