Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Of Inte W. R. G! Farm Gossip One way to take the evil out of weevil for next year is to destroy cot ton stalks and other hibernating places now. As a consumer of by-products and farm waste the porker wins the championship. If yo ureally want to help Mrs. Biddy fill the egg basket, feed the bird. To too many farmers a new idea is about as welcome as a dose of poiscn. There are less than ton fruit trees average per farm in South Carolina. Therefore, fruit is high. Even doubting Thomases shouldI see now that co-operative darketing of cotton ayI tobacco is not a mere "gesture." ' A tip as to soil building. The far mer like all other people must "put" if he wishes to "take." Too many farmers want a "hardy" dairy cow, meaning one that will stand neglect, exposure, abuse, poor feeding, and still produce well. There ain't no such animal. Southern bankers are showing high appreciation of the need of helping farmers to market the'r products more efliciently. They realize that the farmer's business is everybody's business. The old story of casting pearls be fore swine has a parallel in feeding good corn to scrub hogs. IIating cultivated the other crops for some months, don't fail to give proper cultivation this winter to the most important of all crops.-the crop of country boys and girls. The 1921 Yearbook of the U. S. Department of Agriculture would, if printed privately, - sell for not less than $3.00, but farmers can get it free by writing to their senators or representatives in Washington. Beware of Improperly Certified Potatoes. Buyers of certified Irish potatoes should be careful to insist that the potatoes they get are certified for seed. Some of the growers of 'pota toes for table stock have formed as sociations and certify the potatoes sold under their name. Such pota toes arie ce(rt ified for dlomestic conl suimption only, and it can readlily be undlerstood that such a certificate WHAT FUN IT IS TO BE HUNGRY! YOU can't he well and unearty un less you are properly nourished you can't be eutong unless your appet ite is good. For a keen appetite, good dligestion, rich red blood(, and the "pmtich" and '"pep" that goes with perfect heal1th. You need G ude's; Pepto-Mangan. Tfake Gude's for a short time and note the hig dlifference in the way you look, eat andl feel. Your druggist has it--liquid or tab lets, as you prefer. Gud e's Pepto-fangan Tonic and Blood Enri cher Long Time At Low We are making Gov< Bank loans at six per cen years on Clarendon Cour In addition we can per cent for 10 years wit rower to pay the principi of any year. We are, therefore, ini estate loamis in any amoim want. All applications e thme loans quickly closed. WEINBERG Mannih rest to F Edited by AY, County Demonstrath 3flice Phone 247--Residence Phone 18 would be utterly meaningless from a grower's standpoint. Certificates for seed stock indi cate their purpose clearly and give the small percentages of disease and other defccts found in the crop by the inspectors. Buyers can get copies of these certificates from the grower when buying. If a dealer offers for sale seed potatoes which he claims to be certified, he ought to be able to show a copy of the certificate. If he has neglected to get it, he.can still get it later. Inability to show such a copy or secure it should be con sidered good evidence that his claim is false. The buyer should make sure that the certified potatoes bought for seed are certified for seed and not for domestic use. Winter Care of Bees It is time to put bees into winter packing cases. In making these pre parations for winter care of bees there are three very important things to be remembered, says E. S. Pre vost, Extension . Sipcialist in Bee Keeping. First, the packing cases should be made of good seasoned lum ber and the packing material should be thoroughly dry. Second, there should be a good queen that will be ready for work early in the spring. Third, there should be a suflicient amount of good quality honey for winter stores, In regard to winter stores, bee I keepers are cautioned that the sum mer and fall honey may crystalize rapidly and bees can not use it for food when in this condition. There fore, where the honey has crystal lized, winter feeding must then be lone. If there is occasion to open the hives at this time of the year,- be sure to select the warm portion of the day; otherwise, there is danger of chilling the bees and losing the stand. Value of Community Co-operation in Cotton Growing Several years ago, the Agronoyny Division of Clemson College realized the value of community co-operation in cotton growing and inaugurated work along this line in several coun ties of the state. The work will be further developed next season, as an aid in fighting the boll weevil. Community cotton growing is the planting of one good variet ychosen by the growers of a community and further improvement by seed selec tion each year. One of the beneficial results to be obtained from this plan is the dis carding of inferior varieties, or so calle' I varieties, wvhich are being grown in South Carolina, and which' cause a jarge part of the cotton crop to be of low quality. It is the common belief that man yfarmers that a variety runs out after having been grown for several yea rs; hut if proper seed selection is imaintained, the variety should be improved both in yield and in quality and become adapted to local condi tions. The so-called running out of veariet~ ies is due chiefl1y to crossing of varieties in fields close together anrd to m ixin gof seed of dliflerent va rieties at. publ ie gins. These di liculties mayv he overcome if the growers wvould adopt one good variet y and growv it exclusively. This woul I result in the production of a more nn iform and bettfer quality s;ta ple that woul sell at a premim, for' buyers~ are fast dean in ig great er uif orm it y in length anrd quality Farm Loans Interest! rnment ,Joint Stock Land t interest for a term of 33 ty farms. make loans at seven per i the privilege in the bor al or any part at the e'nd positioni to negotiate real mt and on the terms you re promptly handled and & STUKES, armers rn Agent 8 and are filling to pay for those things. Earliness, prolificiness, uniformity and length of staple and a high per .centage of lint are some of the quali ties sought in producing a desirable cotton for growing under boll weevil conditions. Co-operative Growing Lessens Weevil Damage When many varieties are planted in a community, some are earlier fruited than others and the weevils will have multiplied on the earlier fruiting cotton and immigrate to the later fruiting varieties in such num bers as practically to destroy the crop. The variety which begins tio await first is not necessarily the best, for there are three distinct factors in. earliness. These factors are (1) time at which cotton begins to bloom, (2) the rapidity with which blooms appear after blooming starts (3) length of time required for fruit to develop after bloom opens. A great many people have over looked the second and third points and have judged the earliness of cot ton entirely on the basis of time it. begins to bloom. Actually, points two and three are more important than point one and -should be care fully considered in choosing the va riety for earliness. In the final analysis high yields and better quality at reduced 'cost per nere are' desired, Varieties Recominmended tor Adoption According to tests such varieties as King, IHalf and Ialf, Simpkins, and. Cooke have shown undesirable qualities and are not to be recom mended. The following varieties which have given best, results for South Carolina conditions, are recommended for community adoption. 1. Short staple varieties.-Cleve land Big Boll on wilt-''ree land, Dixie Triumph on wilt-infc-sled land. 2. Long staple yarieties.--Webber 49, Deltatype Webber. Lightning Express mad,_- a goodl showing at Clemson College Experi ment Station this year. Impacted Crop (Crop Hound) In general two immediate causes may be given for birds becominwr crop bound. (1) The thin muscular walls may be paralyzed either through over-distention with dry grain or through come disease, as cholera vn diptheria. (2) The opening into the lower portion of the esophagus miay become clogged by long straws. fea thiers or other substances. In either case, the crop fails to empty iiselfC while the bird continues to eat unitil the crop is greatly dlistendied andl p~ackced solid. Impacted crop~ is a common udisease of poultry. A large number of things have been assignedl as a cauise o this trouble. It is probable that the real cause lies in low vitality duie t'o implroper feeding and indigestion. Every pouiltryman knowvs that very often fowls will eat large quantities of hay, straw, strings, feathers, etc., without showving the least incon venience, If the digestive organs are n the proper health and tone they will usually takIe careo of any over loading of the crop. It is only when the tone o ft,he digestive organs have been lowered b~y improper feeding, housing, or by some disease, that the crop fails to perform its usual func tion. Occasionally a ease of imipac tion may properly be attributed to overloadling the crop~ with indliges tible matter. Such cases wvill occur only rarely andl sporadically. Itf many crop-boumd birds appear in the flock, it may 1)e taken as certIin the.t osmeting more fundamental is the caIuse. Symptoms.-TIhe first sympton is a loss oIf appetite or an effort of the bird to swvallowv without being able to do so. The crop is seen to very large and much dlistended with con tents which are more or less firmly packed('( together. If Cpermitted to continue, the conditions becomes ag gravated, the brea thing difmcult, and (loath may result. TPreatment.-If a large number of crop-bhoundl birds occurs in a flock, it should be taken as a sign that something is wvrong in the manage ment. Measures should 1be taken to correct errors in feeding and thus give the bird a more vigorous diges tion. In such epidemics other evi dlences of indigestion are usually piresent, andl the particular treat ment o fthe flock will depend largely on these other symptoms. In general encouraged to take: as nuch 0xercge as possible, and should have jilety of green food. When a crop-bound bird is found it nust be treated individually.' If the crop-bound condition is discover ed and treated at the .beginning of the trouble, the bird will usually re cover quickly and may make a pro fitible rowi. On the other hand, if the condition has become , chronic, the vitality of the bird is greatly -lowered. In this latter case it may recover, but it will be a long time before it will recaly the owner for his trouble and feed. Instructions for operation for im pacted crop may be had by writing to the Extension Poultry Speciali,t, Clemson College, S. C. THE TRUTH, REGARDLESS Aboard Clemenceau's Private Car Enroute to Chicago, Nov 27.-Georges Clemenceau today, referring to cri ticisms of his speeches, declared he speaks his piece in his own way, re gardless of who he offended. He has received dozens of telegrams from friends urging him to tone down his remarks so they will be inoffensive to any portion of the nation. He said h.: came to tell the truth and say the things he thought would help pre serve world peace. THE GOULD RECORD IS GREATLY IMPROVED When Magistrate Bruce W. Cobb, of New York City, sent to prison Frank M. Gould, a son of Edwin Gould, for open and wilful violation of the laws against automobile spaed ing, he performe-d a public service, though it did involve the humiliating experieece of fingerprinting the young millionaire. For once the . c.urt gave a. deicn stration of the fact t h:.t I'llh law is not always a respectoa," of large for tunes. 'Tho only satisfaction that can come to young Gould is that he has upheld the family tradition of keeping his nam before the public. The first notable episode came to his distinguished grandfather, Jay Gould who was compelled to hide him self in the old Grand Opera House to CYPRESS SASH DOORS BLINDS MOULDINGSv AND MILL WORK THIS NEW This Improven With every new a< we will Alve PRE] cover with cutter without a machin check from being amount, and then Call at our improved se: THlE T. M.Mot Buy the More Columbia Bap United States than bined, because ,Columbias have bee scale considerably lc battery They have over 30 turing skill and imi -them Every improvement developed in the Co The Columbia "Ho cessful assembly of c And again Colum1 leadership through new Steel Case "Ho Wherever a dry bat will always give the For sale rigl Hardware Stores General Stores Gar Look for the t Dry Ba to avoid an infuriated mob gathered outside in dangerous objection to cer .tain financial operations. George Gould, the son, began his publicity with the Zella Nicholaus dis closures, and has bfought it up to (late by his latest matrimonial sensa tion. The exploits of Anna Gould, with her funny little Count Castellane, are of too recent a date to need discus sion. Now, seemingly, the third genera tion, jealous of the family propensity for public notice, intends tb keep the Gould name'to the fore. The incident of sending a Gould to jail might not be worthy of notice save for the fact that persons who by wealth or position are so eminently conspicuous owe a greater duty to society than the smaller fry, and are expected to set something of an ex ample at least so far as obeying the law is concerned. When they flout the rules of order ly society, then a jail sentence is a splendidi corrective. The alfalfa acreage of Michigan-in creasedl over 260,000 acres this year following alfalfa campaigns con dluctedl the past winter by agricultu ral extension workers in that State, accordling to reports to the United CHECK BOOK FR 17* OUR BANK CHECK PROTECI WITHOUT A MAC IVEN WITHOUT COS'l uent In Banking Servic scount opened at our bank f E. this handsome book of P] ittached. This new system< e enables you to protect tU raised. Just write your che tear off at the margin (lik4 bank and we will be slad to demi rc ebwhchwe have installed 19r ) BANK OF MAN IZON, Cashier ~~ T~s~'PH Si1 JAMES M. SPRIPT AnnL. Cashier 1*117 - they lest ban eries are used in the ill other makes coin a manu'actured on a large >nger than any other dry years of battery inanufac >roved equipment behind of \any account has been lunibia laboratories t Shot" was the first suc ry cells in one package ia has demonstrated Its the development of the Shot" Battery tery is needed, Columbia best service .t near you by Electricians ImplementStores ages iame Columbia ia Ltteries -they last lo-agev States Department of Agriculture. Shipments of sheep and lambs back to the country for feeding showed an increase during the first nine months of this year of 355,000 head, or more than 21 per cent, over the correspond ing period of last year, although there was a decrease in market receipts of 2,206,000 head, or nearly 13 per cent, according to a report o fthe United States Department of Agriculture. More than a billion and a half pounds of butter was produced in the United States during 1.921, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. This is an increase of 10 1-2 per cent over the proouction in 1920. Consumption increased more than production by 20,000,000 pounds, the difYerence being taken (are of by impo'ts and butter withdrawn from cold storage. An ugly cut ? MENTHOLATUM is antiseptic and EE TO YOU / HINE r To YOU~ * FREE to You or $ 5.00 or more, COTECTU checks, fcekprotection LO amoutit of your ek for the desired a a money ordew). rnstrate ba out be~tt VNGC~