Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, September 02, 1915, Image 4
THIS STATEGMBM
IF FARMERS
Proper Selection of Seed One of
creasing Average Yii
Look For
Iu 1014 South Carolina planted 1.925.000
acres in corn, producing 30,538.000
bushols. or 18.2 bushels par
acre. Wisconsin, in the same year,
planted 1.725,000 acres, producing 69,638.000
bushels, or 18.2 bushels per
acre. Although South Carolina planted
250.000 acres more than did Wisconsin.
the latter state made 33,324.000
bushels more corn?almost twice as
much as this state.
This is not a3 it should be. We
should be able to make as much corn
per acre as any state. The question
is, how are we to go abe i it? There
urn tw <t nriiwitiul wuvts tn iniT^BKP
our average and under our conditions
both are necessary. The first step
lies in improving -our land by means
of thorough preparation, increasing
the supply of humus, and using commercial
fertilizers intelligently. The
second siep is the Improvement of
seed by careful field selection. It has
already been demonstrated that our
improved lands are capable of making
from 40 to more than 100 bushels
per acre. Just how much more can
be grown on one acre with properly
selected seed is yet to be seen, but we
should certainly by all -means give
the seed question more serious
thought.
The livestock breeder Is far more
particular In selecting breeding stock
than is the average corn grower in
selecting seed corn. Yet the laws
governing livestock improvement are
the same as those governing corn improvement.
The man who raises hogs
keeps only the best sows, which give
the largest and most vigorous litters
of pigs. As some sows give better
litters than others, so some ears of
corn will produce more corn than
other ears. Therefore, make an effort
to select the best ears for seed.
After selecting them, test them to see
which yield best. Seed selection must
begin in the tleld, in order to know
what kinds of stalks the curs come
from and what kind of chance they
had.
Making Field Selections.
Before making selections, fix on the
type of stalk und ear desired and stick
to this type. Keep it always in mind
so that the selection will be alike.
Selections should always he made under
uniform and normal cinditions.
Do not select from the best land.
Always take an average spot In the
field.
The stalk must bo the tirst consideration.
A large ear taken from a
pile of corn will not necessarily be a
producer of large ears, since it might
have had a better chance than some
others in the field, the stalk might
have been too tall and slender, and
the oar might have been too high on
the stalk. It is, therefore, necessary
to know the stalk from which an ear
comes.
Select from stalks which are strong
and stocky, and gently tapering from
the ground np. The ear should not
be growing higher than oner shoulder,
as this has an important bearing on j
the labor of gathering. The shank
BETTER MARKETS
Association Formed By Growei
Section's
Co-operating with t-he Office of Markots
at Washington, Cleiuson College
is working out soino practical and efficient
marketing schemes. Some of
Hie farming enterprises of Soutli Carolina
have been operating at a loss and
It i" up to all concerned to consider
and determine upon some plan of action
that will solve the problems of
marketing the state's products. Although
the marketing situation has
not. by any means, been definitely
worked out. some very significant
work has nevertheless been decided
upon and begun. One of the marketing
schemes now under way is that
adopted recently by the asparagus
growers In the vicinity of Ridge !
Spring, Trenton. Wllllston, lllko and
Blnckville.
On duly 19 about twenty of the as- '
puragus growers met in an informal
way at Columbia with \V. W. Long. I
director of extension at I '.emson. The j
meeting was in the nature of u roundtable
discussion, and the growers took
It as an opportunity to exchange iheir
ideas and experiences. It developed
that, with a very few exceptions, the
growers were operating at a loss. The
consensus was that the growers' system
of marketing was wrong. They
were unanimous in the belief that they
ought to get together upon some united
and concerted scheme of sorting, grad
Ing. packing and selling their product.
The growers next Invited the market
agent at Clemson College and C.
EL Basset of tho Office of Markets and
Rural Organization. IT. S. department
of agriculture, to attend an Informal
-fuelling of asparagus men at Ridge
Sprisg ~nd another at Trenton. At
thu Ridge Spring meeting it soon developed
thai the growers had hot sort
I' MORE CORN
Win SELECT SEED
Most Effective Methods of Insld?Some
Points to ,
in Corn. .
should be just long enough to permit
the?ear to turn down at maturity. If
carliness is desired, such stalks can
be kept separate. Do not gather the
corn until it is well matured. Mark
each desirable stalk with a tag or by
some other method and leave it standing
in the field. If the corn is to be
cut and shocked, the marked corn can
be left and shocked separately.
After the Field Selection.
Field selection is cf large importance.
but there is work still to be done
after the corn has been shocked and
taken to the barn. Experiments have
s.iown that an ear which is cylindrical.
gently tapering, and has straight
rows of deep, plump kernels will prro
uu>.c mo uiKiioni iiorn'iuuKH Ol gruill.
The accompanying photograph shows
an car of the desired type. The cob
should be medium to small, rather
than large. Large cobs mean a smaller
percentage of grain, as well as a
possibility of causing the grain to
mold on account of the cob's not drying
out. The grains should be long
and full. A gently wedge-shaped and
A GOOD AND A BAD EAR
A?Shows poor ear with too much
space between kernels. a?shows
poin-ed kernels of same.
B?shows good ear with no space
between kernels, b?shows plump
kernels of same.
plump kernel will leave very little
space between the rows. Sharply
iiuimcu kiuiiih urc usually loose on
I ho cob.
The spacing and shape of the kernels
will vary with the variety, but
care should always be taken to select
only those ears that have well do
vcloped kernels that are not loose on
the cob. The careful study and selection
of the individual ears must bo
done after the corn has been brought
to the barn and the farmer can do It
in his spare time. As soon as the
corn has been carefully selected it
should be stored in a well ventilated
room out of reach of rats and mice.
It should be inspected at intervals
throughout winter to see that it is in
good condition.
F. O. TARBOX. JR..
Extension Corn Breeding Expert,
Clentson Agricultural College.
FOR ASPARAGUS
rs of Five Towns Will Handle
Output.
ed, graded md parked uniformly.
Much emphasis was laid on the noces
sity of adopting standard grades and a
standard park and upon ricld sorting,
grading, packing and inspection.
Mr. Ilasset pointed out the value of
forming an asparagus Growers' Association.
adopting rules and methods
satisfactory to all concerned, and putting
the management of the association
in the hands of the best available
manager. This manager was to
have competent inspectors to see that
all asparagus coming into and going
out of the association quarters was up
i?> ihi* aianuuru. l lie inspectors were
to see that all cars were carefully load
ed and routed In accordance with the
manager's Instructions. The manage!
was to keep in touch with all markets,
and prices, and to sell to the best n i\r
kets.
With these suggestions in mind, the
growers formed a temporary nrganiza
tion. A meeting for further organization
was then held at Trenton and representatives
from ltidge Spring.
Trenton. Williston. Klko and Hlackvllle
were present. J. N. Knight was
chosen as chairman and R. It Tillman,
Jr.. as secretary and by-laws were
adopted. Bight representative directors
were selected who will meet in
January to perfect the organization,
draft articles of incorporation and
definitely decide upon a manager, Inspectors
and officers for the association.
The success of this association trill
depend not only on procuring a capa
bio manager but also upon the con
certed support of every member.
KRKiJ W. HOKMANN,
Market Agent,
fie as tea Agricultural College.
{ CURE FOR ALL MALADIES
night Living Will Aid the Individual,
as Well as Put an End to All
National Disorders.
A correspondent asks Doctor Evans,
the noted hygienist, several
questions about the meaning of
health and the means to preserve it,
and after answering the questions
categorically, eight of them, he adds,
"Yes, right living." That is the best
remedy of all.
Cut, then, it qpt only cures bodily
ills but morai aud mental ones as
well, and not ouiy individual ills,
| but social and national distempers,
too. Itight living is the cure for all
! maladies of body, community, race.
In fact, there is no other reliable
cure. We may got some temporary
benefit from this medicine and that,
but, after all, the last remedy is
right living, and this includes not
only right food, pure air and water,
proper exercise and necessary sleep;
i,..i :i I.. i - * * - * " 1
nut it uiciuucs suites oi mind and
iu-art, of disposition, habit, and the
kindly phases of life.
Health is harmony with the beautiful
world, with its flowers, its birds,
| its stars, its streams, its trees, and
! everything that has.a language and a
song. A morbid, cross, quarrelsome
! disposition contributes to sickness
in some form. It will attack the
liver, the kidneys, the lungs, the
; nerves and put a malady in them all.
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DEVICE THAT AIDS MEMORY
Automatic Enumerator Designed to
Help Busy Man to Remember
His Appointments.
A new device, particularly designed
for offices where a great many
appointments are to be kept track of
is an automatic annunciator that
sounds a gong when the time of an
appointment has been reached. The
memorandum is made on a papei
strip on which is marked in the
proper order the days of the mouth
and the hours of ihe day. The paper
is wound in by a drum controlled by
clockwork. In using, the memorandum
of the appointment is made on
the line corresponding to the date
and hour, nnd nn ilio aon n linn n
perforation is made in th* paper. At
the time indicated this perforation
reaches and actuates a trigger, winch
rings the gong, giving audible notice
that the memorandum should l>e examined.
The paper strip is long
enough to last a month, and can be
filed away after being used.?I'opu'
lar Mechanics.
KEEPING WARM WITH ICE
Simple Demonstration of Process That
at First Seems Altogether Out
of the Ordinary.
The process is simple enough. It
consists in the furnishing of a
double-lined car with four galvanized
iron cylinders reaching from the
door almost to the top. In summer
these cylinders are kept tilled
with ice and salt in order that the
car may he maintained at a cool teni
pcraiure; in winter tney arc tilled
with ice in order to keep the contents
of the car from freezing.
lee is nominally at a temjx'rature
of degrees Fahrenheit, and it is
a substance that changes its temperature
reluctantly, being a had conductor
of heat or cold. Hence, when
zero weather prevails without, the
cylinders of relatively warm ice pre-1
vent the escape of heat; in other
words, so it is claimed, they maintain
the temperature within the car.
Still another device whereby ice is
employed for protection against cold .
1!? tlit'AU inrr nnon oot. I
vv..v.. %.. ... him'., iii^ uj'vn tat
when the weather id near the zero
point, a plentiful stream of water,
which, freezing at once, forms a
complete coat over the ear. The ac-j
CALOMEL WHEN Bit
MAKES YOU SICI
"Orison's Liver Tone" Is Harmless To
Clean Your Sluggish Liver
and Bowels.
Ugh! Calomel makes you aiek. It's
horrible! Take a dose of the dangerous
drug tonight and tomorrow you uiav lose
a day's work.
Calomel in mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the Itones.
Calomel, when it comes into contact
with sour Idle crashes into it, breaking
it up. 'I his is when you fuel that awful
j nausea and cramping. If you arc slugfish
and "all knocked out," if your
iver is torpid and bowels constipated
or you have headache, dieriness, coated
tongue, if Iweath is laid or stomach sour,
: just try a spoon/uJ of ktnsits* Msas's
Lissr Tom iamtghX as aj |usr?stsa. i
JN hith?
IM AH
"They say there's germs in kisses."
"The more the merrier, so far as
I am concerned."
QUITE TRUE.
"A statesman cannot afford to be
humorous."
"Perhaps not, but he should have
a sense of humor."
"Why?"
"So he can shape his conduct in
such a way as not to tickle the risibilities
of people who can afford to
be humorous."
ACTUAL MEASUREMENTS.
"A straight line," said the geometrician,
"is the shortest distance
between two points."
"I suppose so," replied the man j
with a suitcase. "But mighty few
lines are us nearly straight as they
appear to !>e on their railroad maps."
UNCOMPLIMENTARY.
Stella?What does her husband
look like?
Bella?Like she had Bhopped for
him by phone.
SIMILARITY.
"They say babies smile in their
sleep when dreaming of angels."
"That's nothing. So do theatrical
stars."
ALL UP.
"Well, Jones, did your suburban
garden come up to the scratch ?"
"It sure did after my neighbors'
hens got into it."
SARDONIC DEFINITION.
i
"What is a party platform?"
"Something that a candidate haa
to stand on, whether he feels liko
standing for it or not."
ALSO IN DEBT.
"The beauty of automohiling is
that it keeps one out of doors.
"Not always. It frequently lands
one in jail or the hospital."
BY THE 8EA. |
Knicker?IIow do you suppose
men live '.n a submarine?
Rocker?Didn't you ever have a
room in a seaside hotel?
MOST UNFORTUNATE.
"You seem depressed today."
"And so I am. I went into a restaurant
for something to eat and lost
a fine coat."
"Too bad I How did it happen?"
Must hs I started out the owner ,
claimed it."
.I0US? NO!STOP!:
( AND SALIVATES
Here's my guarantee?flo to any drug
store and pet a 50 cent bottle of I)odson's
Liver Tone. Take a spoonful and
if it doesn't straighten you right up
and make you feel fine and vigorous I j
want you to go back to the store and
get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone
is destroying the sale of calomel because
it is real liver medicine; entirely vegetable,
therefore it can not salivate or
make you sick.
I guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson's
Liver Tone will put your sluggish
liver to work ami clean your bowels of
that sour bile and constipated waste
which is clogging your system and making
you feel miserable, f guarantee that
a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will
keep your entire family feeling fine for
months, (rive it to yowr children. It is
ha radons; donm't gripnnud thay tikn its
I Aanaaat tnafe.
tion of the ice is said to he Uie same
as in the other case.
A similar plan is sometimes adopted
in the transportation of bananas,
a fruit that is especially susceptible
to cold. The bananas are put in paper
bags inside of heavy canvas
sacks and covered with salt hay when
the temperature is dangerously low.
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