Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, May 25, 1921, Page SIX, Image 8
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
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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
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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
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moistener top.
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Certificate of Deposit No. 131 issued
by the Bank, of Western Carolina,
Johnston, S. C., to Minty Stafford for
$300.00 with interest from date at
the rate of five per centum per an
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Johnston, S. C., to April 29th, 1921,
for a new certificate in like amount.
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