Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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AVOID WAST[ Of MAN LABOR T11 S[ASON More Work Can Be Done By Fewer . Men If Plans Are Carefully Made and the Back-Breaking Work Shifted From Man to Horse. The hay crop, even when the labor supply is normal, causes more worry, anxiety, and disappointment than any other crop. The time for harvesting is comparativel yshort. Other crop4 re quire attention at the same time. And the weather is to be reckoned with. This year, when farm labor all over the country is very scarce, the diffi culties of hay-making will be much greater, and larger qunntities of hay will be lost than usual-unless labor saving methods are more generally employed. A great deal of labor is wasted every year during hay harvest, say specialists of the United States De partment of Agriculture, not because of actual idleness on the part of the workers, but because labor is expend ed-innecesarily on operations that do not utilize it to the best advantage. If an old method can be superseded by a new one that will enable the same number of men to accomplish morte work in the same length of time or fewer men to accomplish the same work in the same length of time, it will mean more hay saved, more profit to the farmer, and a better condition for the country. Shift Burden from Man to Hlorste. the Although there is a scarcity of man lahor, there are still plenty of horses Portable Systems to!1 out of sight below will take care of si effective as a conn The t ype we rec ning water. Usini a fully modern batl The cost is moder -- The Santisep mneth A health authlorities. It < No chomicaka --- no) el Lt.booklot descril.'ng Sai 'mines, mills and int request. Inquliries art (Made by Cemn,t I'ro Outhouse T ype Hliil Plumnbii A pecnI a ystemn * for I'remuiues not aupplied withMa runig atr onl Most farms, and herein largely lies the solution of the problem. Onl farms whiere considerable ha y i s grown methods must be adopted by which the greater part of the heavy labor is done by horses. This will neecessitate the general use of certain types of labor-saving machinery, some Of them not so common inl thle East, which have been thorouglbly tested and proved satisfactory in the western part of the United States. The small hay grower, however, need not make a very heavy investment i new haying apparatus, for by rearranging the working of his crew and using a little more horse labor for the hard work 'he can add considerably to the eli-I ciency of his crew. Here are some suggestions made by the specialists for avoiding waste of labor in haymaking. Do not run two or more mnowersi close together. If the front mnower, has any trouble that causes it to stop all of the mnowers usually wait whiile repairs are made on one. There is a tendency, also, for drivers to waste too much time talking when they stop occasionally to let the teams rest. A good practice when two or more ma clhines are used is for each driver to, lay off a "land" for himiselfandwork independently, so there will be no Donttrn aybyhnd. t is too cotyN h haetadms fi cin4a fsirnghyi h i. mn wilt fdo mor work han largen fstirn werh handrks.e hIt iso even ethssr ut bae admantod run thc teeater boyt big teouheavy ar isoe by ddrss. hi vl n1cesim e themfen ral teo eti tyes o aboprvimatc hery o ofithtiot Qucommoninstale st round, have beenie Shrgytestda pwoved satifacr.yI in juht a str latof wth Uited Sttes.Thsml Shy growe, ouvr cnel notmave vryo havy kintchent ri ne.hyn od iatsecorne by rearning th woring of hiks crev aof itsi A litl isore hrse laor oes tcheoordsr ustre vlare sowime sgetions a bycthsCmpeay.listmraviingtowatC. ofn lbr inhyaig fRell Keep Well Do riot allow the poisons of undigested 1food to accumulate in your bowels, where they are absorbed into your system. indigestion, con stipation, headache, bad blood, and numerous other troubles are bound to follow. Keep your system clean, as thous ands of others do, by taking an occasional dose of the old, reliable, veg etable, family liver mea - cine. Thedford's Blackl Draught Mrs. W. P. Pickle, of Rising Pawn, Ga., writes: "We have used Thed ford's Black-Draught as a family medicine. My mother-in-law could not take calomel as it seemed too strong for her, so she used Black-Draught as a mild laxative and liver regulator . . . We use it in the family and believe It Is the best medicine for the liver 'made." Try it. ,Insist on the enuine - hedford's. ca pack age. 'E-75 drive a team wil do just as much wvork A one-hor'se rake operated bly a mat makes raking very costly. A two horse sulky rake is better, hut the side-delivery rake is heCst. W~heni eur inn is done in the sw:ath and ai hay Iloade r is used, the crew ennt st art taik ing the hay from the windrow as soor as the side delivery has made omt dolet wind~lrow acros st he field. Il the sulky rake is used, the crew will have to wait until the rake has gom several Lima:es aeross the fie hI. In t hi: matter the extenit 1,f the na~yinge operai tions has to be conisidlered, ot cour-;t On every small farms the use of thi side-lelivery *ake might not he If then weather is clear and the has is IIinpoperi cond~it ion, there will h no( to -ity forn hay-ca ps or' for fur her lahor till the hay Is thoroughly tiur' I and1( readly to he hauh-.l ha'. ay~s will pay for themselves in on0e \eari when thle w~eat her is hadI TIhey are mme C speciilly nieeded ''it elov -r, aulfalfa , andl paa v'ines.'s .1 ( hihein' .3h-wly. If hayv s to b~e hulnelied, th han1111 suly ta:ke 'an lunch :tn a:crs r " a lay andl a boy <a dhIIrive it a i keto honeh(1 ha; a fter it hi' lhve: .ik.'d into4 the vwindrow. It, is a gsoo phi: I o haveC twol men'h wo(rlking to :2-t'a r to roa1' tul the buncl'hes, .vin '(tore enn1 14 2 ; np1lished than v'h - It i.- a waiste oIf time to pitch hii, tot~ a- 101nm'i avr'c or a high- wheel lId- W 'N Ie a I::ig.' Iliy rack oi)a w. who ted waigoni. A.am jnu hay with 10 Lih'i. i , S 3 ,I )m 9in! In all games of endur your partner is an icy-co rahernme '7SITI Jad after cf ect (SY hardest, Slowest, and most expensiv( way. The nien are workinrg constant ly. but, tile horses are doing nothin4 niost of the time. If a loader is used the hardest part of the work is dont by the horses and the men can handh about :10 per cent more hay. Save Labor on the Stack The push rake furnishes the mos1 economical method of hauling hay t< the stack, barn. or hay press if th< distance is not much more than one fourth of a mile. One man, or a boy Nyith a good push rake and a tean used to the work will handle threi times as much hay as two mien with small rack on a high wheeled wagon. Stacking hay with a push rake am ai overshot stacker mounted 0i wheels eliminates nearly all of thi back-breaking work of the old pitch fork method. With a yield of one t oile aMd a halIf tons to tle aere, tw4 men on the stack can easily handle al the hay brought in by three pusl rakes, accomiplishing a vast saving ii labor and hay over the pitchforl method. Another method not so go< hut still vastly better than the pitch fork method is a stacker equipmen with a double harpoon fork. The out fit can he made at honie and will ens very little compared with the labo it saves, but harder work is necessar Ito get the haly onl the stack than witil teoesot stacker. then hays is to lbe haled from thb field, nehan b work inig in the after noon, c'anrun up enough hay which has been hunched by push rakes t< keep the press goinig next miorn inig un jtil the dew'~ is gone from the hay in th< wmndr'ow. When the hay is not thu: .roundled up the crew wil lose two hour1: or hmore on mornin1 jgs wvhen t here is: -heavy dlew. may resul t in loss of' labor. Whlec thle press is prioperly set two mieni ear get llenty of hay to it from the stack ('hemson ('ollege, .ay I10. -T'o meet thiead for spec('i tie in format ion (1n Ibol weevil poisoning. Prof. A. 1" Conradi, Entomologist for' the Stati (Iroj hPest C'ommission, hlas issued'I H OG S. On Bradha ~4We are going to 'and Gills and 2 1 'Hog Farm. This ever offered at A1 SBradha mce when Id bottle of I' Na through the Extension Service, Infor mation Card No 7. entitled "'Boll Weevil Poisoning in South Carolina in 1920."'' The card cons"i-sts of per tinent questions andI concise answers regarding such matters as the advis ability of poisoning, results to be ex pected, territory recommended for poisoning, what poison to use, how oh tained. machines for application, when fi rst applied and repeated, etc. Eimphasis is laid on the following facts: 1. i'hat boll weevil poisoning, though still in the experimental stage is likely to become an important fac tor inl wevvil control. 2. That is is merely a safeguard against runious damage and will not exterminate the weevil. 3. That it is recommended for 1920 only in those coast and near coast counties -%khere the weevil is in its third and fourth year, and only { Attention! IA. C. S. A BiIRCHI * Davis Sta IGenuine Ford and Gasolin4 and Fi SA. C. SHORTER, - Proprietor. ALE JUL m's Duroc Farm, Ma sell at Public Auctior loars on July 12th, a ; will be the b~est b)unc iction. Get our Catal< im Duroc 10 on land that would produce at. least, half a hale in the absence of weevil dlamage. 4. That calcium -arsenate from any re1ialble SUiOe, o'v(nform ing. to Govern11 ment specifications, is the poison to be uised. 5. That the whiel tractor duster seems the most satisfactory dusting iachie,11 though the hand duster is valuable for use on a small scale. 1. That dusting should beginl when infestation reaches 15 or 20 per cent, shouh he repeated three times live days apart, with further applications if needed to keep the infes;tation down to 25 per cent. 7. That whoever poisons in South Carolina in 11920 must. realize that he is experinlehlting, that mistakes will un1doubtedly he mnade, anld that unsat isfactory reuts may he secured. ADlERTISE IN TIlE TIMES Motorists!! 10TOR CO.! AGENTS lion, S. C. *& Parts, Gulf .i 3, Accessories t -ee Air. t C. B. GODWIN, Master Mechanie.* Y 12th! :i noing, S. C. i 4.0 Bred Sows t. t10 oI'cock, on a1 h of Dut:oe Sows * >gue. Farm,