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ihr Stllon Sjeraliij Dillon, S. C., May 13, 1920 ?i I Bill Bryan won't run for president! he says; but Bill will try to run the / president' if he gets a chance. i / I The overall factories are apparently. tickled stifi at the so-called overall' crare to reduce the price of clothing. The only net result of the plan has been "to stimulate the price of over' alls. With gasoline costing nearly as; much as regular whiskey formerly! / c cost it is apparent that prohibition 1 has not entirely eliminated the money we spend for liquor. 'Enforcement of the liquor laws is easy where there is no breaking of the law; but they do say that tne know how of getting fire water is pos-| seased by a "favored" few who alsoj know how to fool the enforcers. o In an article published elsewhere in this issue In which he reviews in a modest way his work in the county, Mr. Epps, the county demonstration agent, makes the interesting statement that in 1914 he found on-| * ly one pure-bred bull in'the county and now there are eight.- During that time a number of citizens have, bought their own bulls, and now, there is not a man in the county who is not in reach of a good bull. "These bulls,*' adds Mr. Epps, "were the best Guernsey bulls we could get, ail from cows which had made records of 500 pounds, or above, o f better in a year." This in itself ( makes a splendid showing for Mr. | Epps. In putting a pure-bred bull in; reach of every man in the county hehas accomplished something that no other county in the state has sue-1 i?j j? Uo hoe ctimnlafpd tCBUCU 111 uuiugi .... an hidustry that has according to the current number of Weekly News I Notes, published at Clemson College,1 > possibilities that cannot be exagger-l ated. Weekly News Notes says in' part: "In a community where only one good purebred bull is needed they, found that from four to eight scrubs were being maintained. The total val-, ue of the scrubs for slaughter would, bo more than enough to purchase the' good purebred and by placing the purebred in the center of the community and eliminating the feed bills tor several scrubst the purebred proved lo be not only cheaper to own but cheaper to maintain than the scrub bull service. The truth of this is so evident and the superior value of purebred sires so plain that it should ! only be necessary to present this sul Ject in order to get every farmer in j the state interested in the elimina ; tion of all kinds of scrub sires and * ?? ni.eoKroHo sumstuuuoii 01 suuu Sunday Night's Mass Meeting. "We do not believe the men and* women who attendee the mass meet-, ing at the school auditorium Sunday night and pledged themselves to work for the moral uplift of the youth of the community will fail to keep their, pledges. It was evident even to the, most casual observer that the pendu-( Inm has swung too far one way and ( the time has come for action on the part of the citizens of the community. There has been too much indiffer-" encc on the part of .the community / wnd a sad lack of restraint on the1 part of the parents. This may due| to the period of social unrest which! prevailed^ during the war and has I persisted throughout the period of reconstruction, but nevertheless it is * fact that many youths of the com-i ciunity have been abandoned to their own appetites and desires, and, the distressing conditions which at present confront the community fol-> lowed as naturally as the night follows the day. . It is not the purpose of The Her- j aid, nor was it the purpose of the men and women who gathered at the school auditorium Sunday! night, to tell parents how they shall! raise their children. That is p, matter for which each individual Darent' is responsible, and a problem he must i aoive for himself. But taken in the, collective sense the child is an as-! set of the community, and if there' .are temptations which are likely to cnalse that child a liability or a men-| j ace then it is the duty of the people to adopt such rules or laws or to: jtmke suqh action as may be necessary' xXo remove those temptations. There is too much loafing on the nstreets at night. The main thor-j oughfares are public playgrounds, and children of tender age are per-! mitted to keep hours to suit themi selves. When nightfall comes the1 home is the place for the child of j irresponsible years, and if the par-| >*sat does not feel inclined to compel -.that child' to remain at home at! might then it becomes the duty of the officials to pass such laws as will require the father to exercise his pa' tternal authority. The sentiment of the meeting Sunday night was in favor of the adop-| tlon of a curfew law. There was no expression from the audience as to ^ what ages it should include. But] that such a law is necessary for the present is a fact which cannot be | questioned. The audience made no; recommendations, but left the mat1 tct entirely in the hands of council. We believe that Sunday night's meeting will result in a great deal of good. It has brought the atten^ tlon of mothers and fathers to the fact that their sons were drifting j away from them. It had the effect | of exposing to the public gaze the many temptations to which boys of r tender years were surrounded. It has put the community to thinking, V and many who felt free and easy to do as they pleased have begun to W realize that they must maintain a m certain standard of respectable citl zcnship or suffer the consequences. We should be glad to see mas meetings held every month or sc They act as a tonic on the morals o the community. Why not have then every 5th Sunday night in the fori: of a "Public Forum'' where matter of interest to the citizens as whol can be discussed? County Agent Epps Cetting Result* When I took up this work in Jun 01 1914, I decided that the fifst thin for me to do was to make a study o my county and find out the needs o our farmers. Pm far as the growin of the three principal crops, cotton corn and tobacco w^s concerned, soon learned that our farmers knei pretty well all there . was to knoi about this, but when it came to thei planting seed, I found that very fei were taking any interest along thi line. We found only two men tha were planting pure cotton seed, am none that was taking very much in terest in Iheir seed corn. We als< found that the orchards of the coun ty had never been pruned or spray eti so were in very bad shape. Fount only two old spray pumps and n< pruning tools at all. The livestock of the county was al so in about as bad shape as th planting seed and orchards. A fe\ farmers had purebred boars and ther were a few purebred sows, but whei it came to the cattle, we found oul; one registered bull and he was a ver; poor individual. In the spring of 1915 a few mei selected Cleveland big boll, what w thought was the best variety of cot ton for this county, and since tha time our farmers have become mor interested along this line. For^ th year 1919 we believe that fully nine ty-five per cent of the cotton plantei in the county was of this variety an< wo think that this percentage wouli have been still larger but on accoun of some wilt infested land we had t use wilt resistant seed. This yeai on account of the great demand fo long staple cotton, a large number o farmers has planted a portion of thei farms in this. When it conies to the seed corn w have not made quite as good showing but still we have made good pro gress. Two years ago we*got abou ten bushels of Pee Dee No. 5 whicl we thought to be the best variet; of corn for this section. This tei bushels of seed was pretty well scat tered over the entire county. Thi yield at the end of the season wa very satisfactory, showing an in crease in yield from ten per cent to as high as fifty per cent, per acre ttere 1^ wnere me worn ni me iioyg Corn Club played a very importan part. One farmer says that whej his boy joined the club five year ago he was making ten bushels o com per acre. After watchihg hi boy and following the instruction given the boy for his acre, he ha< been able to increase his yield, ii three years, from ten bushels pe acre to twenty bushels. Two year ago this same farmer's son plante< pure seed on his acre, and his fathe was so well pleased with the yieli that he planted his whole crop las year from corn grown on this acre and says now that he made an aver age of about forty bushels per acn on his whole farm. Last year wi planted, over the county, somethinj over a hundred bushels of this va rlety of corn, and this year we bough all the seed'we could get from th< Pee Dee Experiment Station, an* besides a large number of farmer bad saved their own seed. In the spring of 1915 we ordere* a few bushels of velvet beans fo seed and succeeded in getting a num ber of farmers over the county to tr; these. Since that time the acreagi in this crop, which has proven to h one of our best crops for soil build ing and winter grazing, has gradual ly increased until now we have sev eral thousand acres planted eacl year. We have also made good progres in the orchard work. In the fall o 1915 we had to almost beg farmer: A Man Ma By the Enem Hon. Mitchell Pali of the United Stat the Democratic nom has made enemies o grams: The Reds, Packers, Radicals, actionary Republica Because as alien \ took enemy propert America during the Because he is drit ists, bolshevists, con back to Russia; Because he is prosecuting th< and unreasonable profit from tl cause he is arresting the hoarde ing the sale of the commodities Because he forces the big fivt which limits their activities to meats and prevents them froir industry. Because he acted ir radicals labor leaders who soui coal in midwinter, thus endange and cold. Because he oppresse licans and fights for clean and 100 per cent. American and 10( lia is also 100 per cent. Ameri therefore South Carolina shou his candidacy. Vote for Palme what the Attorney General sti Palmer primary campaign con Washington. D. C. to let us help them with their prun ing and in a few eases we were stop-' s ped before all of the trees were .'pruned. Since that time, it has been [ f absolutely impossible for us to do all i 11 the work along this line that we aro 11 called upon to do. In the fall of 1917 s!we put on a campaign for more' e spray pumps and succeeded in getting] I in thirteen, and since that we get in; a few more each year. Now we have . in the county a few orchards that are [ '" in excellent shape and a large mjor-J 1 ity of our people are taking more j ^ interest in this work than ever be-jR fore, and within the next few years:! 1 we hope to see a good well-cared-for R A??hor/l nn ovorv farm in thp POIllltV. ' I Bj As stated above, in 1914, we found j ' only one purebred*bull in the county.! I We did not get another one until the' v fall of 1915 when we shipped in three v[registered Hereford bulls. Since thatj r | time we have gotten in one or two , v more each year until now we have ? j between fiften and twenty. We have ^ i a number of men that has started in J j the beef cattle business. In one sec-j 1 "jtion we have three men that have ?j fenced in several thousand acres of land and have between three and four hundred cows, mostly grade Herefords, and a few Black Angus. Be0 sides these cows they have a few goats and between three and four hundred sheep. e In the fall of 1917 we starte^ out v to improve our dairy cattle. During e the year of 1918 we organized a 1, Guernsey Bull Association in the y county. We started off ?in March ? with three bulls" and before the end of the year we had increase d to a eight. These bulls were the best e|Guernsey bulls we could get, all | 1 - i?j ?J. I i r oul cows who i1uu ill clue iciuiuo "* | t five hundred pounds, or above, of|l e butter in a'year. These bulls were B e scattered over the county and since J they were brought in, a number of ? ^ men have bought good Guernsey bulls until now there is not a man 8 ^ in the county that is not in reach of E * a good bull. Since we have gotten B 0 these good bulls in the county our B '? people are taking^ great deal more I r interest in their cowst and we have f had quite a number of purebred r Guernsey cows shipped in. At this time, 1 have on my books orders for e seven purebred heifers. During the '? past few years the number of dairy - cows in the county have just about t doubled. ft The number and grade of the hoj^s y in the county have made greater t strides than that of the cows. It is a - rare thing now, in traveling over the e county, to see the old scrub boar, but s instead you see a purebred boar and - usually a number of purebred sows. We have in the county a few farmers who are breeding nothing but purei' bred hogs. t In connection with thfe improvea ment we have made in livestock we s found that we needed more fencing, f so last fall we put on a special fence s campaign. We took this up with our I s hardware dealers, and they very I 1 readily agred to order this wire out I a/for us at a profit of only five per 8 r cent. Sirce we began this campaign B s'we have piaced our orders for twen- 8 1 ty two thousand and five hundred 8 r rods of hog wire and several miles I 1 of barbed wire. Besides the above 8 t seven cars aireaay oraerea we nave i, on hand a few small orders that will - be sent in as soon as we can get in e a full car. e We are not going to sit idle and ; let Mr. Boll Weevil catch us napping. - We have just about completed two t stock companies of five thousand dole lars eacha one in Dillon and one in I Lata, to build a six thousand bushel s sweet potato storage house in each of the two towns. Besides we have i the promise of five smaller ones rangr ing from five hundred to two thous and bushels. So with this diversiy fied croping system, I think that we e are better situated to meet the boll e weevil than any other section of the - Slate. In fact better than any other - section of the cotton belt. But don't - let this turn our heads, for he going i: to be worse than we have any idea. So let's be up and doing. Let us 3! prepare for war in time of peace bef fore it is too late. S. W. Epps. s | County Agent. ll y Be Known j :ies He Makes j ner, Attorney General | es, and candidate for ination for President, f the following proProfiteers, Hoaders, Labor Agitators, Pens, WHY? oroperty custodian he y and used it to help war; ing the alien anarchimunists and I. W. W. ?jr who seek to extort unwarranted le consumers of the country. Bers and he is bringing out and forcthey are holding for higher prices. i packers to accept a court decision the production and distribution of i monopolyzing unrelated lines of l behalf of all the people against ght to prevent the production of ring the entire public to starvation d the stand of reactionary Repubhonest policies, Mitchell Palmer is ) per cent. Democrat. South Carocan and 100 per cent Democratic, Id stand for Mitchell Palmer and K r for President. Literature shows E inds for, and what he has done 3 unittee, 805 Munsey Building, jg m R h AtDi MAY * in! U/otiif'// Ai rr & u/m n< fAe year c The horse-ov day to come,; who has the 1 There are ab< Dillon in trai them high cla ters. If you will I you will see gambling. We will have the races wil The following Two 2.30 tr r\ ^ a une 4.4\j iru One 2.17 pac Entries close at ter and no reduct enter and four to race ending at en< We will race und< Association, of wl 75 cents foradul 25 cents for gran Races called pron ther information ; A. P. iti linn! * VII? ? ~27J nr v/v Pur ave the m May 27 trners can hardly w as they are anxious >est horse. out forty horses in ? ining; and there ar ss horses, especially I be in Dillon on Ma a horse race. Po a professional / be, pulled oh classes will compos ots with a purse of t purse e noon May the 25t ion from money wi: start. Heats best i f rii. i 4. a 01 um neat. 2r the rules of the liich we are a memb ts and 50 cents foi d stand. lptly at TWO O'CU iddress BETHEA, S / / FcT H ^ -.J _ _ . ? n p 3. L 1920' EflBt V W gjj nH H 9SEB wBB flHE HHK hh^I W 1 V ?p J f race of th, 1920 ait for the to see who ind around e some of ? / the troty the 27th ? sitively no starter and f with snap se the races: $2j50 each $250 " $250 " < r- I ? . n, o'-'io 10 ennpers. Five to three in five, Union Trotting ier. Admission r children, and 4 OCK. For fur>ec'y.