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i I TOURSDAY, JANUARY 8. 1931 THE CUNTQN CHRONICLTB. CUNTON. 8. C. PAGE SEVtN Farm Demonstration Notes C. B. Cannon, County Agent j S. C. Powers, who lives about two miles south of Laurens, finds tl\at Hii,lking eleven cows on an average, throughout the year is wonderful eoi- ploynient. Mr. Powers states that it is a question with him cf finding enough time to do the work he has to do on 4 his farm. , A •►out three veat*s ago Mr. Powers wa- growing-cotton as his source of inconie for the support of his family. He found that he was getting in debt to one of the local banks to around l-SOO that he could n(tt repay and con tinue growing cotton, .\fter taking up , the dairyip.ng work on a-small scale. Mr. Powers .states that he is free of this bank indebtedness with the ex ception of $!♦ or $10. He states that the. only difference between a dairy man and a man on the chain gang, so far as employment is concerned, is the aa v.e. He was referring to being con fined throughout the year with hi.s da ’■y work. However, he states it is a great satisfaction t,o be confined when su< h ccnfinement results in an honest living. What a wondei-ful feeling the bank ers of Laurens county would have if aP of the farmers of this county owed them only $9 or $10. Mr. Pow ers is no expert in dairying any more than a;>y other person who would be wiiUng to milk cows, but he is willing to do this and be free of a life-time in- deotedness. WASHINCTON BY RADFORD MOeiEY 1 Washington, Jan. 5. — Out of the | jg; welter of conflicting policies, Ppin- ions and proposals which turned the first fortnight of the congressional * SS session into confusion, three concrete steps were taken towards federal aid ~ in combating depression. j ^ Those were the enactment of thei^E 000,000 drought relief bill and the ZSZ $110,000,000 emergency public work.s’ ^ SS bill, and the completion of committee ^ work on the trea.sury-post office de- ^ partments’ annual appropriation bill. ! ^E” To the latter, the first of the annual ' supply measures, should be addini a general speeding up by the federal ^E depaitments. at^^the instance of Prosi-1 — dent Hoover, of a nupiber -of routine expenditures which would have lK*on delayed fpr several years hut for the UPemployment .situation. j The $45,0t)0,0(Hl which congress au-1 j thorized to be spent for drought- I stricken areas will form a backbone of the government’s attempts to re-j stove to many rural areas a measure of the prosperity taken away by last summer’s prolonged dry spell. 1 j The manner in vvhioh this money,' which is simply and solely a loan fund,^ j i.s to be distributed is in the hands ofi the president. Machinery for deter hiriself. With this family labor he advanced, where the agencies will bt mHkgij during this yejAr an average of set up. and the innumerable utluir^de- 5 eleven cows, selling his products on tails are al? in the hands of the chief uE the Laurens market. Mr. Powers, executive. _ « js gri.ws most of his feed at home, as In view of his past experience and = he finds it cheaper to raise it than to methods, the general view atjthis’ = buy cn the market. bought during writing is that the president will uti- = the year $.">K4.44 worth of feed and li'/e existing facilities where that is at S sfold from his 11 cows $2.r)7i«.J7 worth all possible. This will mean the co-i = of prtalucts, or a labor inco'me above operation, probably, of the farm |; feed co.'t of Sl.'J'JJ.'JJ- Figuring on the board, extension service and interme- E average cow basis, he bought , diate credit bank local agents in the E worth of feed and sold $224.19 worth areas which were hurt by the drought.^: of pr(,<luce which gave him an average The fund as provided by c.ngnss ; labor inconie abov'e feed cost per cow lelies exclusively upon the pr»‘s.denl|; of $1H1.27. This does not figure the t ) decide upon what terms, for how : value of the milk products use«l in the b’ng ami in what amount loans will Ik : family or seVen people, nor the value »m.ie. The primary puriioso Of th- : of the off-spring of cattle, nor the loans will he to enable fanners to buy value (f compost. Neither does tb.s se'nl. fee 1 and fertilizer, but on oc- figure the value of the feed grown on casion bans for purposes relate 1 ti the farm, -ni r the labor in milking lai^^big crops may be made, the-e cows. Supplementing this loan furni is tla- additional $11 »t,0(((),(Ht0 of direct fed- With the ilairy cow, a farmer’s time, is employed in all kinds of weather.! eral expenditure which has been nmdo available for immediate use. Tlu ' ss For example, last week and the week j . «• . . I ^ luriTest part of this m(ou*v, before, what work was the majority; “‘J' . ' x Z- r t c,- 0(K) will go for road work. This will of Iaiu’'ens county farmers oo'ng ^ , 7 c . a labor income? It is true that all farmers cannot sell their dairy produce in the town of ^.yrijrrfSR I^aurens at the price Mr. Powers has furnish rural areas with more direct new money in circuItitiorV than ‘any other legislation thus far enacted by received. But in Greenwood there i.s To enable the states which do not' now have funds available with v.liich a market in the cheese factory for an ^^^ ^ unlimited amount of milk. It is advanced as a ; = -thg J>ac^ja J^ery lo^l and that the law milk must be produced on a close margin of profit. I would advise any farmer to try dairying 60 to .*0 days. Cotton today cannot be produces! and sold at the price we are getting, yet practically every farmer in Lauren.s county will plant cotton just as strongly in 1921 as in 1920. Mr. I’o'wers is a big believer in pas ture and grazing. Just at this season of the year there is a wonderful op portunity for a farmer to clean up pasture ground, posts, and seed the stal4-s must expend the same amount as the feder al government, or more, before fed eral-aid road money is available. The amount each state will sp<*nd varies, depending on population, geo graphy and other factors. Kach state’s allotment is turned over to the gover nor for expendJure at his di.scretion. Seme states will be placing this mon ey in circulation before thi.s i.s print ed. Of the rest of the $116,(»(I0,(K»0 bill, repair pasture fence i-bout $2r),0(»l),(i(»0 will go for rivers j carpet grass wher- and bailwrs work. This will free a' ever he ha.s a desirable t.vi>e of soil, and later in the spring .set Bcnmula s<,d. .A piece of ground covered with .scrub pines that have been burned over three or four different times a year to cha.'C the rabbits out fur some hunter will not produce gras.s for cheese factory milk. Fasture is th * cheape.'^t form of feed t grow. Mr. I’l-wers not only received a gooc? inceme fpom dairying, bat he k:*cn.< a .«niall fiiK'k of sheep. He has on 'considerable sum of monev and af- I I fold new work, in widely sejiarated sections. The Missis.sippi, Mi.s.-ouvi and Ohio river.valleys and tributaries; '!he .Atlan ic coastal system; an 1 the (Heat Lakes are prcba’.tly the princi pal beneficiaries. .Still other sums for flood control construction, forest trail improvements in The national i .lesl.- and for miscellaneous jiurposes will also assi.st recovery. The fediral public huildin pro- hard today 14 old sheep and 21 lambs giam has b<-en speeded up, meanwhile, valued at $160. He has .sold during the to a point where it will be eomfileted year $.’).'>.2."> worth of lambs and $60 seven years instead of ten, as eon-, worth of blankets made from the wool! tetnplated when it was initialed in of his sheep, or a total sale of $112.25 at* a cost of $10 for tly corn and oats -which he fed to-«»4h6a«—eheop,' -This gives him a labor income of $105.25 above the corn and oats fed tb his sheep. The treasury-postoffice appropri-1 hill-which will... bo passed-w a II !lil!!lii!;!!!l 3 — C It’s Time to Put The ELEPHANT TO WORK A circus wagon can be pulled along a dirt road —' they can buckle down and haul it in the mud — when every-day horse power fails/ — it’s time to put the Elephant to work! There comes a time in business when sales slow up — when buyers hesitate — wnen mer chandise won’t move. All the plans mat worked / < so well when the road was smooth somehow lose their power to pull. ■ ' -a*. * ** / But there is a power thajt comes into its own at such a time as this — IT’S THE CONCENTRATED POWER OF / ® REGULAR ADVERTISING. Advertising is theJIephant You Need in Your Business Today few days makes $60,000,000 immedi- j ately available to assist in this work. All of this money, as well as the Let each farmer begin now to make j in the emergency his farm and home self-supporting I for 1931. This can be done by^milking eftws every day. ^ 7' FEED Beet Pulp Fish Meal Hog Feed Laying Mash Scratch Feeds Dairy Feed Meal, Hulls, Coal Clinton Cotton Oil Co. “Spartan Graini*i>ea!ei»” ii^< fund bill, is expended by the various federal departments, direct, without requi’ements of state cooperation. A.8 to the question of how these '.ncicased expenditures are to be met, a serious que.stion arises which will probably lead to a prolonged battle I >etoie the session is over. The pres ent outlook is di.stinctly against an t increase in income taxes this year. , .Although there is a prospect of a treasury deficit, in fact a virtiitrl cer- .1 tainty of one, Pre.sident Hoover feels that wise spending, with elimination of the 1 per cent income tax reduction granted last year, can avoid the need . for increased ta.xes. j The Democrats in both hou?=e8 agree with him thoroughly on this, ’but dif- [ fer with him sharply on what is to be I done if it becomes necessary'to raise ^ mere money. They seek to tap the • sinking fund» of the national debt, t Payments bn the debt are now far ahead of schedule and could be com- I pletely stppped, temporarily. Presi- jdent Hoover has already declared him- jielf opposed to this procedure. 1 . THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody Reads” Advertising Will Shove You Out of The Mire \ t'ii.'T'lC. -i