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Of Inte. W. R. Gi SWEET POTATO STORAGE Owners os managers of potato cur ing houses should get everything in readiness for handling the crop, as it will not be long the digging season is on us. First of all crates should be purchased. In last week's paper I published a notice from The Sweet Potato Association warning members to get in their order for crates at once. Do not neglect this or your crates may cost you more than they will now, or you may not have them on hand at curing time. If the house has been used before for storing potatoes it should be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected. This will get rid of decay or other disease germs that may be present in the house. Any one of several methods may be used. The house may be sprayed with a solutio nof bi chloride of mercury at the rate of about an ounce to five gallons of water or a solution made by dissolving one pound of copper sulphate in 25 gal lons of water. The day before -you start bringing in potatoes, open al lyour ventilators and -dry out the house at a tempera ture of 85 to 90 degrees. Successful curing and marketing of sweet potatoes begins in the field. No agency can successfully keep and market diseased, bruised, cut and otherwise badly handled sweet pota toes. The potatoes can be readily dug with a good two horse opener put in the ground deep t onvoid cut potatoes. In harvesting them do not pitch one on top if another or you will have a bruise which will cause a badly dis colored potato and one that is difficult to cure out properly. Handle them carefully and you will be sepaid with sound, bright, marketable potatoes coming from the curing house. Farmers expecting to store in the commercial houses should by all means grade their potatoes carefully in the field. It will not be profitable to store anything except number one stock. Feed your number two's and culls to hogs, or bank them for farm use. Any individual or community who desires a field grading demonstration may get one by notifying me at an early (late. Do not wait too late or my time will be all taken up and I may not get to you on time. I will probably be able to get a marketing agent to aid us with this work. Rotation for Pee Dee Section I wish to call your attention to the following rotation for this part of the State which has been worked out by the Agronomy Division of Clemson College. If followed either of these rotations mean improved soils, and that is one of our greatest needs. Look this over carefully and try to follow the one most adapted to your farm. No. I--Three-Year Rotation First year.-Corn and soy beans 9mproi FOR o installed checks k System, service. To corn g-g frauds ca enefttthereby of checi should it dishones OUR BA Check If you ar checking a in and see l .service th all our cw BQUALLY DE~SK THE BANKO0 JOSEl'I' . T. \. MIOU/ON, ( .JAMIES rest toE Edited by AY, County Demonstrati )flice Phone 247-Residence Phone 1f followed by oats, wheat, rye or bar ley. Second year.-Small grain,-oats, rye, barley or wheat, followed by peas, peanuts, sweet potatoes, or sorghum. Third year.-Cotton and cover crop, -rye and vetch, oats and vptch, crim son clover or bur clover. Explanation-If velvet beans are grown in the corn, they will need to be pastured down early fro the fall seeding of small grains. Otherwise peanuts, 'sweet potatoes, Irish pota toes or sorghum may be planted the following spring and the small grain left out. Peanuts or soy beans may be substituted for cotton in the rota tion as money crops. Special note by Prof. A. F. Conradi, State Entomologist, regarding rota tion No. 1.-A cover crop should be kept on land in this section the year preceding cotton in order to control the cotton root louse. Rye is recom mended for this purpose. No. 2.-Two-Year Rotation. First year.-Corn and velvet beans or soy beans or cowpeas. Second year.-Cotton followed by cover crop. Explanation.-Cover crops follow ing cotton may be oats and vetch, rye and vetch, crimson clover or bur clov cr. Peanuts, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes or sorghum may be sub stituted for a partof the cotton. No. 3.-Four-Year Rotation. First year.-Cotton and cover crop of rye for plowing under. Second year.-Corn and peas for plowing under. Third year.-Oats, peas for hay, rye for cover crops. Fourth year.-Tobacco. Explanation.-A large amount of legumes for plowing under is to be avoided, as too much organic nitrogen in the soil may darken the tobacco. The cotton and corn may each be re peated, making this a six-year rota tion, if desirable. Tobacco does not fit well int oa good soil improvement rotation and prefer ably should be grown on the best to bacco soil apart from the general ro tation for most of the farm. Alfalfa is a good feed and cash crop on many soils in the Pee Dee section of South Carolina, but it is seldom uesd in a definite rotation with other crops. Usually corrfis the best crop to follow alfalfa. Special note by Prof. H. W. Barre, Director of Experiment Station. Where cowpeas are used in this sec tion, either Iron or Brabham variety should be planted. Where wilt is pre sent, a wilt-resistant variety of cot ton (Dixie Triumph) should be used. On land which is badly infected with the root knot, crops on which it thrives should be left out of this rota tion and crops which are not affected by it grown until the trouble has been eliminated. Crop sleast affected are: barley, soy beans (Laredo variety only), velvet beans, corn, cowpeas (Brabham, Iron, Monetta, and Victor varieties), grasses, peanuts, rye, sor ghum, and wheat. Crops most affect ed are: alfalfa, sweet clover, cotton, )ecL &ice ar depositors with ng accounts, we I've this new system of iown as the Protectu s an added improved bat the numeroues ised by raising check em enables you to rour check at amount like a money order], insuring the amount from being~ raised getlost, or fail into ?OTECTU System i Scieigopening a ecut yall moeans corne bis additional improved it we are giving free to tomers. PRACTICAL FOR WPCKCBT, AND PAY ROLL, iSB F MANNING PROTT"I, President. Ish. PITAs.ahir 'arm1rs' in Agent 8 sweet potatoes, beets, cantaloupes, bur clover, cowpeap (all except Iron, Brabham, . Monetta and Victor), to bacco and watermelons. Select Seed Corn In Field The yield of corn can be increased very materially and very cheaply by the use of better seed, and better seed may be secured through the selec tion in the field. Seed corn that will produce the largest crop of good corn is nearly always the cheapest seed to .use. It is not only possible to in crease the yield of corn but it is also possible to very materially improve the quality and uniformity of the seed. This latter point is of great value in case we wish to sell any part of the crop as corn of good quality uniformity will bring much better prices on the market than will mixed and uneven lots of corn. It is best to make our selection of seed in the field where we can see not only the size of ear but the stalk on which it grew and the number of cars per stalk. Seed corn should be selected in the field from stalks that grow under nor mal conditions, that are free from disease, preferabl yfrom stalks hav ing two good ears to the stalk. If selertion is made in the crib we are likely to select ears that are grown under unusual conditions and prob ably with only one ear to the stalk. We should also select ears that are well protected from insects by .- 7 shuck which covers the ear che. Seed corn when gathe:.: should behung in a dry air place. It should not be allowed to freeze until thoroughly dry. After it is well cured it should be stored in a dry place where it will remain secure from mice, rats, birds and insects. Well-cured seed corn will produce a much better yield than corn not pro perly cured. Rules For Successful Hog Raising 1. Good brood sows should always have 'a balanced ration, sufficient ex ercise, and a good bed. 2. Farrowing rails, no matter of what material they are made, will be worth their cost. 3. Many of the pigs are farrowed between midnight and dawn and it pays to be there. 4. A good dry bed, changed often, mnakes up for a lot of other imperfec tions. Plan to have a supply of dry bedding handy at all times. 5. Contrary to popular belief, hogs can not thrive in filth. Avoid man ,ure piles, dusty stalls, and stagnant pools. Probabl ymore trouble with pigs starts with suckling a sow that has been lying in a stagnant mud hole than from any other cause, un les sit be dusty pens. 6. Plenty of clean water should be handy at all times, for the pig drinks often if. he has the chance. 7. Plan to have clover ,alfalfa, rape, rye or soy beans at all times on the farm and cheapen the cost of production. Farm Gossip The following is a list of the Sweet Potato Curing houses construe in this county within the last ye. and their capacity in The Manning Cur ing House, A. L. Luce, Manager, 5,000 bushiels; W. R. Davis, Silver, 2500 bushels; M. V. Plowden, Gable, 1,000 bushels; J. McD. McFaddin, Manning, 1,000 bushels; -C. A. Har vin, Summerton, 500 bushels; G. II. ,Coulliette, SIlver, 1,000 bushels; A. S. Rawvlinson, Davis Station, 2500 bu shels; W. D. Allen, Summerton, 2500 bushels under constructIon; J. C. Du Rant, Jr., Alcolu, 1,000 bushels, un der construction--In addition to these there is the F. C. Thomas house at Bloomvilel which was built several years ago. This gives us ten storage houses with a combined capacity of 22,000 bushels. Next years weeds from this years seedls are being made now. Whose fault is it? The cover crop gospel is having ef fect. Inquiries from al lover the county are coming in. Messrs. C. L. Mims and M. E. Worsham and likely others of the Sandy Grove section will plant a good acreage of rye and vetch. D. L. Trindal of near Pinewood har vestedl sixty bushels of corn per, acre from some of his crop this year. A heavy crop of velvet beans on the land last year nuff' said. Also Mr. Tindal's cheek plots show that calcium arsenate dust on his cot ton paid him handsomely this year. Mr. Tindal used a two horse, three rowv Iron Age machine. His best cot ton was obtaine dwhere he was able to ap~ply the full number of applica-. tions accordmIig to governmen~t recoin mendations. The farmer cho fails to plor under cotton stalks in the fall to help de stroy the holl weevil is the kind of nman who "trusts to luck" and is us tially unlucky. Make your land comfortable this winter b~y wrapping it up in a blanket of grreen and it will make you comn fortalIe next season by inlcreased pro dIuction. If it costs as much to fight the boll wveevil on land that yields a third of hale per acre as on land that yIelds a hale per acre, whats the answer? Buildl the soil. Most of our farmers can at, least lpoint to a goodl crop of well cured hny thiearm. At PEE DE FAIR Florence, S. C. OCTOBER 19th, 3 P. M. NOW ON SALE! Grandstand and Bleacher Seats, $1.50; General Admission, $1.00 Only Big College Foot Ball Game in Pee Dee this Season - THE BIG FAIR 4 Big Days and Nights-Radio Concerts and Fire Works Each Night! R. D. SALLENGER, Secretary, Florence, S. C. :mmmmtat u-nummu Money to Lend! We represent the First Carolinas Joint Stock Land Bank of C6lumbia, organized under the Federal Farm Loan Act, and have connection with several insurance companies lending money in the county. In addition we control nearly a half million dollars of private loan funds. If the security is right we can arrange farm loans of any size. DuRant & Ellerbe, MANNING South Carolina. Dose BROTHERS B9UINC55 COUPE With tnis coupe Dodge Brothers have proved once for all that a closed car can' be as sturdy and practically as inexpensivej as an open roadster. This is largely due to the all-steel body the first ever nmarketed--which admkits o lower cost of manufacture throu'gh stand-7 ardized machine production. Unlike wedd the steel auirface will taike a finish of enamel, baked on at high temperature. This process results in a permanent lustre, and eliminaaes the troubb and e*pense of repainting. The wide (traiight seat is upholstered in genuine Spanish blue leather, durable and readily cleaned. HARVIN MOTOR CO., Dealers, Manning, S. C