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Summary County Agent 1 For Last "Year. Should anyone "doubt the of County Agricultural Wort ask.you to read the following mary taken rrom the annu iport of County Agent Carwile, '.was submitted to Washingtor Clemson College last Dece iBoth the County Agent -and son College are. anxious to hav work reach every farmer ii county, and wliile this report : lng submitted to the Edgefield 3ac at a late date, still it may means of -converting some dor Thomas towards this work. During the past year Mr. Cs traveled 7,685 miles, 634 by road and 7,051 by automobile ing some very rough weather over some very rough, muddy i He made 751 personal x?lls d the year upon men demonstrj .cooperators, other farmers .-and members; he held 868 consulta in town and at his office rega: agricultural work of the county answered 56 telephone calls. Carwile's report shows that a . i of 105 farmers', boys' and ; clubs, field meetings, etc., were during the year with a total atl ance of 4,352. The County Agent's wovk wa vided as follows: 30 per cent in * office and 70 per- cent over the c ?ty, paying visits and holding n Ungs. His office work consisted -writing 789 official letters, 152 ides for the county papers, 28 :ies of circular letters with a tributi?n of 5,216 copies and n ing out 2,473 government buUei Another important phase of work that was done was the visi -of 49 schools of the county to to the boys and girls, and hole of a boys' and girls' Short Coi in Edgefield in cooperation \ the Horrie Demonstration Ag with a total attendance during three days of 165. The Cou .Agent influenced four boys to t 'the boys' short course at Clem College lastN summer. During ;year Mr. Carwile had 3 S of Clemson College specialists in county at different times to asi him with his work. Il is impossible to give a summi of the entire report since it cov every phase of agriculture in a bc form or/nearly 120 pages. We si .rg?ve a few paragraphs from diff ?ent parts of the report: "Our county is fairly well orga rzed. We have local units of the C , . ton Association organized, w 'three committeemen from each co .munity on the County Execut: 'Committee. I can call on these co mittces to get work done in tb ''respective commuriitie^ fthrou them, but this, I shall say, read only about 5 per cent of the farm? of the county. The others I have reach as best I can. When o county becomes more thorough .organized I can reach all throu? the local units. ."In the summer I was called f about ten days to aid in the fig against the army worm as it w; marching upon the corn fields, was busy from morning until nig] during, this time. I personally a fisted about 25 men in this figh and instructed many others. Persoi ally, ? saved 90 acres of corn froi destruction, and was the cause c many more being saved. I conside this work, accomplished in abou two weeks, worth all I have cost th people for my salary, and I cai point to several good farm?rs wh< ?will say the same thing. %rL got several farmers to plan: Dixie-Triumph cotton on their will . infested lands, and they say that il stands the test all right. One demon strator told me that he can make 2,000 pounds of seed cotton to the . acre of this variety where he had "been making only about 200 pounds of cotton of a non-wilt variety. We ? dusted for the boll weevil on several idtarms,: but got started late and can mot say .that'the treatment did any good. Thei.picking up of the squares was put into practice over the entire county. "Realizing the importance in turn .ing to something besides cotton the . Johnston .people began raising to . bacco. They secured a community . grower and began the work with ; about 85 acres in this crop. I assist ed in promoting this work for about two months. Also, Mr. E. L. Ring, of the Southern Railway, was a great help to this community in get ting this crop started. **I nave done quite a bit of work 'in assisting the farmers in treating their grain for smut. I find that the formalin treatment is not very .widely known, and that all the far mers are anxious to get it. The fol lowing is taken from a survey of the wheat growing in the county: Average good yield per acre, 16 bushels; average for cummunity, ll bushels; lime benefits all grains; / rock'phosphate gives fairly good re .... \ suits, but the farmers prefer acid phosphate; wheat should always be treated for smut; farmers should raise their own flour when possible; essential things to give success with wheat are lime clay soils, - prepare well, plant early, fertilize ' well, treat for smut, good seed." Other work conducted by the County Agent brought about turn ing of rye for a cover crop; putting in of several acres of alfalfa in this county, which one farm?/ says is worth $100.00 per acre as grazing crop and for hay, getting in an in creased acreage of vetch, clovers, pasture grasses, etc. Mr. Carwile says that the soy and velvet beans are becoming recognized as great soil builders and stock feed. Several farmers estimate that the velvet bean has been worth $10.00 per acre as a soil builder, and there were about 2,000 acres planted in the county last year. The County Agent has ordered 320 bushels of beans for seeding purposes at a sav ing to the farmers of $144.00 on the lot. Peanuts have a place in the farming program, but have not proven to be very profitable as a substitute money crop for cotton. The orchard work consisted in car ing for 5,460 fruit trees, seeing that they were pruned, sprayed and wormed, that brought an estimate value of $1,220 to the county. In the livestock line assistance was giv en to the dairy farmers of the coun ty, the swine growers, and steer feeders. With the Home Demonstra tion Agent, the County Agent assist ed in getting 450 pure bred chick ens into the county. Other things, such as livestock diseases, home mixing of fertilizers, manure dem onstrations, building silos, liming, farm and farmstead improvements, were attended and promoted by the County Agent. In concluding the report the Coun ty Agent gave the following three paragraphs as being the three best pieces of work accomplished during the year: "I consider the promoting of Cot ton Grading work as being the greatest piece of work that I have been able to put across since my coming into this county. This has grown out of the organization of the cotton growers. I have known far mers to make as much as $15.00 per bale by selling their cotton on grade. Farmers a(nd business men say that this work has been worth thousands of dollars to our communi ty. Other work that has been done through the cotton association has been the building of several ware houses and educating the farmers to put their cotton under cover. "I consider the beef cattle feed ing that was done through the as sistance of Mr. W. J. Shealy, of Clemson College, as second in im portance of th,e projects conducted this year. This work has been very valuable to the Johnston farmers. One farmer says that he never buys nitrogen to use under his cotton where he uses the manure from his steers, but uses 400 pounds per acre of 8-0-4- goods, where he had been using 900 pounds of 8-3-3- per acre before he fed steers, and he finds an increase iii yield where the manure is being used. By keeping actual data on this work, counting the cost of feed saved by using dem onstration methods, the .gains in steerl flesh, value of manure, value of fertilizers saved, etc., this work was calculated to have been worth $23,366.48 to the.. Johnston far mers. '.'As cover crops, clovers vetches, rye, etc., have never been grown in this county as they should be, I put on a campaign, assisted by County Agent Shealy of Lexington county, to increase the acreage of clover and vetch. As the result of our work 1,275 pounds of hairy vetch and 1,070 pounds of Crimson clover ?vere seeded last fall. This seed was ordered cooperatively at a saving o? $108.60 to the farmers of the :ounty. Respectfully submitted, ADDISON B. CARWILE, County Agri. Agent." Why That Headache? When you know the cause of a dis ease a cure may often be effected. This is particularly true of headache. Headache often results from consti pation or a disordered condition of the stomach which may be corrected by taking a dose or two of Chamber lain's Tablets. Try it. These tablets are easy to take and mild and gentle in effect. J. S. BYRD Dental Surgeon Office Over Store of Quarles & Timmerman Office Phone No. 3 Residence' Phone 87 Order Restrains Telephone Company From Raising Rates. A. L. M. Wiggins of Hartsville, president of the South Carolina Tel ephone Subscribers' association has written C. S. Monteith of Columbia, secretary of the organization, to the effect that an injunction has been is sued against the Southern Bell Tel ephone company enjoining it from making any change in its rate. Mr. Wiggins' communication is as follows : Injunction Granted. Upon complaint of F. A. Miller of Hartsville, against the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., Judge W. G. Shipp of the circuit court has issued an injunction and restraining order to the telephone company en joining it from increasing the tele phone rates for local services and from making any change in rate or interurban and rural services, here tofore furnished the plaintiff. The injunction in affect places the tele phone service wi?h respect to the plaintiff on the same basis as the rates and services existing prior to April 1, 1921. The plaintiff alleges a violation of contract and asks judgment against the telephone company for $2,9999 for alleged injury and damage. Plain tiff also asks permanent injunction restraining the telephone company [from failing and refusing to render telephone service furnished it prior to April 1, 1921. Out in Mississippi. Mr. Wiggins also sends the fol lowing communication from Harts ville: Increased telephone rates recently granted by the railroad commission of Mississippi have been declared void by the state courts under a de cision just handed down by Judge W. H. Potter. The court's decision was to the ef fect that the telphone company /was engaged in two separate businesses, the one toll business and the other an exchange service and that the increase in rates was asked for the exchange service, but no separate accounts were kept as to the ex penses of the two kinds of service. The court includes that "it cannot be reasonably denied that without this separation of expense and a knowl edge of what costs fall to the ex change services, the action of the commission in finding a new rate would be arbitrary and void." The court also holds, as to the pe tition of the telephone company that an increase in rate was necessary in order for the company to show a net income that would enable it to sell its securities. "None of this mat ter should have been contained in the petition of the company except that the rate allowed did not yield a fair return upon the investment and ask ing an increase in its charges. The selling of the company's securities and the increase in its capital was no part of the business of the commis sion and was a matter over which it had no jurisdiction. The people are not called upon to furnish or to pro vide means for the company to in crease its investment." The decision concludes: "In the matter of great public importance like this it should be clear that the matter considered was the question and this does not appear in the judg ment. This order seems void because the jv '?mcnt does not show that the rates for exchange service thereto fore in force yielded less than a rea sonable return on the investment." World's Wine Drinking Record Broken in Paris. Paris, May 21.-The world's wine drinking record has been\broken. At a banquet offered by the Alsatian wine growers to the French minister of agriculture, one hundred and thir ty-nine varieties of beverage were served. There were four hundred guests and they drank steadily for two hours snatching only a mouthful of food at rare intervals, while a veritable army of waiters passed the cobwebbed bot tles which were brought up to the tables by means of a specially con structed toy railroad encircling the banquet hall. No casualties have been reported. Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. Every family should keep this prep ration at hand ready for instant use when needed. Severe attacks of colic and cholera morbus often prove fatal before medicine can be procuder or a physician summoned. The uniform success that has attended the use of this remedy and the prompt cures which it has effected have made it a staple article of trade. We have one Ford Runabout in stock. Who will take it? YONCE & MOONEY. Prince Albert ia sold in toppy red boga, tidy red tina, hond e?me pound and half pound tin humidors and in- the pound crystal glast humi dor with apongo moistener top. ! I. CHIMP. 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