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THE HOME GARDEN.
(Prepared by County Home Demontion
Agent.)
Again the Southern sun has come
forth from his hiding place behind the
clouds, and his genial face tells us
that Spring days are on the way. One
of the principal thoughts in the
house keeper's mind i8 the vegetable
4 garden, for it not only reduces the
cost of living, but is a means of insuring
the family's health. Vegetables
are rich in mineral salts which our
bodies must have in order to do their
work properly.
In this garden we have in mind
there .should be something growing
from the beginning to the end of the
year. As soon as one vegetable is
off, plant another to take its place.
The home garden should supply something
for the table three hundred and
gixty-five days of the year. Too often
peofele have only a spring and summer
garden, disregarding the fact
that many delicious vegetables can
be grown in the fall and winter.
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ii luc giuueii is 10 iuiim us purpose,
we should find in it a variety
of vegetables. In this way we can
supply the body with a greater number
of the minerals it needs. Some
vegetables most commonly planted
are cabbage, collards, turnips, tomatoes,
peas, beans, beets, okra, onions,
potatoes, cucumbers, and squash. The
following are some which should be
included in 'the list?piementos, kale,
carrots, spinach, salsify, - asparagus,
parsnip, chayotes, and kohlrabi. If
the taste does not call for the last
mentioned, U needs an operation. The
operation is to give them a fair trial
and the result will be an appetite
created for them.
The February garden calendar contains
these suggestions?sow in hot
beds egg plants, tomatoes, and pi^^entos.
The last of the month sow
O . open ground early peas, spring
kale, beets, carrots, celery, spinach,
parsley, lettuce, radish, asparagus
roots, onion sets and horse radish
roots. Early planting of potatoes can
be made.
The Hot Bed
Make excavation 12 to 15 inches
deep, 3 feet wide and 6 feet long.
Fill pit with barnyard fertilizer. Pack
it firmly to within two inches of the
ground surface. Cover with four inches
of porous top soil. Drive 2 by
4 inch post at corners and along
sides. Nail 2 inch planks to these and
draw soil high up around outside to
keep out cold. Have cross pieces
placed on to strengthen the frame and
support the covering. Use canvass or
8Qsh for a covering. Make rows in
hot bed about four inches apart. Sow
seed thinly. The depth for planting
seed should be about six times the
diameter of the Beed. Pack soil very
firmly over seed when planted to
bring the moisture upward. Water is
sprinkled uniformly over the surface
at once. Before planting tomato or
pimento seed in the hot bed, soak
them in sweet milk for at least twenty-four
hours. This tends to hasten
germination. If the seed cling togeth?a?ssas?aa?
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Selection of Seed.
An important factor for the gardener
to keep in mind is the seed,
ijFailure often results when old seed
or seed of poor varieties are planted.
Good varieties of 'omatoe8 are Stone,
Spark's Earlina, Brimmer, Marvel,
end Norton. The Marvel and Norton
are wilt resistan.. Though not absolutely
wilt proof, they stand the wilt
much better than the non-wilt resistant.
Varieties of early peas are Alas-:
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Crosby's Egyptian and Eearly Blood
Turnips are suggested.
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Cotton as a Surpiius.
Yorkville Enquirer.
Probably the most profitable cotton
crop the south ever raised was
the crop of 1918.
And until the sotfti learns the les- (
son of 1918 it can nefc/r hope to make
economic headway rt. sing cotton.
When America enti" *ed the world
war in the spring of ^.917, the farmers
of the south were persuaded and
scared into raising food supplies suf-,
ficient for the needs of the whole
country.
The cotton crop of 1918 was raised j
on the surplus food supplies of 1917.
and 1918, and the net profits on that|
crop lflcluded the money that had
previously been going out of the country
for various kinds of supplies,
t Also there was a tremendous sav- 1
f ing by reason of enforced economy
Iiu the consumption of western wheat,
western meat and foreign sugar and
other products. This savijig mounted
1 up into many millions.
I Deceived and demoralized by the
'profits of 1918 and thinking those
I profits were derived from cotton I
J alone, in. 1919 the farmers neglected'
food stuffs and devoted their whole]
'attention to cotton. They put into ;
I cotton all that they had made the J
'year before ami 4 v.1?1 * 1
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' and on top of that all they could \
' borrow.
The 1919 crop brought a good !
price apparently, but the profit was J'
'not really so great as it seemed for !
j the reason that it was not accom-j
' panied by the food products and the '
I economy of 1917 and 1918.
| Then in 19 20 came the collapse./
; The farmers had put all their re- '
'sources into the throw of that year,'
i and when the bubble was bursted
I by means of socalled deflation, the '
south as a whole was thrown back to'
about where it was in 1916.
The lesson of it is merely a con- j ?
firmation of the experience of a hun-^
di ed years?that there is no possible,
hope of the south ever getting any-|'
where raising cotton except as a sur-j1
plus. I(
| wnere a farmer raises all needed I
supplies, and makes cotton absolute- <
ly clear above all other requirements, 1
he can hope to have the proceeds of
that cotton for the payment of past! 1
indebtedness and the purchase of .l
such articles as he cannot produce')
himself. But the man who under- j>
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money away to dis tant cities
HKRALD, DILLON, SOCHI CAROL
takes to raise cotton on credit, either
directly or indirectly, is^onxnitted'
to hopeless speculation that has never
yet spelled anything but disaster. I
It is not a pleasant situation to
contemplate, but it is the truth.
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Facta About Cotton
Marlboro County, Dillon's neighbor,
claims the distinction ot averaging
production of more cotton to the acre
than any other county in the United
States.
Ellis County, Texas, in total number
bales produced is the banner cotton
growing county of the United
States.
The per acre yfeld, average for the.
United States, has vari id from 145 |
pounds of lint in 1871 t ? 224 pounds ,
in 1914. The 10 year average is 182:
pounds.
Egyptian yield of cotton averages
390 pounds, about to the acre. Cot-*
ton production in Egypt is limited to
irrigated acres along the Nile.
The area under cotton in India,? (
about 25,000,000 acres?covers such
a wide clLmate range, that at many'
seasons of the yea r planting and j
picking are going on in different}
parts of the country at the same time, j
Cotton is grown in Asia as far
north as the latitude of Chicago.
There is now enough cotton in the
world, unspuu, to last nearly two1
years.
The Civil War was fought in the
cotton fields of the South, destroying1
temporarily, the means of supply, j
The recent World War was fought in]
the great factory districts of the
world.
There is now more cotton in the
stocks of any one of half a dozen cot-|
ton markets in the
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produced in all of the United States'
a hundred years ago.
More than three bales of cotton,'
averaging 500 pounds in weight have
been grown on a single acre in South
Carolina.
The estimated number of working
cotton spindles in the United
States is about 35,000,000 of which
15,000,000 ure in cotton growing
states. I
The largest cotton crop ever plantpel
in the United States was 37,458,1)00
acres m 1013, which yielded 14,-!
156,486 bales, 500 pounds equivalent,
of lint.
America's greatest crop of cotton?
16,134,030 bales was grown on 36,832,000
acres.
The knowledge of cotton growing
wild in islands of the West Indies is
is old as the history of their discovery
by the Snani?ird? ??? i .?<?*>
Arkwright, Hargreaves and Crompton,
are the great names connected
with invention of cotton spinning nia:hmery.
They were Englishmen.
Eli Whitney, an American, invented
the saw-gin. The original patent
was March 14, 1794.
On account of the labor Involved
n seperating the lint from the seed
jy hand, cotton was of unknown commercial
importance prior to the inention
of Whitney's gin.
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Five Acre8 to th? Plow.
Mr. N. E. McQueen who lives on
Route 2 says he will not reduce his
acreage this year, but Mr. McQueen
has good reasons for going counter
to the shes of the American Cotton
Assoc .on. He ha8 been fanning a
numf of years, but his policy is not
to p .t more than five acres to the
plcx if Mr. McQueen's neighbors incre:
their acreage he sticks to five
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bill head perforated at one ei
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second sheet. The items are <
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second sheet. At the end of t
your statements are made oui
tear out the bill head and mai
customer, keeping the seconc
the ledger until the account i:
saves one-third of your book
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acres, and even 40 cents cotton did ]
not tempt him to vary his rule. Mr. 1
McQueen says he does not handle as <
much money as some of his brother
farmers who plant 10 and 15 acres to
the plow, but he always manages to
pay his debts, has plenty to eat at j
home, has no financial troubles and '
sleeps eight hours every night, re- '
gardless of whether cotton is 5 cents
o.' "40 cotton a pound. Mr. McQueen
is much better off than the man who I
an for Prof
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ivest cost per pound or bus*
st produce more pounds and
s in proportion to the plant
plenty of plant food.
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the proceeds of his crop paying fertilizer
bills and other expenses.
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Miss Kate Evans of Minturn at- .
ended the Alumnae Meeting held at
Flora MacDonald College on Feb uary
15th, at which time plans were
liade for the big Home Coming Week
luring the next Commencement, May
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