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THE CUNTOW CHRONIC* H CLINTON. R. t
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THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1927
♦ FARM DEMONSTRATION ♦
t NEWS ' ♦
t C. B. CANNON, County Agent ♦
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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'
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on fast Schedule
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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.
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“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.
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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. On sale Saturday,
10 yards limit, yard—
10c
36-inch Percales, beautiful
patterns, short lengths, yd.,
15c
36-inch Dimity Stripe, good
quality, yard—
15c
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36-inch White Bleached Do
mestic, yard—
10c
36-inch best quality Un
bleached Pajama Checks,
yard—
10c
36-in. Pink Nainsook, good
quality, yard—
15c
36-inch-White Broadcloth,
yard—
25c
Broadcloth, fine quality,' fi
gures and stripes, worth 50c,
short lengths, fast colors,
~ yard—
25c
1 * k 4
36-inch Colored Indian Head
yard—
v’ 29c.
• Everfast Suitings, yard—
39c
32-in. Toile De Norde Dress
Gingham. On sale Saturday,
yard—
19c
36-inch Curtain Draperies,
beautiful patterns, regular
$1 quality, yard—
50c
Gold Stripe Silk Stock
ings. .
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Silk Hose
Gossard Corsets
Glove Silk Underwear
Everfast Voiles
Marillyn Silk Crepe
Guaranteed Washable.
Manhattan Shirts
Florsheim Shoes
For Men Who Care
Schloss Bros. Clothes
Men’s All-Wool Blue
Serge Suits.... $19.75
Young Men’s Fine Suits,
light colors . . $19.75
All-Wool Men’s Suits
$11.75
Boys’ AU-Wool Blue
short pants
saBSIBSIBSMg
Bloomers, Step-Ins, Chem
ise, Vests, Gowns, Slips and
Sport Suits—
$1.00
Ladies’ Silk Hose—
25c
Ladies Dresses, made
good quality suiting—
98c
of
Ladies’ Bedroom Slippers, *
all colors, pair—_
50c
Men’s Pajama Check Union-
Suits—
39c
Men’s. English Broadcolth
Shirts, white—
- 98c
Men’s good quality Overalls,
suspender back—
99c
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Boys’ Knee Pants Suits, all
sizes—
$3.95
Women, Men and Boys’ Ten
nis Oxfords—
89c
Children’s patent strap Slip
pers, sizes 11 to 2—
$1.48
Men’s Pin Check
Pants—
98c
Work
Big lot Ladies’ Hats in mil
linery department . Spec
ial—
$1.95
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