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THE CXINTON CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1932 .!yr'''» r Farm Demonstration Notes C. B. CatiAon. County Afrnt Dairyinir Whittaker, 6* Youngs i community, milks cows industrial LAND The movement to workers to the land is spreading. Ford announces that 20,000 acres in' ^ , and around Dear^m is under cultivu tion by men wh© work for him. The International Harvester company he.s begun to provide “miniatuie” furm.s for its employees who have been iaiJ off on account of the depression. I heard again from one of rny cor respondents in Czecho-J:>lovakia, who writes me that the government pro gram of requiring every industriu’ worker to live on enough land to sup port his family <in case of shut-down is working out well. In the old days in Kngland it wa an expression of the deepest aotitempi to refer to anyone as a “landless man.” The man who held no land, by ownership or lease, was a drag on so ciety. That is .still mea.surai)ly true. The huge sums that i^re t>eing raised for unemployment relief are not going to men who hold land. The time will come when every- sells surplus milk to a creaniery and* finds it worthwhile. It is ‘ true, all | farm commodities are cheap and atj such time it is so easy to give up. i Mrs. Whittaker milked on an average! six COW'S during the month of April j and fed them with home-grown feed. She sold from these six cows $20.57 of cream to the .Newberry reamery. This figures over and above the nine gallons of skimmed milk fed to livestock on her farm and 10 gallons of milk consumed in the home. Out of the home-grown feed, M rs. Whittaker also fed one dry cow ;)i <1 three calves. During the month of ccember, she sold to the cheese plant n Greenwood $13.33 wcxrth of^milk; n January $10.31; in February ?10.52; and in March $19.02. During the months of Decentber, January, and February only four cows were milked. To date she shows a cash gain above feed cost of $74.25. This gives an av- of $14.85 income per month from cows, and tht W’ork does not in terfere w’ith the regular farm crop program. We will never have livestock paying on Laurens county farms until feed is produced at a very low cost. good mixtitfe for a cow is 200 lbs. of corn|ir| and cm) meal, 100 lbs. of ground oats, j [I body will realize the folly of trying cotton seed meal. To to separate human activity from the soil. ‘ MISKUATS jNomebody had the bright idea a few years ago of, introducing the Ameri can muskrat into Fngland. They were intended to l)e bred in captivity for their furs, but as anyone who knows anything about muskrats might have anticipated, some of them got away. .Now the muskrat has become a na tional pe.st. Most of Kngland is none too high above sea level, and for a cou|)le of thousand years its people have l)een building dam.s and dikes to keep the surface water under control. The muskrats are playing hab with these embankments and great farm areas have ’bt*en flooded. Parliament passed a laiw making muskrats out laws, to be shot on sight, but who ever saw a muskrat in the daytime within rifle range ?— • Some day we’ll learn the foolish ness «if moving animals from their feed a milk cow on a full grain feed j f<»r 180 days and on a half feed for; 11 120 days, when she will be on pui-j (* ture, will take 1080 Ihs. of the abqve' mentioned mixture. The mixture may be gotten from 12 bushels of corn,i aoki .13'x bushels of oats, and 4 of cotton.seed meal. / ' j \ farmer should figure on Px to ^2 j tons of good legume hay, or its equiv-J || alent. for each milk cow, together! •- with an acre of grazing patch for whi ter and two acres of good permanent pasture, ( ow-s should be fed for pro duction just as well as other livestock is fed for work. It is necessary to feed all roughage a cow cap,/clean-up at each feeding. A goinl rule to follow is to f<H*d 1 Ib. of grain ration to each 2*x to 3 lbs, of mijlk produced by the ^.ler.sey or Guernsey cow, or grades of these breeds, or 1 lb, grain ration to 3’x to 4 Ibs.'pf milk produced by Hol- steins, .Milk is made up of 87 per cent water, therefore t^w^cows should have access to clean fresh water. nati\e lands. The Knglish sparrow I and the starling have Ihh'Omu* pests in (irain Harvesting eastern .North America. The water] The time for harve.sting grain is at hyacinth, imporieu from .AuNtrulia, * which of course leaves stubble blocks navigation in' our southern another crop. Soybeans, cow- livens. And in Australia the Knglish' or velvet beans make the 0 0 0 0 raWiit years ago be<‘ame the mo.<t pes tiferous and prolific of vermin. (ANDI.ES . .Xralx'lla Hriilgeman died the uth<*r <iay in Knglaiid at the age of 1(M5. Shi had livi'd her last lOt) years in one hou.-e. in which there was ne ther gas 0 0 nor cliHlricitv. <'aiull<‘s her need of light.. alone servinl Sometimes 1 think most of us would be bs’tter off if we left the bright lights toi- the playhouses and putilic places and contented ourselves in the home with candles and lamps. There | wouldn’t be so much temptation to sit up late, for one thing. We might n< ' , do .so much reading, hut we might live longer. best! hay that can be fed to livestock. .Ac cording to the 1930 census, we are producing only 20 per cent of the hay required to feed the livestiK’k of I,jiu- rens ciiunty. I would advise farmers to grow sufficient'hay and grain crops they are familiar with and to be very cautious in trying grain sorghum on' the ina*ket under the name of "Gro- homo" and which is Indrig advertised veiy highly. Farniers have been stung enough by high-powered salc.smen,’ l| ‘herefoie it is lime for a cheok-up on, <aine i 0 0 0 0 0 0 \ Fri'KK A.N William ('riamier the other .ilay cel- eJnated the seventieth anniver.sary of his service in th^ employ of a single .New York store.; He is nearly 81, and he went to wo^ for .Arnold, Con- (iurdening 'Fhe gardens throughout the coun ty are showing that the farmers are ilevoting mire interest to producing; vegetables for the home. 1 trust this will continue throughout the year.] .Corn, bunch beans, and pole lH*anSj should he planted successively as longj as theix? is time left for maturity. Itj requires 42 to 5() days for snap lK:‘an8 to mature; 5<’) to 70 days for corn; no to 140 days for cabbageY 115 to 0 0 0 0 stable Hi Co., when he was ten, and is! , ,,, , . . . i still workinir there tomatoes; and 49 to 65 1. , r L ♦ days for beets. Plantings of tomatoes. Famous men and w’oinen of what f. . „ , .. {cabbage, and collards made now will seems a distant past were among the , , . , i, . - cu.sto:iu*rs whom this veteran of com- nwree ha.4 ^eived .Mrs. .\brr.ham Lin coln, Mrs. L’. S. Grant, Mrs. Cleveland aie iir.ung the ladies who Unight thb'.g.« a* hi.s couni< r; he remembers a i' , . ^ • lady named Roo.seve’lt who'had arsenate] chubby little boy, with her* serve for late summer, fall, and win ter crops, thus coming in when vege tables are scarce. The strip<>d cucumlier beetle should be sprayed with a mixture of six level son with a gallon of water; or with the whin'shi-'c.m.' to'ihopr.nd thi'.tori 1.'‘‘.ti derk hw» liv..,i a dotan vaara and and 20 mora aiiu-a that littla boy‘paa»ad on P*''" •'ydratad lima This sama aftar havina baan prasidant of tha!"''™*' “•'•I tomato fruit w’orm. 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