The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 28, 1929, Image 1
The Camden chronipi e
?^ME 4U i CAMDEN, aOUTH CAHOUWA, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, /
NUMBER 14.
IdNegro Pensioner
Answer* Final Call
Uncle" Wash Drakefbrd, the last
r0 jn Kershaw county to draw a
nfederate pension, died at his home
t fifteen miles north of Camden.
June IB- According to his records
WH8 about 87 years of age. He
urn! the war Between the States
ih his master, Colonel William
.keford, who was a member of one
Kershaw county's first companies.
I served faithfully and never deLed
the cause. Up to a few weeks
p this faithful old negro's mind
L as bright and alert as one of
Lger years. He remembered dates
[battles, commanders and personal
Lriences which could be proved by
fc\as one of the few old-time
roes left. He delighted in conjing
over the past, and while he
never attended . school he could
\ and write from what had been
ii in slavery and around the
during the war. He used
correct English and could
mself in a clear manner,
man had been thrice mars
survived by his last wifa
iber of children'. He was
>rker and up to a short
we walked straight and upng
a soldierly bearing,
was his bond and he lived |
way he made white people
negroes respect him. His
suddenly while sitting in a
s own household. His rare
buried near the home
had resided since his free'carried
on" to the last and
d upon a well-earned rest.
irst Cotton Bloom
Morgan, bright little son
[organ, who farms on the
and place about four miles
;amden brought the first
oom to this office for 1929.
licked on June 25, from a
sixteen acres.
st bloom last year was rey
W. H. Haile of Camden
picked on June 24. The
1927 was reported by J. B.,
June 13. The first for 1926
:ame on June 15. The 1924
ne on Juno 28 and_1928's
5 June 21. ~~ - 4
y's mail brought a cotton
im W. P. Rodgers* grdwn
Ihillips in the Mt. Pisgah
This bloom was picked on
Five Charges To
ird At July Term
re indictments to be passed
he Kershaw county grand
he July term of criminal
ling here July 1, were yeswarded
by Clerk of Court
Clyburn to A. Fletcher
olicitor of the fifth circuit,
ce in Columbia.
)ur indictments will be preainst
liquor law vjpiatora
r crimes to be heard, infollowing:
willful injury to
isebreaking and larceny, 8;
eny, 5; assault and battery
; to kill, 4; drawing worth1;
non-support of family
ion, 2; disorderly conduct,
oncealed weapon and as>attery,
1; burglary, 2; abd
rape, 1; disposing propmortgage,
1; harboring esict,
2; larceny of livestock,
and battery of high and
' nature, 1; assault with
ipon, 1.
* at Colonial Lake
Fourth there will be swimts
at Coloniif 'Lake, north
At 3:30 o'doiik Contests
Id for fancy djying, fancy
races and other water
iree heats will1 be' held in
to find the tvlnitor. Thosa
1 compete ih':,iihy of the
ease leave their name at
? at the lake or tvith either
erman Baruch or George
managers of the resort.' A
twenty-five cents will be
J1 bathers or season tickets
ured. Many picnic parties
">g to spend the day there.
Blakeney In a Wreck
1>. Blakeney ' had his
utoniobile almost completeI
one night recently while
???m- MrBee * on~ "Federal
I he accident happened bea"d
Bethune. and was
the car going down an emand
turning over. Forh<
Judge was unhurt ex*
few bruises which have
l,'g him trouble since th?
C. Kohn, president of^Oon
(jje at River Forest, 111.
r ?* the Missouri synod
"Yv11 church as no'
empathy with the Volstea<
rigorously opposed to th<
f criminal practices of pro
Jseng*' 8hootiT* down in
'Gold Star Mothers9
Free Trip Abroad
Stlf irT,U' ^^June 2?.-?oWi
Mar mothers and widows of World
war veterans buried in France will
P?, interested in an artidle that will
appear in tbe July igttue of The
American Iwgion monthly which
tells of plans the government is making
to conduct free pilgrimages to
the American cemeteries in Europe
and the battlefields of the World
rr;, ter8 are now being sent out
by the War Department in an effort
to find out how many mothers anil
Wld^? to make the trip. .
'Since the World war there has!
been many simple pilgrimages by *
mothers - and widows to the oeaneteries
in France," the Legion article
will say, "but most of ?the bereft
mothers of America whose sons'
bodies are still buried in France and I
most widows have found the difficulties
of a long voyage to a strange
country insurmountable.
"Now, however, every Gold Star
mother of a service man burled overseas
and every widow who has not
remarried since the death of her husband
may make the long overseas
journey to a loved one's grave, untroubled
by any difficulties. The
I Unit?d States Government has made
I provision for conducting them on
quiet pilgrimages to the cemeteries
abroad. 'Congress in last March
passed a law making the pilgrimages
possible and provided that all arrangements
should be directed by the
'Secretary of War and all expenses
j should be met out of public. -ifunds.
National Adjutant James F. Barton
has asked that all posts of The
American Legion and all units of the
American Legion Auxiliary do everything
possible to inform mothers and
widows of the pilgrimages. He has
requested that pqsts and units report
the names of the -mothers and widows
of their communities to Major General
B. F. Cheatham, quartermaster
general, war department, Washing
ton, D. C. .Full name of son or husband
should be gjtvep, the branch in
which he served mid the cemetery in
which he tgttyfcHed overseas.
'Congress has provided that the
pilgrimages shall be made by small
groups during the period from May
1, 1930, to October Zl, 1033, and each
i group will be in Emrope for a period
i of two weeks. Cabin class accomI
modations will be furnished on steam
ships for all those making the pil|
grimages. The 'Secretary 'of Wa?j
will prescribe regulations as the
I time for each group pilgrimage, itineraries,
the composition of groups,
accommodations, transportation, program,
management and all other details.
"Stepmothers, mothers through
adoption and any woman who held
the place of a parent to a deceased
member of the military or naval
forces for a year before he entered
service will be entitled to the privilege
of the pilgrimage. Only widows
who have pot remarried since
the deaths of their husbands are
eligible to" make the pilgrimage." "V"
Lady Postal Clerk Short
Aiken, June 24.?Miss Maggie
George, money order clenk at the
Aiken postoffice, has been placed under
arrest on a federal indictment
| charging embezzlement of funds.
I >She was released today under $1,000
, bond, following her appearance before
J United States Commissioner Thomas
, R. Morgan.
Miss George had been an employe
| at the Aiken postoffice for many
years and is a member of a family
well known in this section.
Junior Base Ball League
People are wandering what this
junior league is. What it isn't, is
easier to tell. Last year for instance,
122.000* ooys in * the United States
played under the direction of the
American iLegion. Oakland, Cali
fornia won the championship. New
York thlB year is putting over 1,000
. teams in the running. Oregon, which
had no team last year now has 500;
Indiana has over 800 and Lincoln,
Nebraska has 30 in that city alone.
Th& winner gets a trophy awarded
by Howard P. Savage, a world's
chjfmpionship pennant from Judge
K. M. Landis, and a trip to the world
j series, with each player getting a
suitable trophy.
This state is divided into zones sc
as to make a more compact organization.
Anybody who is 17 after th<
15th of September is not eligible t<
play, and don't think that the rule*
are not carried out. ? ?
Baseball teaches fair play and is
I one of the best training games foi
, anyone to play for he has to thinl
. and act at once.
When business men take their tim<
' Ahd help all classes di boyj in 't
[ recreation, Uien it must be good fo
! all, and boys are lined up from her
to Tombstone, Ariz., and way sta
tions. ,
? R. C. Brice, well-known characte
, of Bessemer City, tried to cross
t bridge traveling at the rate of sixt
1 n^iles an hour and hia body was late
? found submerged in ten feet of wetei
* The wrecked car contained three fiv?
gallon cans of whiskey. A negro rid
ing with him escaped uninjured.
Fruit Fly Ban-Due To
Politics, Avers Banker
v.Sre?nTia& tUne ??Thu Medtteiw
ranenn fruit fly business In Florida
looks somewhat spooky to Col. Harry
U. Calhoun, of . Barnwell, former
president of the South Carolina
Hankers association, who has been
here this week to attend the annual
convention of the ftnuncial fraternity,
rpj ...am " by well informed
Hondiarw," said Colonel Calhoun
yesterday, "that the whole thin# of
| putting an embargo on Florida fruits
! li a ^reatL injU8^ce? that the fly has
been m the state for 160 years and
I that the action of the federal governyient
instead of.being a good thing
tor the peninsula commonwealth is
the? ^ FU*n ^ citrus industry"
. Colonl Cealhoun explained that in
his judgment the state of Florida is
being presented with some bud ad,
vertising, is having its fruit business
ruined and that perhaps the whole
lousiness has been inspired by some
i Caiiforiiian who wants to divert the
attention of the country from Florida
to the Gold Coast state.
I do not say so myself," continued
the banker, but it Vis being
freely talked in Florida that President
Hoover, who is a big landowner
in California, is one of those
j countenancing this outrage against
J he state. As I say, I do not charge
i this myself, but I do believe that a
serious injustice is being done Florida.
eople in the eastern and northern
I centers will not buy Florida fruit 1
now, fearing that the-fly may "have
I put something into the orange, the
, grapefruit, the lemon or the fig that
i may cause sickness or death. The
citrus industry is being ruined in
t lorida. Naturally enough this is
; boosting high as the sky. the demand
over the country for California
fruits.
"The department of agriculture
contends that the Mediterranean fruit
fly. is brand new in Florida. It says
, that the fly has recently been
j brought here from southern Europe
I ?n some manner and that unless it
| is stamped out it will ruin tlje crops,
i} his is nonsense, I believe, for old
j fruit growers in Florida will tell you
.that the fly has been in that state
for many, many years.
I Now the, fly did; apparently cause
ja heavy fall of fruit from the trees1
last season. However, it appears
that this has been due maxe pftrticularly
to meteorological conditions.
That is what soma of the largo growers
in Florida think and froifa what
I have been able to learn it is the
case.
-"I believe that the people of the
South as a whole should rise up and
stick by Florida in this hour of her
peril. If unscrupulous Yankees are
using the- fly scare to ruin the
market for Florida fruits, then it
ought to be exposed. The department
of agriculture ought to be informed
of the real conditions and those rei
sponsible for this outrage ought to
j be dealt with.
"^Florida has been the biggest
factor ever known in the development
of the Southern states. It has
been the rich Northerner on hfs way
to and from the land of winter flowers
and sunshine that has invested
his money in industry in the CarolinaS,
Georgia and Virginia, after
they saw the possibilities of these
states. I do not believe that these
! wealthy people woujd have seen our
I Southern states as soon or invested
their money so quickly if they had
not been going to and from Florida.
"This whole thing seems to be a
great injustice to Florida and I hope
that the people of this and other
Southern states will rise up against
this effort to put Florida out of the
running with California."
Kershaw Marine Will.
Shoot in Rifle Matches
Quantico, Va., June 25.?Looking
forward to competing in the important,
rifle and pistol matches to.. ..he
held this summer, Austin J. V. Roberts
of Kershaw, near Camden, S. C.,
is with the selected group of U, S.
Marines, who left here recently for
Wakefield, Mass., where they will
have several weeks' practice on the
rifle range before the firsts of these
1 -matches begin. * ' ^ , w
i Roberts was chosen to accompany
i the Marine 'Corps riflemen who make
I an annual pilgrimage to Wakefield
l to shoot in New England matches,
.held late in August, and later go to
*' Camp Perry, 0.. to compete in the
big National Matches, which, take
5 place in September. * Scores of shoot}
ing trophies will be awarded to
i marksmen in both competitions.
} Roberts was born in "Lancaster
r county and formerly made his home
c with his father, William jSJ. Roberts,
in Kershaw. He has been with the
i Marines for a number of years, and
i has frequently taken part in rifle
r matches. Last year he won a silver
a medal ifl fl rifle competition . held
here. In view of his skill as a marksman
he was directed to leave with the
squfld bound for Wakefield,;...
a The Mexican government, through
y president FortesGil, *?* reached satr
igfactory agreements with the repren
aenUthres of the Roman Catholic
church, bringing to an end the conI*
trovers) which has long disturbed
the Mexican republic.
? : *
Professor Faces
Murder Charge
<tolumbu8, Ohio, June 2iJr-~-IndicW4
today on a charge of%1JKlegrl?
mur<ict of Theora K. Hix, JU,y?u-ol?J
Ohto State coed, Dr. Jamel'K. Snook*
who yesterday confessed h$ had hammered
h?*r unconscious and then pjjt
her throat with a pen knilp. m*
lieve her of suffering,
without bond tonight awSwojf/Wis
arraignment in criminal
The statement Doctor Sfir^U^^made
to authorities yesUrday/'4$MUVng
he hud hammered the girl. dqWng a
violent quarrel in his auto/wohm on
the outskirts of the city^'jjWihen
slashed her jugular \tein ,^OTmuf her
j.iinrering, was presented t^Oyro/wrand
jury by Prosecutor John
as the basis for a first-<hjjjra^u lnurThe
whole story of Doctor 7pi|ook's
relations with Miss Hix TVOnr the
tjw1* she came to the veterilJftVy ^Hnic
arthe university a6 a stenographer
three years ago until l^st Jyne 13,1
the night of the murder, vf+SL laid before
the jury. V^L,
Curiosity, aroused by thry^stery
and the characters in one of t"hf most
notable murder cases that ever Went
on the records in Columbus, was not j
abated by Doctor Snook's confession. !
From II o'clock in the morning, when '
the grand jury went in sessi<m^iintil i
late in the day, crowds milled anHiud j
the courthouse and packed the cor-j
ridors as close to the grand jury
room at they were allowed. ? ?1
Except during the afternoon,'Uflton
he, was taken to the city prison 'td
hatfe Dtiriillori record;?, made, vpocipY
Snook remained in Jus cell in the
COttnty Jail.
Although he had confessed .the
killing, he refused to signify .today,
what he will plead on arraignment^':
After the degree of the cji^g*03&
came known, it was learned
tor Snooks' attorney, formfof
JohmF. Seidel, his chief couri^flSw^
A. O. Ricketts, might build
fense in the trial upon a rpleA\oi
temporary derangement.
It is believed a date for iinmttmh}.
trial will be fixed for some tmwC'fli
ing the summer.
Bcthesda Presbyterian Church '^1
<4The Safety of the Occupied
Bfeart," will be the pastor's .aitfYpojlp
an&J^ct Sunday morning, June 50.*^,
' Miss Mary Thompson will speak to
the yopng people at the vesper seYP;ice
Sunday evening at 7:16.o^ thp
Young" People's Conference at.; ^Clinton
which she recently attend^7-r'-'V5,
For the midweek service next Wednesday
evening we read Psalms 117
to 121 and study Psalm 121..
The young people of the church
reminded that junior choir practice
is held Friday evenings at 8 o'clock
at the manse.
Notice is given in another space in
this paper of the Daily VaieAtiOfi
Bible school that will be held
church July 1 to 13. The
and teachers of this school arcAasfced
to meet with Mrs. Scheffner
home of the pastor Friday evgjufrg,
June 28, at 9 o'clock, for a pyraljMinary
- discussion of plans an4^^^
gram of work. ? y^Y'VSunday
School 10 a.m.; mofrmfig
worship, 11:15; mid-week seVpktf,
Wednesday evenings, 8 o'clock. > Vesper
service Sunday evening frTR.l?"
Daily Vacation Bible Schot^
Beginning Monday moiih>BgK J#y 1,
nt 9 o'clock and runningffor teh phys
a Daily Vacation Bible Sehppl wilfr be
held at the Presbyterian
school is open to all ehft&eni-ofNthe
church and city under age I5.Vand all
such children will be cord&l^/wel-?y
corned. The program itffuat M-^fceaclfc
doctrine peculiar to an)?ph^rP? but^
the principles of life Ut~ramknt by
Jesus. The program .^^vulhclud^
Bible /stories, Bible leMOddjD* Biblp
memory work, Bible songs,
drills, supervised play. yyt^Sv
When one realizes thj&Abp child,
who attends Sunday laejbopTj every.
Sunday in the year re<mmf>u>nly 26
J hour a religious instructo^jbVo&e wis!
donri of'the Vacation scoboT-ti apparent.
The child who this
| school faithfully recei^pK/iilrnost as
imuch instruction as in.^l^ple year
attendance on Sunday ?th"o61. The
school is under the direewbn of Mrs.
Geprge Sheffner and pastor ?*of
the local church. V. ^*V\\v
x
Negro Matt Mefftgled
In Saw Mill Accident
' fit' '
The horriblv mangled Hody of
David Sertoli, of Jeffprson, w'as
brought to the Canidon hos>&U Wednesday?
The young negro hnH*?j?llei\
into a circular saw?the right '4eg
was severed below the kneeOthp right
arm wtksevered below the
a gaping wound in his right^MMESa
Five'physicians labored to minii
man and in a desperate effort to prolong
hit life a call was sent out for
volunteers to match his
blood transfusion. Four strong. jty$grt
men soon appeared and offepMLxMbr
blood.., One was found ifi
the transfusion was made
blood ht toon passed awiqte \
This speaks well for
?four men offering thert^krt^AW
strange negro they ^
* 1 .. ^--1 X ? I
Resident of Ret hum
Passes at Great Age
1 .
Rethune, June 26.?'Mr. J. J. Ho*-""
ton, aged ?eyenty-eight, a well known
and highly respected citisen of this
town died at five o'clock last, Wednesday
morning after having been
oa^fined to his bed for three weeks.
?rton was born and reared near
manuka wand lived in Kershaw county '
Wc vf his life. For a number .of
the had resided in Bethuno
for a long while he held the
of chief of police: He was u
tent and faithful member of the
alist church and possessed a
and unselfish disposition which
fon him many friends. _
Horton is survived by nine chilMrs.
W. A. McDowell, Messrs.
J'Otd.a, Jesse and Lem Horton, of Bethfitaj
Mrs. J. K. Holley, McBee,
W. B. Brown, Raleigh, N. C,;
Mitt. F. F. Iiorton, Kershaw; Mrs.
Roland Horton, Angelus; Mrs. K. T.
MdManus, Middendorf; one sister and
one .brother and a number of grandchildren
and great-grandchildren.
The funeral services were hold at
five o'clock Wednesday afternoon and
were conducted by his pastor, the
Rev. E. T. Derrick, assisted by the I
Rev. Sapp. Interment was in Bethel i
cemetery beside his wife who had precoded
him to the grave seven months .
ago. The floral tributes were unusually
beautiful. Acting as pallIbearers
were Messrs. J. N. McLaurin, I
i.J. L. King, J. M. Clyburn, M. G. King, i
Gftnway Gardner and Dargan Gly-1
burn.
*. S. ' *
John H. Holmes Drowned
^Columbia, June 25.?John H.
Holmes, 29, World war veteran and
recently employed as flagman on the
Southern Railway, was drowned in j
the W&teree river, ten miles from !
JSaktover, S. C., last night, according i
g^jlhformation reaching Columbia to- |
.\Xhe accident occurred about 9'
iWclock but his body had not been J
>wdOvered this morning, despite-the]
ra?t> that an all-night search of the
Wwr had been conducted.
vMXolmes was on a fishing trip at the
ffp. in company with J. A. Mooney WMp
and H. J. Mooneyham, bom'of
MjJumbia. A pin was dropped from
motor on the boat almost sub.Werging
it. Holmes jumped and
atarted to swim to shore but was unable
to make it due to swift current.
Tbe other men remained In the boat
Ahd reached the shore. The accident
occurred near the junction of the
Congaree and Wateree rivers.
i i<\
!?* To Install Officers
^ DeKalb Council, No. 88, Junior Ori
der United American Mechanics at
the regular meeting next Monday
night, July 1, will install officers
elected to serve for the next six
months. All members are requested
to be present. Visitors 'welcome.
Not All Are Crooked
The editor of The Chronicle had a
personal experience the past week
' which makes him place great faith
in the integrity of Uncle Sam's mail
clerks. A member of the force had
ordered something frohi ~ a Chicago
concern and asked Us to exchange i
currency for a check, placing the order
and currency in a stamped, addressed
envelope. The envelope was
placed in the outgoing mail box unsealed
and sent on its way. As soen
as the mistake was discovered advice
was asked at the Camden postoffice
and the clerk who worked the letter
i remembered the letter. Telegrams
were sent to the firm to look out
for the letter and another was sent
tf>lthe postmaster asking him to enIwftfeept
the letter and return by regwered
mail. It was one chance in
^thousand?but that unsealed letter
'Containing forty-five dollars traveled
A&'Chicago unmolested, and Arthur C.
Speder, postmaster at Chicago, wrote
the postmaster at Camderu "The letley
described waa intercepted and was
found to be unsealed and containing
! the sum of forty-five dollars in currency.
Under official seal and by;
;Tsgistered mail, the letter is being
"returned herewith to you." ' ,
Man Likely To Recover
After Shotgun Barrage
\V. C. McManus, of near Kershaw,
who was admitted to the Camden hospital
Tuesday, was late yesterday afternoon
reported as resting in comfort
and with chances favorable to
I recovery from five loads of small
shot fired into his legs, arms, chest
'and face early Tuesday morning.
The shooting, said by McManus to
*>Jiave been done -by Arthur Vincent,
.is said to have resulted from an
Argument over the removal of certain
flowers planted by the wife of MciiManus
on the farm homferthe couple
i^iad rented from Vincent.
McManus stated that the shooting
|i#pcurred in Lancaster county and no
WUformation was obtainable as to
JWhat charge, if any, Vincent will be
Trailed upon to answer.
V Asko C. Burgese^ 87, postoffice
Whaii messenger of AnsonU, Conn., is
TtUlder , arrest in connection with the
ttftisappearance of two mail sacks conlYUinlng
$68,000. The money was reftjbovered
hidden in the woode.
Several Fine Homes
Now Being Erected
With around seventy thousand dollars
worth of construction under way
in Gamden this city is experiencing a
record summer building boom
Contractor VV. G. Adams is'erect|ing
two modem residences on North
Hroad street for Mrs. Cato*. Douglas
G over .nd Mr?. W. A. M.tu of thU
city. I he Glover residence is a twostory
building of brick veneer and
contains eleven rooms an<l three baths
Xft* !f "n oxP?nditu.o of around
$16,000. Hie Metts residence is also
a two-story building- of frame construction
with twelve rooms and three
baths to cost around $12,000. Both
residences will be equipped with
steam heat. A- A. Shanks has the
contract for plumbing and heating.
George A. Creed has the contract
lor the, erection of a two-story frame
residence for Henry Savage, Jr., at
Lake View Terrace. The building will
be of Colonial style and contain seven
rooms, to cost around $H,000.
Mr. Creed ulso has the contract to
erect a Dutch Colonial residence at
Lake View Terrace for Mrs. W. R.
Miller, of Montreal, Canada. It will
be a two-story building with eight
rooms and cost around $1.'1,000
Wright and Ratet, of this city, have
begun erection on I^ake View Terrace
of a seven room residence for Mrs
$G,000>dy? a coat of around'
-Mayor C. P. DuBose has begun the
erection of a ^.wo-story eight room
residence on corner-of1 Fair and Laurens
streets on a lot recently pur
chased from W. P. Thomas. The
building is of frame construction and
will ^ cost around $8,000. R. E.
Ghewmng has the contract for this
building.
Mrs. George R. Cook is having a
bungalow near Green street remod- ~
eled by Contractor W. G. Adams.
| Ernest L. Woodward has let the
contract to J. C. Heslep, of Columbia,
to remodel a twunlnj building on
Green street, near Holly Hedge. The
w. be changed to a Colonial
Black Mute in Jail;
Burglary is Charge
A negro said to be John Morton
Nell, and claiming his home as Cuba,
Is in the county jail charged with
burglarizing two residences in the
night time, which under the law could
send him to the electric chair.
Nell broke into the house of R. L.
Richardson on the old Ferry Road and*
stole five dresses, a suit of clothes
and a portable Victrola. He then
went to the house of Bessie Smith
and stole a suit of clothes and several
dresses. He packed his loot in
two suit cases and left on the 10:40
Seaboard for Columbia. Sheriff McLeod
suspected the negro and had
Columbia officers to look out for him
and warned them that the negro had ~
two pistols and. was a bad actor. The
arrest was made in the 700 block ^of
Pendleton street by Detectives Shorter,
Knox, Allan. and Val Smyrl, specie
agent of the Const Line railway.
The negro had taken refuge under a
jbed and when commanded to come
from under the bed with both hands
up, the negro obeyed, which proved
that he was mute, but not deaf. Officers
have questioned him since his
arreBt and find out that he can hear*
but by his admission he has always
been mute. He can write in Spanish
and makes signs to make himself understood.
Carlot Shipment of Poultry
Due to the severe break in New ,
York poultry prices, there will be no
more carlot shipments .until November*.
shipments have been exceptionally
good over the entire
tate this year. Since December 10
Kershaw county has made ten shipments
,of poultry. Nine hundred and
nineteen farmers have shipped 41,346
pounds for which they received
$9,954.41. This is about 10,000
pounds less than was marketed by
this method during a similar period
in 1927-1928. This does not, however,
indicate a decrease in poultry
in the county, but rather an increase
in consumption of the home marketing.
| Do not neglect your poultry* flock.
Remember that there are two things
which will determine your profit
feeding and culling. Home "grown
feeds must be used by any livestock
raiser if a profit is expected. Most
especially is it true of poultry.
Oull close for egg productions and
sell your boarder hens. Watch for
the early molters and get rid of them.
With the satisfactory markets for
poultry and poultry products which
are now firmly established, the hen
can become an important source of
family income.
Try them as a means of farm relief,
advises W. H. Pressley,
county agent.
..Republicans of NewYortTire considering
the nomination of Mrs. Ruth
Piatt, now a eongreaawoman, for the
. ?*I9ralt? of Naiw York aity.