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Of Inte: W. R. GE Results of Some Plant-to-Row Cotton Breeding Work. Mr. E. E. Hall, Extension Plant Breeding Specialist, and I in co-op eration with Mr. D. L. Tindal of near Pinewood this year carried on a plant to-row cotton breeding test. It is generally recognized that on wilt free lands of this section that Cleveland Big Boll is the best short staple cot ton we have. The test was therefore made with this variety of cotton. The purpose of the test was to de termine the highest yielding 'strain or strains of Cleveland under our conditions. The test consisted of p twenty rows, all grown under the same conditions as nearly as possible. I may say here that this test patch was planted rather late and in a comparaticely low place; the yields are therefore lower than would have been the case if the conditions had not been so adverse. However, we were chiefly interested in the com ratively yields of the different ins, as already stated. results o fthis work are very ag and clearly demonstrate e of careful seed selection and nug. I will not attempt to give yields of every row, but only nough to show the variation that there is in seed of the same variety grown under the same conditions. The cotton from these rows was all pick ed at one time and carefully weighed by Mr. Hall and myself ,and from thtis the yield per acre was calculated. Notes were kept on earliness, type of plant, length of staple, etc. The highest yielding tow in the plot produced at the rate of 892 lbs. per acre. The lowest yielding row produced at the rate of 454 pounds per acre making a difference of 438 lbs. or a difference in money value of $43.74 per acre. Seed were saved from the five highest yielding rows and the balance discarded. The aver age yield of these five highest rows was 856 pounds. The averag of t: e rows not saved was 649 pound s. Lint cotton from rows saved for seed averages $20.70 more per acre than that from those rows which were not saved. This work will be carried on from year to year. We will have sufficient seed fro mthe five highest yielding rows to plant good sized increased plots on Mr. Tindal's farm next year. Seed from certain of the highest yield ing plants of most desirable type will be planted in another plant-to-row test in 1923. In this way we can in a short time develop high yielding strains of cotton. These high yielding seed will then be sold to other farmer s in the com munity at a moderate price ,with a view to getting a superior strain of one variety generally used in a com munity. This will make it easier to keep the seed pure and up to standard. Ifailed to state that this cotton was all dusted with calcium arsenate and the entire plot average 700 pounds per acre. These rows were checked and tha seed planted by hand in order to get the same number of plants per row and the same distance between plants. FORAG;E F'ORl' OltK PI'ODUCTION Clemson College, Nov. 21.-Forage is necessary for economical pork pro duction in the South. A recent gov ernment .survey ma~de ini Illinois and Iowa showed the average cost of pro ducing 1001 p)ounds' of pork to be $5.88. Over 50 per' cent of this cost was for feeds, which cost about one tlhirid as rouchel as we have to pay for them in South Cartolina. If we try to produ1.ce por'k bty the same' methbodl, it is(V eviet that outr ptrofi ts will be verys small, says E'. G. Godbey, A\ss is tat Anaimta lt ilsband1 man 1, who' r(m indts us, hiowever, that our' cibutt is soch th-it we maty have forage practtt icallI yeverIy day in the yeart, andt that goodl forage means cheap ptork. tttIn order to determ' inle the exac't r'elation of('(ost(1f pork produced ont corn1, cornt ttt an ~tnkage, and ont cotrn andai fora ge ' rops, a ft etdinag test was start d at ClItmson on SepJtember 13, Long Time,: At Low We are making G~ove Bank loans at six per cen years on Clarendon Couni In adldition we can per cent for 10 years witi rower to pay the prinicip of any year. We are, therefore, in estate loans in any amiot want. All applications a the loans quickly closed. WEINBERG Manni rest to F Edited by A Y, County Demonstrati )ijice Phone 247-Residence Jlione 18 1922. Soy beans were used for for age for the first thirty-six days, and the hogs are on rape and rye at the present time. During the first thirty-six day pe riod the hogs of Lot 1, on corn and soy beans, made an average daily gain of 1.,5 pounds at a cost of 4 cents per pound; Lot 11, on corn and tankage, made an average daily gain of .80 pounds at a cost of 9 cents per pound; Lot III, on corn alone, made an average daily gain of .49 pounds, at a cost of 11 cents per pound. An acre of soy beans produced ap proximately 400 pounds of pork. The rye and rape will not be so profita ble, but wil lenable us to produce pork profitably. THE PIN-HOLE OR THE SHOT-HOLE BORER Clemson College, Nov. 21.--Among the most important steps in control ling the pin-hole or shot-hole borer in shade and fruit trees is to clean up thoroughly all the refuse mate rial in the grove or in the orchard. All prunings of every description should be removed and burned. These recommendations hold In eases where the pest has not yet appeared, as well as in places where trees are already infested. Careless operation in even a healthy grove or orchard during the summer will attract the pests, and where refuse is allowed to remain during seasons when these pests are abundant, it invariably leads to serious conse quences, warns Prof. A. F. Conradi, Entomologist. Where anyone experiences trouble with pin-hole of shot-hole borer on shade trees at this time of the year, we recommendthat he write to the Extension Service, Clemson College, giving full information as to the kind, size, and age of trees, the kind of soil where they are growing, and whether on terraces or on washed hill sides. In pruning the orchard special at tention should be given to the borer. Heavily infested limbs that are hope less should be entirely removed, and where any trees are infested, they should likewise be taken out. These shot-hole borers have a preference for trees that have been weakened by one or more of the following causes: 1, Scale; 2, borers; 3, lack of nourishment. Examination for one or more of these causes should be made and proper treatment given. Extension Circular 25, giving information for treating insects andl diseases, may be had upon0 ap~plication. "NO DNJFLATlION IN TIURIKEY PIRICES" ''For the few hales of cotton tIhat the farmer this year has raised the State hopes that he will receive the h ighest poss ible pirice and so Tlhe State hopes in respect to all of his produtcts, inch1(iing tu rkeys. But why is the t urkey crop small? It was niot inju red by boll weevi ls-the bodll weevil, according to reports, should h improve the turkey crop)---btt in The St ate last Sunday turkeys were advert isedl at 40 cents a poundl. '"Be fore the warl tur ikeys sold1 at 12 1-2 cents a pound--why have tur kly b\S een exiO npt fr'om the frightful re!ruIts of defla tion ? D)id Governor lIIardling anrd t he federal reserve boa rd overlook them ? "The seasons have not been goodl Farm Loans Interest! rnment .Joint Stock Land t initerest for a term of 33 ty farms. make loans at seven per i the privilege in the bor al or any part at the end position to negotiate real nt and on the terms you re promptly handled and & STUKES, The packag Your taste < The sales pi Over 7 bilk LIGGETr & MYERS ToBAcco Co. is no evidence that it would be worth anything. Comparatively few of the weevils that enter winter-quarters in the fall succeed in passing the winter and puncture the squares the next spring. Therefore cotton production amounts to a race between the cotton crop and the time when weevils become abundant; or, in other words, it amounts to an effort to get bolls formed and hardened before the wee vils become very abundant. Any op eration that delays planting and maturing is dangerous, because the squares and young bolls will be lost later in the season by the increasing numbers of weevils. In short, there is no evidence at hand that anything is gained by late planting, but abundant evidence is at hand that there may be much to lose. We therefore advise planting without delay when conditions have become favorable, and we advise (10 in geverything possible and practica ble to keep the plants fruiting and to hasten maturity. 'TRIMMING IUEES FOlt D)ISEA SE CON'ii-Gi, Clemson Colelge, Nov. 21.-The time has no warrivedl for fruit giow THIS NEW 4 This Umprovemi With every ne~w ae< we will Alve'FREE cover with cutter a1 without a machine check from beinb i - amount, and then Cell at our 1 improved ser THEJ] - T. M. MOU amers ) Agen . 8 for turkeys, the rains have killed many of the little ones-but one can not help suspecting that had 2Q,000 farmers of South Carolina, who did not strive successfully against the weevils, devoted time and solicita tious care to turkeys, the crop would have been five to ten times larger than it is. I "The State congratulates the farm ers and their wives and daughters who with diligenice i.id unremitting attention have raised turkey3 and non have them to soil at 40 cents a pound-it hopes that they will re 'ceive even better prices for them but is it not singular that so little of the energy and industry that were not given to cotton production has been diverted to turkeys? The cot ton crop s "off" about 700,000 bales and turkeys are among the few class es of ultimate consumers of boll wee vils. "Possibly, and probably, more in telligence and perserverance are re quired to raise a brood of turkeys than to raise a half bale of cotton. Anyway, ten turkeys weighing ten pounds each, are worth in the mar ket $40 and that is as much as a third Qf a bale of cotton fetches.-The State. EARLY VERSUS LATE PLANTING OF COTTON Clemson Colege, Nov. 21.-"We con tinue to advise planting cotton with out delay in the spring, using early varieties, and pushing the crop to early maturity," says Prof. ,A. F.. Conradi, Entomologist, itn answering a number of farmera who, having observed that in some instances the weevil damages was worse in early planted cotton this year than on late planted cotton, ' have asked us in re gard to the advisability of planting late hereafter hather than early. The fact that infestation in some instances was heavier on an early planted field may be accounted for in tow ways, as follows, Prof. Con radi continues: 1. The weevil rarely occurs uni formerly over a given section, farm or field. The farmer will invariably find that some spots are more heavily in-. fested than others, and this accounts for early cotton in sonic cases hav ing been more heavily infested than late cotton. 2. In some sections, especially in the Piedmont section, cotton plant ing was greatly delayed on many eids, because of adverse weather conditions, but due to the mild win ter and the very early spring , the wveevil began t~o come out of winter quarters very early. The result was that a large number of the over~ wi nteredl weevilIs dIied before cotton ibegan to square. A condition just like this may not occur again for many years andI, even if it did, there No more Rheumiaf m $ ni~ /asgone fivm your face,ohe" S. S. S. Is the Great Builder of Red Blood-Cells and Rheumatism Must Gol Just Try iI "Itheumatism11? Me? No, Indeedi, It's all gone, every bilt of It! It's sunshlno and l oy for mse noiw for the firt time11 in y'ears. I feel a woinderfui glory ogaina In the free miot ion Ii useil to hiavo when may days wire younge*r. I look ast 1my hns andii thm k of the twists a ndi swellings they used to haive. I lhead way over to the floor. I hasven't b~een ahlo to (do that in miiay years. I can thiank H. S. H. for It sill ! To mec It was a rising 8sun of joy andl liberty. 1Irothesrs and sisters In misery, do not cloisi yoiur eyes aindl thnk that healthi, free motlion aind strength aire gono fromt 3 vu forever! It Is not so. It Is here and niv for aill of you. H. H. H. is wait ing to help yous." Th'Ierie Is a reaisoit why H. H. S. will help you. When you increase the numbier of your reid-lood cells, the entire syste,n tundergiies a tremeiidous chan~ige. Everything deipenids on blbod strength. Blood whleh Is minus siuffielent red-~cells leaids to a long list of troubles. Rtheumantismn Is one of them. ~5. 8,.. 8. I the greast blood-eleanser, blood-buIlder, system strengthener, nerve InvIgorator. It steps skin eruptIons, too, pImpleS, black heads, acne, bo0ils, eczema. It builds up run down, tIred men and women, beauti fies comp lexions, makes the flesh firmer. Start 8. 8. S. todasy. It Is sold at nil drug atores In two aizes. The larger size bottle Is the mole economica. suggests it. :onfirms it. rove it. In sold yearly ti r 1 .1 1 heste: CIGARE - ers to be thinking of the annual win ter clean-up of the orchard for dis ease control. This should consist of a careful trimming with gimme diate burning of the brush and other trash, followed by a thorough appli cation of commercial or boiled lime sulphur spray. The importance of the spray in the control of fungous pests has long been recognized but the importance of pruning for the same purpose is of ten overlooked, says Dr. C. A. Lud wig, Associate Plant Pathologist. On this account special care should be taken to remove all twigs and small branches which are dead or cankerdd, because the dead wood usually har bors destructive parasites. Foi' a sim ilar reason all trimmings should be burned promptly. Otteri a para site can live over the winter in the twig or branch, even when it is off the tree. Likewise, all decayed or munmnied fruit on or under the trees should be raked together and burned. 'Where trunks or large branches are cankered, it may not be practica ble to cut them off. In such cases the cankers can be chiseled out, tak ing care to cut away an inch or so of healthy wood to make sure that every last bit of the parasite is re movedl. Such cuts, and in fact all HECK BOOK FR 7*oOUR BANK CHECK PROTECT WITHOUT A MACI VEN WITHOUT COST ent In Banking Servlce sount opened at our bank Ic this handsome book of PR Ltachedl. This new system ol enables you to protect th4 ,lsed. Just write your chec Ltear off at the muarbin (like &ANvK OFMANF CON, Cashier' ' JONNP'SPfl( JAM~ES M. SR~t'T Anat Cashjm. c:"j sl. / I/ e Convenient package -glassine-wrapped. mield TTES large cuts, should be covered inirii diately with ao coat if shellae, fol lowed in a few minutes with one of coal tar. Or the cut surface can be allowed to dty and a coat of white lead and corrosive sublimate paint s applied. The corrosive sublimate should be finely ground and mixed thoroughly yith ordinary white lead paint at the rate of one-eighth to one-half ounce Ps. gallon. 'Ph wound covering should be in spected every six months or so and renewed whenever found to be brok en until the new growth entirely covers the cut area. CORN EXPORTS INCREASIN G Exports of corn from the United States for the first eight months of 1922 exceeded the exports for the en tire year 1921 by 2,488,743 bughels, according to figures compiled by the United States Department of Agri culture. The total exports for 1921 were 128,974,505 bushels and for the first eight months of 1922, 131,463, 248 bushels. -These figures do0 not in clude corn and corn flour, of wvhich 452,766 barrels--the equivalent of 1,811,064 bushels of corn-Z-were ex ported during the first eight months of 1922. EE TO YOU No, ION 'INE 'TO YOU FREE to You r$ 5.00 or more, OTECTU checks, 'cheek protqction amfleunt of yu ek for the deafreci - mUoney~ order). -ING i', President