Friday, June 7, 2019

County Agent J.R. Sams Advises Polk County, June 6, 1919

From the Polk County News and Tryon Bee, June 6, 1919

Pull for Polk or Pull Out. . . This Is the Splendid Advice Given By Our County Agent, Mr. J.R. Sams. . . Seasonable Suggestions

By all means the garden should not be neglected.

Cultivators should be kept going to prevent crab grass from growing.

What about that permanent pasture? If it is as good as you want it, just let it alone. If it can be improved, then get busy and make it better.

What about hay at $45 to $60 per ton? Think for a year ahead. Plant cow peas, soy beans, velvet beans, sorghum cane for roughage, sudan grass, etc. Now is the time. Don’t neglect it.

Get sorry for that pig in the pen. Sow a lot in cow peas or soy beans, rope and turn him in and watch him grow.

Look after lice and mites on poultry. Now is the serious time of the year for little poults.

There is a premium offered for best collection of legumes, hay and pasture grasses grown on farms, for Polk County Fiar. Ow is the time to collect samples. Burr and crimson clover have almost passed out, orchard and tall oat grass is just now on hand, also alsike and red clover, timothy and red top will be in by and by, so take advantage of all these clovers, cow peas, both tame and wild, soy beans, grasses, etc. This prize if offered to any person living in town or on a farm in Polk County, matters not how little or how much land; just so you grow the grasses and legumes on it and collect and take them to the Polk County Fair.

Then don’t forget in our push to be patriotic. Begin to feel more patriotic now and be boiling over by the Fourth of July. Bring the wife and all the children to Columbus. Leave only the dog at home on that day.

Last, but by no means least, let every man, woman and child in Polk county cultivate the Polk count spirit. Let’s adopt the slogan, “Polk County is My County.” The best county in the world. But if it lacks anything, let’s roll up our sleeves and pull together to make it the best. Everybody should either pull for Polk or pull out.

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