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"^MBtgaMoitgage Lif teis Ie $2,100 Last Year On 60 Acres 11 place five mile* from Orange beside the road to North, Fred (yl|tr has been showing how farm jo Soutl' Carolina can upproach I the idyllic state. In the there is '>nly 00 acres of land. I cleared $2,100 laat year and I L to jfet through all right thia eaya Mr- Quller, a member of Kid and numerous family of Or|burif county farmers, Across road front him i$ the home of Lr Culler, his cousin, who is a Iber of the State Highway Com|ion and one of the biggeat-pcaled [era in this section. Fre^ Ouljer L.t boast, but he declares that |ft found intensified handling of 90 acres much more satisfactory I the cultivatin|k-flf<ig?veral hunI acres in the traditional way of |n and croppers, as he farmed | long time. |e key link in his present opera| is poultry, which he dodsn't | as just hens and chickens and I He use* poultry as a medium I disposing of what he grows for |on his farm. And he purposely s scarcely anything for sale that |ot be fed to his flock of hens. get $3 to $4 a bushel for grain I market it in the form of H" ays he. And most of what K|b is so marketed. But he hasHjjat commonly would be called Htry farm. The b&Se of his opHas is hi- 00 acres of land and His chicken houses and their ocKts. He cultivates those sixty J with the view of producing ns | as possible of his own food and oes produce much the greater of it. The rest of hisprodueI is for his chickens, for which |uys only those necessary feed Hdients he can't produce, such as | scrap. When there is an e*H of it, he markets grain, but he |s nothing in the expectation of |eting it as harvested. , keeps a flock of 500 to 700 H leghorn hens. He feed* - tO: his grain and markets eggs Lghout the year. He ^ells his I in Columbia, during most of lyear to a single customer. Five to seven hundred hens are Lgh for a 60-acre farm," he says. II increased the flock beyond that btr without adding more land I be more poultry-man than Rtt md would have to buy much R it times and have help in takRcutolthe hens." Hr. Caller was for long a general | B'i< lit Ihui produced cotton An main. He gradually reduced-.hit J Bf* lo the present minimum.] le he has produced no cottor. ' he has done in the cultivating soil improvement Ways with hiSj cre& is illustrated by the fact I this year he^ cut 46 bushels ofj per acre. Last year he gath-l VA wan pea* ?w/twr $2,100 he made on the yetar's ations was of course in addition is home, a modern one in a pretty and the greater part of the consumed in the home. On the he does everything feasible to-1 I* getting what he markets into' form that will yield him most. Mixes his own chicken feed and ates his own hatchery, using sur" capactiy for public hatching. uas first to go in for comia: 'poultry operations in that comty. Now most of his neighbors gone ir. f0r poultry. Among are his cousins, Edgar and Ptor. ( uller. each of whom cultfc several thousand acres of land. | Poultry operations are on a w scale, each of them maintainBlock.? of several thousand hens. House telephone bills for Bitions between President V11 the White House and SecHMfllon in Paris; during the over the Hoover debt H^Plan ran up Into thousands of J1 The cost was about $10 a J* and the estimated cost of the, Prions are as,.high as |7,QOQ. 1 Mary Brown, claiming Green*. C., as her home, smartly p and young, was sentenced by stonia polioe court this W*ek f?w months in jail fpilow?r capture there, on a charge wejsion and transporting. She choice variety of liquors in ^ when she was caught on a * 8? wkm it is prewas delivering some of customers. ? a 1 ^ > " 'V * ,v - ^ 1 Master Farmer Sees No doom in Farming Several years ag*^ The Progressive Farmer designated Mrs. Carrie Senn, a widow, "the master farmer of Newberry County, South Carolina." U?t year a mid-June hailstorm almost annihilated Mrs. Senn's growing crops. About five years ago, she accidentally contracted the rare disease known as "rabbit fever" and it still puts her abed0 during several weeks once a year. Once when she was ill in bed a high storm wind blew off the top of a chimney above her and the brick tumbled through the roof and ceiling into her room, most of them falling upon the beJ, Luckily shd had gott% up to get something in another part of the room and escaped. You'd have to go a mighty long ways to find happier woman than Mrs. Senn, whom none of her neighbors would deny present standing as a master farmer. "We, my children and I, have made a go of it and come T>ut ahead in all but one of the years since my husband died about nine years ago," says she. 4*The ona year was 1930, when we would not have lost money but for the hailstorm. Then we might have lost nearly everything, including possibly the place, but for our cows. We still could replant for them; they saved us." In addition to six plows of general farming, Mrs. Senn operates a commercial dairy and grows practically all the feedstuffs for it and for a laige herd of hogs and a sizable flock of chickens. iShe and her childi en now milk over 30 head of grade and purebred cows and sell milk both wholesale and'retail. Among the children are two boys, both of whom have gone through high school and one through and another partly through college. The oldest, William ,Senn, helped with the place and served a milk route in Newberry while going through high school and college, and attaining a high scholnstic record as a student. At 24 he is recogntted a* an agricultural leader. Mrs. Senn expects to send both of her two daughters, who are younger than the boys, to college. "A lot of people advised me to sell the place when Mr. Senn died," says Mrs. Senn. "I might have got more for it then than it will bring now. ,But I wanted to raise the children on the farm and preserve the place for them. I didn't know much about managing a faiun. But I went ahead and ^ have gotten along all right and expect to do so in future. It has hem great, for the children amj I've enjoyed it." Diversification is the rule with Mrs. TSenh In her farming. "We are selling something all the time and we; produce almost everything by way of food and feedstuffs that is consumed here in the home and on the place," ^ays Mrs. Senn, ^hose enthusiasm for farming and farm life hasn't waned a bi t. ' 1 ' I 1 1 1 Captain Frank Hawks, noted American flyer, just back from a throe months flying tour in Europe, this week flew from Montreal, Canada, to New York, a distance of 350 miles in 135 minutes, or at a speed of 201 miles per hour. MASTER'S SALE State of South Carolina County of Kershaw (In the Court of Common Pleas) L. A. Savage, Plaintiff, against Eddie Davis, Defendant. Under and by virtue of an Order of Court made in the above entitled case, the Master for Kershaw County will offer for sale at public auction, before the Kershaw County Court House door, at Camden. South Carolina, during the legal hours of sale on the first Monday in August, 1931, being the 3rd day, the following described real estate: "All that piece, parcel or lot of land in the iState and County aforesaid and in the Flat Rock neighborhood about thirteen (13) miles North of the City of Camden, being Lot No. 20 on plat by Will Clark of Kirkland or l>avis lands and bounded as follows: North and Woat by Mollie Krttand and East and South by WttHe Truesdale, and containing forty-eight (48) acres.'.1 Terms of sale shall he cash. Anyone desiring to bid at the sjtid sale, other than the plaintiff herein, shall first deposit with the Master as evidence of good fsith, e certified check or cash in the sum of thirty dollars At the conclusion of Said sale, the Master, shall return to the nneuccescful bidders any sum so de.W. L. DePlASS, JR., (Master for 'Kershaw County July 8, 1081. 15V.lv* rv*- v . Something To Eat For Fall And Winter Clemton College, July 14.?A little time devoted to efficient garden management and work will pay one hundred per cent more than equal time devoted to the general run of farm workj an hour or two a day or a day a week will do wonders in the garden, and especially at this time of the year in providing Jor * fall and winter garden, 8ay{, a. E. Schilletter, extension horticulturist, who advises gardeners to take stock now on the prospects for u supply of fall and winter vegetables and to be sure of abundance and variety. "Garden products may be substituted to advantage for many foods we buy. This is another reason for giving the garden more uttention. Still another reason is that the surplus may l)e exchanged . for badly needed Cash," Mr. Sehdlettor continues. Twelve vegetables that may be had through the fall and winter fresh from the garden are beets, cabbage, carrots, celery, collards, onions, parsnip, kale, rape, salsify, spinach and turnips, & Get your seed catalog, make your selections and order no'w. . Manure, prepare, and reprepare the best available part of the garden and fertilize well. Rutabaga turnips should be planted during the last two weeks of July or the first week in August. Fall and winter celery should be set in late July or early August. Use large and well developed plants of the Giant Pascal or Winter Queen varieties. Set the plants eight inches apart in rows six feet wide. Tomato plants transplanted during late July and early August will produce tomatpes until frost. In late summer it is necessary to have plants eight to ten inched long, toughened by withholding water, and set very deep in the soil?about two-thirds of their length?water freely and cover the moist surface with dry soil. Kershaw county farm people Bhould do all they can to provide a good all-year garden. Please don't just read about these things you can have this winter?but let's actually start today to plan and work and have a better garden than we've ever had. It's good business. It's a profitable business. A real business-like farmer will have a real garden. It can be done and it's up to the people. Let's do it?have better gardens, advises Henry I). Green, the county agent. I ^The Corn Products Refining company was fined $5,000 at Springfield, 111., this week on charges of entering into a conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws in providing supplies for the manufacture of illegal alcoholic beverages. The Corn Products Refining company was indicted along with the Fleischmann Yeast company and more than a score of individuals'1 for conspiracy to violate the prohibit.inn laws hv shipping com syrup and yeast to bootleggers in Benld, the town which the Wickershnm commission's survey termed to be the worst \n Illinois. MASTER'S SALE State of South Carolina County of Kershaw L Clo the Coprt of Common Pleas) The Federal Land Bank of Columbia, Plaintiff, against Stephen Haile, Defendant. Under and by virtue of an Order of Court, made in the above entitled case, the Master for Kershaw County will offer, for snle at public auction, before the Kershaw County Court House door, Camden, South Carolina during the legal hours of sale on the first Monday in August, 1931. being the 3rd day, the following described real estate: "All that piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in the State of 'South Carolina, Caunty of Kershaw, and DeKalb Township, containing fifty (l50) acres, more or less, being composed of tract No. 5 and a strip of two hundred and forty (2401 feet wide off the Western side of | tract No. 4 on the plat of subdivision of the Truesdale Place of record in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County in Plat Book No. 4 at page 14. The said traet is bounded on the North by lands of Clarkson; East by remaining portion of tract No. 4 of said subdivision; South by lands of Ray, formerly of the Buraell estate; and West by tract No. 6 of the said subdivision, conveyed to Q, Ff Watts." The above described tract of land is the same conveyed to Stephen Haile by deed of E. L. and W. L. Wooten bearing date December 17th, 1919, said deed being of record in the office of the Clerk of Court for Kershaw County in Book A. Z. at page 41." ?*' ?' A TERMS: One-third of the accepted bid tp be paid in cash and the balance on dredit, payable in three equal annual installments. Anyone bidding on said property except the plaintiff shall be required to first deposit with the Master One ftundred ($100.00) -Dollars in .cash, Or certified check on some responsible bank. pW.JL DePAJSS, JR., Master for Kershaw County. July 16, 1931. ' i * * . f A . -n-.. , .ttit I JL.jum 1 " Personnel Named For Power Rate t Columbia, July I3tb.?The technical, executive end clerical personnel of the South Carolina Power Rate Investigating Committee, authorized, by the (General Assembly to investigate the question of power rate atruc ' turea in this state, is about com-! pleted as far as the initial progress | of the work justifies, stated \V. J.| Cormaok, executive secretary, at Co-1 lumbia today. | To dutc other than Mr. Cormuck, i Major Arthur H. Well wood, of Co-! lumbia, has been elected chief engin-j eer and S. P. Darlington has been appointed his assistant. l>avid K | Cohn, of Columbia, has beei) made statistician; J. B. Parrott, of Clin-! ton, field engineer, and R. M. Sumwait, of the engineering faculty .of the University of South Carolina, valuation en^ineeri Dr. John Bauer, of New York City, one of the leading engineers of the country, is scheduled to meet with the Committee sometime this week fpr the purpose of consulting with it on the work to be accomplished. Dr. Bauer is well known in this state, as during the Richards administrutian he prepared a very exhaustive brief on the electric service and rates in South Carolina for the Railroad Commission. It is the purpose of the committee to have with it certain leading public figures in South Carolina interested in power rates and development to meet with Dr. Bauer on his appearance here. The Power Committee organization,] said Mr. Cormack, has done a greg,V deal of preliminary work preparatory to a survey of the utilities situation in South Carolina, it has received and has compiled and analyzed rates from the municipally owned power plants of tho state and it has been studying very valuable data supplied to it by public service commissions in other states which have direct] bearing upon the South Carolina situation. The committee is composed of Tom B. Pearce, of Columbia, chairman; C. W. Coker, of Hartsville, vice-chairman; B. H. Peace, of Greenville; H. Klugh Purdy, of Ridgeland and E. P. Vandiver, of Anderson. - British cruisers entered German ports last week for the first time since the World War. Big Turnover in Cigarettes Retailers are making quick profits from the sale of cigarettes, according to the survey of grocery sales just completed by the Department of Commerce in Louisville. Grocery stores are now one of the important outlets for tobacco products because of their accessibility and cigarette j sales are increasing, according to authorities in the industry, since more and more people are_paying atteuf tion to their Adam's apples and are using cigarettes from which certain harsh irritants present in all tobaccos _ i have been removed by modern methods of manufacture such as the toasting process including the use of ultra violet rays. The Louisville survey showed that tobacco products had a turnover rate more than twice as great as that of all grocery goods, excepting perishables, and that cigarettes had the highest turnover rate at mora than forty-two times a year. The U. S. battleship Wyoming took ?the polar submarine Nautilus in tow after the sub's engines became disabled and started towittfr thCf disabled boat to Queenstown, Ireland. I j l^o Where you please | On your Vacation... Mother likes the mountain*?sonny wants to go to camp and so does little sister?dad must work most of the summerbut they may go where they please and still keep together by telephone. Mother and the children may arronge to call dad regularly at a certain time, at office or home. It makes vacations more enjoyable and dispels anxiety to bear the voices of loved ones, telling of the day's happenings. Calling Qt a prearranged time enables you to use the cheeper station-to-station service with no risk of missing the person wanted. If you call by number at night there is a still further reduction in cost In using station-to-station service, ask for the distant telephone by number or location instead of asking for a particular person. When the distant telephone answers* <,> you may ask for whomever you want. Wherever each member of the family goes this summer, the local telephone office will gladly give the cost of calling back home. Just ask for "Long Distance." Southern Bai Telephone and Telegraph Company (INCOttOlATf DI : = J L ?BWg . 1 4 : ? ?' 17 ' V'.r' ~B Stronger than any Bank I Stands the Community I Behind it I I ^ ' ** 1 I ? * A . t*. ?. - L _ ?- J-l???L?.. A1?v ? - l. i 1. 19 juu^u uj uiu ouviiqu* quality of its banks. It is therefore our constant aim to add to our fast growing list of customers, every citizen of responsibility so that we can present to the- ? business world that combined strength assuring security and growth. - . ) The First National Bank ~ *%? * i t t | J " . - ; ' ..'l j The Only National Bank in Kershaw County / ....