The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, April 06, 1921, Image 5
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Home Demons
Summary of Months Work?March,
.. 1921.
v:dumber consultations held 15.
^.Jfiuinber women's meetings held 9.
-Attendance 107.
Nurabej*. girls' meetings held 11.
Attendance 121.
Number schools or clubs visited 20.
Number cluba?members visited 15.
Others not members 2. .
Number letters written 57. Circular
lefers sent 57. Bulletins sent 95.
Number miles traveled:?Rail 94,
auto 706. Total 800.
! Name of supervisor or specialist
visiting you during month, Miss Bes
r sie Harper (District Agent).
ANNIE C. CAUGHMAN,
County Home Demonstration Ag't.
April Meetings.
Schedule of home demonstration
' meetings to be held during month of
April:
April 4.?Office. ,
April 5.?'Round Hill home demonstration
club?Churning.
April ?Charter Dak home demonstration
club?Churning.
'* ;AprfT 7.?Liberty Hill home demonsfratibh
club?Churning.
* ~:;April 8;?Red Knoll home demon'
' stratiOn- club?^Churning.
, ^ April 8.?Red Knoll sewing club?
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April 9.?Office.
' April 11?-Pine View jcooking club
?Cooking. : t'
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April 12.?Summit home demonstration
club?Churning.
- April 12.?Summit sewing club?
*'*s Sewing. ;
April <13.?Pond Branch home dem
PRESENTS REASONS
FOR LESS ACREAGE
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The State, 31.
"If there were no other reasons
.. . ,why the cotton acreage should be reduced
in 1921, the fact that small
crops always bring more dollars and
cents than large crops is argument
enough," declared Louis I. Guion,
well known planter of Lugoff, yesterday.
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"But there are many reasons," continued
Mr. Guion. "The dire financial,
conditions that' have' overcome
us within the last six months have
also served to remove or cause to be
^ forgotten the boll weevil. It has been
<v^ successfully demonstrated all over the
cotton belt that not over eight acres
to the plow can be grown success\
fully under boll weevil conditions
even where conditions are not favorable
for the weevils. Indeed: five
nrrPR to the plow has proven year in
and year out the safe crop. In 1920
vast territories of Georgia, northwest
Florida and Alabama were tempted
by 40-cent cotton to exceed the safe
acreage under weevil conditions. The
result is that the people of those
sections are absolutely bankrupt today.
I am reliably informed that
$1.00 per pound for cotton would not
pay the expenses, of thousands of
Georgia farmers, and it would take
$5v00 a pounds to pay many of them
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Another reason why we should ref
duce our acreage is that our present
r system of farming is fundamentally
j; t? wrong. Too ipany of our farmers
; are farming to make money instead
? * -? of first farming to make a living. A
man who- raises all cotton and buys
everything he uses to make the cotten
is a curse to the South in par
C tieular and to the country generally.
i* r..Ab former Governor Bickett of North
Carolina said,/he ought to be shot at
in,r sunrise and denied a Christian burial/
takes the whole proceeds of the
iO/ r normal cotton crop to pay our food
and fe^dstuffs bill. Why not raise
these supplies and less cotton ?
"Many men, both farmers and city
folk, who have; never seen timothy
hay grow will use nothing but timothy
~ hay. It is the patriotic duty of our
merchants to encourage the use of
our native hay. The freight rates
from points from which the bulk of
our hay now comes exceeds $17 per
ton. If any man can pay $35 to $40
per ton for hay to make even 20
cents cotton he has land too valuable
for cotton farming.
"Ten-cent cotton means 50 cents
per day for the man who works the
crop. A 10-cent cotton planter who
spends more than 50 cents a day is
obliged to owe somebody or steal.
''Can a man work for 30 cents a
day and hire people whose pay is
$125 to $350 per month to work for
' him? This is exactly what the man
does who buys hay, corn, oats, etc.,
_ from the West. Every railroad man
from Chicago to Columbus who handles
these products for the fool far
mer draws from 10 to 30 times as
much pay as the 10-cent cotton man
gets. Out cotton acreage and put
the surplus acreage in food and feed
crops and stop paying the railroads
fabulous prices for hauling them."
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on^tmtion club?Churning.
April. 14.?Boiling Springs home
demonstration club-?Churning.
April 14.?Boiling Springs poultry
club?Insects and disease of chicks.
April 15?New burg, home demon%
I stration club?Churning.
April 15.?New burg sewing club?
Sewing. ... *
April 16.?Office.
April 18.?Mack's sewing club?
Sewing.
April 18.?Mack's gardening club
?Transplanting.
1 *4 O.i I.- (5r<iV(? sscvcinir c-blb
?Sewing.
April 20.?Pelion rooking club?
Cooking.
April 21.?North Edisto poultry
club?Insects and disease of chicks.
April 22.?Calvary home demonstration
club?Churning.
| April 23.?Office.
April 25.?St. .John's cooking club
J ?Cooking. j
April 26.*?Providence home dexn- i
onstration club?Churning.
April 27.?Sharp's Hill cooking i
club-?Cooking.
April 28.?Red Star poultry club? !
Insects and disease of chicks.
April 29.?Sunny South sewing club;
?Sewing.
April 30.?Office.' j
All ladies who are interested in better
butter making and .. especially
those who are planning to-enter the
County 'better butter contest are.
urged to attend at least one of the
home demonstration club meetings as 1
scheduled above.
ANNIE C. CAUGHMAN,
County Demonstration Agent,; j
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PRUNE TOMATO PLANTS
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! Clemson College, April 4.?A thrifty !
tomato plant left to itself will spread j
over a space from 4 to 6 feet in di- j
i ameter and will produce a peck or i
! more of tomatoes. If staked and
pruned it will yield almost the same
quantity of fruit, the tomatoes will
be larger, cb/iner, better flavored, and
superior in every respect, and enough
space can be conserved to accommodate
several other plants cared for in
the same manner, say garden specialists.
The staked and pruned plants
are easily sprayed, and will continue
to produce later in the fall. As a rule,
also, the pruned tomatoes will mature
earlier. On the scale on which toma
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toes are grown in the home garden,
staling and pruning require little
trouble, and will fully repay the effort.
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When the plants are to be staked [
thev may be set 2 feet apart each '
way, or e very 18 inches in rows 3 feet j
apart. Any substantial stake of suf- .
ficiont size to bear the weight of the
plants and 4 or 5 feet long is suitable.
Sawed strips or laths may be used.
A stake is driven about 3 inches from
O f ir> _
each plant, wmcn is ucu iu n. a.?. ui- .
tervals of 8 to 10 inches or narrow!
strips of cloth are used for this, purpose.
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When the plants begin making a
vigorous growth, shoots will appear
in the little pockets where each, leaf
joins the stem. Later the blossoms
appear on the opposite side of, the
stem, In pruning the plant remove
all these side shoots and those, around
the base of the plant, being careful
not to disturb the. blossom clusters.
The shoots, sometimes called suck-,
ers. should be pinched off shortly after
they appear. The main stem, can
be carried to the full height of the
stake, then allowed to hang over. By
this time six or seven blossom clusters,
on which the fruit is developing,
should be set cn the stem.
Some Objects of Boy's Club Work.
Below are eight of the leading ob- j
jects of Boy's club work:
1. To enlarge the vision of the boy j
and to give him definite purposes at j
a very important period in his life.
2. To interest the boy in improved [
agricultural methods at a period i
when he can most easily be reached. |
3. To assist in development of the ?
spirit of cooperation in the family and j
the community.
| 4. To dignify the vocation of farm- j
ting, to emphasize its possibilities, and!
thus encourage the boys to remain on 1
the farm.
5. To emphasize the importance or
keeping farm records and accounts, i
?>. To make the boy a demonstra- '
tor of the facts of scientific agriculi
ture.
7. To develop leadership, re- ,
sponsibility and importance of or-1
ganization and cooperation.
S. To assist the hov in making!
money for himself.
Lexington county has a good en- i
rollment in corn and pig clubs, and !
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we are Trying to drive the above !
truths home to the members.
J. W. SHEALY, I
County Agent. I
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THE B. W. HA! HA!
Everybody has enjoyed the mild
winter and early spring. but the roal
dealer.
And while we have been enjoying
the balmy days of the winter, you
may be sure that Mr. Boll Weevil has
been having a good time himself. Why
Mrs. Boll Weevil hasn't, even had to
unpack her furs. If atty boll weevils
have died of t-old thks winter they
must have flown into some cold storage
plant by mistake.
Mr. Farmer has made an early start
;his season. l?ut Mr. Weevil oht mu
liaw io make any start. He has just
kept, going front last fall.
.\ farmer was telling me about an
experience he had the other day. He
said he had foolishly decided to plant
more cotton than ever this year. He
figured that everybody else would lay
off of the fleecy staple and he would
make a killing. He must have been
right, for 102 out of every 100 farmers
figured the same way.
So, when he had gotten his nicely
tilled fields all fixed to plant cotton,
and was standing in a fence corner
the other day looking over his broad
. '( it's and. picturing them all white
with about a bale to the acre, he said
he heard an exultant laugh behind
him. and an old gray headed boll
weevil sang out, hat ha! Here's where
we eat." And then about a million
other boll weevils joined in a rousing
"Three cheers for the farmer who
feeds us!"
And the farmer says about that
time he made up his mind that all the
goats on his farm didn't walk on four
legs and have horns.
So he jumped into his car and rode
to town and had a heart to heart talk
with the county farm demonstration
agent and they fixed up a planting
program so that il" jthe ooii weevils live
on him ihis year they will have to
<-hange their diet to peas and peanuts
and potatoes and hay and corn and
velvet beans, etc., and he hopes that
every one of them will die with stomach-ache.?"BILL"
in the Edgefield
Chronicle. v
GETTIXG ~7\X EARLY
CROP OF COTTON
Clemson College, April 4.?The following
practices are advisable in getting
an early crop of cotton under
boll weevil conditions, says Prof. C.
P. Blackwell, agronomist.
1. Thorough preparation of the
seed-bed.
2. Application of a fertilizer containing
a small amount of readily
available ammonia. The fertilizer
should be well mixed with the soil
before planting, so that seed will not
come in direct contact with fertilizer.
3. Planting of only varieties that
have proved their worth under boll
weevil conditions. The following are
recommended: (a) Short staple cotton,
on land free from wilt, Cleveland
Big Boll; .wilt-infested land,
Dixie Triumph; (b) Long staple cotton,
Delta Type Webber and Webber
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4. Working the cotton well so it
is never stunted by weeds.
5. Chopping early and leaving
plants close in drill.
6. Thew delinting ol - seed where
convenient. Delinting is especially
valuable when conditions are unfavorable
for seed germination. It hastens
germination from two to eight
days depending on soil and climatic
conditions. * Delinted seed can be
more evenly planted, and it requires
fewer seed to plant an acre. Below
are directions for delinting seed with
sulphuric acid.
Finest Times Coming.
The Walton, Ga., Tribune says that
the hard times grouch should consider
the story of the man who was
really "up against it."
"Lis horse went dead and his mule
went lame,
* i i ten ?vin
-\nu ut; HIM inn tun in. ?.i imrLci
And a cyclone came on a winter day
And blew the house where he lived
. away;
Then an earthquake came when that
was gone
And swallowed the ground that the
house was on;
Then the tax collector. lie came
around
And charged him up with the hole in
the ground."
If. CROMER OSWALD
STARTS MAY OAKAOK.
As will lie seen by the advertising
columns of The Disputch-Xevs this
week. Mr. H. Cromer Oswald has
opened a first class garage for the
repair of automobiles at the old
stand occupied formerly by Oleve
Snelgrove, which is located near the
county fair grounds. Mr. Oswald's
work is well known to the people
of this community, as this is not his
first venture in the garage business.
He insures satisfaction to his patrons
and promises to make his prices
in line with the price of cotton.
! rr i:\ty to drink
at ordination
Washington, March 0.?"When my
grandfather was ordained a minister,
three barrels of liquor were consumed
in celebration of the event."
This was the statement of Miss
Alice Robertson ol' Oklahoma. Republican
member of the house.
She was not boasting. She was not
even trying to illustrate changes m
conditions. She was simply stating
ci, I <1C*L WHICH WIUIUUi I>I tiu-min U1MJ
h;td suggested itself.
.Miss Robertson is not a suffragette,
and yet she was the onlv woman '
elected to exalted office in the United
States last lall. And she was the
only anti-suffragette, who offered.
She is not a prohibitionist, although
she thinks that the supply of an "Indian
should be limited. She was l.orn
in what was then Indian territory,
and knows the Indians.
She was telling of her progenitors
when she drifted into a discussion of
prohibition.
"My father was a minister," said
she. ''We lived in Massachusetts. My
grandfather was also a minister. Tie
lived in Xew York. When he was
ordained, the people were so delighted
at the honor given him. that they
celebrated. Three barrels of whiskey
were consumed in the celebration.
One of the elders, having had three
drinks, was urged to take a fourth.
" 'No,' he replied. I have already
had three. Wore 1 to take anther,
it would he noticed. And some of
ihese church people are a little peculiar
on the liquor question.' "
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VLlZtO IWWIJCl lOUil AO OL > v: I * IJ KAICA.L
member of the house, that it withj all
people except the suffragettes and the
professional prohibitionists. The suffragettes
will have nothing to do with
her. The prohibitionists can not understand
why she should have told
that story about the heavy consumption
of liquor on the occasion of her
ancestor's elevation to the ministry.
At that, her honesty is exceedingly
refreshing in this day when her male
colleagues tremble at their own
shadows.
COTTON AS A SURPLUS.
xorkville Enquirer.
Probably the most profitable cotton
crop the south ever raised \vu>
the crop of 1918.
And until the south learns the lesson
of 1918 it can never hope ;
make economic headway raising eoi j
ton.
When America entered the woii.
war in the spring of 1917, the fa'in
ers of the south were persuaded an.
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scared into raising food supplies sut
ficient for the needs of the whoh
country.
The cotton crop of 1918 was raises
on the surplus food supplies of 191.
and 1918, and the net profits on tha
crop included the money that hiu
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try for various kinds of supplies.
Also there was a tremendous .saving
by reason of enforced economy
in the consumption of western wheat,
western meat and foreign sugar and
other products. This saving mounted
up into many millions.
Deceived and demoralized by the
proiits of 1918 and thinking those
profits were derived from cotton
alone, in 1919 the farmers neglected
food stuffs and devoted their whole
attention to cotton. They put into
cotton all that they had made the
year before, and all they had saved,
and on top of that all they could borrow.
The 1919 crop brought a good price
apparently, but the profit was not
really so great as it seemed for the
reason that it was not accompanied
by the food products and the economy
of 1917 and 1918.
Then in 1920 came the collapse. |
The farmers had put all their resources
into the throw of that year and
when the bubble was bursted by
means oi socauea aenmion, me soum
as a whole was thrown back to about
where it was in 1916.
The lesson of it is merely a confirmation
of the experience of a
hundred years?that there is no possible
hope of the south ever getting
anywhere raising cotton except as a
surplus.
Where a farmer raises all needed
supplies, and makes cotton absolutely
(lear above all other requirements, he
can hope to have the proceeds of that
cotton for the payment of past indebntedness
and the purchase of such
articles as he cannot produce himself.
Hut the man who undertakes
to raise cotton on credit, either directly
or indirectly, is committed to
hopeless speculation that has never
yet spelled anything hut disaster.
It. is not a pleasant situation to con
template, but it is the truth.
Teacher?"Who was the first man?
Tommy?Washington was the first
man; he was first in war. first?
Teacher?Oh. no! Adam was the
first man.
Tommy?Well, if you are speaking
' of foreigners. 1 suppose he was. <
WHITE KNOLL SCHOOL
TO HAVE PICTURE SHOW
Patrons of White Knoll school and
the citizens of the surrounding community
will be glad to know that a
moving picture show will be given at
the school house Saturday night, April
y. Oood pictures will be shown
f. i-i rl .n-ui-rKnitir >? Of a gOOd
time. The school will receive part
of the proceeds of the small admission
fee eharped.
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I The pond at
plant has been
I Outing Club.
Lexington Elect
Co.
This/Club /Jl4Q.s
commonh/Know
pond, iffid fishing
the lease to me
We, therefore, r
to trespass on t
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BOOKSELLERS, STATIC
PRINTERS
1425 MA
COLUN
A cordial invitation is ex
friends to call in and ma
ters while in the City.
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NEW C
I WISH to announc<
opened a garage for the
at the stand formerly occ
NEAR FAI
Nothing but first cla:
cord with present cotton
BRING US Y<
BE SURE OF
WE need no introdu
this community. . Everybc
we turn out
Oswald'
H. CROMER
Massaging
Shampooing
The A LaModi
1310 Main S^r
(Up
\VK MAKE A SPECIALTY
KINDS OF ]
Special Skin Treatment
Henna Pack
MOVING PICTURE SHOW
AT CENTER VILLE SCHOOL
A moving picture show will be
given at 'Centerville school Frida^"
night. April X. The show will cort;
sist of lirst class pictures, none of
which have been shown in this section,
and the program will be sure
to nrove interesting-. A small ad
^mission will be charged, in the proceeds
of which the school will participate.
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the electric light II
leased to' 12-Mile
ric Lijfht Power JE
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leased the pond H
n as Barr's lower
: in it is restricted by ^1
imbers of this club. El
equest all others not II
he property. II
Mile Outing Club. H
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>NERS, OFFICE SUPPLIES,
\ND BINDERS.
IN STREET,
IBIA, S. C.
fended to all our vexing tun
ke our store their headquarPARAGE
e to the public that I have
repair of all mak? of cars
upied by Snelgrov/s garage,'
R GROUNDS/
sfe work/id at prices in acjiice^^
3UR CARS ANDSATISFACTION.'
ction to the auto owners of
)dy knows the kind of work
s Garage
OSWALD, Prop.
Expert M&rcelle Waving
Hair Dressing
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Columbia, S. C.
Stairs)
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