The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 09, 1931, Image 3
$ 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
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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
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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/
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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.
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"A? I n Jut try Prosper*?So Prosper Th* People"
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The Value of a Job
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? 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. * - ? ??: : ^
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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. . % . .
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> 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.
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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%
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He who appreciates the value of a job in a time like this is wise. J
T|te job is all important.
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