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I r ‘'zwis.mp ~f -hr 1 ♦ I f -1 - A . : ru?: : •>: '■ , I. ■\w 6 K.; r- L’* FXl ’ .’ / / f fEL-. v' IV. &J V > L\^ kv> —«r. v y■*. ■ ■ . - i •■:- V EIGHT THE CUNTOW CHRONIC* H CLINTON. R. t rf- — THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1927 ♦ FARM DEMONSTRATION ♦ t NEWS ' ♦ t C. B. CANNON, County Agent ♦ ♦+♦+♦+♦*+♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ r' *' i,: •; Inspect Your Cotton Planting Seed For several weeks past I have been talking with farmers who • had the idea that some of their planting seed were worthless for planting purposes. 1 have made closer inspections and find several farmers planting seed saved by them here in the county, which have passed through a slight heat since storage. Unless a person examines the seed closely he cannot detect the heating effect. Just a few days ago Mr. Alison Lee, editor of The Laurens Advertiser, came to my office with some cotton seed to be inspected. After I had in- BIG RAINS BRING RECORD FLOODS Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers Go On Rampage. Thous ands Are Made Homeless. Memphis, April 18.—Record flood waters hammered relentlessly tonight at the great dykes of the Mississippi river as the forces of >man, almost overwhelmed on the Arkansas flank, fought valiantly to hold the major de fenses which protect a vast and fertile area in seven states. Renewed rainfall in the upper val leys gave reinforcement to the flood’s power, while human hands and ma chines piled sandbags atop the levees to meet the down rushing weight of waters. • Spreading widely over millions of acres, overflowing streams of Missis- spected them, I decided the seed had, ' Arkansas ^ Missouri have Viontod With this mdication I dead- i i a heated. With this nidication ed to run a germination test on them, which I did. The result of the test showed that the seed had passed driven uncounted thousands of lowland J nhp^ : ants from their homes and wrought material ruin which will reach millions of dollars in loss of through a heat causing them to be farm gtock and unfit for planting purposes, as no ger mination was shown in the seed. The cause for such is condition in which the seed were har vested and stored last fall. Cotton was harvested and ginned very green last fall. And when these seed were stor ed, before thoroughly dried, brought about the heating damage. The success of a farm depends to a large degree on three things, viz: Good seed, fertilizer, whether com mercial or organic matter, and seed bed. Without a firm foundation for a building there is no hopes of a build ing standing in safety. Without good seed a farmer need not expect coming out in the fall in safety, so why take a chance. I am not advocating selling your seed and buying others just to satisfy yourself by thinking that by buying you have good seed. Not every per son advertising seed for sale is a gen tleman, and by buying from some is just like buying a “pig in the sack.” Y’et there are reliable seed dealers and who sell reasonably. It is not the low est priced seed every time that you make the best buy from. In most cases the lower priced seed are the most expensive seed after all. It is not a good plan to plant a small amount of seed per acre for replant ing is never successfully done. It is easier to destroy one stand of cotton than to replant a third of a stand. By planting a sufficient amount of seed at first you will get a stand and it will not require so much particular work at first, in order not to destroy the poor stand of cotton from the very first. All seeds planted by the farmer should be tested before planting. The method is very easy and simple. For example, seed corn. A medium ear of seed corn has between 800 to 900 grains of corn on it. If this ear of com will not germinate and is planted in a field you would have 800 to 900 missing hills. Then figuring that each stalk of corn would make just one medium ear of corn, there would be 800 ears lost. Figuring 100 ears of com to a bushel there would be a loss of 8 bushels of com from the fault of one bad ear of com. How many farmers throughout the county use their head and hands in trying to make their farm pay? There is a larmer in this county, J. O. Stribling, of Waterloo, who tests his seed corn and finds it worth while. f Poultry The time is getting short for hatch ing profitable baby chicks. Experi ments show that baby chicks hatched after the first of May are not profi table chicks in most cases, due to the ^coming of hot weather, the low vital- fty of the egg, and the trouble of in sects, it is best not to hatch chicks after May first. In case of mites clean the house and spray with equal parts of kerosene and used motor oil. For scaly legs dips shank of bird in kerosene once a week until shanks are normal. For lice, dust over part of body with sodium fluoride, and for fleas, treat breeding place with salt water. Catch bird and treat head with castor oil. There is money in poultry if prop erly cared for. The flock of 80 An cona heps of J. A. Wofford of Lau rens, is 'making a "splendid record. This flock has been culled by me four tiroes within the last two years and the last time I culled them, which was last week, there wasn’t a cull in the flock. In the months of October, No vember, December, January, Febru ary, March and to April 8th, the 80 hens had produced 6,719 eggs, which sold for $198.07. The amount of feed bought for them was $54.55. The scratch feed, com and oats, is not in cluded in the $54.55 worth of feed, the grain being produced on the farm by Mr. Wofford. In a nearby community I culled a flock of 44 hens and culled out 21. The 21 culls only produced one egg in seven days. The laying mash feed was being bought for this flock also. * Judge for yourself as to the paying flock. About mu- Health Thiagi You Should Know by John ’inousands of destitute refugees , 3tru ‘ , I were being cared for tonight in camps due o e wh j c j 1 and voluntary relief agencies have set up in western Ken tucky, southeast Missouri, and several points in eastern Kansas and Mississ ippi. The levee top is the refuge of many thousands who live in the flat lands far from natural elevation. The most serious distress and ex tensive ruin prevailed in Arkansas where the Arkansas river, the White,, and the St. Francis have broken their natural or man-made bounds at a score of points and created vast and treacherous seas of unequal depths. Just below Little Rock the Scott levee crashed under the pressure of the Arkansas river and water swept inland quickly to cover a tract of 15,- 000 acres which compose one of the state’s largest and most productive plantations. Many blocks of North Little Rock were inundated by overflow which was steadily creeping higher tonight and filling hundreds of houses. Little Rock’s water plant is entirely surrounded by the swirling tides and workmen late today were holding a private dyke against immediate in vasion of the current. In the Pine Bluff area, more than 100,000 acres were under, water from breaks in the Arkansas at English to the south, and in the Plum Bayou lopo levee, to the north of the city. Other |defenses against the angry river were believed to be in danger of a breach. At Paragould, crews of men are fighting to save the bridge over the St. Francis, north of the city. Loss of the bridge would tie up train ser vice through the Paragould section. The most serious Mississippi river situation north of Vicksburg tonight appeared to be at Knowlton, Ark., just above Laconia Landing. Residents sent out a cry of distress today and a government boat was sent to pick them up before the impending breach there should occur. VALUES IN READING Careful reading of “Health Hints” may be said to be highly profitable, but we should be extremely cautious in accepting advice unless its truth is self-evident. The chief argument against the intelligent use of coffee, comes from promoters who are ad vancing a substitute for the time-hon ored beverage. Health-admonitions found in advertising matter are, as a rule, “cut on the bias.” Their pripne motive is—sales and more sales. A number of excellent physicians today write for the press, from their ample stores of experience. My daily paper carries its health column, and I head thht in preference to happen ings in crime or the so-called “sport- page.” I get more value out of it. A young lady of my acquaintance grew ill; her case baffled her family physician for over a year. A spec ialist finally discovered that she was suffering from lead poisoning, due to a preparation used on her face. She had never read warnings, although such were plentiful. By reading I learn the methods em ployed by that most unscrupulous swindler on earth, the quack jg|iq preys upon sick people.’ The number of. dupes convinces me that there are thousands of people who do not read enough to fit them fbr intelligent judgment in as serious a matter as their health. They “bite” at the mdsf glaring frauds. They feed the vul ture that fattens on them. When may intelligence dawn ? Even epileptics are fleeced. Tubercular and cancer ous victims are lied to and robbed ev ery day, in the most fiendish manner The easiest money to get is that ob tained by the medical impostor. Physicians with genuine qualifica tions never advertise; they do not need misrepresentation to further their per sonal interests. Folks who read in telligently know this. Too many' do not read. Miss Ethel Herring will be at our store- Thurs day, Friday and Satur day, April 28th, 29th and 3 01 h, demonstrating Florence oil stoves, the kind with the focused heat .FULLER SIMPSON FURNITURE CO. SEABOARD ANNOUNCES' , THROUGH PULLMAN CAR on fast Schedule BIRMINGHAM-ATLANTA - TO NEW YORK EFFECTIVE APRIL ^TH Leave Clinton, S. A; L. No. 6 5:50 P. M. Arrive Washington, S. A. L. No. 6 .... 10:35 A. M. Arrive Baltimore, P. R. R. No. 118 :.. 11:55 A. M. Arrive Philadelphia, P. R. R. No. 118 .... .... 2.05 P. M. Arrive New York, P. R. R. No. 118 4:10 P. M. For Reservations See Your Local Agent, or Write . C. G. LaHatte, T. P. A. H. E. Pleasants, A. G. P. A. Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga. The Clinton Chronicle—$L50 a Year ADA Department Store “Always on the Job” Clinton, S. C. New Orleans, April 18.—An army of several thousand men tonight con tinued their flight against the ad vancing Mississippi river along a front extended across the lower val ley from far below New Orleans to Natchez, Vicksburg and the more northern points in Mississippi and Louisiana. v Far below the crest of the flood, the work went on while the river cut shallow gashes in new levee's under the impetus of the winds^ brough a sand boil to the back of a levee, or sesnt seepage bubbling up through sodden lowlands, but always continu ing its inexorable rise toward the highest crest on record. One man was reported shot near Poydras, fourteen miles below New Orleans last night by levee guards. A break occurred once before at Poy dras and armed guards are patrolling the levees. Four men approached the levee in a skiff, the report said, and when they /ailed to respond to the guard’s challenge, they were fired up on. There was a scream and the boit rowed away. Residents have been warned not to approach the levees af- ter dark. In Bolivar and Isaquena counties, the conditions were reported serious, while large portions of Sharkey, Issa quena and Yazoo counties already were overflowed by back waters. Re fuge camps were established and tents sent from government warehouses at New Orleans in response to a request from Governor Murphree. R&r ft •f% 1 . v ? '- SSh ■ i,' TEST O’ TEN ANSWERS 1. Traveler. 2. John McGraw. 8. Mussolini. ^ 4. Yes. / 5. Twenty-four or more. 7. London. 6. It is shaped like a boot. 8. A bob. 9. John Banyan. 10. An endoture for birds. Tom Skeyhill’s Great Lecture SIXTH N^GHT Redpath Chautauqua 84-inch Sheeting, unbleach ed. Makes large sheets, yd. 29c 400 yards 36-inch Prints, slightly damaged, regular 25c kind. 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