Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THK BK8T CROP FOR 1WI The Solution of the Fertiliser aud Boll Wwvil PrwWwn. Many fa r me tm arc aakiug the quea r ion. "What can I do *tor a money ?irop (Ills year?" Mr . R. I. Han<\>ek Peanut sixM-iailst ?>f it??* Hen island <\>tton on Owopiny, bWieves that the farmer* of South Carolina oin better afford t<? plant peanut* thin year Mian iu 1020 and assigns reasons for making assertion. They are now jugntred that peanuts I??|I| Spanish anil it minor* oaii be hiMXMHwfully grown in this ?ec* tion. The M#0 clop being the equal of any crop grown lnpthej' section.?, luVth in > : ? ? 1 1 1 and quality, has relieved *11 doubt* as to this very Important point. Thou.su lids of dollars wore Invested last year in planters, weeders and picking machines- for use in growl dk -and harvesting peanut*. This, to gother with the high prleo of seed, *11 of which had to bo brought from other aectlons. and at a time when |M-anuts and farun machinery wore selling at the highest price on record, added to t'he high eost of lubor. raude the |>ea uut crop a u expensive crop. The farm or now has his seed, and in many in Ntances. iiJanters und weeders and picker*. All of these together with a MAOKVV MKK?ANT II JO COMPANY C'HiikI^ii, S. C. jear of practical experience, puts htm In a position to grow a i>eauut crop with lena expense than almost any crop that can In* grown In this section and with u? much assurance of making a profit on Mm l#t>Or and investment. Many plauters were lc??l to believe tlmt they could not grow peauuta with out first liming the land. Other? wore of tho opinion that with a liberal application of fertiliser they could make record crujw. In regard t ?? thin, Mr. Hancock continued: "i.et mo repeat what I have ko ofttlmes .said \\ hen dis ?cussing |H>an\it growing I bellevft that liming of land Is a good thing In. do, and something that will be .pru fitahlu when lt<xuiuii crops of any kind a ro grown, However, the i|Sv of lime is not necessary in order fo grow pea jiutH and will not always give returns fur tho expenditures in it n> our or two yettl'tf (My con tout Ion ill this lias been proven connect by experiments made at the Florence, s. <\ I'xpci-l mental Station.) (hi soils well fielded with humus and nitrogen, 200 to 800 lbs. of acid phosphate is a good ferti lizer to uno. More can be aiqdicd, hut the amount given ha* proven satis factory In mauy case?*. The fertilizer for /peanut* should be nut in furyow and never on top of the soil. Feed roots of the peanut confine themselves close to tho main (tap root) root, and will ho found three of four Inches he low the surface. Planting. Tho land where peanuts are planted should be free from weeds and grass. It- should be also as near level as practical to allow the free use of the weedor, whleh is a very Important im plement In the cultivation of peanuts. After planting and Just before the peanuts eome thro ugh, go over the land with the weeder. In doing this <you will be destroying a coat of grass and weeds .lust coining through and have tln< laud in good shape for using the wceder after the peanuts are up. A belter way Is to run the weeder di agonally across the rows, changing I he course each time. Itows should be spaced thirty Inches and peanuts drop ped '! inches in the drill one-, nut to ii hill." Time to Plant. "Now cornes tho question of tho lime l<> plant anil llie kind of weed to use For Spanish peanuts, do not plant un til the soil is thoroughly warm: May 1st to June lf>th proved the best plant ing period last season. Planting very early or extremely late did not prove profitable. Kuliuners may be planted during March nr April. It Is not ad visable to plant runners for market." IMant ing Seed. "Smith Carolina has as fine a lot of peanut seed as ever grow, and 1 doubt if any other stifle has seed that is as free from iniaiiircs ns ours, are." Planting Shelled or Pnshelled Seed. This Is' and lwis been a very im|>or lant question, one that we of South Carolina can answer, however, and in line with the advice given by the spe cialists In peanut work in Washington Shelled seed, when properly shelled Hiy machine) are better than 'seed in the shell,' and will ?dve better results, because : First, all immature or defective kor Musical Feature EXTRAORDINARY Dunbar's White Hussars BAND AND MALE CHORUS THIRD DAY REDPATH CHAUTAUQUA 1 his great singing band will ? appear in a concert pre lude in the afternoon and a grand concert at night. One of the Greatest Features of the Entire Chautauqur Just One of 11 Big Attractions Season Ticket* $2.50 Plus 10 Per Cent. War Tax CHAUTAUQUA WEEK HERE APRIL 25th-29th nels have been removed ami W* flod. Mnndt well developed uutu to; plant. H(K*ood. tbuy germinate ami tome up more uniformly, allowing the use of t|io weedcr before t>he wvo<Im and gran* have inatlt1 a if .11 Third, they can be planted uniformly uml quickly l?y machine, thus saving much labor. llnvbellld I60d VWI slowly, and #omet lines require dayH f?r all of those planted to epne through. i m ring (bin time, or while tin* pt-anufs arc coniiui; through, (he weoder must no) b# run over them, for if we break the young plant while Ul thfli "crook" or while the ,nul (a Htlll on, we breaK our stand We mu>q use great eare In planting shelled peanuU* In that they must not ho shelled long before planting. Th? sooner they are planted after shelling the I tetter stands we can ox peef. Plant enough seed to ensure j: good stand. It is easier to cultivate with a good stand titan with a poor one. Make good use of the wecdor and harrow and you wUI find little need of the hoe. Your ehancea aro far liet ter Willi peanuts Mian with any other crop, especially eotton. (Signed), F. Hancock, Peanut SjKM'Iallst HJ(i WATERMELON CHOP. From 3,000 lo 1,000 Cars Shipped Out of South Carolina Annually, .Many people living In South Caro Una do not know the Importance of watermelons as a eonunereial crop in this state, says F. L. Ilarkey, exten sion agent In marketing who Iuia re cently hud many Inquiries concern ing such questions as the heat com meivlal varities, the shlfyping period the number of melons required to make a car, etc. Figure* from the office of the marketing agents show that 3,000 to 4,000 cars of watermelons are ship, ped out of the state annually, the ma j * orJty of these being produced In Barn well., Allendale, Hampton and Jasner counties. Indications are that the (prop planted this year will lie a large one. The chief commercial varieties in South Carolina are I lie 10 x eel and the Tom Watson. Shipments usually la gin about -Inly t ami end about Sep tclnber 1. The lUL'O shipping, season was at it^ height from .Inly 20 to July 30. (in July 1M>, 1020. H00 ears were shipped. When Hie South Cjrolimi movement of watermelons is on. sharp competi tion is to be expect cm I from (Jcorgia. Some shipments are also moving at that time from Alabama, and North Carolina, and a few from Florida., though the Florida movement liecohies < -on i pa rati vt'lV unimportant after July 15. The majority of melon shipments from South Carolina go to Fastern markets, though many ears are ?old in Southern territory throughout the shipping season, for almost every town of any size TTa miles one or more cars of watermelons. For the. ? advance instruction of those planting watermelons commer cially It might be said that watermel ons are usually loaded in ventilated box ears I or layers high depending on the aV/a' of the melons. When mel Ions average IS pounds. 1,,'iOO to 1,450 are usually loaded In a car; whew" t hey average 2p pounds or im?re, 000 to 1.-200, are usually loaded to A car. All cars should be clean and bedded with dry pine needles or train straw. Shaving* <>r sawdust enn lie used if absolutely dry but are not t li<* most desirable bedding American Legion News, A hungry rooster, who had mi*s?d his meals for five hours, made a fracr t ion over for ea< h grain of com In' eo'hld gilible in a three-hour feast for the ( women of ih?> American Le gion's Auxilliaiy in Cimarron. Kan. After hoi n g sold twice then :i net ioned <?ff. tli?' fowl netted jf.'j'jS for the Auxil iary. I 'laced in a slum* window for hours without his breakfast, tin- hir^l suddenly faeed 1 .< m k ? grains of tempt* ing Kansas eorn. Cnesses were sold at ten ?*ents ea< h as to how many grains he would eat. lie tucked away "JS.'! mains and retired for the night I ^?gs. eats, coats and hears were used as mascots hy members of Wyan dotte i'ost of the American Legion in Kaunas City. Mo., when the\ were in the Army. 'To provide shelter for their pets, in ]x>aee time the jxist has gone on record as favoring the establishment of a municipal zoo. with the stipula tion that their mascot* 1m> installed therein. 'Hie name of C rover Cleveland will no longer he connected with thaf of Rergdoll. if the will .of Richard L. Kitehetis I'ost of the American l.egion at Helena. Ark., prevails. The post has passed a revolution requesting tho (i??verninent remove the fir-t two names of (J rover Cleveland IVigdoll. notorious draft evader. The first pilgrimage ?.f g.?;?l -tar mother- oversea* to vi*if the graves of their sous will Ikogin ahout June 1, when 1(X> women of the American War Mother's organization w.il vail for France on the Steamship Am- n.i In Frati<*e tile mothers will !>e irue-ts of 'tlie Women's Auxiliary ..f tic- 1'irl.s Post of the American Legion Sixty Sioux Indians, who -erved as I intolligen.v scouts in the W i d War. will entertain delegates and \ isitors to the third annual convention of the American I .eel on at Kansas <'ir\ n^rf fall, with a tribal war dance Ilrtfi Farm He Never Saw John T. Roddey. well known Rock citizen has a farm he never -aw*. It 1* located in Kershaw county When a freind asked him the other day if he ever went fishing. Mr Roddey said : "No. I never fish because I j haven't the patience to wait on 'em to bite. I've got a farm over in Kershaw county/ however thnt I am told in cludes some of J Jo- l>e*t fishing waters in that section "I bought the place, a par' ..f the oKl Cureton tract several years ago. pay ing $'J an acre for it "Never having soon it I asked John CL .Richards of IJberty IIIU which place 'Is nearby. what kind of a farm it wax. "Why man,' he rerflif<1. 'I can't say n great deal for the land but the t?o*t fishing in all that coontry Ik to l>e had In the waters bordering It. AU you've #rot to do is to <pnt yonr hook In ?nd they'll bite" ? York Fmpilrer SHORT NKW8 STORIES. Item* of ln<?rw( from Many Women nit i nbcis of tUo village CpUU" 4 * i 1 of 1 It-it rift I u. Mich., recently defeat ?? < I In an .lotion, refuse to give up their offices and the men who defeat . .1 tlu-m Will b((VQ t<? resort to the rourts. The Pacific llffl ordered a niiUi -.n eggs \\ lien It railed at Nalpuralso t'lilli Hie other day, ami I tie singly hum ciia nt a of the city wore UUttWO jo m mow than half of thf? order. Two jQiiitt or black powder* ubout 40.* 000 pounds, exploded at Fredericks hUltg, Va.. last Sunday, seriously liijur ||)g two nu ll Tin- e\ plosion could lw heard for 0 distauco of from ten to fifteen miles. At Q. Field, the prciuior of American luluatrelN died at hl? home at Colli na 1 1 1 M, Ohio, last Sunday In tho 72nd yeur of his ago. Tho Western Klectrle company with headquarters at Chicago announces a wage cut of ft per cent, affecting 20, ,000 .persons. Fightiuglvas been going on between tho Turka and French In Cilia, Asia Minor, and It Is believed that there Is a break up of the agreement lx> tween the French and Turks, as con* eluded In London. An effort to impeach the governor of Oklahoma has /ailed for lack of enough votes, the Vote being 12 with eight absent. It has been definitely announced from the White . House that Fditqr George Harvey, of Harpers' Weekly, is to be, Minister to ICnglaud. The city of Newberry has awarded a $17f>.ooo street paving contract. The people of Prosperity and com munity arc protesting a twenty per cent increase in (telephone rates. Masked men late Friday night- took Alex Johnson, negro boll boy in a lo cal hotel, to a lonely spot six miles south of Dallas, Texas, flogged him until he hied and then branded with an acid the letters "Iv. K. K." on his forehead. .Johnson was brought back to Dallas in the automobile and thrown from the machine in front of tlie hotel where he-Was employed. Po lice said the anasked men accused the negro of -association with certain white women. American Indians who served during the World Warfare lining up with the American 1/cgion according to applu cations for post charters received at National Headquarters. An applica tion for a post at St. Charles, S. D., bears the names of four Sioux In dians who signed themselves: Benja min ^CoOies-Out Bear. Cbarles-Owb Walks- In -The House, Narcisse Mae Ken/.le and John Bluebird. Lillian Helen Ballew. the fifteen inonth's-old infant of Mr. and Mrs. TI. 10. Hollow, of near Inniau. died in the Good Samaritan Hospital at Spar tanbur? Thursday afternoon, as the result nf burm< received Tuesday after noon when the child's dress caught afire from :in open fireplace. The mother was in the yard at. the time the child caught afire and wa< attract ed by its screams. I,ON<; M>ST SON FOl Nl> Kidnapped When a Hoy, Now on a Visit to Charleston lloniefolks. < lharleston. April 7. ? Kidnap|iei when :i flii I<1 of seven years at Wrightsvihln 1 ^ ?-7? and n<*t having scon a member of his family for nearly 27 years, Harry Tcboc is in Charles ton. the gnesf of his sister. Mrs. .1. K. Turney. and is looking forward wit': kern anticipation to tlu> coming of his mother from Montgomery, whore nho has Wen notified of her long lost son's arrival hero. Mr. Tehoe went under the name of Robert Haves for the greater part of his life, hut a few months ago learned his renl iden tity through an advertisement insert ed by his sister in a magazine. She always believed ho wiis alive and did not let up in her efforts to get in touch with him. Meanwhile, young Toboe had grown to manhood. <i>onf many years in the navy, and took part in rhe world war. winning dis tinetion by gallantry. It was after his return to the Pennsylvania town wQiere he was brought up that he saw the advertisement "which led to 'cor respondence with bis sister and estab lishment of his identity. He was mar ried about a year ago. nnd will bring his wife here from Philadelphia to make Charleston their home. Mr. Teboe lias obtained employment as a mechanic with the Standard < >il com pnny here He en mo to Charleston as soon a* he could arrange his af fairs. Twice he w?4 in this city pre viously. nmi? ns a sailor on the I*. K S Topeka. a nd later wbile on his way to France Unt he and his sis ter awl mother, although in fihe Manf city on these occasions, had no ink ling of their nearness to one another. Mr* \Teel <?ondm?n IhAander. wn? convicted of mayhem in Atlanta Wed nesday on account of throwing acid Into the face of Mrs. Oladys Presnrl. 1 n iicket <*?iier in a iocai movinjf pic? i tnre show. Mrs. Rolander claims that Mm Presnel aliennt'-d the :i fferf Ions of her husband. Former Emperor Charles of AustjO-, Hungary, is back In Switzerland after his recent unsuccessful hunt for re Instalment as king of Hungary. Plasterers and cement finixhera of Jacksonville, F1j?., have announced their ^rilUncneM to consent to a reduc tion !n their wage* from *1 to <37 12 cents nn honr. rUTATOKN AND CURING HOICKS KfToti To II? Made to C3ei Farmer* In terred in, Increased Acrruge. The following Is u copy of u lotler being mailed to farmer* and land own ers in Kershaw County, relating to growing polutoes and establishing cur ing and storage house* ; Camden, H. C, April ift, 10 Ifl. To (Jk? -Fanner** and Land Owners of Kershaw County : At the fy rraers meeting; liehj at the Court House on last Saturday, which was called by our Chamber of <Jom meree, the Chairman of the Kershaw County l>ivlsloli <>r the American Cot ton Association and myself, .some intrts of the fonnty Were not represented and it was found Impossible to get any correct estimate OF id?'a of acre age to be planted to potalocs, cbn?e (pientlv. no definite slops could be taken in the matter of providing Cuj^ ing ami Storage Houses. If we are gping to plant potatoes for iuarket we must provide ourlng houses and storage houses, and we must also, at the proper time, find a market for' what we have to sell. Fu therm ore, if we are going to plant potatoes for market, we must decide at once how many we are going to plant and pOaco order at once f??r slips, The farmers present at the meeting Saturday seemed to l>e in earnest about this matter and expressed themselves as heartily in favor of every farmer in the county planting at le?ist one to two acres per plow in a variety of potatoes, such as may he agreed upon l>y the farmers in their resiiecti-ve com munities. Some communities may plant Porto Rico's, another may plant Nancy Flail, but as far as possiljfle, each and every community should adopt and plant one particular variety. It was thought that farmers- pro ducing around 2.000 bushels or more could well afford to hulild a curing house on his farm. It was also sug gested that when possible, several farmers producing, say r?,iMK> bushels could jointly build a house for their re quirements. It was further suggested that, we shoisld have Community fair ing and Storage Houses at several railroad points, say. Cassan. It'oyklh. Rlane.v, Logoff. l>eKalb. Kershaw ami .Met hone. fl'he bouses can be built, at a vrry reasonable cost and without very much money If our people %0(>u furnish such luuafoer and other ills at* they can, and also furni^ labor wheu farm work i? not pres^J As your Demonstration Agent hi. ing the experience and advice of'oial Hon College and the |J, S. Dep't of w culture behind me. 1 fed 'that iJJ: be of real benefit to the fa r mora u the matter Ot building eurlu| ty (itora?e houses and marketing CfJ produced. > With the view of rendering Uu-grJ out help powJWo to every farmer, i ai# asking thai you supply me at once W|J Information necessary us itull<-?ti>t| u QUeat ions asked. The ail important question ju*t no* j is reaching a decision as to acreage yJ J xv ill plant anil (placing order immediate 1 ly for slips so you will be sure of tltlff plants. Very truly yours, J. W. Sanders, j lwtriu Demonstration Agent for k,, shaw County. I TWO MEN FOUND DKAD. k Taxi Car Driver# Killed in Woo* Near Spartanburg. Spartanburg, March 81,-vrhe quest over the death of Guy H. Mc Dowell, tho taxi driver who ww found dead in a clump of woodaafot J miles west of the town yesterfo; ufteruoon with two bullet holes through his head, was held this flftw. noon at l>'clock. It was brought out at the Inquest that McDowell, (ilenu Foster ami T, R. Umford went 1 out of town together Tuesday aft? noon about 3 o'clock going In the direction of where the body wan found, and 'that wias the In of SlrDowell alive. 4 T. B. BRUCE Veterinarian l.yttlcton St., Phono 114 CAMDEN, S. C. Even New Cars not immune from Battery ailments - / /? ? ? Get that emminationMfflf AF.TB.R you've put your license-plates on Jtx. the new car and gas in the tank, the next thing to do is to drive -around to the Prest O-Lite Service Station and get a clean bill o? ? - health for your battery. It may be strong and fresh and ready, for \ the road; but, again, it may need some little thing done to it that only a battery expert should be entrusted with. Think of the Prest-O-Lite Service Station as headquarters for everything pertaining to your battery, no matter what the make. That's what we're in business for. Take advantage of long experience and honest advice. When you do need a new battery, you'll be glad to know that Prest-O-Lite is back to pre war prices and that an allowance will be made on your old battery. Get that examination now. BEARDS BATTERY SERVICE Phone 118-W Camden, S. C, Pull up where you see this sign JhoAtOJite Staiage Zftalt&u} Uses less than on ? four-hundredth _ - of its power -reserve for fl ' start? and the generator qutcw replaces that ? pB-tl-C hvery one who has a Washing Machine ought *0 ?,n,e ?/ ?.ur Washing Machine Dratnara that will auto rnuticMiiy urain the machine whenever it Is conveniently n? ar a faucet Write us for circular. Also one of our lit' tie Giant Clothes Reels, which does away with the un sig ity Clothes line and really is more or less of an orn*' ment than an eyesore such as the usual way of hangr?* oflt clothes is. Write for cirlular and price. COLUMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY 823 West Gervaia St.