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$ mutter-Making Short Course Hpbmson CoJleire, Jan. (J.?The ftr*t Hptter-makers Short -Course ever ofPfered in iSqttth C?ro}iu* will be held | here January \& U> 17. *ike instructional work will ifcchide ' lectures, demonstrations), labor* tUBy work, discussion#, reading# and & n^Kil (practice on cream grades and * 'neutralization, paeteuriaa, .A cultures and starters, cream rip<..?Kg, butter color, churns and churni^|jf operations, factor# influencing riving -procedure, buttermilk fc**iHf difficult churnintfs, overrun in " Ater-msking, washing, salting and Aking butter, printing and packagiM marketing Ibutter, butter defects .A judging, iliabowatory testa such fat, moisture and salt teste of i Aer, fat and acidity teats of cream Jm fat testa of buttermilk will be ftBPHed in detail. All work will be . : .;Aue as poetical as possible and apAcable to South -Carolina condition. J^the Short Course will be directed A Prof. IB. IE. Goodale, who hits Atrge of dairy manufacturing work *Athe Clen>?on College Dairy DivA?n He -will be assisted by Mr. Ai C. Winkjer, Bureau of Dairy Blustry, United States Department . f Agriculture, J, P. La Master anji fit tp. Biting of the Dairy Division ; Jiere. There will be no registration fee A*- this course. The instruction and Ke of the college dairy manufactur/ - Kg facilities are free of charge. A A VARIETY FARM BUDGET' Afchland County Farmer Makes Many Products Count Columbia* Doc. 15.?Louis LeConte, A. Richland county fanner, hd* been Kted by Extension Service workers A an illustration of variety, farming A Richland in which ian almost conAs'n& multiplicity of activities and Koducts yields a satisfying result Because he works put a rather deftBite budgeting of^ gross income bo A6 derived from the general groupBngs of activities and because, too, Bie 'has built up a special trade in Bpolumbia for quality and unuftualKess in what he markets. "These Mimes put you to making every edge AUV he says, "and we try to have Brhings what and when others do not Bhave, and put up attractively." Disclaiming that thereia any such thing a? agricultural tfconolnics, Le Conte nevertheless soemd to have B that very -thing in mind and practice Bin his operations. He plains for a rather definite gross income about "Ins follows: $500 each from aepara gus, poultry and vegetables-; $700 : from livestock; $1,000 to $1,200 from 1 the sale of fall crops including cotton; B corn, soybeans. A reading, thinking farmer who knows that theoiyr and B-prajrhipf* often will not jibe, he makes I his "living" and manages to convert B many, things into ready cash. A LeConte specialty from his gen. [ eral farming is his strain of Douth.it corn developed to make a larger ear ai?d sold as seed corn to mid-state farmers whq feel the need of a largI er com than is Douthit .in .the Pied mont. (Returns therefrom are to wardg $300 yearly. Hd is thin-king of la LowinanJDouthit hybrid for Band yield. ' - < B Chickens, turkeys, ducks, g-efc*e make up- LeiConte's feafcherdqwflBdBucts. His faith in turkeys iMtyh' that he -is increasing turkey# to a major place. in his budget, to have K eventually $1,000 returns therefrom B annually. tChjote?, broccoli, Young dewberI ries -are dome of the small-scale specialties, put on the Columbia quality -market by -Mr. LeConte and B nig sister and ?? mother, for it I must be recorded that Mrs. LeOoirbe I as an enthusiastic gardener has helpI ed to develop many special products; B and that iMias LeConte's energy and wise help have been a big factor in various joint ventures of the Le Contes' variety farming. Killed a White Hawk. I^r. <H. L. Do mi nick of near Chnppells, brought to this otfftce Christmas ove, a large white hawk, which he had wounded and captured on Tuesday afternoon, on his place near Chappells. The hawk was perfectly whfte except_^Q^ a <f?w brown feathers on its head and neck and one or two dark feathers in the whig. It measured S3 inches from tip to tip of wings and weighed seven pounds. When Mr. Detnisikk Shot and wounded the hawk it Was devouring a large -rooster that it had captured and killed. Mt. Dohnhticic say* he has keen trying to kill this hawk, for seven year# and this wss the first'occasion that he feed a fair shot at it. The matd and two young ones were kitted the past summer. Mr. Dominldk was anxious to get the hawk, to a taxidermist and have it preserved, saying he would take it to jSolumfcsa daring the week<jjfeierwberry Observer. ^ . THE "TRADHR" RAT Queer Khodent That Doee Curious Thing* On Western PUine Throughout the Lantern part of the United States the trader rat seems to be regarded as Ajbit of Western fietion. But from the east slopes otf the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific*and from Mexico to Canada, ttys mischievous little animal is .both the friend and enemy of every outdoor person, says the Christian Science Monitor. The trader rat is( the friend of campers and other recreation seekers because he's a little clown, an endless, source of comedy and laughter. Simultaneously he's an enemy because j he frequently inflicts considerable losses upon human beings unfamiliar with his antics. For the. virtue of honesty the trad-' er fat is the quadruped personification of Abraham Lincoln. He never takes unything without leaving something in exchange. But as a bargainer he is a master of shrewdness.' Ho seldom gets tftie short end of a "trade." V ' " ' . ' . ' , 1 Six acorns, according to "traders' psychology, is a fair exchange for a fountain pen, a pocket knife, a bunch of keys, a few buttons or any other" article of human property the creature may be capable of carrying away. A few twigs, several bits of obsidian glass or a handful of anything the mountains or deserts may supply in the form otf "trade goods" will satisfy the rodent's sense of honesty in bargaining with a camper for a spoon, a fork, a pencil or any portable property that isn't tied down. In the vicinity of mountain camps, desert resorts or mining operations, the trader rat's pest will alwyas be found to contain bits <j? tinfoil, na^ls, buttons, the lids from food tins or " . - i' i i i mmmmm?mm anything imaginable that these s-mall but highly industrious nocturnal workers are capable of moving. Science has yet to discover what part this perpetual desire to transport and exchange things may play , in the creature's scheme of life. A motion, picture magnate went into the .mountains with pack animals and guides. He spread Ms blankets beneath the stars. He placed an expensive gold watch and chain on a rock near his head so he might observe the time in the event of not sleeping any too well. The night for him, however, proved to be one of unbroken slumber. Upon arising he reached for hie watch, only to find that it had disappeared. In the p'a?e where the watch had been there were half a dozen acoriis, several pieces of cinabar, two twigs and a small clod of dried mud. Returning to the office in Los An! gele? some days later, he mude out | his claim for the :loss of the watch and chain and forwarded it to the inI surance company. Six weeks elapsed without the claim being paid or even acknowledged. Thereupon the field magnate dictated a letter to the insurance company in polite but firm language. Another month went by and then his secretary placed upon his Ttefftr a letter to which was attached a bank draft in full payment of the claim. The following is quoted from the insurance company's letter: "We have heard ... numerous and sometimes amusing excuses for the loss, of personal (property, but your story about trader rats tops the list. It is only because of your prominence and national reputation as a business man that we have seen fit* to pay your claim as a matter of policy." The most comical rat stories are those involving the loss of essential personal property by inexperienced persons vjho refuse to believe TnT the ?^ ' T?nwwwrwi-nwiii i ! <?> iiiTi" Mi^ww"iii"iiTi"iiTiwi lii trader r*,t. A young mining engineer furnishes the prise tele of thin character. This man was suddenly transferred from an executive position to field work in Arizona. He found that his eyes were entirely unaccustomed to the glare of the gun. He bought a pair of amber spectacles and found that the? gave him the desired relief from the strong light. On the first night the ypuhg engineer prepared to retire in pne of the wooden floored tents provided by the ' mining company. The foreman was present, and observing that the engineer placed his sun glasses on the floor beneath the cot, cautioned him against leaving anything where the trader rats might find it. The foreman saw. immediately that his story about trader rats was. accepted precisely as Bfarco Polo's travel stories were accepted by the ancient Venetians. The mpct morning the young engineer's sun glasses were gone. He immediately called the foreman to produce the glasses and to cease such joking. In spite of all efforts, it took half an hour to convince the engineer that there was no Joke about it. Under the cot where the glasses had beenAfcas a key such as is ysed for turning off the lids of sardine tins, a prune seed, several rusty nails, a few chips of broken crockery and a bootstring. The trader rat had been unusually generous. The next thing Was an intensive search for the glasses. The whole carrtp was literally turned upside down and the hunt carried on under evc^y rock and sagebrush that might harbor a trader rat's place of abode. The glasses could not be found. At last the search was carried back into the tent, Kvery piece of furniture was moved. Finally, behind a portable wardrobe cabinet, one of "the bows of the glasses was Found j I ?? protruding from a knothole. Around was a great assortment" of trader rut "trade goods"?-pieces of broken crockery, rusty naila, several lengths of burned blasting fuse, scraps of tinfoil, several dry corncobs and dotens of pebbles. Several trader rats had apparently j labored all nig'ht attempting to take , the sun glasses through the knothole j in the floor only to fail because one \ of the bows had become hooked upon a the rough wood , at the margin of the hole. With the failure of such endeavor to dislodge the glasses, the i rat, or several of them, had tfontribu- , ted some additional bit of "trade ma- ; terial" in an apparent effort to help 1 the "transaction'* along. < Criminals Quit Swanips For Jail Kim ton, N. C., Jan. b.-^Driven by , oold and hunger, two middle-aged brothers today had forsaken their , swampy retreat along the White Oak river for a cell in the lenoir county jail. Clydejujjl.Tom Mortop, sought since Deceiver 20 for the slaying of Asa , c. Hawkins, 49, and wounding of B. K. Morton, prohibition agents^, surrendered yesterday to .Sheriff J. U. Weetbrook, of Jones county. For the last J5 days .they had remained hid-, den in the Pocosin country. Officials and business men, students of world economics, expressed belief Wednesday night that the New Year would see a rapid recovery from depressing conditions which marked the year just ended. They asserted the economic structure of the United States is stronger today than in the past and that in many instances it has been helped greatly by the weeding out of weakened structures and making adjustment * necessitated by slowing business and falling prices. .1 " ? -srt '.'I. "'I* Tampa Detective Shot To Death Tampa, FU? Jan. 2.<~A volley of pistol shots killed John E. Jones, 62year-old city detective, last night an he sat in a parked motor car in the outskirts of the city with Mrs. Ifattic L. Steward, widow of the former president of the Steward-Mellon Title* Company of Tampa. Mrs. Steward said her companion was slain by a man "who talked like ft woman." The assailant, she relat/ * od, approached the car, said "now IVe got you where li want you" and begat) filing through the door of the closed automobile next to which Jones was sitting. She was detained by Sheriff R. T. Joughlin for further questioning. Jones and Mrs. Steward had been sitting in tho cur about twenty minutes before the assailant, appeared, she said. At least four shots took effect in Jones and Mrs. Steward said "there must have been half n ? dozen, fired.'' She said she called for help without success and then walked four miles to a telephone and summoned police. Agreement of eastern railroads on u consolidation into four independent systems was announced Tuesday by President Hoover. The railroads are the Pennsylvania, New York Central, Baltimore and Ohio and the Nicklo Plate system. President Hoover announced that he understands the plan provides for the protection of employes and of local communities, and fulfills the intent of congress as expressed in tho transportation act' of 1920. The consolidation program must be submitted to the interstate FommeTce~'camTTi1s8ion for approval. . south ^ ^^carolin^ "A? I n Jut try Prosper*?So Prosper Th* People" ?? . X. ' The Value of a Job ' _ ? ? ? :?-T?^ ; ;? _ \ \ _ / ?4-^ ? 1 r? ?? * YO ?> \ \JY' , 4 ? .. Cr ? While commodity values generally have been on the down grade in recent years, and particularly in recent months, and the cost of living has fallen; THE JOB has become immensely more valuable. Steady employment has beconi? a thing most to be desired. * - ? ??: : ^ - * c . . " ' ' ? Unfortunate circumstances, facing not only industry, but also agriculture, commerce, transportation and finance, have necessitated rigid elimination of all unnecessary costs. In some cases wages have been reduced; in many cases surplus labor has been dropped. Unemploymen is today a problem which requires solution. The man or woman who has steady employment today is exv treniely fortunate. . % . . g- *r rr .... ..V 1 ~^r' _ y ...... _. , > With the cotton manufacturing industry, the situation is particularly distressing. Common sense has necessitated curtailment of production and a subsequent curtailment of working force. Asa result, the year 1931 will no doubt show a smaller proportionate number' of operatives per mil) than for years past. In fact, the mills have beien finding employment for large forces of unneeded help for months past. This tily have done solely in the interests of their'own em ploy eewr^niis burden, steadily increasing each year, has reached impossible proportions and cannot dbntinue, ) It is interesting to note (that in spite of the efforts of mill executives to give some type of employment to as many ' adult citizens of their Tillages as pqssible, still the (ratio of .employees to residents of mill villages has steadily dropped since 1908, so that the burden actually carried by the mill has become enormous. For example note: From the Year Book?1929 of the, Dept. of Agriculture, Commerce and Industries of South Carolina. \ No. of Textile Total Mill P. C. Employees To f . ? Employees Population Mill Population 1908 46,885........... 104,214 .45% < 1918.:.... 48,169 125$42 138% 1929 72$23 194$72 37% C . He who appreciates the value of a job in a time like this is wise. J T|te job is all important. - * \ p v 4 ' ? ' ~ . ', i ; t - - . ? ? - > . , .v * *. ? < . ?