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i ♦ WILLETt’S SUGGESTION . FOR i HIRTY-ACRE FARM CONSTRUCTION STARTED THE BOLL WEEVIL AND ON CIVIC IMPROVEMENTS - HIS WINTER-QUARTERS Georgia* Man Outlines Formula at* Ground Broken Monday ATCeirnodn Cotton Fist Winters in Old Stalks, . I’e<im st of Col. H. D. Calhoun. 1 for Sewerage System. ^ Cel iJaViy D. Calhoun, president of the Home Bank of Barnwell, last day afternoon Weeds and Dead Grass. The cotton boll weevil finds his Preliminary work was begun Mpn- _ , r . . . on ' Barnwell's neVv'* hotel for the winter in old stalks, week asked Mr. N. L. Willett, of sewerage system, the c&ntract for ^weeds* and dead grass in the field. Augusta, to .outline a program for a , which was let a few weeks ago. The He will find splendid winter-quarters 30-acre farm^ beginning about Oc- | contract also included extension of in urkept terraces, in neglected t, 19^V, ^and ending about ' the ejectric light and waterworks orchards, in underbrush along the 1922. '''Mr. W'illett’s plant. Some of the necessary ma- tober 1st October 1st, formula was published in Monday’s ; terial arrived in Barnwell a couple issue of The Augusta Chronicle and of weeks ago, and lire construction is Reproduced below for the infor- , wigineers and a small force of work- motion ofieaders of this paper: j men reached here Sunday afternoon. Banker Harry D. Calhoun, of Bam- It is understood, however, that local well, South Carolina, asked me to labor will be employed as far as for preventing land washing and the woods and roadsides, etc. The weevil requires for successful wintering a place with a given amount of moisture, failing in such places' where /moisture is heavy. Therefore cover crop that is used BARNWELL'S BALL CLUB MADE GI LENl/fD SHOWING DISTRICT AGENT REPORTS ON COUNTY AGENTS WORK VV Ml and Last 1* Games During Season.—Percentage 651. Bays That the Boys* Corn Club Work Is in Splendid Shape. write a twelve months formula for possible, provided, of coarse, ^hat the a thirty acre farm. This is a diffi- scale of wa^es is acceptable, cult job. Many good formulae might: The first work done on the new be _ written. All of them might be system was near Turkey Creek, valuable in these times. But I where the disposal plant will be leaching* of soil fertility, and for maintaining soil texture is of the greatest value under weevil condi tions because it acts as a cleansing crop which keeps down weeds and have set down a middle-of-the-road 1 located. It is understood that the | winter food plants and destroys pro- one, giving a combination, carrying, j contract calls for completion of the. I hope, financial saftey and some entire job early in the rtfew year, money returns and doing it all with i The expenditure at this time of a minimum amount of guano. I pre- $100,000, no small part of which suppose that the land is fairly good will be paid for labcr, should serva that there is already corn and ! to alleviate ^13 money stringency on the place. I pre-suppose j *°®e quarters by providing work that aside from the thirty acres j tor many who are at present out of farm lands there must be at i 0 ** 8 - t one acre set aside for a garden —for this is necessary. Mr. Calhoun Thresh and use grain or sell seed, asks for seed prices—I, however, do And after these oats are off, say late not wholly give these for planting in May plant one acre to sweet po- in the spring. ; tatoes, sell some early potatoes -and ■— I plant this ground at once in vines; One Acre Garden. 1 let the balance go to full- maturity. For the fall garden plant one-hslf Plan t one acre, say five pounds 4n acre in tumips-half a pound of Ycl* Brown Top Millet, graze it or make low Globe and hnlf a pound of Purple hay of it or green cut it. , The bal- Top ' Whue GTdbe', Total $1.00; and ance of the thirteen' acres plant in plant the balance as follows: five White Spanish peanuts, eight inches hundred cabhagvplan^ In three foot in the row. Thresh or pick in winter rows one foot tn the row and thin from the stack, the peanuts and sell out and eat during fall and winter. 1 the crop and save the tops for pea- tbua giving the full grown planta two nut hay for selling, feet in the row—total coat of plants | Plant add ditches and all waste $2.00; one fourth pound of beets, places everywhere in Kaffir corn and SO cents; drill thinly one pound gf sun-flower and use the heads of raps at 20 cants for repeated cut- same for home chicken feed through- tings for greens for the table and out the year. Two thousand heads of alto for the rhiikens; one fourth of Kaffir com would not be two much a pound of carrots, $0 cents; and and one thousand of sunflower, two quarts of onion sets, 40cent«. Kaffir com heads can also be used For the spring garden on the same for horse feed and sunflower seed, one acre plant snap beans, making too, as separated from the heada, two plantings, one early and one have a market. The above outline about August the firM, one quart completes the thirty acres , both for each time, total for the two plantings fall and spring planting. $1.00; butter beans, Sieva. one quart, | — ■ 50 cents; okra four ounces. 15 cents; ■ Livestock. one-fourth pound of squash at j* The farm is not an economic one cents; one ounce tomatoes 25 cents; nor a livable one without livestock, four ounces New Zealand spinnach. Many far-sqring landlords are pursu- 40 cents—this will give grewis 1 ing the following: They rent* out through out the whole summer; 1,000 livestock, taking each year rent in cabbage iShnts, $2.00, one plant to i kind. For example, a cow -in milk, each foot in the row, thin out; half t the landlord taking as rent each year pound of Southern Prize spring tur-1 a big calf. He rents out a certain nips, 25 cents. The fall garden 1 amount 0 f hogs, taking rent in kin*} seed will thus cost $4.20 and the and he puts out, say twenty chick ens and takes ren^. in chickens and eggs. The thirty acre man can use all of these matters for selling pur poses of for home use and it gives him employment the year round on the place. tective coverings for the weevil anti other destructive insects during the winter. It is time now for farmers to think about the matters and not let this work go on until the last moment, advises Prof. A. F. Conradi, entomo logist who says that we want to clean up our farms this fall as we have never done before. These wintering places mentioned must not be permitted; they must be re moved «or destroyed by one method or another. • Humus is our greatest deficiency in farming and for that reason^ vegetable matter should be properly incorporated in the soil whenever posisble; but there are a great many cases where this can be done; and yet'should weeds, dead grass, etc., remain through the winter they would form successful wintering places for the boll weevil. Burning may be the only resort by which they can be destroyed,an<J if so, burning should be employed. Advettise in THE PEOPLE. • In spite of the fact that the Barn r well baseball club failed to annex either half of the late lamented Tri- County League season, local fans have reason to be proud of the very ex cellent showing made by their team. A total of 43 games was played dur ing the season just ended, of which Barnwell won 28 with a percentage of 651. The best thar any one team has been able to do against the locals was an even break, as the following table of games played will show. Won by Lost by Ba-"j*"el' Ehrhardt 6 Springfield 5 Aiken 2 Allendale - 2 Fairfax 2 Varnville 2 Williston 2 Bamberg 2 The People has received the fol lowing copy of a report made by Dis trict Agent Henry S. Johnson, of Aiken, to the legislative delegation of Barnwell County relative to the work being done in the county by Mr. Harry G. Boylston, of Black- ville: ‘‘To the Legislative Delegation of Barnwell County. “Weekly reports of County Agent BARNWELL GOUNTY GINS FIRST COTTON IN STATE Barnwell 6 4 0 2 1 1 a Denmark r 2 Dunbarton ..1 2 N. Augusta 1 Central of Ga. 1 ToUl .28 2 0 0 1 15 Chief Hayes Arrested. Chief of Police W. A Hayea, at Barnwell, was arrested Monday morning by ConsUble G. J. Diamond on a warrant sworn out before Mag istrate W. P. Sanders by Mr. Mal colm Anderson, charging assault and battery with intent to kill. He was released under « $500 bond, which was readily furnished. The charge against Chief Hayes grew out of the arrest of, Mr. Anderson Saturday night for alleged disorder ly conduct. The case will be tried at the October term »f the Court of Ger^ral Sersiona. First Bale of 1921 Fleecy Staple Sold in Barnwell' tast Week. Barnwell County bus again won “fint bale honors” in South Caro lina, the intitial bale of the fleecv staph oi the 1921 crop having been marketed in Barnwell on Wednesday of Unrt w*ek. The cott *-i was grow.i by a r.egro tenant on the planUthn of Mr. C. H. Dianur. i, who lives a Tew miles from the city. It was bought t> Mr. J. A. Porter and ship ped to Middleton and Peterson, cot- Harry Boylston for the month of«jton factors, of Savannah, Ga., where July show that he made 51 visits to J it was auctioned off Friday for 20 men and 11 visits to boys and cents a pound. Mr. Porter states traveled 6 24 miles in the interest of that a bale would have been market- County Agent work. Four meetings ed here two weeks ago but for the were held which were attenSed by wet weather of the past several a toUl of 144 people. 158 circulars weeks. were mailed to interested farmers, The Farmers Ginning Co., of Barn- 34 bulletins mailed and 34 letters well, had the honor of ginning the written to interested farmers. first bale. “Four Specialists came into the As sUted in these columns last county and assisUnce on Marketing, week, the crop is this county is go- Horticulture and Dairying was given, ing to be very short. Since the last “Work has been done with a num- j issue of this paper was printed, the ber of farmers on budding, pruning writer has talked with a friend from and mounding peach trees. A survey the country, who stated that recently has been made antf preliminary a stalk of cotton was pulled at ran- work done with regard to organiz- dom from a field a few miles from ing a Bull Association during the fall town. It had 22 practically grown if financial conditions are beter. An bolls and 20 of them had been punct- effort is being made to locate several ured by the boll weevil tnd were 100 Feeder pigs for the fanners in rotten. From this It would appear the county. j that any forecast, even now, of the “Four meetings were held and st j probably size of the 1921 crop is each time Director Long and others | worse than guesswork, were present. A survey has been made of the county and a temporary j M iLLlSTON WINS TRI- Marketing Organization for truck | COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP has been formed. Mr. Boylston was asked to set as temporary Secretary | ( Mat> Town Gets Deciding of that Organisation. HERE AND HEREABOUTS “Gritism and suggestions are in vited." Miss Lula Falkenstein has return-, ed from Asheville, N. C. I Master Starling Elder, of York, is visiting friends in the city. spring garden, $5.00 for the acre. October First Field Planting. By October the first 1921 have all '^cotton and corn stalks out of the way Plat No 1.—Ten acres. Plant Oc- p tober the first a mixture of twenty pounds of Hairy Vetch at 13 cents and ten pounds of Crimson Clover at 12 cents, total, $3.80 per acre or $38.- 00 for the ten acres. In the spring some of this may be cut for hay if necessary but it is better to turn ^hese legumes under and plant, say by April the tenth* five acres in Cleveland cotton seed and then cal cium arsenate it rrom May until September with the hopes of making four bales without guano. Plant the other five acres to Whatley’s corh and plant in the middles ^8 inches apart Hundred Day velvets; pick velvet pods, soak and feed same and graze vines and corn ^alks in winter. Plat No. 2.—Five acres. Plant October the first these five acres to Winter Beardless Barley No. 50 (pro- ductive in grain and fine, hay). Plant one and one-half bushels per acre at $2.00 a , bushel, total Cost of seed $15.00. Cut one acre for hay*?h April and let four acres go to 4eed and thresh and soak and feed the grains to horses and hens, or if no hay is cut use the whole five acres in this way. Some of these threshed grains likewise could be made mat- Miss Alma Ray is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Frank Trowbridge,^ Miss Pauline Caldwell has re turned from a visit to Charleston. Mr. I. Lewis Langley was the guest of relatives here this week. Miss Plexico has returned to Rock Hill after a visit to her sister, Mrs. C. C. Owens, Jr. Col. Edgar A. Brown went down to Savannah Thursday of last week on professional business. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Langley return ed home Sundays from a motor trip to York and Gastonia, N. C. Mr. Fxank James, of Denmark, was a business visitor here Monday. Miss Lena Cave, of Dunbarton, is visiting friends in the city this week. Col. J. M. Caldwell has had the misfortune to lose two fine milch cows in the past three weeks. Elko Nows Elko, Aug. 18.—It was • false alarm last Saturday. No cotton was being ginned;*' just trying out the Elko Gin Co's plant to see that the machinery would , run in the event that there would be some cotton to gin. * Mrs. Eva Cave has a friend in every body who knows her at Elkn, and every body eras gild to see her, ioit while last wee!:. Game o' Saappv Series. Wtmstoi. Aug. 19.—The WHlitton tr«oball Uem won the championsh o of the Tn County League when it defeated Bamberg on the latte: s field this afternoon by s score of 8 to 4. The gam# was one of ths fastaot, clearest and moat excitin'; of rny of games played this tea- «on. Bamberg was out in front most of the time but behind the steady pitching of Smythe, the Wii- listen standby, the locals came from behind mnd gradually nosed out if for only a shor, .... ........ .. ^ „ Slje lives at Sumter, and she and j 4°^ a!/*; »k J*** v.* her grand*lighter. Mi. Mabel Col.- I ,c0red th * mnU, b » * b,1 » Ud •“*- man, stopped on their way to WilKs- ton to visit friends and relatives. Mr N. C, was in Elko recently having traveled all the way in his Ford . fT _ ... . . Coupe. His car loked good too, and I. j. . .-7 , , ting rally with the necessary at critical times. Bamberg proved D.T GAbb7 | * ** m * T r ‘ nd * h * th "" ** th * victore of the see eon were hearty and given with a right good will. Mr. Ralph Walker, of Appleton, was in the eity Monday on business. Mr. N. B. Gamble and family have returned from a two weeks vacat ion. About the Home. ** To complete the above outfit I should add ten grafted peacan tress which in three feet sirj^ can be h^d at $1.00 each, say $10.00; ahd ten fruit trees for about $6.00, made up of peache?, apples, figs and plums. In later years these pecans ought to return five to ten.dollars per tree. The above outline is a land up- builder and it keeps the farmer busy throughout twelve months. It intro duces two new crops, viz, Spanish peanuts as a successor to cotton as a money crop; it introduces Winter Beardless barley, exceedingly pro ductive, beaxtesl 1 and safe to use, never winter killed and makes mored Mrs. Charlie Brown, Jr M jenter- grazing and far betteV hay than rye tained the Wednesday Afternoon —indeed, its hay equals Timothy'; it Bridge Club last week. also produces grains late in spring] —- - —— — when most needed and which; grains | Mrs. Thos. H Peeples, of Colum as soaked equal corn, bushel for bia," spent the w^ek-eh'd ' here with Mrs. A. A. Lemon and daughters are spending some time at Mt. Pleasant. Miss Caroline Blake, of Spartan burg, is the guest of Miss Helen Calhoun. Master Bobbie Christie, of Den mark, is visiting his grandmother, Mrs. L. H. Christie. Mr. Eugene Easterling, of Greens-*, boro, N. C., spent last week here with his parents, Mr. and Mig- B. L. Easterling. < Mr. Charlie Brown, Jr., is hauling lumber toj his lot on ilailroad Avenue preparatory to the erection of a bungalow. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Jennings will learn with regret that their little son, Bill, is quite sick with fever. Mr. John Henry was the guest of Mr. M B. Hagood this week while en route to his home in St. George from Clemson College. her father, Capt. J. B. Armstrong. bushel as a feed. It introduces Brown Top Millet which is an incomparable annual Mrs. Julia B. Easterling has re summer grazer. If there is not turned home after aij extended stay sufficient grazing to keep it down in Hendersonville, N. C., and Sum- or-if' dry weather intervenes, and terR \ the plant is aboUt to go into the boot • " .. ; ^ ters of sale. When this beardless it must be mowed back; kept back r Mrs. Lena Davies returned home barley is off the ground, say late in it will grow for grazing until frost. Tuesday afternoon from.a visit to ‘Tay, plant "these five aires Ri SttP'' The - above "fA-nnila in cditatn ffteftds'in Charlotte and Gbldsboro, r Corn and put in the middles qpw j soils might need for the grain plat N. C. e, let peas mature, gather, thresh a certain amount of acid phosphate and sdll the peat and turn under the vines. —-V f j .’ Pfct No.3.—Fifteen acres. Sow by October the first fifteen acres to Fulghum eats, . one and one-haD in the fall and nitrate of soda in the , Mrs. H. E. Harley and little daugh- spring. \ ' ' ^ - * ter. Rose, of Charleston, who have ThisComment in. today's Chronicle been visi&imf felatives at Allendale will be me Bed to about one hundred and Olar, < are now visiting her of the hanks of Georgia and Sooth parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Faust. bushel per acre at, say $1.00 pre Carolina—and going simply as a They will retqyn Rome the later bushtl, making total cost $22j00. 1 suggestion. part of the w< X Mr. J. B. Calhoun and his sister, Mrs. Harry D. Calhoun, have re turned from a week's visit to rel atives in North Carolina. Misses Elizabeth and Caro Easter ling gave an informal dance Satur day evening in honor of their visit ors, Misses Alderman and Herbert. Postmaster R. A. Deason states r- ' that he expect to move into the new quarters provided for the Barnwell post office within the next, few days. * —~ Misses Mabel Alderman* of Greens boro, N. C., and Mazie Herbert, of Camden, were the week-end guests of Misses Elizabeth and Caro Easter- ling. * . the girls hare thought he looked bet ter. Miss Elizabeth Johnsort is visit ing her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Hunter of Hunter’s Chapel section of Bamberg County. Mrs. Jane E. Johnson and Miss handled the series very efficiently and to the entire satisfaction of both teams. Score: Williston 0 0 0 1 0 8 0 0 4—8 11 3 Bamberg 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0—4 8 3 Smythe and Dodge; Radcliffe and Allendale News May Woodward are xepecting to gj | to Laurinburg, N. C. some time this week to visit the former’s niec-% Mrs. L. A. Pender. Mrs. Johnson will return home soon tu look after I Allendale, Aug. 20. Mieses Geor- her extensive farming interest. J Kanna Kirkland of Milletts and Mary The Roiemary* Baptist Churth Phoeb « Bush of Elhnton are the closed its protracted services last quests of Miss Carolyn Oswald. Friday. Rev. Mr. Brook of Granite- Mi88 « 8 B e rth » *** LuciU « Hewlett ville and his charming daughter, who kavfe returned home from a visit to is an Anderson College student, made relatives in Augusta, hosts of friends. Miss Brock’s so- J Misses Sallie Williams of Rocky- los were ’ a special feature of too I f° r d« Ga., and Kathleen Oswald of services. - x— I Ehrhardt are guests of Mrs. R. A. Mrs. Leon E. Stanaell of Green-> 0 8Wa ld. wood, Miss, who recently arrived to visit Mr. Stansell’s mother, Mrs. Mrs. John E. Prillerman has re turned to her home in Spartanburg Ashley Stansell, was accompanied | ®fter spending siewral days here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. All. • _ • ' Miss Helen Calhoun has returned to her home in Barnwoll after a'visit by her mother Mrs. Pearce. Mrs. Stansell brought her cute two year old daughter, Mal-garet Ashley wuh her. They are visiting friends in Barnwell * defeated Springfield Friday afternoon, 8 to S. The features of the game were the bat ting of the Barnwell team and the lidding of Sigmund for the locali at second base. Barnwell has vqa every game played in the past two Johnson, S. C. thi a week, but wi)l L of several days to 5!iss Virginia return to Elko soon and will be J Warren. joined by Mr. Stansell here. ~ : | J - L - Oswald and^family left Thurs day for Glenn Spring*, where they The People is in receipt of a twin I spend ten days, butterbean from Subscriber P. Bet- j an( * ^ rs - Q- ^ Kennedy, Jr M terson, of Elko route 1. | of Williston spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Boyleston. Mrs. Brown, of Aiken, and Mr. and I. MiM Ernestine Jordan has return- Mrs. S.taley, of Sumter, are the ed hoI »e in Augusta after guests of the former's son, Col. Ed- spending several days with Miss gtr A. Brown. - I Sura Wolff. Solomon Blatt, Esq., and Mr- F. I Master Ben T. Sexton, son of S. Brown are alt smites, the former I and Mrs. B. W. Sexton, celebr because of the arrival of a hand- bia birthday Monday afternoon by some boy and the latter of a beauti- entertaining a number of his Httle ful Tittle girl. friends. Mr. and Mrs. T Mrs. J. M. Killingsworth and two Ralph and James, of Dunbar ton, and Mr. J. R Youngblood, of I vis* to Tate Augusta, were the Xxi'Bt-L.