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t Consolidated lone 1, IMS. m CFTTClAL MIWBPAPBK OP ftARNWKLL COUNTY Barnwell People-Sentinel •• Juat Lika a Mam bar of tha Family" Ur seat County Clrmlattoa VOLUME LX. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1936. NUMBER 7. Finds Way to Extract Fats From Pine Trees Removal Would Provide Finest Bond Papers, W'ith Soap as By-Pro duct, Says Herty. Savannah, Oct. 11.—Discovery of fat in pine trees, fat containing the same stuff as human and animal flesh, was announced today by Dr. Chas. H. Herty, director of the pulp and paper laboratory of Savannah. With the fats he found a cheap, easy way of extraction which he said promises two new industries. Rid ding the trees of fat, he said makes it possible for the first time to manu facture the finest grades of bond and book paper from the Southern forests. The fats themselves offer a new by-product industry to the present newsprint makers. For Dr. Herty found the same fats in the spruce trees from which the world supply of newsprint is made. The tree fat is useful for making soap and for making flotation process es. With it is a mixture of fatty acids and waxes. One tree acid is oleic, a potent ingredient in the human body sought by physicians for medics! ex periment. Another is linoleic used for paints. In the waxes* is choles terol, which can be converted into vitamin D. Found Two Years Ago. Dr. Herty discovered the fats while trying to make book and bond paper out of Southern pires. This he un dertook two years ago after he had developed methods of making news print out of all grades of Southern pines. His pioneering work is spon- AGRICULTURAL NOTES By George R. Evans, Vocational Agricultural Teacher, Barnwell High School. FEED AND FOOD TO BE SCARCER THIS YEAR. Because of the terrific drought in the North and West, there‘will be a need to save every possible pound of Southern grain and roughage to sup ply our own demands. Those farmers of Barnwell County who are in the habit of buying hay and grain from the West had better make arrange ments now or else sow a winter feed crop. As has been pointed out oats and oats and vetch together will give to the Barnwell County farmer a good growth and yield next spring thereby furnishing a supply of feed. Rye will furnish an excellent pasture when planted this month and allowed to get a sufficient growth befort pastured. Meat and flour show indications of reaching a new high in cost for the coming year. The farmers of Barn well County can over come this cost Hand-Picked Cotton Pronounced Better Sharecroppers W'in Out in First En counter With Rust Brothers’ Cot ton Picking Machine. Record-Breaking Deposits. I New Orleans, La., Sept. 13.—A mil lion families of sharecroppers have won their first encounter against the Rust Brothers’ mechanical cotton , j y deposits picker, an economic battle now in progress down South that may end ultimately in a massed exodus from the cotton farms. The American Cotton Co-operative association has announced to its 253,- 000 farmer-members that in a fair test, hand-picked cotton was found to be three grades cleaner that cotton reaped by that ungainly contrivance at Stoneville, Miss., and therefore worth $8.50 more a bale. This means, in effect, that under normal conditions on an average farm, it would cost about $21.50 a bale to pick cotton with the machine, while hired hands could pick it for $15 a a bale. But not all cotton farms produce the average, or have the same topography Total deposits in The Bank of Barnwell for the month of September amounted to $1,244,- 099.31, which breaks all records for deposits in a single month in a Barnwell bank, according to Perry A. Price, cashier. Mr. Price said that he does not re call any previous month when reached the million In the appointment of the cadet of ficers and non-commissioned officers for the current year at The Citadel, the Military College of South Caro lina, Cadet William D. Jones, of Co lumbia, was appointed to the grade of first lieutenant. He has been as signed to the second ba tall ion staff as anti-aircraft officer. Cadet Jones is a member of the coast artillery unit of the Restrve Of ficers’ Training Corps at The Cita del. He was until this time a mem ber of Company D. During his sopho more year he was a corporal in that company and during the year just past held the rank of sergeant in the ion of the land, and finally where nee-' extensive tests this year in the long tame organisation. He is a member 1 with most others who have studied the invention of John and Mack Rust, that it already has definite advantages of living to a large de*ree by the or moisture, and ACCA officials agree planting of wheat this fall and the raising of hogs this winter. In deciding whether to plant a winter cover crop it is well to remem-1 over h >n< f-Ta kers in some regions, ber that it will not only serve as a I The Memphis brothers have been soil builder and conservator of plant demonstrating their creation since food but will greatly reduce the ero*~ I AMI. But it was hauled out for first mark. This reflects not only .j. the improved business condi- $ tions in this immediate section «{• but is a strong testimonial of X the faith depositors have in the i soundness of the local bank. Triple “C” News Notes W. TEAL, Reporter. Makes Good at The Citadel. essary. furnish a large amount of hay 1 staple section of Mississippi delta and and grain this spring. It must be the world cotton industry sent its ex remembered, however, that soil con- perts to watch. serving crops need to have conditions Rhat they saw was a device mount sored by the industrial committee of' right or there will be no growth of rd on two wheels, pulled by a tractor. Savannah and financed by the Chemi cal Foundation, Inc., of New York Oitv. crops. It is the purpose of these crops The picking port wss close tu the to build up the nitrogen content snd ground, under a steel frame that organic matter in the soil. It has straddled the cotton row. As it was what the paper industry rails “pitch.” It is the stuff which shows The handicap to making book paper | been frequently noted that those ports moved along about 31% miles an hour. of the fields that are in need of sail the plants entered a metal trough that building are the very ones where the ™*aprese»d them ee that revolving as an occasional slightly discolored cover crop does not do well. This Is spindle• could mesh theosoelves spot in paper. It is not pitch, but Dr.' merely o not her wsy of saying that through the plant. Herty said no one knew exactly what j there is eat sufficient amount sf plant j There were IJI44 ptndfes in rows it wss made of. * food on the paster ports sf the field* sf If snch an a revelvum heM. Tha To find oet he s’Iced sections of t to produce good resu-ts from the sod , aptndhre were moistened by a revofv- tree wood thin as tissne He color- J improving crops. In the rase of the mg rubber drum. M staters made cot - winter legumes, which are to be plow- too stick la the spindles, which, as gd under for the fertilisation of the they reached the end ef ibe bait, were spring crops, the mtnefsl elements net combed <df and the rot too b own le of. oet he s'wed sections of thin as inane He color ed the slices with his logical steins like a physician looking for the cause of d>eeoae. The result was discovered that the “pitch" was made of ohst of the business staff of The Sptnx. Citadel yearbook, and has been active in other campus activities. Scholastically. Cadet Joues. a sen ior la the school of engines nag, stands well in his Haas. He is a son ef the late William Hatcher Jones, a native ef Virginia, whs was far a nember ef years sspermtendeot sf the Barnwell gisilsd school snd who also served as county supertn'endeot ef edorallau. Hta mother la Mrm. Laura Bel tagev Jones, a native ef Barnwell. New Bnhert I la having fuaaua, cW* h ef mart. modem hungsloo bo lt on hm Jackson Street let, apposite the P. M Buckingham property It ua^ 81 rr only met eose the ) i legume but also inn of the arep. This Isrtnrr (<• tarn uad dd • inter through an angular pipe to W dro; j *d I is to bs of hallow tils and star re the ran hnvi ( ells ( an He Heea. t V urii- » filled with fa These cells art mtaeroacopr. Th times smaller than th which make paper. tmrte«i by diluting the ting it run by gravity < screen. The small cells with the water. There ta no machinery of the downgrade Dr. •wed fstti md I mac iree fi th At the md Herty has a good growth of gram is ed. a fertiliser of |5d | per cent, super-phos|hal of murute of potash will pay in n large measure. Many farmers con sider this fall fertilisation enapee*. vary, psrtuula ly where small grain into a receiving bag that held 4fi§ 1 pounds These were two sb|ertioua: The machine, while doing the work of IM men, left some cotton behind. It psch* eg some leaf and plant with the cot ton. Best estimates were that an a second run over a row It gathered a- bout PO per coat, of the crop, which wos its maximnm rffK lenry The question then siosot What of thy quality of machine-picked cotton? The ATCA obtained two samples from adjoining rows on the farm of J. L- Weileman. of Stoneville. One sample was picked by hand, the other by the machine. Government graders made the test at ACCA offices here. •irsbie readeucos are at a pev Ba> swell at this tlam. Advevtls* m The la following cotton or me'ona. How- new type of pulp, more free from the ever the experience of the Experiment fat than even the spruce pulps now | Stations hav e shown that potash i* ! picked The used for the best grades of paper, absolutely necessary for good growth m . ch jne-picked .ample was graded Another new process separates the on€ | the best yields; that phosphate |ow m i dd | in|r i n color; strict good or- water from ‘he fat I causes the crop to fill out big heads , etf Both Mm p,„ were , Srriice trees. Dr Herty n e xt spring. The noils of Barnwell ,. 8 inch , Uplft Kinne<1 , t the g , me tam only about H* per cent, of the t oUnty aief in the maint 8andyf thouKh ^ ^ by ^ new govern- a s. i out trn pines a con j there is a smal. amount of clay scat- men t standards, it was a difference of much more of the living stuff, j tered over the county. This being j !hree Krad „ in favor of hand-picked probably accounts for them growing ^ true j t j 8 a step f or ^ f arrnera co ^ on neatly five times as fast as spruce. 0 f coun ty to take advantage of: r . . , ... ., . One of the Southern pines, -loblolly, this knowledge and use an abundant I . Co8t of machine P ,ck,n *’ therefore, has 8 per cent, of fat. None Extracted Now. amount of potash. A great many of the farmers of “If,” said Dr. Herty, “all the sul- Barnwell County failed to successfully . ^ ^ phate pulp (the newsprint pu p) used store their sweet potatoes last fall. -. .. . u j i 1 . F * v * * F , rn_ i/ . ., , Operating cost was based on Mack in this country annually were made The Piogressive Farmer states that R , .. . - ... _ „ , * . ./ 1 , Kust s estimate of $1 per acre, with from Southern pines it would mean where the number-is small that pota- a daily production of fats and waxes toes can be successfully stored in a of about 420,000 pounds. None of brooder house. It would be well to these fats are now being extracted thoroughly clean the brooder house here or elsewhere.” ; and spray twice with a spray con- - Getting rid of the fat in trees has sisting of 3 pounds of bluestone dis- been also a big stride ahead for an- solved in 50 gallons of water. Do other of Dr. Herty’s scientific this spraying before'the potatoes are “dreams,” the making of clothing put into the house and at an interval dwo holy to tto work. “So,” mid Btoolry Aodww* of th* ACCA. ‘*tm*il *11 stop* coo W mo*h*o nod. I bo o*o <*f x oucbioo would m*oo that •htrorvoyyvr* Icofod oo tboir (root yorvho* dortog picking Umo." Soc tolugui ■ 4 iff or oo poooi bio r«ooo qoooco* of a *orroaful machioo. Some oovtaagv great cot ten oototva with balf tha •barveroppora tumod looao on tbo rood*. Other# *ee co-operative •moll farm* pooling their fund* for a community machine. Son*, aa doe* Toehnically, they found the hand-1 Dabney Crump of Anderaon Clayton and company, believe labor aoviqg de vices only create more employment, aa witness the textile mill where one girl apina aa much cloth os 36,0011 could spin by hand in a day. Others think whatever happens to the share cropper it will be for his good, a re lease from penury. In defense of the machine, experts said: •* included 10 per cent, or $7 a bale (1) It was more effective in larger waste; $8.50 a bale loss in grade; $6 yielding fields because it moved at the a bale cost of operating the machine, same speed, while hand-pickers were slowed. (2) In sections like Texas, where rainfall was low and weed and stalk yield at half a bale an acre, above 1 growth restricted, little hand work the average. It was estimated the j was needed before harvest and the machine would have to make three machine would eliminate all need for trips over each row because of the hired hands. Rain, But No Holidays. In spite of all .the rain we have had in the last week, the members of Co. 4468 have lost no time from work in the woods. It has just happened that rain has dodged the work crews while they have been on the job. They say it is “G. I.” rain, all in favor of the government. E. M. Padgett is now in charge of five crews. v 0ne of them under Lead er Louis Faver is constructing Truck Trail No. 32. Another under Leader . B. Potter is constructing a bridge on the same trail. Crews under eaders Henderson Williams and Grover Gideon, and Assistant Leader lubert Ricker, are gathering pine cones. These cones are to be sent to the nursery at Georgetown and used : r or seed. A tool check made by W.’C. Smoak and D. C. Jones, of the State Forestry office in Columbia here Saturday showed all equipment of Camp P-70 to be in good shape. This camp was said by the inspectors to be one of the best in the State, so far as the condition of tools was concerned. Back From Ridgeland for Visit. Mr. Gamble, surveyor, of Camp P- 70, who is in charge of a detail at Ridgeland. was bock in camp for the rek-end. He reports that they like their arrangements in Ridgeland fine. Sam Ellison and Herman Harvey ere also here at the aame time. Sam went bock on th* job Monday morn ing. hot Harvey remained In camp here with a aofo feet. Canteen Dreuoed Up. Several improvemeota hi the ap- paarnnre of oor re crop lion hall have wn made In the Iasi notable among them being d rortaaa fee oor mat* are very pretty, and *et a teen and roc root lea hall ta Nendo, ~ Mmi 1*1 With the eeaamc m t •eoeeo. the Wye have "Monday M»ruing CWch."* sad they are amhiag teorhdewne all oeue the recreatiea hall every evening, ae woil ( a*e ta Work hi BetlB. M. Cane, oar efficient feeoatry Highway Patrolman Dies in Road Mishap Body of W. T. Thompson, Killed Near Cheraw, Buried in Blackville Thursday. The body of Highway Patrolman W. T. Thompson, 31, who was fatal ly injured Wednesday morning six miles from Cheraw on the Chester field road, was laid to rest in Black ville Thursday afternoon, the funeral services being conducted at four o’ clock from the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Lowe, of that town. Mr. Thompson, who was a nephew of Forrest Gyles, of Blackville, and Herbert E. Gyles, of Aiken, died in a Florence hospital, where he was taken shortly after the accident. It was re ported that Mr. Thompson apparently had attempted to avoid a head-on col lision with a truck entering the high way from a side road by twisting the handlebars of his motorcycle to one side. The machine sideswiped the truck and bounced off the rood into a field, where he was later pickad up and carried to the hospital. Mr. Thompson had been a patrol man at Cheraw for one month, it be ing his first assignment. He went from Aiken to Cheraw. He had been in ther Regular Army before joining the State law enforcement body sad his superior officer spoke very highly of the patrolman. He was known as a ronscientious worker while on duty and to be ef pleasant and friendly demmaor when at leisnre. Mr Thompeea Is semved by hie widow and one child. I RGBB TAKB ADVANTGB or good hog F’oreare, Oct Ifi -The crap In the com belt aa 1 price of feed are posse te tael checker, he* beg m a drug etoco In Eat ill him Inch. are their WINTNNnr tllMXAB AMN. a week’s ton! We wwh n 7J£ f ^r > ^ ( gilts that eogmally would fee be** heg pospeaes am he ed *• th* market hp the feed TO WEST IN AIBKN OCT. M Th* will reme e fee nest year’s The annaa! cmifcreac* ef the ihi**i* M *4» •eU* % hraivrn t*w»tf>ct. W ifitkrop tlomnee f• mrrv ohe have U A*eort*(»oa will be held Aetarday. Or- *stra gilt* te their tehee 24. at 19:30 a. m. ta the Cam- Three gtHa heed la I awrcial Hotel at Alkea, with Mrs raw ahem next February, and Lean Cate, director, perildmg. Speak spring pigs will he ready far the era for the ecrsaiea taclede Dr. Bhel market, ton Phelps and Dr Jams* P. k nard. Te eff*et the con of Wmthrop College, end Hen. J. 8. whet th* specialist Thurmond, of Edgefield. crop*, such as eats, rye, barley er A Dutch luncheon will be eerved at rap* for winter grating sad green on* o'clock, after which the visitors soybeans for summer graxing. Oat% will be gursU of the Aiken Chamber aa grain, may be substituted for corn of Commerce on e tight-seeing tour m the rations of work stock, and of the famous resort aity. j breeding hogs, and even for ono- All alumnae of the Western and fourth of the ration of fattening hogs- neighboring districts are invited to| The use of oats and forage crops wBl be present. Those expecting to attend help carry these hogs over until a new corn crop is made to finish them for next fall market. are requested to notify the hotel manager as soon as possible. The People-Sentinel’s Friends. intermittent blooming of the plants. The average hired hand earns $1 (3) Ginning machinery might be improved to remove most of the leaf per hundred pounds this season and it, f r0 m machine-picked cotton and im- takes about $15 worth of his product prove its grade. from Southern pine forests. The fat of about three days. Make the lost to make a bale of ginned cotton. (4) It would be profitable in South in these trees has been a barrier to spraying just before the sweet pota- makir.g rayon. j toes are to be stored. Such a practice shareeroppei^has another advan- Preliminary tests of the “fatless” will tend to prevent the loses uesult-! tage over ‘hat would take Asidte from his mathematical value, 1 America where labor was scarce. (5) Cotton left by the machine could be plowed under as fertilizer and pine wood indicates that it will make ' ing from black ro^ and similar dweas- ove ^ ^' s back-breaking job. He is pay dividends in improved soil standard rayon. •- ^ “Even Steven.*' boy Mkdl the other day: “Daddjp are they going to move Dr. Steven^’ office bock?"—reference being to th* street improvement in Barnwell. -No," replied the father, “they're jam moving Lemon Bros eineo hock even with Dr flevenn" “Oh! on fc will ho EVEN •md (he Ufi es. Treat the sweet potatoes so stor-; ne * ded to cultivate the farm in ad- 1 (6) It could mean that the South ed just the same as those potatoes v * nc e of the crop. I would produce 50,000,000-bale crops, Such authorities as Oscar Johnson, sell them cheaper, but at a bigger cotton expert of the United States profit, and regain America’s declining 1 department of agriculture, believe that export trade market. stored in potato storage houses. Burglar Alarm Urns Off. " 11 the machine ia impractical because The burglar alarm ia Codia’s liquor hired hands pick only about 19 per- stove, at th* earner of Mam and Wall cent, of tha ratlea. toeets, was *et eff hg aaaaa m- There are about 2999499 fauulte* known cuuaa about three e’darh Sun- sf aharerrepperu who park the tost, day aflaruaaa and (touted a httAa They hot an th* farm the four iwnufL not*.. K •*■» a*>i' in ptoa *4 m*.* e, rhoppaag ssmosm New and renewal subscriptions to The People-Sentinel have been re ceived reoently from the. following good friends: Miss Mildred Lewis, Columbia. Mrs. J. A. Templeton, Blackville. Victor Lewis, Kline. Winchester Smith, Williston. H. C. Creech, Kline. J. H. Zorn, Barnwell rfd 1. J. D. Davis, Barnwell. Mrs. Rosa Wall, Martin. Mrs. R. L. Jones, Detroit, Mich. C. F. Rizer, Olar. S. J. Hutto, Hilda. Main Sreet Work Progresses. State Fair Opens Monday. The work of remodeling the store of Lemon Bros., preparatory to widen ing Main Street, is progressing slow ly but surely. Last week the work was retarded to some extent by thq inclement weather, in spite of which, however, the north wall has been practically completed, the old front on Burr Street has been torn down and an entirely new front is being const: ucted.- Some of the scaffolding on the Burr Street side fell last week and several workmen narrowly es caped injury. Meyer's Mill 4-H Club. The Meyer’s Mill 4-H club held its first meeting of this year at the home One thing was generally conceded to the Rust* brothers* machine. It Is 1 m muse mb at mush. •md pashaug Columbia, Oct. 12.—With the great est fair in its history ready for the of Mias Gene Swett, local leader, public, the greater South Carolina Wednesday, Oct. 7. General State Fair will open Monday, Orto- tiona were taken up by the members, ber 19th, and continue for the week, after which Miaa Elisabeth Mr Nub This year’s program has been ot-gava an interesting talk on "Msu- ranged so as to scatter the events uers. 1 * over more days, getting away, if pas- Officer* were elected aa ■9 Talula Wit Though •r which ranged “Big Thursday* w*B sldl he the hsg- ee to eurtaau mm- pee* day. thm your'• seoaiu m a hig 4 meu. iponlhi mm- day everyday and fsurman ho«e Smo I he beet ef 759 mechanical ration athl*. from the whole shew 1 ochcrs the*, hoe* been peteuted einrp , cemlruled eo "Big Thursday