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- Some Facts About I'ecan Trees
As a dour-yard treo the pecan is
otnnmentnl and fruitful. In no other
trees are these qualities so blended.
The trunk is .symmetrical and the
- foliage lace-like, giving a light shade
in which lawn grasses flourish. Its
limbs seldom break even in severe
storms and its tap-root fastens it so
firmly in the noil that it is not blown
down by fiercest winds. It grows to
perfection on lawnsT around gardens
and farm lots. At six to eight years
old it is not only giving valuable ,
shade but increasing crops of nuts. I
It lives for centuries.
It is stated that ten or twelve pecan
tries set around the home when a boy
or gitl enters school, will produce
sufficient funda to carry such l>oy or
girl through college. A few pecan
trees set on farms would, in a few
years, pay the taxes on all su<;h farms
and give a revenue besides.
One pet aii thee bore 60 pounds of
nuts at :? years and 150 pounds at 11
st ars of age. Another bore 00 pounds
at II years. A third bore 72 pounds
at 7 years. 'Four trees, about 12
years old, bore 500 pounds. Twelve
trees 12 years old bore 1,000 pounds.
One large tree bears as high as 700
pounds. Pecan trees growing on a
city home-lot in a near-by state are
reported to have produced, last fall,
a crop of nuts that sold for $1,500.
All pecan trees that hear record crops
are door-yard trees.
A farmer in another state with a
single pecan tree near an acre of cotton
on his farm, discovered that the
one tree brought him more revenue
than the acre of cotton. The tree occupied
a space about 50 feet square.
The cotton occupied the equivalent of
210 feet square or 17 times as much
land.
No product in America is more delicious
in its raw state and no
! product is more valuable as a health
giving, strength giving food, than
pecans. They contain most of the
mineral essentials for building the
human body. They furnish not onlyproteins,
oils and carbohydrates but
also vitamine B. The pecan ranks
first among all the nuts for human
! food, Expressed in calories, one
, pound of pecan meats is equal to four
' pounds of beef-steak or twelve pounds
! of fresh fruits or vegetables.
' "Some venture to say they cannot
afford Ao wait for pecan trees to
grow, forgetting they must wait in
any case. Those who plant," adds a
statement issued by the Sopth Caro!
lina Pecan Growers Society at Florence,
"are well paid while the slothful
wait for nothing."
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DWLTRY
I! A LANCED RATION
NEEDED FOR HENS
NniMt n:?; of lien 11?ut
lUi ordinary Mid should hi* uli't* to
I>i'>?ltr? it thoufnnd egg? i f we know
how So g: *e !; r ? fair chalice
>i.i l.? .1 uo.lerful machine, with
i J it- i-.iihr>.? of i. ore ihau a 111< ti?iuiirl
egg* 111 ii''r make up, hot mi i.inqy
i -' if "? < '?!!,t.j;(>? to pre vcu l hor froth
C.i ng iiri best tluit Mho generally fulls
uw .> >hoii of Muh production duift
g ! or few yours <>f life
II \o.j I lite to neurit eggs hoforo
(hoy are laid, you tuay figure tho mat.
Ii ??ut to suit yourself?ttif many
I >.imU of grain, rnout, litno, fat, fiber
d waicr to onoh dozen eggs -and
II ? o > on are.
All would 1h* well, and you rould
begin i Hint to oouiu your eggs, if
It were hot for the fact that "something
always happens" to prevent (lie
r< gulnr maehlrie lil:e prodm t!<>n do
sir. d.
Certainly we must be careful to supply
the needful ration so that fat.
protein, nitrogen, liber, ash or in noral
and water will he fed. This Is
necessary, been use no eggs call he
proflneed if one of these elements Is
lacking.
The fowls must In* kept in condition
or they will not "shell out." This
Ik one of (he most difll'iib parts In
our whole plan of egg production. 1
The grains are high In nitrogen and
protehi. Meat scrap, bone and meat
meal are high in fat and protein.
When the (lock Is out on the range. ,
young and old pick up what they In
st in. lively seek as needful.
Some of the prepared feeds are
mixed so that Just about the right
proportion of each needed element
Is In the ration. Sometimes the birds
do not seem to like the ration as
mixed for them, so the plans of the
scientists do not work out.
Molting Period Is Good
Index of Value of Hen
liens that are In the midst of molting
do not, as a rule, lay. The lime of
the year when .molting takes place Is,
therefore, a reliable Index of the value
of the lieu to the flock for the reason
that a hen molting In wrong seakon,
when she should he laying, can deprive
the flock of more profit than
would he the case had she molted
early enough to he laying at the peak
of high prices.
The "early molter" Is not. however
a good layer, ns a rule. Molting usually
starts with the neck, then the laxly
and finally the tail and the wings. Ii
takes, usually, three months for the
molting process to he fully completed.
While It would seem that the early
timbers would be the best winter layers,
actual experiments have proved
that such is not the case.
These texts held by various experiment
stations have brought out the
fact that egg production controls the
molt rather than the molt controlling
the egg production. So long as laying
is continued the molting will be post
poned. And it Is quite universalis
conceded that the late molter Is the
best layer. In fact. It seems to be p
standard...tlUc_ on .^commercial farms
now and in the experiment stations t6
discard the hens which have completed
the molt In late September and are in
full feather and to hold those limiting
in October and November.
Soy Bean Meal for Hens
Is Most Excellent Feed
A number of feeding tests at vari
mis experiment stations have shown
the value of soy-bean oil meal as i
poultry feed. From these tests it \vaw
concluded that s<^y bean oil meal could
replace rolled oats In chick feeding
Poultry men In the Pacific coast stales
have used soy-bean oil meal for Severn!
years ami consider It n most e\
cedent feed for growth and egg production.
Another series of experimentshowed
that soy-bean oil meal when
fed with a suitable mineral mixture
1h a better supplement to corn meal
than scraps and Is nearly as good as
oondense.1 buttermilk when fed to
chickens f.tr short-time Intensive feeding
periods.
Way to Make Hens Sick
Feeding moldy crntneal Is rather a
sure way of making hens sick.
Spoiled feed will ruin either young
chicks or ducklings in a short lime.
Always sort carefully any corn con
tabling moldy or decayed ears and
discard all that are not fit for food.
Hogs can disgorge material that
proves harmful to them but when a
hen or chick eats spoiled grain or decayed
meat it must pass through the
entire digestive system and often It
kills the bird.
Feed Value of Chess
There are no feeding tables giving
the food analysis of chess. Hut It Is
, safe to say that It has a fair feeding
value. Many times It bus been fed
with satisfactory results. It is best
to grind It and nili It with othcrfcraln.
Chickens are shy about JULY
new grain. If you bring -ftmn ehfr%>?
up on wheat, and that -atfttlttZly
ebnnge to corn, they w!M >at ftrgt refuse
to cat the corn, but In a ?gort
time they learn to eat the own
readily
MI'KDKItEK BELIEVED FOUND
i MyNlrry SurrouiuliitK DMth of Kin|?tree
Hermit Apparently Solved
! Sunday's Florence News- Review
; j^The mysterious death of "Frenchy
'the Hermit" was brought into the
fUfne'.ight again yesterday, when it
became known that Slate Detective
! L. ( Johnson had caused a warrant
' to be ia.-ued for the arrest of John
Oromari, whose birthplace is given as
Al.-a.t Loframe, charging him with
the murder of the lonely hermit whose
head, severed from his body, was
found floating in the waters of BlttCK
river, near Kingstree, on Noyember
26. The hermit's torso has never beert
found.
The warrant for the arrest of Groman
was issued by a magistrate at
Kingstree, and the suspect was placed
in jail there.
Detective Johnson was detailed on
the case after he had cleared up the
mystery surrounding the death of
veland Hart, a Florence cowity
negro. John Groman, according to
tlte officer, had taken up his abode in
Frenchy's cabin on the river banks
and was posing as a detective sent
there to solve the mystery of his
death by a Philadelphia welfare society.
Investigation disclosed, howover,
according to the officer, that the
socallcd detective was not in Philadelphia
at any of the dates he mentioned,
hunting licenses found in his possession
showing that he was at other
places. j
George Hammett, of Kingstree,
stated to Officer Johnson that a man
bearing Groman's description was
seen at a camp still farther up the
river the night before Frenchy was
supposed to have been killed. Officer
Johnson has gathered other evidence
which he declares will upset the story
Groman has told of his movements.
| This includes a map, indicating that
the man is himself a hermit, island
, places and isolated swamps being
circled on the map as his probable
I camping places. According to Officer
Johnson records found on Groman
! show where he spent eight or ten days
in Pee Dee swamp, near Florence,
just before going to Kingstree.
Groman is about 44 years old. He
speaks with a decided French accent.
I He denies any connection with
' Frenchy's death, but maintains that
, he was working as a detective to
; solve it. Officers have been co-operating
with him. It was Groman
| who found the body of Frenchy's
I bulldog in the river. Iron spikes had
1 been tied about the neck of the dog
! to sink it beneath the surface of the
water. Groman holds that he has
been in that neighborhood only five
weeks. He has been dressing as a
| camper or hunter. He ^olds fishing
' licenses issued in New Jersey and
Virginia.
It is knownr according to Detective
, Johnson, that Groman purchased a
i shotgun at Suffolk, Va., a few days
1 prior to the death of the hermit
! known as "Frenchy."
! In tracing his journey south, the
' officers say, they have evidence of
i where he bought hip boots and fishj
ing tackle at other points south of
.Philadelphia. The officers claim
j these records prove that Groman was
I not in Philadelphia at the time he
j claims to have been there.
I The only arrests ever made for the
supposed murder of the lonely hermit
of Black river occurred when Garfield
Mutthews, white, and 12 Miction
hands, were placed in Williamsburg (
jail not long after the hermit's head
was found in the river. All of these
men proved alibis and were released.
Officers urge possession of
Frenchy's cabin as a possible motive
for the crime with which They have
charged Groman. Others have called
to mind the interesting letter sent to
The Bta^' newspaper, by C'apt. Ben S.
William^ of Brunson, a few days
after Frenchy's disappearance, describing
the educated young Frenchman
who had applied to him 30 years
ago for employment, in an effort to
link up grounds for the existence of
a vendetta between "Frenchy" and
the man Gromon, whose home also
was in France. It would not seem
unlikely in view of the mystery surrounding
the life of the young
Frenchman and his reticence in unfolding
its story to Captain Williams,
that he had a reason for leaving his
home in Franco othor than any he
had given his employer, it was pointed
out. The fact that Groman is a
Frenchman and had arrived on the
scene after so many years, gives
color, those who have followed . the
case closely, to the theory that he had
been looking for Frenchy and had
finally found him. All of that, however,
is on its face purely conjectural.
Detective Johnson stated that he
had exploded the theory existent for a
time that Frenchy had been killed
by Harold Wheeler for the reason
that Frenchy himself, according to
the officer, had talked to the station
agent at Kingstree on the day that
Wheeler was arrested in Savannah.
He Walks Back To Jail
j Gaffney, Feb. 24.?Weary of wandering
the face of the earth as a
fugitive from justice and tortured by
a conscience that would, not permit
him to sleep in peace, Fred Rice,
thirty, white man who escaped from
the Cherokee county chain gang
August 16, 1925, walked from Texas
to Gaffney to surrender himself and
complete serving his sentence.
After a period of eighteen months'
freedom yesterday, he resumed his
work on the county gang. He has
about six months remaining of a
fourteen months' sentence.
San Francisco, Cal., and London
were linked up by wir^ and aerial
telephone on Saturd^jfT
MAN KIIX?D FINANCIER
Admit* Running Over Aged Man at
Miami Reach
Miami, Fla., Feb. 28.?George Colburn,
39, realty dealer of Miami '?
Beach, confeHKed today to <the killing
of Milthorne Woolsey, 76, financier
of Miami Beach and New York, who
was run down and killed by a motorist
at Miami Beach the night of .January
19.
Colburn's confession was made to
the police following his arrest in Orlando,
Fla., Saturday. Three men t
whose names are withheld have been
artested on suspicion of having at- *
tempted to blackmail Colburn.
,The inutilities body of Mr, Woolsey
was found in a vacant lot the morn- t
ing of January 26. Police said it
apparently had* been dragged there
after the aged man was struck and'
killed by the automobile.
Colburn told police the killing of
Mr. Woolsey was accidental. He said
he was driving home shortly after
midnight when his vision was blinded
by a newspaper that blew into his
face. He felt his car strike some- i
thing, but speeded on when he saft
what he believed to be another automobile,
because he feared an attempted
holdup. Some blocks farther on
he stopped his car and the body of 9
Mr. Woolsey dropped from, the bump- 9
er, he said.
Crazed with fear, he said, he drove '9
to his apartment, telling only his 1
mother.
Police say they obtained their first I
clue to the identity of the driver of ;
the automobile from one of the three I
men held on suspicion of haying at* I
tempted to obtain money from Col- 9
burn as the price of silence..
Three Die For Attacking Women
| Bellefonte, Pa., Feb. 28.?Francis I
Webb and Max Amos Wilson, negroes, I
were electrocuted in the Western
penitentiary at Rockvidw today for 9
the slaying of Walter Harden . at 9
Chester, Pa., last September. The 9
two were convicted for killing Harden
who was trying to protect two girl 9
companions.
St. Lyuis, Feb. 28.?Robert John- J9
son, twenty-nine, negro, was hanged,
today for a criminal assault on ijj
white married woman. Previously he ' |
had admitted he attempted to rob the 9
woman but denied the assault.
P IF YOU HAVE A HOME
In Camden and you have a mortRaRe on
it, it would pay to investiRate the Equitable's
Home Purchase Plan.
Our plan is a 10-Year Loan, repayable in
convenient monthly instalments. Six
per cent Simple Interest. No renewal
cost, and no commission charRe. Life insurance
coveniRe cancels the loan in
event of borrower's death.
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For fu 11 details see:
W. R. HOUGH, Agent
Camden, S. C.
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