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•'K- 'W'''>l'*5'«^i .■>yU ■$T‘ :' is,' ■/ / ./■ / TAGE EIGHT THE CLINTON CHRONICLE THURSDAY. l»tAY ^ 19S2 Faim Demonstration Notes JG. R. Cannoa. Canaty AfeBt THE HOG IS THE UVESTOCK KING thrw* pounds a year of lamb and mut-]in 'the West than there were a few ton in 'Great Britain, and ftfty-four years a^fo, bijrt the fact renams th^t pounds a year in Australia.! Great Britain and Australia are great sheep tnat riot (Written for The Chrpnicle by Calt^ more than one-half of the gross farm ' growing countries, but sheep farming l>atM for Making Applkation for Govemineaf SeH Loans Cloaed ^ The last day fo^receixing govern ment seed loan blanks was April 28. The records of this office' show that 318 applicants applied for loans. The total smn applM for amounted to $39,139.75. records also show that on April 29, 228 fanners had received checks amounting to a sum total of $32,397.00. There were at that time 85 chep^ to be heard from. I am sure those fanners who ap- pKod for a loan aq>pTeciate tKe fine spirit shown ^y both the county ;tnd conununity ebrnmittees. These com- mittoomen devoted time in pas.sing or. these blanks free of expense in order to be of assistance to the farmers iii Laurens county. It has been rumored that the committeemen received pay for their work. 'Hiis is untrue.. Their service was ^given patriotically MARKHAM 11 went to CamegW hall the other night 4o the celebration of the eigh- .iDhnson^ Through Autbeaster Service). The pe<^le of the United States are eating less beef .and, more veal, lamb ‘and pork, and this change in meat consumption habits has been going on stead-ly for more than thirty years. We eat a miKion potties more* beef a year than we did in 1900, hut the population has increased at a"^ faster rate than that, so that the average amount of beef eaten by each indi vidual is down from sixty-seven income is derived from livestock and j has never become as popular^in'.Amei^ livestock products, principal among i *ca aS in Europe, which are cattle, sheep and lambs, j One important reason for the lag in hogs,' lard and wool. Iowa ranks first \ development of sheep farming in among the states, in gross i^ome from livestock produuts, and Illinois second. tieth birthday of Edwin Markham, the | pounds a year to less than fifty poet. A spry little old man with white, pounds. But* in the same period which whiskers, he was as vivacious as a fchoolboy, as he read some of his own v;*r''e» from the platform. Markham’s most famous poem is ‘ The Man With the Hoe.” I believe* 1 'at poem has done more Harm, in im- ’ lanting a false social theory in the ■riinds of impressionable youth, than •■nything that has been written in our The county committee was compo. -| time. For thiis poem is based upon th* ed of 0. L. Long, chairman; N. H.| heory that the toiler in the fields is Hunter, C. S. Hipp, lAurcns. The various community commitiei - were as follbws: Gross HHl: E. A. Adams, ch-.inhan, R. W. Griffin, Horace MeSwain. Owings: Walker Gray, chairman, P.. G. Woods, J. M. W'illis. Princeton: M. L. Cheek, chairman, John W. Traynham, G. U Ridgeway. Mountville: Herbert Burns, chair man, J. C. Miller, J. H. Motes. Poplar Springs and Mount Bethel: H. O. Abercrombie, chairman, W’. A. Simpson, S. C. C/Kik. Clinton: W. W, Harris, chairman, C. W’. Stone, R4H*<U‘r Workman. Fountain Inn; E. O. White, chair man, J. H. Heilam.s, R, R. Chatman. Watterloo; J. ,C. Smith, chairman, R*'X I.Jinford. C. O.’Teague. Lanford; T.Mtoy HeShields, chair man, L. Waldrep, J. K. PatUmson. Youngs: J. Gray Harris, chairman, J. H. .4b«*iTrombie, W, B. W’ilkie. unintelligent because he has been forced by the noore fortunate part of society to be a toiler. Everybody who works wYth his hands, according to thie Markham theory, is a victim of capitalistic oppression, whereas the, records of humanity, from the begin ning of time, prove that intelligence has always lifted its possessor out of the ranks of todlers, as it lifted Lin coln. our bee{ consumption has increased by a mdllior pounds a year, the increase in pork consumption | has mounted by nearly four billion pounds. W'e eat more pork than any other nation, an average of nearly seventy pounds a year per person, but we eat less lamb and mutton than any other/Country in the world. 'n’oee are some facts developed by the National Livestock Marketing as sociation, which was organized in 1930 and which is trying to find ways .and means of helping livestock growers establish the meat producing industry on a profitable basis. WTien it is con sidered that more than half of t^e total income of the farmers is from the sale of livestock, running to five and one-half billion dollars a year, and that the meat packing industry is the second largest industry in Amer ica, only the manufacture of motor , .ars being larger, the importance of ® ... the nH‘at business is apparent. And it * ^ as.socia ion is not only the largest branch of ag- Cooperative marketing of livestoc^k through producer-owned asseciations has effected noticeable econoimies in livestock marketing. W^ile the idea of cooperation in agriculture is not new, it is only recently that it has taken pr.Tctical form inllivestock marketing. In 1931, about thirty cooperative agencies handled approximately 18,- OOO.OOO head of livestock, while ten years earlier,, in 1921, there Yvere only five associations in existence and these handled than 1,590,000 head. I In addition to realising large sav-; ings in marketing costs,! cooperative j associations provide machinery for stabiliizng livestock production to a greater extent and for regulating the | movement of supplies into distribu- j tive channels'on a more orderly basis. | To coordinate this work on a national scale and make it of the greatest pos sible effectiveness, the National live stock Marketing a.'sociation was or- ganwed in 1930. For the first time in the hi .story of the Aimer; can livestock and meat industry, producers were provided with a nation-wide organi zation, owned and controlled by them selves, through which to market their America ha« been the labor cost; Sheep take a great deal more personal attention than cattle do, and in an un developed country facing a labor shortage the most attractive branch of iihy industry is that which requires the least labor. There has been a rer vival of interest in sheep and wool production in ti>e E^t in recent years, and there aare many leore large flocks years ago American liY-estock growers are hot sheep-minded to uoy greM extent. They are familiar w'lth. cattle and hogs, but the sheep ^d.i.stry is en tirely different from eitntr of these. A part of the program cf the Live stock Marketing association is to co operate writh the departnvent of agri culture in the .effort to develop a type of sheep adapted to American condi tions! which will yield a high quantity, as drell as a high quality, of both meat, and wool. But when all is said and done, the backbone of the livestock industry in the United States is the great ican hog. > ' J IS WMvib can’t'ruin AN EARtY CROP JT it not turpriting that wc have one of the developing a SHORTHAND If I had a son with intelligence enough to take advantage of oppor tunities. I would see to it that he be-i riculture, but it is prodiably the most l"'"":T- vn^ expert stenographer w hile i completely oaganized in the process- •.‘^e- is sales advisotry service to assist its' member agencies in coordinating the! might Food and Feed Shortage .A.-cording to the 1930 census of the U. .S. department of agriculture, Lau rens county, as well as other counties, show'.A quite a large .shortage in food and feed for the farm mass of people. These figures were given by the farm er, and if ..they art* incorrect, the farmer himself gave them incorrectly. -According to the census, the follow ing figures give the percentage of produtt-ion of various commodities in I.aurtns county: Hay 20 per cent, corn 72 per cent, oats 88, potatoes (Irish and sweet) 42, pork 23, milk 46, eggs 43, poultry 37, flour 21. According to the figures, there is a food and fetsl shortage in Laurens county of $1,403,- .'>23.00. This shortage was either bouglit out of the county or not used. Gomparing this w'ith the 1931 cotton crop, based on 37,000 bales at 2c for aeed cotton, or 6c per peund'imH the cotton was valued at $1,110,000, leav ing a shortage of $293,523.00 sent out of the county to buy food and feed for Laurens county farmers above the value of the 1931 cotton crop. came an .still a boy, whatever else he study. _ / 1 was r«*'mimded of this field of op portunity tho other day when 1 sat on a "platform in New York where ‘‘A!’’ Smith and Mayor “Jimmy” Walker were the principal speakers, and George B. Cortelyou was chair man of the loeal centennial celebra tion in Union square. George Cortel you started life as a stenographer. He was a >|pung man of unusual intelli gence. Mr. Cleveland w’anted another stenographer at the Whiite House and young Cortelyou was sent to him. He was promoted to executive clerk by Mr. Cleveland,^ then President McKin ley made him firrt assistant secretary, and then secretary, and President Roosevelt continued him as his seeW- tar>'. When the department of com- m< rce an|d labor was created, George (’ortleyoui was the first man to hold a cabinet position as its head. Then he was poslma.«ter-general, secretary of the treasury, and chairman of the Re publican national committee. And for the last twenty-three years he has been president of the Consolidated Gas Companies of New York, and one of the city’s most influential anrd re- citizens. : „ 1 I ^ I stock. Information concoiu-ing variou.s ing and marketing ends. Only the pro- , . , , ^ , ..v Auction end is still run largely on a >" haphazo.d basis. pnncipal br^ing and feedtng ar«s TV... 4. / *1. the country will be used to de- 1 he distribution systems of the' , , , , . 1 1 • • u • 1 u velop an orderly production and mar- large packing companies, which han- ' ^ keMng program for the country as a die, on the average,, more than 45,-1 . , .ru • • i 000.000 pounds of meat daily, are' '» »>»“, «0P<"; probably more extensive and effieient' au „ „ : * • J L au |Of agricuiture officials and others, in than thow maintained by any other * Ci- u- j a i j ; , „a eru •_ a • 1 J ' pstablushing uniform grade .standards industry. Their equipment includes thousands of refrigerator cars, nu- nH*rous branch warehouse.^, fleets of motirr trucks and large selling or ganizations which reach the smallest villages a.s well as the large cities. of livestock so that producers and buyers may have comparable market information for determining values. Inclqded in the department of agri culture’s figures of iwbme received by farmers from livestock are the re- heaviett of all weevil infcitations this yeia^ A remarkably mild'wintcr, a late, damp^rmg, the poMibility qi a wet summer—thM^^^bina- tion of conditions is ideal for ihi he does to the crop however, depends pretty much on what he finds wKcn he begins to pt around in lai ge numbers. If he finds squares, it will be just too bad. But if he finds the crop already set, he'll have plenty To worry about. The job is to get your crop set just as early as you can. And there is nothing like a Chilean Nitrate side-drcasing to do it. Immediate avail ability, quick action, lasting vigor and vitality— reasons why Chilean Nitrate is so valuable, so cffcctix^c for side-dressing cotton. Put down 100 pounds per acre (200 pounds would be better) right after chopping. That ought to pull you through this year. But be sure 8ct Chilemn Nitrate. See your dealer now. Nearly every one of the couiitrv 81 • . r i. j j • . t . i . • ; ceiptf from poultry and eggs, dairv SIX mallion farms contributes in somei . , , ,, r *1. J. *• t • 1 products and wool. Cattle, hog.< and w'ay to the production of raw material u i . l u. • for the livestock industry. .As a rule. sheep la.st year brought in $2,455,- 000,000; poultry and eggs ran to $1,- 037,000,000; dairy* prodiK'ts to $1,796,- the 1000,000, and wool to $66,000,000. One the agricultural problem from point of ^cw that the first thing they | reason w-hy people in America eat lea* must get off the farm’ is their own living, and then if they cam^jfet any cash (for their surplus they are that much ahead. lamb and mutton than in Europe is that we grow propoitionately fjewer sheep. We eat only seven pounds a year per person as against twenty- TWO KINDS Both an natural CHILEAN tOUCATIONAL 160 II. |AOI AND tot II. lAOt NITRATE iURIAU, INC. South Corolino tant that each farmer plant a suffi cient avreage this year to produi-e all JOBS The “war against depression’* cam paign,, backed by the American Le- jpmn, the F€‘deration of Labor and the A^bcialfbfi^^df "Nttfotiad AdvertiaorOfi has got more than half way toward its the food and feed he needs on his j These energetic people started farm, planting the surplus to cotton. NOTICE OF SALE J 1 wUl sell at public outcry to the bigbeflt bidder for ca.sh on public Nquare, near the monument, Clinton, S. C.. on Tuesday, May lOth, 1932, at ho don’t want joU as there are w^o 10 o’clock .A. M.. a«.eounts receivable out in February to put a million men back at work. Tlwy have already found jobs for over a half a million. .Another thing that they’ve found, which a good many wise people ex pected they would find, i« that there are about as many men out of w'ork mmilllllllllllllllllllllllillllillilBi : 'V \ of Collie Brown .Adair, Bankrupt. Ac counts as listed by the baiikinipt amount io aviproxLmaWly fiftee*n hun dred ($1500.00) dollars^ Right res<*rv-' ed to reject any and all bid.A and de livery upon bid '»ubj<Ht to confinna- tion bv the court. — B. H. BOYD, 5-5-3tc. Trustee. really need them. We are learning for the first time the true extent of .America’s leisure class. SPEED Thirty years ago, on June 15, 1902, I travelled from New York to Chi cago on the first regular train that ever ma<k* that trip in twenty hours. The 1‘enns.vlvania and the New York ('entral .started twenty-hour trains on the same day. I went out on the first Pennsylvania train and came back on the New York Central’s new sixe^ier, as a newspaper reporter. I.ater, the' running time between i thc'-se two cities was cut to eighteen [hours, but the twenty-hour schedule restored during the war. Now was J \v WILLIAM WRIGLEY, the chewing gum mag nate, who jdied recently, amassed a great for- Next time you are out of fix la the reeult of ir regular or faulty bowel movement, try Thedford’e Black-Draught for the re- fraahing relief it givea thoQMmcU of paopla who take it Hr. E. W. Caefl, a oooatmctiou super- in Pulaaki. Va., aaya: ’’When I gat OOD- my head adMi, and 1 havt thatdaa.tind fcalinf—Just ■ot aqnal to ny week. T don’t and I know that I Io doanaa mji Mltaki BUckBnofht Wo hena iamd M a fiaat halp.” SfAf Ai packata, ^ I they have got it shortened again, and the othef day 1 saw the start of the new eighteen-hour train, out of the i Pennsylvania terminal in New York. 1 think, and I found some railroad; officials w*ho agreed with me, that one I of the next big things after we gelj back to normal eoononwc conditions will be such an improvement in road beds, rolling stock and motive power that a fifteen hour schedule between I New York and Chicago will be pos- ' sH)le. Many trains on short stretches of pt*rfe<t track now go at ninety miles an hour. It is only a matter of I money to maintain such a sche<iule for the 990 miles that separate Lake • Michigan and the Atlantic. COWS My country neighbors who sell milk are having the blues, "niey" at'e only I getting about three cents a quaft now, which is less than it costs to produce the milk.» The explanation is that, dairying | has been, in many r;egiortR, the most t profitafble farm operation for the past few* years, so everybody i* going into! tit and there are too many dairy cows.! Farmers who depend on dairy pro-! ducts alohe are finding themselves ^ in tRe same position as those who de-1 pend on wheat, or cotton, or tobacco i alone. The only farmers. I know* who j are not in trouble are the ones who grow a little of tfada and a little of that, who kMp a few cows, E few pigs, a small fl^ock of hens, a smidi orchard and a small berry patch, and approach tune, and he attributed his success to advertis- % . * ing. While traveling on a fast train some time ago,' a friend asked Wrigley why he continued to spend millions of dollars for advertisuig. *’Your gum is now known the world over and the people have the habit; why don’t you save the millions you are spending on advertiung?” p asked the friend. Wrigley thought for a mo- I . V. . ment, then asked: ‘*How fast is tj|w train go ing?” About nxty miles an hour,” r^K^the friend. *Then why doesn’t the railway com pany remove the engine and let the train travel on its own momentum?” asked Mr. .Wrigley. li I iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir; \